Well, if it does, any of my white friends who start talking about “identifying as African-American” are going to get punched, I don’t care if they are men or women.

Iguodala should have been starting and guarding Lebron James from the get-go in this series, regardless of whether or not they kept Bogut in the starting lineup or not. I get that he’s been valuable coming off the bench, but he’s probably one of four or five guys in the league who can be something more than a minor…

Well, Pop’s a damn genius. Also, I don’t think Popovich figured it out before he tried it. I think he started Diaw in an effort to keep things looser in the middle for his movement and quick passing offense and it had a happy side effect of also being a better defensive scheme.

I think I could make that trade, but my wife is just enough interested in sports that I’ve managed to find, in the words of the robots in the Matrix “levels of survival I am prepared to accept”.

Why do you have to do this? What unholy agreement, or rather, what trade-off did you make, in order to be compelled to watch these hot disasters?

Well, “rich” in that case could mean just having 5 figures worth of savings.

Pegboard, corkboard, huge gobs of sticky putty. You get the idea.

I got a car loan with no credit score and a pretty measly downpayment at an 8% rate. While that seems high, given the fast amortization and the fact that the loan was about $11,500, the difference in payment between an 8% rate and a more “prime” rate wasn’t all that much.

Yes, well, unless I give up more ... energetic ... aspects of uh ... other activities ... my wife will know that this isn’t true. I’m not quite prepared to give those things up in exchange for cork board in the kitchen.

Here’s how I imagine this conversation going with my wife:

Is rich in your book “anyone who has more money than me”?

I think the “everyman” nature of Tecate is important to maintaining the illusion that your carne asada is not pretentious carne asada, but before the awful “Most Interesting Man In the World” commercials, Dos Equis was pretty everyman-esque, so the Amber version might work.

If we contemplate tactfulness on the whole, instead of in the narrow portion of it that has to do with not probing where probing isn’t wanted, we might also conclude that having bizarrely strong positions on trivial things, such as, I dunno, adults drinking milk, could be seen as pretty tactless.

To me, the best way to do cheap steak is with a very simple carne asada recipe on a skirt steak.

It’s not that my wife doesn’t recognize that these are smart sentiments, it’s that she’s too paranoid something important will get thrown out / burned to let me go through everything myself, which would be a more cursory review of everything before tossing it.

So a bunch of old, worn out scrubs left?

I think it’s a lot of things besides just those injuries. I think it was the media’s reaction to the injuries, specifically that they would be so obnoxious as to count any team out that has Lebron James that isn’t going up against an all time great franchise. I think it’s the MVP voting, and I think it’s the constant…

True, but the way in which they are beating an offensive powerhouse very much looks like the ‘04 Pistons.

If the Cavs win this series, the Hall of Fame should probably just start working on a 100-foot-high LeBron James statue that breathes fire.

I dunno about that. From what I’ve read, it’s really easy to run micro-breweries into the ground, even if you are selling a decent number of bottles.