Who hurt you, gramercypolice? Was it the Riffs? I bet it was the Riffs. I can dig it.

He was close. What he should have said was, “You want to start a game like this with someone else’s offense.”

Sixty percent of the time AquaCow prefers doubles every time.

What even happens when the commissioner commits a CBA violation? Like, if team management does it, the team gets fined or loses picks, but Manfred works for all the teams. Does he receive an unenforceable suspension? Do the players get a bonus, and is it out of his pocket? Does he just get some imaginary demerit?

The balls are definitely juiced. The question is if we can believe that this man(fred) ordered it, ordered a mostly successful cover-up, and has been goosing a fake investigation into the cause for two months while slowly leaking the results and maintaining a plausible deniability, which...

That’s all it ever really is, isn’t it? Whether it’s the anglophonic Five Eyes agreement, the democratic Allies, the fascist Axis, the Comintern and the Warsaw Pact; the “Prussian Germany’s too strong” Triple Entente, the “Not another Napoleon” Triple Alliance, and the anti-Napoleon coalition forces; the spiderwebbing …

I don’t disagree with those readings, I just think they could be expanded a little.

They’re commonly conflated, but empathy is the ability to understand, the *capacity* to feel, while sympathy is the resonance of sharing that feeling, the call to parallel action and reaction from that understanding.

First round, second round... do we need a final? Unless Vladdy Jr. gets enough of a third wind to pull it out, Acuña/Alonso’s getting an asterisk.

You probably don’t need anyone to tell you this, Riley, but you shouldn’t feel bad about someone else’s personal experiences failing to resonate with you, especially when you put the effort in to open yourself to them. Sometimes your experiences won’t mesh well with their feelings, or at least how they express them,…

A clean, controversy-free Brazil win might seem ideal for the CONMEBOL brass and refs, but if they really wanted to prove Messi wrong they should have fixed it in Peru’s favor.

Got to watch Colby get some run last night before Zion-RJ and the earthquake. Wasn’t thrilled that he wasn’t running point very much in what I saw since that’s what I’ve heard we picked him up for, but he looked like he was having fun out there.

It’s much, much more likely that they try (try) to trade Westbrook to Minnesota or some other connable team (the Knicks? It’s probably the Knicks) who think they otherwise have the talent to compete or the natural born right to. (It’ll be the Knicks.) The only star in the league who could possibly gel with Russ more…

Hadn’t considered that. I’m gonna hope not; that’d be a terrible guilt to have to carry, and a cost that could easily ruin that friendship in the process of repayment.

He was optioned to the Bears first due to territorial discovery rights, but Nagy kept badgering him about kicking field goals...

Also nice for Norton that the one at-fault was driving a Maserati. It’ll be much easier to prove they’re liquid for damages and loss of income.

I’m significantly less than fully informed about Underlords/Auto Chess, but do we have a sense for the level of compensation/involvement the mod’s dev(s) had in the transition from mod to full game? Given how DOTA came about, and the precedent set in the legal battle against Blizzard over it, I’d hope that at the very…

But the personality hasn’t been a factor recently, as (good) GMs should be aware. He showed in the back half of the season that he still has tremendous skills for a center, and he’s through his career he’s either been the only watchable thing on dog-shit Kings teams or injured.

“New team, who dis?”

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