1. There’s no direct relationship, and I’ve heard of teams trying to use the large transfer fee they just paid as an excuse for not paying more salary, but players generally know that if their transfer fee is high, they’re worth a lot of money and make salary demands accordingly. I have heard of a few cases where a…

+1 Volk

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This. I can jump high enough to wave my hand over the center of the hoop, but getting up there with a ball and getting it to go in the hoop is another matter entirely.

I think it’s also worth pointing out that, as much as Leicester is doing things right, the usual suspects are also unprecedentedly bad this season. Chelsea mutinied, Arsenal still don’t have their footing, Man United has rapidly gone from “Haha, they narrowly lost out to their hitherto-unimpressive crosstown rivals in…

I’m criticizing the idea that it’s at all relevant whether or not the premise of a work of fiction can be eventually extended to a contradiction, if that contradiction has no effect on the plot. I mean, never mind the global conflicts; hiding Hogwarts from surveyors, engineers, and remote sensing platforms would…

There’s just so much about the modern world that doesn’t make any goddamn sense if magic secretly existed in the world - so I kind of have to assume that the Potterverse is an alternate universe where much of our own history never happened.

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Oh, there are lots of things you could do with incomprehensibly weird rules, besides the obvious ones of influencing outcomes and selling more ad time during stoppages due to reviews. One is that bad or ambiguous calls get the fans more angry than anything else, so the public focuses on what a shitty job Ed Hochuli or…

Sports journalists: convincing rich people that developing countries are dirty and dangerous since 1896.

Actually, what’s fucked up isn’t just that advertising has become a lot like content, content has also become a lot like advertising. People talk about games, movies, and everything else with the same kind of marketing jargon the real ads use. If they like a game, they want other people to buy/download/subscribe - I…

Metaphor is being used metaphorically, dude. Get with the program.

Spring to Fall scheduling seems to work for Scandinavia. They’re not elite leagues like the Big Four, but they’re respectable and standout players catch the attention of managers elsewhere. I’m not really qualified to say the on-field skill is better or worse than MLS, but it’d be interesting to know what Klinsmann…

I like this. You can take a free throw, or you can take a free shot at the guy that intentionally fouled you. Since a lot of the targets of this type of play are big guys, it would add an element of danger to the proceedings.

10% can be enough to make you a majority shareholder, especially at a startup that doles out bits of equity here and there.

Is there anyone who doesn’t want to see Joe Buck banned for life?

All the good hockey writers have left, the NBA sucks, pitchers and catchers don’t report for another three weeks and regular season football is over. Billy provides content. What you think of that content less important, especially given that you already clicked on the (and even stayed long enough to leave a comment).

I’m surprised they didn’t try to take into account market fluctuations in euro-pound exchange between the time the agreement was settled, the time it went into force, and the time cash was actually transferred. I bet that could add up to a couple million there, too.

Twitter is dumb and has always been dumb. Thanks for playing.

So, I’m pretty sure they gave Spike Lee an honorary Oscar this year because they knew something like this was coming. He obviously deserves it, but the committee that decides also knew it was going to be a terribly white year for the Academy Awards and there would be backlash. And they knew this because Lee and…