It’s not hard to imagine how the NBA would be “better” with pro-rel, though. There’s the tanking thing, as noted in this thread. But pro-rel also implies a LOT of changes to the salary cap and with fans’ relationships with their teams. Imagine, like, six or seven legit pro teams in each of New York, Chicago, and Los…

Came here to say this exact thing. Also want to add that when it’s at a park, other parents tend to realize they still have to keep an eye on their kid instead of just letting them loose to, like, pull up the flowers in the backyard and shit.

Man, I’m old enough to remember when Joe Rogan used the “fuck you money” he’d made with X-Factor to stand up for the comics Mencia was stealing from.

It looks like both guys got stuck in putting it on the other guy’s (much weaker) backhand and didn’t want to be the one to risk putting it on the opponent’s forehand.

Doug should learn to swipe-text. Pecking tiny non-tactile keyboards is weird.

It’s like the inverse Mike Piazza behind the plate.

Albert, how do you feel about people using the word “scan” when they mean “skim”?

In case you hadn’t seen Sam Miller’s analysis from May, at that time he concluded that if Ohtani is this type of hitter and this type of pitcher, it pretty much hits the narrow sweet spot where doing both makes sense.

In April 2013, the Panthers got the city of Charlotte to raise $87.5 million for improvements to Bank of America stadium, which the Panthers own.

It’s the (legal) version of Uber. They’re buying up market share with VC money in order to put the incumbents out of business, at which point... well, it’s not clear what they plan to do, precisely, because AFAIK they haven’t magically solved the problem of whether subscriber-supported or ad-supported or tip-supported…

Fun fact: Jerick McKinnon was an option QB at Georgia Southern, and in 2013 when he was a senior, there was a freshman named Matt Breida. When McKinnon led Georgia Southern to a win in The Swamp, Breida was the kick returner. All of which is to say that John Lynch and Shanahan CLEARLY gravitate to the Football…

Pretty sure VH1's Behind The Music subtitled Noel a bunch, too, but that was mostly because he was mumbling.

Maybe it’s just me, but it took me a while for Landry’s message to get through because I couldn’t stop marveling that they have a Josh Gordon action shot posted on the film room wall.

You’re probably right, BUT... It’s a self-defeating policy. it encourages people to create a “professional” Twitter account and a “personal” one that they don’t have to hand over. I used to work for a company that did this, and I found that there were more followers of the known “personal” accounts than on the…

Possible hot take: Let’s grant that he’s a wildly talented athlete. His family should do everything they can to get him interested in basketball if the goal is a full ride to college, or soccer if the goal is to maximize earnings as a pro athlete. All that with much less risk of catastrophic injury, brain or body.

Or she’s shielding her son from the nightmare that would be an in-office presidential divorce, even though, from the outside, it looks like it’d be a far better option to simply leave the fucker and go to some rich people apartment building and school in New York until the boy is ready for college.

BTW: Descalso and Blandino went to the same high school.

Great, but still not the best NBA post they ever did. https://www.theonion.com/christ-returns-to-nba-1819563859

Bochy was probably pissed because (per my understanding of the unwritten rules) the Marlins were obligated to plunk a player equivalent to Brinson. That would have been Gorkys Hernandez.

This is going to sound weird, but... sometime late next season or in early 2020, Trout is likely to pass Griffey in career fWAR. There’s a real argument that he’s the greatest (non-Bonds) baseball player who’s ever lived, if you accept (as I do) that the athletes today are better than the ones of yesteryear.