I can’t argue with anything you wrote here, except for the pregnant (yet unspoken) assumption that LeBron is somehow choosing against his better judgment in order to either make more money or win more rings. I personally don’t see any indication that is the reason he is choosing to act as he is.

PS - love you, love that you always speak your mind, love that your instincts are always in the right direction, love that you can house a smokey negroni like nobody’s business, but think you’re on the wrong track here.

I see your point, but that’s not really what I was saying.

I’m not sure he’s prioritizing wealth over ethics. I heard him saying ‘What happened was bullshit. I don’t like it but me not doing my job is not going to do a thing.’

Chris, I love you to death, but you’re on a slippery ass slope here. You took a bold stand - one that likely cost you your professional career - and you’ve rightfully been commended for that. But where does it end? You could sell your big house in Orange County, move to the Inland Empire, and donate the delta to…

Yes, many do. However, NOBODY should be shamed into doing it

Eh, I thought it was terrific. It’s a movie about magic space wizards with laser swords. Pretty much any expectation beyond that it will pit likable good guys against frightening bad guys in entertaining, sensorily rich fashion is silly.

Humans are complex beasts. We can be impressed with one action or aspect of their character while being disappointed with a different one.

Yah, he’s a hero for spending 1/1000000th of his net worth on an initiative that gets wonderful PR for his brand. Come on, man. You honestly want to sit there and tell me that if he really gave a shit he couldn’t do something tuly grand with the lifetime contract Nike money?

I had been hoping for months and months that LeBron was eventually going to say something strong about this case

“I’ve sat for months on end waiting for any assignment while I watched other Fox reporters working almost daily throughout the last year. It feels punitive, as if I did something wrong. I didn’t.” Colleen Dominguez writes about her age and gender discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports. [San Diego Union-Tribune]

That’s what cacao beans look like after they are frmented and separated from the fruit. They smell terrible too.

OMG THS ISN’T REAL?

You need to Putin more hours on Foxtrot Alpha.

I came Russian in here to make a similar joke.

It probably seemed like a good idea at the time even if they regret it now.

It also doesn’t look good that it happened literally minutes before this:

If OBJ was actually gay, that would make it clearly unacceptable, right?

“You can’t try to excuse OBJ’s behavior” but you can, apparently, try to excuse the behavior of the Panthers’ players.