Hockey’s emergency backup goalie system is one of the neater things in sports, and other leagues might consider instituting something similar, if just for the cool stories.

Baseball did have something like this back in the 1990's. The Cubs signed a fan, Henry Rowengartner, and it was a lot of fun to follow! He had his struggles at first, especially playing alongside his hero Chet “Rocket” Steadman, but he settled in and became a key player in their postseason run. He even struck out…

The Icelandic team is the dream team. I start with Shaq. Just hear me out.

When I first saw the title of this post I actually thought to myself, “it’s sad but makes sense Gladwell has gone Alt-Right”. This is actually kind of what too often happens when you have someone born into privilege who is not trained in biological science or statistics but thinks he’s good at both and has been…

Gladwell took other studies, dumbed them down to lay person speak, drew wrong conclusions from the study results, made profit. He’s smart the way all scammers are smart.

A GIS for Nigerian Mailman doesn’t provide any results, but there are these fellows from Kingston, so clearly Karl Malone can trace his lineage to Nigeria.

Really? Christian Laettner’s on that team but Chris Mullin’s the odd man out?

The most annoying person to be seated next to pretty much anywhere (public restroom, dinner party, flight, doctor’s office waiting room, jail, etc.) is anyone who has recently read a Gladwell book.

I think Malcolm Gladwell would argue that since there are birds in Nigeria, Larry Bird is actually on the Nigerian team.

Did Gladwell also talk about how the Greeks are the best sports handicappers?

I still think a team of American beats that team. It would be a team of someone’s nighttime imaginings. A Team of Dreams if you will.

Simmons just had to be thinking “save this shit for the group text, my dude” the entire time.

To be fair, Simmons would also be intellectually overmatched by Donald Trump, Jon Gruden, Forrest Gump, or a toaster.

When Bill Simmons, he of multiple theories regarding fucking Teen Wolf, is the person rightly questioning your hypothesis, it is probably quarter baked at best.

You missed the part where Gladwell specifically asked Simmons to be on the podcast to drop these ramblings of a lunatic. He came up with this idea and said “I simply MUST get this out into the world as fast as humanly possible”. 

Nigeria is just one little country

This ended too soon. He’s following a tried and true progression.

Canada is going to be so moderately displeased when Nigeria tries to claim Steve Nash.

I think most people have realized that Gladwell isn’t nearly as smart as he tries to present, but I’m always struck by how, in spite of this, Bill Simmons still sounds completely, intellectually overmatched when they talk.

I support Matt Whitaker for Acting US Attorney General.