The thing I still can’t quite understand about that POV is that by the time Tavares would have said he preferred not to be traded the Islanders could have been negotiating an extension with him for..what, 7 months? If he’d resisted signing an extension for 7 months then how could you take anything he said at the…

Yes. Throw stuff on? Yes. At? No. 

When Tavares signed with the Leafs he tweeted a picture of himself as a boy with a Maple Leafs bedset, including sheets, a pillow case and a duvet cover. For some reason people erroneously think the picture is of him in Maple Leafs pyjamas. Islanders fans, because they’re petty, irrational dickweasels, somehow think…

If you want to be big dummies and boo the guy who played 9 years for you entirely on super team-friendly contracts go ahead but throwing stuff? The only things you should throw should be waffles and they should be thrown to express general displeasure with your team.

I understand where Kobe is coming from on this one. Zion committed to playing at Duke. They asked him to go there, he said yes. That included consenting to them profiting off of his likeness/image/effort. I think we all know that Kobe has no respect for people who withdraw that, or any other, sort of consent.

I don’t want to be nit-picky or anything but Jeff Carter as a one-dimensional player? He’d always been a good face-off guy, with good possession numbers and was sound enough defensively that he was one of Philly’s main penalty killers in his time there(even getting some Selke votes).

Nope. 

It happened in Montreal so...something with strippers? Smoking strippers? Smoking strippers making a big deal about sub-par bagels and ok deli meat? Fin du Monde?

Like I was saying, I think the fact that he wouldn’t sign an extension is pretty clear evidence that he was seriously contemplating leaving. The team knew that at the deadline though. 

Absolutely. They definitely haven’t done a good job in justifying this particular decision via the story they’ve told. Maybe in the future we might see why it was important for the Eagle Bearer to have a kid but until then...eh. 

I guess it’s true what they say. Eventually we do all grow up and start getting arrested for things our parents would get arrested for.

Yes, but a lot of the people who ostensibly love her are the people who hate the big, wet, but “4,000,000,000 Brand” President. So it can’t just be about having money.

Admittedly I don’t follow her very closely or anything but has anyone ever really made an effort to point out just the shear volume of garbage that Oprah has introduced into the culture? Like, she seems like a savvy businesswoman and kudos for that but it’s like she’s generated this entire side industry of con-artists…

Has he become so under-overrated that he’s now over-underrated? 

Like I said elsewhere, I don’t think it’s specified that Desmond is related to Alexios/Kassandra or anyone beyond the first 4 games but a lot of the lore related to the Assassins and their goofy powers has to do with the bloodline from the first civilization continuing. So it’s probably safe to assume that some modern…

I think that’s why, at least for me, the idea that the developers lied about your romantic options in the game begins with the idea that all of the romances in the game are pretty thin and possibly designed to have no real emotionally lasting impact. Calling them “romances” as opposed to occasional decisions to go to…

If they wanted the bloodline to continue so badly they could have let characters be the sexual orientation they wanted and then fiddled about with immaculate conception. That wouldn’t have offended anyone. 

The animus doesn’t require ancestral connections but the whole idea of the assassins and their special powers comes from people with first civilization blood being around and, you know, having eagle vision or whatever.

Yeah. Shame about the country though.