Also, Doug Ford seemed to be heavily booed (and rightfully so), while Justin Trudeau seemed to get loud cheers.

This should be the top comment.

Matt Devlin calmed everyone the fuck down and probably saved some lives, or at least a few hundred pairs of sneakers. He’s far from my favourite play by play guy but he came up as big as possible when needed.

From the fanciest black tie dinner party to the lowest gathering of hobos and drunks around a trash can fire, there is one thing that will alway remain true: people with guns ruin fucking everything.

My only take-away from this is that Deadspin and all of the other sister sites have a set of different writers with differing opinions. Some of these writers, like Drew, are great and I believe would actually side with “Don’t be a dick while beating the shit out of an underdog opponent.” And others like whoever wrote…

Well, I’m sort of now at just the “I want to make shitty jokes” stage of this discussion but I think it’s pretty clear that while the editorial perspective here is that the celebrations were all fine and dandy and a non-story, what they consider to be a real story is the idea that people who disagree are engaging in…

“Score all the goals you can but maybe don’t celebrate like crazy when you’re up double digits” just seems like such a reasonable and common-sense take. The fact that it’s getting so much push-back is absolutely wild to me.

In Team USA’s first game they beat Thailand 13-0. Some people thought that the Americans over-celebrated some of their later goals in that win as scoring, say, the 10th goal over a much smaller and less developed program isn’t an incredible accomplishment and their celebrations came off as bad sportsmanship.

Literally, yes. 

It’s the most thin-skinned overreaction to the slightest criticism. “Hey, maybe tone down the celebrations when you’re up 10-0.”

Americans not reacting well to gentle criticism? Whoda thunk it?

“Actually, it’s good to be a dick when you’re beating the shit out of a clearly under-matched opponent” is the worst and weirdest take Deadspin has been flogging since they trotted out “The New Orleans Pelicans have some sort of, uh, moral duty (?) to trade Anthony Davis to the Lakers because that would be entertaining…

LaVar has already been saying the Lakers will regret this and never win another championship.  I love it.  He’s done and he knows it.

The dogs

But are they really? Two stars and zero supporting cast sounds like, well, a lot of Western conference teams that didn’t make the conference finals. The Warriors may not as invincible, but they’re not going to roll over and be dead. The Rockets, Blazers, hell, even the Spurs aren’t Eastern conference cannon fodder.

Kind of inevitable. For all of the “Boston’s offer will blow LA’s out of the water” stuff I think Ainge has proven he’s too obsessed with assets to part with a ton for what he knew would be a year of AD.

I was sitting center field at Skydome (effthatnewname) for one of his catches where he dives head-first into the wall. I don’t understand how he doesn’t break himself more often. lol

your first mistake was going in feet first

A lot of young guys go too hard into second base.

That's about the same amount of finesse I exhibited in my first time reaching 2nd base too.