Shohei’s placement here might be the most anyone at Deadspin has ever overrated anything. Dude was terrible. Also, sure, Yuudai sucked but come on. He was a kid.

I’ll have to check with the author of the original post but I believe his contention is that Stranger Things sucked, full stop. 

I confess that I don’t have much of an opinion about Netflix’s future outside of the patently clear fact that their diminishing library of popular shows from the past means they’ll no longer fit the “I’ll just watch a few episodes of X before bed” impulse that used to make them a great and cheap alternative to cable.

I get it. There’s not much I like to do more than watching birds, if you know what I mean.

The best way to be sure that she isn’t Character Actress Margo Martindale is that she looks like Margo Martindale. 

Dirk and Stormy. 

No one is calling on Christians for being backwards, evil people trying to push a religious ideology on the world.

Yeah, I guess I’m more saying that they need to burn that shit to the ground and shitcan everybody including Lowe, rather than just thinking getting rid of Lowe himself will make a huge impact. 

But I don’t think he’s actually making personnel decisions, is all I’m saying. 

But would firing Lowe actually do anything? Is he directing hockey policy over and above the GM? Don’t get me wrong, firing Kevin Lowe would be funny but I can’t imagine his job with the club is much more than ceremonial at this point. 

Also there was that thing where he’d let his weird ginger kid go up on stage for all of their draft picks.

The Oilers winning the McDavid lottery sure is starting to feel like one of those monkey paw situations. 

Not that it makes it much more sensible but I think that has an actual tea service in it. 

650 dollars is probably more than I’ve spent on all the toasters and bread I’ve bought in my life combined. 

Whether or not you like the idea of varsity athletics is an entirely different matter than the contention that graft and corruption are inherent to the concept of college sports. They’re not. Japan and Canada prove that.

Except they haven’t copied the US system. It’s why they’ve managed to have teams of athletes compete against each other without all of the graft and corruption you see in America.

Again, for the umpteenth time, countries other than the United States manage to have teams of athletes from various schools compete against each other without all the perils of “human nature” infecting it. That’s all the concept is. 

Well, the Browns are making good decisions so....end times? Mirror-verse? We’re now in an issue of What If? 

I don’t agree with you for a bunch of reasons but chief among them is that there’s nothing inherent about the concept of college athletics that requires a school to lower their admissions standards for athletes.

If the trade-off is a less gifted student body for 40 million going to a school that is sitting on an endowment of billions of dollars?