at this rate with the Cavs looking at trades, the Celtics may end up avoiding the affair entirely.

I never get why *this* tale of Paul Pierce ‘grit’ gets so much traction, when the stabbing story exists. Guy was stabbed 11 times, had a bottle smashed over his head, emergency surgury et al....and ~1 month later he suits up and proceeds to start all 82 games of an NBA season. IMO thats damn impressive.

But seriuosly.…

as a token boston homer (and someone who works in public finance)...both sides are off base here. The infrastructure was to redo Route 1, increasing traffic access/exit points to the stadium.

the state $$ came in the form of infrastructure spending - they certainly helped defray the end cost of the whole project, but to my knowledge MA never issues stadium bonds for gillette

People here are both right and wrong on the Gillette issue

as that guy who occasionally comments on deadspin articles with a serious voice, I too would love the opportunity to be a (semi) productive member of this new community without being banished into the abyss of greyness

you are a fantastic dad.

....they have the Nets pick though...

Nope. This is amazing parenting.

Anyone who is making the argument that Europa Leagues is the path to CL for Arsenal this early in the season is guilty of fueling the “short term hot take” market (despite how rough the season has started). I personally want to see the youths play a bit more in the competition, but I see the merit to having a blend…

I think you are a bit right in this scenario. One thing you don’t address is that the factions of the Democratic Party have strong leaders who communicate their message.

this is a decent place to start: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=salech01&t=p&year=2017

This take has aged well over 12 days: http://deadspin.com/theres-no-way-neymar-leaves-barcelona-for-psg-proba-1797036191

I’m more shocked to see Billy talk about “growing wealth”. They may have CL money now, but they are financing/building a new stadium (and if reports are correct they will need to get additional financing to complete the project). As we saw with Arsenal, these things do divert funds from players, which in this…

Definitely won’t argue that the wizards are looking better. At all. But they have outright blown 2 games at the garden (disregarding the fact that they got handily outplayed there 2x in the reg season). Until they shake that monkey, I wouldn’t call this series a sure thing yet.

eh... the way this season has gone:

With the hardest thrown pitch of the night no less

And I’ve been to my fair share of games in Boston (many in the CF bleachers against Jones’ O’s!) and never have I heard the n word thrown around. Obviously that anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean shit when stuff like this comes to light

Bingo. What is egregious (imo) is the stark contrast of the editor’s statement of publishing a bad thing (970 retweets), and the original, unedited tweet that is still online and going strong with over 50k retweets. Just delete the original one and write why you did it. Keeping the old one up only adds fuel to that…

This. A clear precedent was set repeatedly throughout the game in after the whistle play, but that all went out the window on the Nash penalty.