I had a similar reaction when a friend told me that CT was still on Real Worlds-Road Rules Challenges, and after making fun of him for being a geriatric I discovered that he was, in fact, only a year older than I am :(

They’ve been getting better for a decade? Didn’t Gabe just write an article like 2 days ago about how shocked (SHOCKED!) he was that Portland was able to win a game and avoid being swept by OKC? If they’ve been getting for so long shouldn’t that have been less surprising to him?

IIRC, Sigourney Weaver was also the US narrator for Planet Earth. Odd not to have that mentioned here.

No mention of Sigourney Weaver narrating Planet Earth in the US?

Exactly. Not to mention saying the Knicks got rid of him because he’s too old. He’s 26 for chrissakes.

Calm down everyone. I hate Wilbon as much as anyone, and I live in the DC area, but he’s joking. I’m not sure we need to bend over backwards every time someone we hate makes a joke to find a way to be pissed off at them. Wilbon does plenty of actually horrible shit. Focus on that.

I feel like Gabe doesn’t have internet access when he writes his articles, so he just goes based off of feel and what he thinks he remembers. How else can you explain him saying a 26 year old was too old? 

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…

Interesting...

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…