My easy solution no one will ever implement is just to not allow mid-season rule changes. Change rules at the end of the season, tweak until the next season begins, and then stick with them (for good or ill) until the season ends. There’s no rush!

I mean, I’m not about to stan for the Ringer here, I just think it’s better than dismissing it as total trash. Their NFL and NBA writers are good, and I wish they wrote about soccer more because when they do I like it. I can’t tell you how their baseball coverage is because baseball is dull. Their culture coverage…

My take on Deadspin’s hatred for Simmons is the usual “you hate the person most like yourself” thing: Simmons talks out of his ass, is an unrepentant homer, and relies on the same three or four gimmicks in his writing and analysis. So do most of Deadspin’s writers (particularly the ones most vocal about their…

I mean, it’s not? It was rough starting up but as far as providing good information and reporting on sports, it’s definitely better than Deadspin. Also, it shares approximately 70% of the writers with Grantland, so I’m not sure how it could go to being “total trash.”

There needs to be a way to block out baseball content on Deadspin. This site’s baseball writing makes me cringe with embarrassment. I mean, look at that headline. An adult human typed that, signed his name to it, and hit publish. It’s as though the only way they can think to relieve the tedium of baseball is to…

What exactly is it in you that makes you decide “yes, my online commenting persona will be the ignorant, violent guy.”

It’s almost as though having a 24 year-old write cultural and historical criticism will invariably lead to shallow, half-baked results.

Lots of people, they just don’t end up so damaged as to become internet commenters.

I was pleasantly surprised last week when I discovered I could revert to gchat in Hangouts. Every other “messaging” service that Google has put out hasn’t worked as well or reliably as gchat.

I’m pretty sure they’re embarrassing because they highlight how arbitrary and dumb all sports-related traditions and rivalries are. It’s not like NYC FC and New York Red Bulls’ rivalry is that much more logical or time-honored than, say, the Steelers v. Patriots.

God, I hope not. I don’t care about the 76ers one way or the other, but goddamn Embiid is fun to watch.

You know, I think there’s a parallel between the Catholic Church and Baseball. Both have two camps: purist conservatives who want to keep the product the way it has been, even if it drives away people away. And there are people who want the product to evolve in order to stay relevant and popular.

Doesn’t Boogie have kids? You’d think he’d at least want to run back home and pick them up.

But he... didn’t?

Yeah, this just isn’t true. No matter what you do, if you work exclusively on it you’ll just end up hurting yourself. If you wake up, game, and then go back to sleep, you’ll end up improving at a slower rate (or might even regress) than if you woke up, gamed a lot, took a walk, read a book, etc, or had any other…

http://www.theonion.com/article/how-to-beat-procrastination-is-what-ill-reveal-aft-124

Again, how is this untrue as applied to Alex’s New York vote?

Yeah, it sucked when Hillary lost New York.

So you would prefer a game where Aaron had no agency?

I’m going to be sad to see adventures go. I much prefer adventures with stories and unique challenges to dumping a bunch of new cards into the meta.