Art. Briles.

Whoever animated this deserves a fucking award. No single image has ever captured the uncomfortable horror of seeing someone nude in the hot tub like this picture. You can FEEL the sanity breaking inside this man.

I heard an interview with the, uh, controversial former GM of the Marlins, David Sampson. A lot of reasons to hate him but he gave a brutally honest answer about tanking teams and fan attendance. My numbers may be off a little because I don’t want to go searching for the exact moment in the podcast but he said…

“Please look at Nikola Jokic.”

So you have a problem with Shaq’s endorsements of Icy Hot?

Obviously smashing up the taxi was the how the goose was supposed to get to the next area of the village.

Networks pay millions for ex-players to explain these things to viewers, and 99 times out of 100 it’s obvious the analyst just tries to wow the viewer with jargon from their playing days and fill the airtime with word salad. Watson is more helpful and succinct in that clip than any of them. Does CTE make them…

Hopefully Boston media is not doing what Chicago media is already doing in touting the Cubs company line about getting below the tax threshold. They also have a billionaire owner. The penalty for being over the tax threshold again is something like an extra $2mil in tax.

Yeah, that's included in this experiment, too.

“Listen, Bill, I understand his talent but if anyone here is doing sex crimes, they’ll be paying to get their dick jacked in the back room of a shady massage parlor in Florida, like a respectable adult. You understand me?”

I can’t speak much to the NFL since I’ve given up up following it but yeah, the prospects don’t look good: the league has been so good at churning through young players that it’s essentially pulverized the union.

Re. the NBA, I know the Deadspin position is that star players are underpaid and should earn as much as…

Agreed on your points, and the players’ unions across the NFL, NBA, MLB prioritizing veteran earnings at the expense of rights/power for young players has created ramifications that have hurt the veterans themselves.

To add to the NFL example you gave, the MLB has done it with way too many arbitration years for…

Interesting. And these tweets, they were on Twitter?

So let me get this straight: a man who held up a sign asking for beer money has old tweets that are racist, and he’s sorry for them? 

A god-king starting out as an injured #16 pick.  So a *crafty* god-king.

If he got paid this year and is a remotely competent player four years from now, his next contract will start at a considerably higher salary than the final year of his rookie deal, and start a year earlier. If he isn’t a remotely competent player then, then they’ll just turn down the fourth-year option anyway and…

I still believe that if the Dolphins had signed Brees like Saban wanted, he’d have been there several more years.

*fewah

This isn’t specifically aimed at Borderlands 3, but this is a pretty common problem with loot shooters in general: The entire game is built around getting better drops, better drops usually mean bigger damage, and thus the endgame basically is to use whatever characters and weapons have the biggest DPS.