Good dogs; good blogs.

now this is what I call an area where sports and politics align 

this is the content i love deadspin for.

Kotaku ran an article about this, and posted this link, which is a roll-up to all upper management: g-omediafeedback@googlegroups.com

Yet again, reality is out of ideas so it’s just recycling dumb twitter jokes

He’s the heart and soul of that team. One of the easiest players to root for in baseball. My wife doesn’t give a shit about baseball, but watched the final inning and was extremely into it (Boston ties run deep, I guess). But the second she saw Altuve she was all-in. He rules.

it’s the greatest comedic moment of the decade. 

the illegal formation penalty is the comedy cherry on top that we don’t frequently discuss, much like how we don’t discuss that the Jets fumbled the ensuing kickoff following the Butt Fumble, which was returned for a TD. 

I was on a flight when I watched that play. It was all I could do to stop myself from standing up and making an announcement to the entire cabin about what just happened.

Yeah, I think so much of the conversation around drafting and developing players is focused around finding One True Way to do it, when in actuality, it’s impossibly complicated and requires an insane degree of nuance per player that we will never be privy to. I think, fundamentally, the difference between a good…

I think each player is its own lesson. Sure, there are young players who can kill their dinner as NBA players from a young age. Devin Booker is a good example of that—he’s a gifted scorer who quickly had a role in the Suns rotation, and it was clear that him just playing on the NBA team made more sense than sending…

Exactly. Unfortunately, a lot of the teams don’t have a lot of patience to stash a guy in the G-League for a year or more to really get them right. Bad teams want their shiny new lottery pick to play with the main franchise, and teams picking towards the bottom are usually desperate for usable depth that they just…

This can be handled extremely easily: the Cleveland Calfaliers

i love comprehending what i’ve read

Ok. 

With all due respect to David, I think this is the tiebreaker in the long-time “which seminal Stephen A. Smith satire tweet is better?” debate. He literally did this one. It’s over.

There’s never a bad time to link to this Jon Bois piece roughly about this.

If the NBA fandom suddenly switched from left-leaning millennials to right-leaning boomers, LeBron, Pop and Kerr would all be told to shut up immediately. The market drives what personality they let their actors take. Anybody who thinks the NBA is “better” than any other league morally is either being intentionally…

yeah, obviously Mahomes is objectively better at throwing a football than Watson. But fundamentally, if Watson would have been drafted by a team with a competent infrastructure instead of that butt-chinned dunderhead, he could at least be as successful as Mahomes.