“so anyway, as I was telling Nike: ‘This is extortion, and I’m attempting to extort you, the corporation of Nike, and the thing I’m extorting you for is: money’. Can you believe they didn’t go for that!”

It ain’t listed, but, as somebody who’s never owned a Play Station console, I’m gonna play the heck out of that Final Fantasy 7 port on the Switch. 

Zach Auguste

Yeah, I do watch a ton of baseball and actually enjoy the sport--I’m a stupid freak like that, I guess! This stuff here, though, is just a complete absolute car crash of dumb consumerism and shameless social media pandering—two of my least favorite things.

The Insane Stadium Food trend is legitimately one of the 7-8 worst things in Baseball right now. Creating some Horrific Beef Concoction and blasting it out via a press release for the cynical purpose of getting Rovellian Troglodytes to breathlessly share it on twitter with some drool emojis is impossibly dumb and…

I never said he did. I’m saying that Simmons has been carrying out this months-long vendetta on AD and LeBron and found somebody on his staff with the right history and fandom anger to appropriately write a hit piece on AD. 

It should be noted that Justin Verrier previously covered the Pelicans for ESPN, is (i think?) from the area, and seems to be hand-selected by Simmons to personally grind his season-long gripe with Anthony Davis & LeBron.

I remember there was an article on this very site the other year that was like “don’t forget about how bonkers Pujols was in St. Louis!” and yeah, we’re already kinda starting to do that. In the post-Bonds, pre-Trout era, the best guy was either Pujols or A-Rod, but in that ‘05-’11 range A-Rod DID lose basically half…

Yeah, when writing that post I was like “huh, who took the Gold Gloves over Trout those early years?” and was kinda surprised to see Adam Jones there. I LIVED in Baltimore those years and went to a ton of O’s games and never felt like I was watching an amazing defensive CF. I think the durability/consistently taking…

I’m fully a member of the Church Of Barry, and Bonds is easily the best HITTER I’ve ever seen, but what Trout’s done his first 7 years is Truly Some Willie Mays Shit.

First season was legit good, but I got so bored by like the one-quarter mark in S2 that I never went back to it. 

Yeah, I remember with like 6 to go I was like “can you believe this dude only has 2 points?” and then he went to work. Not the best full-game effort from him but heck, it’s a long season and he gutted out the win. 

It was one of those Extremely Weird Jokic games where he just didn’t seem very interested in playing and kinda moved around offensively like he ate a big ole plate of pasta in between each quarter. His buzzer beater was his 10th and 11th points of the night, for Pete’s sake!

We didn’t sign? Odell Beckham, to be traded! 

Also, there were whole stretches where DeMar just absolutely cooked him. I don’t mean to pile on because he is a rookie and rookies typically suck on defense (Luka’s not an exception), but man. DeMar seemed to lock in when he found himself matched up against Luka. He didn’t stand a chance. 

to be fair, I DON’T think Simmons has ever made reference to a personal relationship with Danny Ainge. Trust me, if he HAD one we’d KNOW. Pretty much the only GM he’s consistently referenced in podcasts in a genial sense is Daryl Morey. I mean, don’t you think we’d be SUPER AWARE if Bill Freaking Simmons was buddies…

I will say, I felt like I got to that point, and put it down for like 6 months. This weekend I picked it back up and have fallen in love again. It’s all I want to play right now. 

He’s still real good defensively and his passing is as good as ever. It’s just that he’s no longer the most valuable defensive player in the league and his passing isn’t so essential on a team with that much one-on-one talent.

Andrew Wiggins WISHES he could be as much of a icon in Toronto as The Red Mamba

I’d probably still take Wall in that debate, partly because of age and especially because that Super Max has not paid him ONE DIME yet. But yeah, I think Wiggins might be No. 2 on that list.