This is good Haisley.

No, most people slide into managerial positions from outside, either directly from school or being a manager somewhere else.

This. Basketball is not a parity sport. Even if every player got re-drafted every year, no trades, and they all got paid about the same, to make things as balanced as possible, the best 3 teams will be the ones with the #1, #2, #3 players. 82 games, 25+ shots per game, the law of large numbers takes over. That’s why…

It’s a fundamental tension in sports - everyone wants to put together the best possible team, but the more success a team has with that, the worse the league/sport gets as a whole.

Nah, Steven A. Smith was like that from the beginning, even back when he was just a newspaper guy. He’s probably patient zero for the hot take epidemic.

You want to be emotional? Go drink rosé and have your period in the ladies’ restroom.

It is in no small part a D&D founded misunderstanding, because the game originally conflated plate(d) mail (mail reinforced with steel plates) and plate armor (the articulated and jointed set of armor shown above). Plate armor is lighter than plate mail and distributes weight better, in addition to providing better…

They are, in fact, called “kicks from the penalty mark”, which you’d know if you actually knew anything about association football. It’s only called a “penalty” if it’s awarded after an infraction, as, you know, a penalty.

No, he’s performing astonishingly well by the measure of the people who pay his salary (i.e. the owners). His fuckups are banal: they keep the sport in the media and the public eye without actually hurting its brand or credibility at all, which means people are talking about the NFL, watching the NFL, and buying NFL…

A buddy of mine from school became an EMT and his first call was to a car crash. When they got there, as soon as his partner saw the scene, he told my buddy to go back to the ambulance and sit in the driver’s seat. “A full decapitation is probably a bit much on your first day.”

False equivalence is the bread-and-butter of centrist swing voters.

It’s a well-worn literary device of (mostly male) authors. Consider Ishmael vaguebooking his reasons for wanting to leave New York and go sailing in Moby Dick. There’s a difference, of course, namely that Ishmael’s reticence to provide details is a literary device to develop his relationship with the unfolding…

You guys can hate on them if you want, but I think it’s handy to be able to see long-term weather trends when making plans, especially for outdoors stuff. It’s nice to be able to see that the second weekend in August is, on average, X degrees and there’s a Y% chance of rain. Of course it’s not necessarily going to be…

Good. That’s all that really matters.

Important question: will Phil Liggett be providing commentary?

He’s not even saying he created the smart phone, just that he drew a mock-up of one - which isn’t far off from, “I said to my buddy in a bar in 2002 that Apple should make an iPod that’s also a phone.” He is literally that guy.

It’s summer, which is the traditional time of year for Icelanders to leave their homesteads to care for themselves for a while as they visit other countries in Europe.

It’s an accident of history. The Football Association was started as an English, rather than British, organization, which meant that as the sport spread to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, each “home country” had to set up its own national association, organizing the first international matches, with the FA as a sort of p…

If that’s CAD$130,000 a year, he makes something like US$28k, right? I can see why he’d live at home and feel a tinge of guilt when picking up a restaurant check.

MJ led the league in scoring (total and per game) pretty much every season he played until his second retirement. Nobody else in the sport has ever been consistently that good, not even Wilt. He’s probably the greatest so far simply because of how dominant he was in that period. There aren’t many other individuals who…