It’s not just that, though. You also have to imagine the NBA being even more top-heavy than it is, as though only five teams had a chance of winning every year because there’s no salary cap, and then. It’s probably more akin to some medicore NCAA football team breaking through the recruiting hegemony to challenge the…

Steve Nash sort of had that element to his game as well. The other guy who comes to mind, in a much less sustained sort of way, was what Jeremy Lin did during that other-worldly 10-game stretch for the Knicks when he first emerged a few years ago. Basically Curry has been doing that every night for years.

You don’t “hit” a birdie. You guys would have been off just sticking with “bicycle kick.”

“1. (tie) New York, San Francisco, New Orleans
4-100. Cleveland”
-Tennessee Williams

If you’re that deep in self-loathing, may I suggest that you blow yourself up with Acme dynamite, or choke on a sleeve of Pinnacle golf balls?

I had totally forgotten that. Probably I was distracted by the insistence that Barmes’s last name sounds like “bar-mess” and not “barnes”.

“Hey guys, I stole two bases against the Royals the other day. That’s more than all the Padres combined! AmIWright?”

Or he might be the next Clint Barmes and trip up his stairs with a bag of groceries.

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One offseason and everyone forgets the rules. Wtf. Betances threw the ball 15 feet over Teixeira’s head. End of story. Bautista grabbed the second baseman’s ankle. End of story.

A better solution would be never to use the term at all, because it’s idiotic, and was never used until it came into vogue in the last decade, and it remains idiotic.

It can’t really be said that McDonough and Vitale speak “International English,” can it?

This beef/no beef deception is really fiendish. Seems like it may be the work of Seitan.

The front two rows look like they’re stuffed into coach class, but there’s nice elbow room in the back row. I think maybe you posted the wrong photo?

Shawn Kemp.

nom nom nom

You might say he was “champing” at the bit, since it’s the Champions League.
Oh, and also, because that’s the expression.

Notable Snubs: Tyus Edney UCLA ‘95... ‘83 NC State... otherwise a pretty good selection.

Nice! So this means Princeton gets to advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the ‘98 tournament... right?

Simón says: “Noooooooooooooooooo!”