Don’t be pedantic. If Silver wanted the guy fired, he would have been ended up fired, or at least suspended or had some punishment imposed. There is lots of soft power in situations like this. Morey didn’t get punished because Silver didn’t think a punishment was appropriate here.

The point being made by a lot of…

A lot of people in the 24-48 hours after the story first broke were confidently declaring that Morey was toast and would surely get fired shortly. It would have been really easy for Silver to buckle under to the explicit demands of the Chinese government. But it seems as soon as he didn’t, the internet outrage mob…

I don’t know, risking a billion and a half dollars to prove you’re not China’s stooge kind of shows that you are not China’s stooge. Anyway, it would be nice if the President of the United States showed an ounce of concern for Americans being threatened with getting fired because a foreign government took issue with a…

It definitely sounds like this dude isn’t a 21 year old spring chicken college student either, judging by the 7 years since he said I love you and whatever. This dude is probably in his early to mid thirties and he wants some unsullied princess to come along. I think he’s pretty seriously over estimating his market…

Just throwing it out there, but this mentality?

Exactly. Unfortunately, a lot of the teams don’t have a lot of patience to stash a guy in the G-League for a year or more to really get them right. Bad teams want their shiny new lottery pick to play with the main franchise, and teams picking towards the bottom are usually desperate for usable depth that they just…

Some people are like that. They can be genuinely kind, smart, engaging individuals in relaxed settings, but any sort of competition turns them into raging assholes. And with professional athletes, competing with millions of dollars at stake on the biggest stage, it’s even more extreme.

What do you expect, their a tech startup, not a car manufacturer.

“Crude and lazy” describes everything Kevin Smith has done post, say, Dogma. Not that Dogma—or anything else Smith has made—was a great movie, but it felt like most of the people involved with it were at least halfway trying.

In my humble opinion, even at the time the original was just dumber Shaun of the Dead and has not aged particularly gracefully.

Wow. The Wachowski’s penchant for sabotaging their own work never ceases to amaze me...

Before you jump on James , They were in China. Houston was in China. Imagine your boss sends you to CHINA and then he drags China, the Communist regime, while your there . Would you feel safe ? If it was reversed , would you still be employed ? Don’t be so quick to drag someone without knowing the shot.

I’m going with ‘Because you can’t get good pizza there so they don’t understand what good pizza tastes like.’

can only assume this is a deepfake 

It was not a well thought out statement. I’m a fan, but even I’m shaking my head at this. Dude, you just told us that you can’t handle the job.

Come election time, he’ll be 9 years older than anyone ever elected President, and we are more than 5 years away from the end of the next presidential term. Having a heart attack at this point unquestionably reduces his chances of winning to somewhere in the vicinity of zero.

I’m so glad he’s recovering. I love that man. Now I hope he can continue to push his message until the Democratic primary. Then he should bow out and endorse Warren. If only so he doesn’t work himself into an early grave.

I’ve had a rough few weeks and can honestly say that if Bernie died, I would be unbelievably…

Initially, the senator’s campaign had said only that he had received two stentsin a blocked artery after feeling “some chest discomfort.” However, Sanders’ doctors released an additional statement through the campaign on Friday acknowledging that Sanders “was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction,” a fancy way of…

promising to return to the campaign trail soon

I mean, he could have just finished the books and this wouldn't even be an issue.