That seems like a reasonable point.

What you’ve described meets my standards for “actually make any effort whatsoever to obey the rules of the road” so we’re probably good. I’ve got nothing against a cyclist with clear views going “no one’s coming up on this four-way stop, so fuck it.” I get that there’s a little more effort involved for a bike than a…

Full disclosure: I do not particularly like Led Zeppelin, probably do not like Fred VanVleet or whatever the hell this new band’s name is, regularly look up album reviews on Pitchfork, and had a subscription to Rolling Stone in the 1990s for which I paid actual money at a time when I was earning $4.25/hr.

I’m totally fine with bicyclists who actually make any effort whatsoever to obey the rules of the road. They can take up a lane, they can take their right of way when they have it, etc. Just obey fucking traffic laws and we’re good. Biking is super green, thins congestion, and leaves parking spaces open! In theory,…

Rolling Stone, the Pitchfork of the 17th century (give or take), regularly savaged Led Zeppelin, so basically who gives a shit about what any of these publications think about anything?

In what way does that article paint him as a homophobe?

When Food Network decided that all it needed to produce was gimmicky competition shows, that’s when I was pretty much done with it. And I like gimmicky competition shows, but that can’t be the entirety of your programming (well, that and shows where like twenty celebrity chefs just describe a really good dessert they…

Yeah, LeBron’s a good example. Dirk, too, added a bunch of stuff to his game after that 2006 loss.

I think he’ll be fine. Tatum probably will be, too, long-term. I agree that Giannis needs to focus on his three-point shot as well, but he’s not wrong that in an NBA where defenses are all geared to take away the paint and the three, being able to reliably hit the occasional mid-range shot is a good tool to have in…

Yep, that’s awesome. I like Siakam, am glad he’s playing with this amount of confidence and skill at the highest level, and hope he gets several more years of being, to quote Draymond, “A Guy.”

Embiid’s reaction at the end of game seven gives me hope that he’s going to spend all summer distraught and infuriated, get into the best shape of his life, and come back as a world-destroying MVP candidate. And I say this as someone who doesn’t even like him.

This is exactly the kind of response I want to hear from not just Antetokounmpo, but anyone who’s been in a similar situation. “It’s way harder in the playoffs than I expected ... so I’m going to go out there and get better.”

So much for the sweep. Toronto’s D is proving as strong as it looked against the east. Cool!

Weather prediction is spectacular, overall, given the number of variables they have to work with and how random atmospheric behavior is. Can it go further? Sure, and no doubt as computing power continues to increase, it will.

Is “the weather guy’s not always right that it’s going to be sunny in a few days” a good…

I mean ... I said in my comment, “Toronto’s D is awesome.”

I think you’re getting Kawhi either way, my friend.

Seems like everyone’s picking Golden State in six but I think there’s a fairly decent chance they just blow the Raptors’ doors off. They have a lot of experience playing “One superhuman and a bunch of complimentary dudes” teams from the East. Toronto’s D is awesome, and I’ll be rooting for them to win the whole thing,…

I think it’s interesting that all of the replies taking this post in any way seriously are arguing with the first paragraph, and not the second.

This is a smart decision. He’ll get to play against arguably better overall competition in a league whose structure and approach to games is more similar to the NBA.