That LinkedIn Maven/#disruptive brandspeak that he’s developed since the Grantland years is just insufferable.

This would make him awesome, no?

So I shuffle into a dark corner and drop my pants, praying a goat or something doesn’t jump out of nowhere and bite my balls off, and unleash a torrent stream of liquid ass all over this mud hut floor.

I’ll be curious to see what happens once the Pardon My Take guys realize that they’ve likely climbed about as far as they can while still hitched to such a toxic, repellant company. PFT Commenter was on Chapo Trap House (and was great), for Christ’s sake.

I don’t doubt that that’s true at all, but the discrepancy is still staggering because Deadspin is often represented as this little niche site while Barstool is this juggernaut voice of an apparently huge swathe of our population who are complete and utter drunken assholes and think it’s hilarious when you call them…

Hahahaha that’s amazing. I never understood why you guys never used data-driven points like this to hammer these assholes, because I’ll admit, I thought Barstool’s reach was IMMENSE. Glad to be proven wrong.

My man!

Haisley-esque statement, except it would be “England lost to a butt Croatia side” in the middle of a 7000 word sentence.

Step 1 - Be a narcissist.

Y’know, between telling his national team competitor and teammate to basically know his place after he said he’d always try to be the #1, talking shit about his opposing number in this World Cup(and then claiming he was misunderstood), openly pining for Real Madrid to come and get him (and then claiming he was…

Domagoj Vida is also the focal point of perhaps the funniest breach of club discipline I’ve ever heard of. I still think about this like once a week.

Here he is making a super-informed estimate on how a fucking cave rescue, 8000 miles away, works based on a newspaper artist’s grossly oversimplified reader-friendly conception of the situation.

To put this in most simplistic terms possible, I’ve always thought of “solitary confinement” as “the hole” where Andy Dufresne goes after mentioning money to the warden, but does it actually mean Andy’s regular cell? Where he was just like, in a regular prison cell except alone? It seems that people use the term to…

I think this is the answer right here.

I think that this makes sense of course, when discussed in terms of assets in return. I think the confusing thing is that nobody ever explains these things in terms of the “$45/3" guy you cite, it’s just always “expiring contract = good” with no real mention of what the other team has to give up to get that expiring…

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never quite understood how expiring contracts relate to cap space. Let’s say the current salary cap is $100. I have total existing salaries of $50, so in the 2019 offseason I should have $50 in cap space.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from multiple trips to the UK it’s that absolutely nobody thinks their own city, or pretty much any city in the entire nation, is worthy of a visit.

“He shoots like 8% from three and kinda moves the ball on offense, I guess, but something just CHANGES when he’s on the court.” seems to be about the extent of people trying to articulate his value. I think of him as like, a more offensive Tony Allen, who never made more than $5.5m but also made six All-Defensive…

But is this true? Do people really shy away from GMs like this? Belichick has been cutting ties with stars a year early rather than a year late for twenty years now and nobody seems particularly afraid to deal with him.

I’m always fascinated when articles mention Ainge’s lopsided trades as a *negative* mark against him. Like, what’s he supposed to do?