Yeah that’s kind of why I was curious about it being a rule. Do you really need to have a ban in place for EVERYTHING Dwight Howard is stupid enough to do?

Exactly, which was why I was kind of curious whether it was technically against the rules. It would be like having a rule in golf that you can’t hit the ball with your dick.

True. But if that’s the case the NBA doesn’t really have any grounds to punish Howard.

Thanks for the 5 grey commenters who went “yeah, duh”. No I’m not responding to or starring any of you.

Is it even against the rules? You can powder your hands...

I live in California an hour from the Mexican border.

True. But even in the affable kid scenario it’s weird. A lot of professional athletes are disgusting rich guys in their early 20's. If you want to tell your buddy about the two co-eds you gave a Dirty Sanchez to last night and LaRoche senior has a problem, you can give him the finger and tell him you’ll stop when he…

I agree it’s hard to know the scope of the problem, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the players to expect management to handle stuff like this. The players get paid well to be good at baseball and win games - managers and executives get paid well to (among other things) enforce the rules and deal with dissent…

Dude. You just compared the Beatles to the fucking 2015 White Sox.

Yeah, the chili rant annoyed me too. (Though it made some damn good chili.)

Well the tournament’s kind of boring right now so I’ll feed the troll.

You know I hadn’t even thought of that... How could you say: “Hey LaRoche, why don’t you close your eyes at the plate next time, it might help...” if his 14 year old son is standing right there?

This was what I was thinking. LaRoche seems like one of these young earth, kill the homos, ‘Murica types. He’s friends with the guy from Duck Dynasty for Christ’s sake.

You know I really like these columns, (and I liked Albert’s before) but they definitely hit a point where they passed “fun and sarcastic” and became “angry and abrasive”. I feel like like I’m reading Hunter S. Thompson telling me how to make meatballs, except - no offense - with inferior writing.

I haven’t been in years, but Snug Harbor is the coolest jazz bar I’ve ever been in.

Who is everyone’s pick to win the tournament?

Well the article says six months to a year and even if it was just a few months I’m not married, so it sounds like an already housebroken dog would be the correct option for me.

Yeah “watch out for that rim” is some cold shit. That was awesome.

So six months to a year of leaving the puppy in the crate at night, or when I’m gone at work - which I will note is eight hours and longer than she can probably hold it - then watching her every second other than that.

I recently pet-sat my parents new puppy they were trying to crate-train (it did not go well) and I have a question they could not really seem to answer.