Nor should you be. Gabe’s understanding of sports is terrible relative to an average person. The fact he writes multiple articles a day for a sports blog is mind boggling to me. But I guess in Trump’s America knowledge, skill, and understanding are not relevant criteria in getting a job.

I’m always so confused by what Gabe tends to focus his analysis on. A guy that averages like 14 and 10 went for 20 and 18 in a home playoff game and it’s completely shocking and unprecedented? Huh? Portland, the 3 seed, won it’s opening game against the 6 seed (which fell to the sixth seed by playing terribly over the…

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Was that prior explanation ever provided in the shows? That’s really interesting, and would negate how I felt about the scene in some ways. The thing I found so contrived about the scene in the show was that nobody had ever bothered to care about Hodor’s backstory- he’s just a lumbering, smiling, naked oaf that…

No, I got all that. Thanks though...

I actually found that to be contrived as hell. Hodor’s been a part of the show since the very beginning, and his defining characteristic is that he just says Hodor, but nobody ever mentions that that behavior appeared out of nowhere one day and that he used to be just a regular guy? Not to mention that when he’s…

“What all of the crimes have in common is that they reek not of inherent rampant criminality but of a hustler’s utter desperation.”

I agree with you on that front, but I suppose what I’m saying is that seasons 1, 2, and 3 was when the show’s quality was at its highest, in large part because of where the focus was (character and plot rather than spectacle and grandeur). And I don’t think the absence of characters doing flashy things in season 1…

I’ll be forever confused as to why that is a bad thing in people’s mind. The first few seasons had to rely on storytelling and character development to be interesting, whereas the past few seasons have just relied on huge action spectacles and special fx to gin up interest. It’s like saying that Transformers is better…

Not to mention a complete rejection of the kind of storytelling that made the show interesting in the beginning. The showrunners don’t know how to do anything besides standard fantasy storytelling and tropes, but because they have the budget to do big action set pieces and lots more dragon scenes everyone pretends…

It’s funny- the whole reason the show was recognized as great television was because it focused on real characters who engaged in behaviors that didn’t conform to standard fantasy tropes while rejecting the sort of simplistic grandeur that dominates lesser fantasy shows/movies. But then the past two seasons went all…

“They’re taking less than they would have made on the open market 5 years ago to ensure that they don’t have to actually put up with the volatility of that market.”

Was this guy forced to sign the contract at gunpoint or something? The article is clearly written in such a way to make the reader outraged at this unfair atrocity, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why I should be so upset about a guy voluntarily signing a contract. If he wanted to push for more money, or…

I do appreciate the irony of GMG attacking others for coming to uncharitable interpretations of comments by folks like AOC or Omar when pretty much the whole purpose of the websites on GMG is to attack people in exactly this way. I’m completely fine with Omar’s comments because I understand the context and what she…

Deadspin still has credibility with some readers? I like the site just fine for aggregating highlights and horrible hot takes, but the last thing I view this place as is a credible sports blog with accurate analyses and thoughtful takes.

Pretty sure he’s saying Magic’s out barely 9 months after getting Lebron. As in, he took the job and just counted down the days until he could get Lebron, and when that didn’t immediately translate into a championship caliber team he bailed.

One follow-up question: really?

That’s an odd thing to cite to when the whole point of the discussion is that the rules are dumb and should be drastically changed. Yes, I understand WHY they didn’t review the foul calls. Everyone understands that. The point is that the purpose of the review doesn’t address the underlying fairness of the sport and…

“ Most sports fans around the world were totally willing to accept human error in return for fluidity and poetry in motion, but now we’re heading down the road of your joyless persnicketyofficiating that treats sport calls with greater consideration than a murder trial.”

The correct call on that particular possession would have been Moretti going to the line to shoot two free throws because Guy fouled him multiple times. Limiting the review to getting the technically correct call on the out of bounds play doesn’t actually address the fundamental fairness of the play or get to the…