“fine mascots on both sides...”

That part of Cleveland is really great.

Safe bet you haven’t been to Cleveland in the last 5-10 years

Monta still the GOAT

Exactly. I’m a Raptors fan, and while I know that they’re very likely NOT going to win the the Finals (let alone the East), I still enjoy going to see them play basketball. It’s good entertainment, even if I’m shelling out $70 a ticket for a partially obscured view, and there’s just enough of a fraction of a hope that…

Imagine for a moment all teams are “localized” (think of nationalization of banks, but for cities and sports teams), and the team’s GM is hired by a 9-person panel that is voted on by the citizens of the city the team resides in.

Overheard at MSG announcer’s table:

Supply and demand, my friend. There are usually only around 30 teams of a given sport, and if you tend to root geographically, you are down to at most, 3 teams to choose from. Sports fans are oddly loyal to laundry (go Birds!) and teams of course know this. So, if you make the right noises, enough fans will support…

A cursory search brings up ‘v-lick’

This is correct.

Paying out of state tuition to Alabama is Not Smart.

Will he have to sell when he’s nominated as new head of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Counters by humorless commenters are also Deadspin standard. We’ll hit the trifecta if we can work in a ‘Haisley sucks’ take.

Don’t understand what took him so long. I usually regret my experiences with Chinese an hour after dinner.

Largely thanks to Facebook’s calculated or haphazard indifference to truth... [Trump won]

because he was trying to get rid of his stash before boarding the plane to London.

The Army has a problem with the Golden Knights but they haven’t said shit about the Rangers.

That’s nice. The problem is that nobody says “The Manchester United.” Instead, folks use the singular “Manchester United.” Someone who writes “Manchester United need . . .” is being an Anglophile jerkoff.

Turning a singular team name to plural to match British tabloids is so annoyingly pretentious. Soccer Hipster virtue signaling at it’s finest.

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