Interestingly enough (not really) I had just moved to CO at the start of those playoffs and had NBA fan roommates so that’s when I started being a Nugs fan. I didn’t really understand how insane it all was until later!

Yes. Sadly until we figure out what we as a society want to accept in terms of corruption, that will be our political system’s biggest flaw. It seems everything short of “a suitcase full of money” is allowed and that ruins most attempts as reforming situations with as much money involved as healthcare.

Mannnnnn, I know you’re right. Just felt like I needed to defend my team a bit.

That trade actually worked pretty well for the Nuggets, they got the #2 seed soon after and flamed out in the playoffs because Andre Iguoldala is not at acceptable #1 scorer. Then the GM left because despite being widely considered one of the best at his job, the cheap-ass owner didn’t want to pay him or give him…

Okay, I think you are misunderstanding my point a bit. I do agree that the “looking out for the people” bit is a stretch, hence the “(hmm)“ in there. But the actually lobbying mechanisms in place now that drive prices higher are the insurance companies lobbying to have more pricing power and the drug companies…

While I agree with the propaganda element of it, that probably isn’t a terribly useful answer for a person who is outside the orbit of American politics.

To Braden:

Oh I agree with that. But on an internet post, you shouldn’t make bizarre humblebrags about vocabulary while sounding like a middle-schooler and using your/your/you’re seemingly randomly. It is just a bad look. There is plenty of middle ground between what that person wrote out and purple prose.

This has me laughing at my desk. There is a 0.000001% chance you have a “large vocabulary” when you’re using “tons of” and starting sentences with “basically.”

It is just so frustrating turning on the TV and not know whether you’re going to see a legit top 5 world striker or the angry guy from your flag football team that tackles people “accidentally”

The story from Morata in some interview was that Conte convinced him to sign at the start of that summer. Then Conte quit like a week into preseason over clashes with club management over transfers. So while he was on a team coached by Conte for a brief time and apparently loves the guy, he never actually played for…

Good parallel. I often threw the ball a quarter mile too!

Obviously different sport and different significance, but in HS football lots of teams do dumb choreographed dances and chants and whatnot. I would always take a break from warming up to walk over to the midfield line smile dismissively at them cause it struck me as rather weak-minded. Didn’t show me they were tough,…

Yeah because its not like they let anyone leave anytime and its not like top youth players keep selecting them over every other academy in Europe

“More pressingly, why does Chelsea even have a youth system this large if they’re not going to take advantage of it?”

Yeah... I tend to be a bit understated but by “[not] terribly clear” I mean the author is either misunderstanding the (admittedly complex) issue or is taking a weirdly strong stance  

Exactly. Lots of funny business here and potentially not simply about a “lowball” offer

Oh I completely agree with your sentiment here. Just pointing out that there are 2 sides to this and one of them is very aggressively lying. I don’t think that was terribly clear from the article above.

The rumor making the rounds is that it was not in fact a lowball offer but a YUGE offer. Meelan were willing to go with EU 10m/ yr after tax, making him the 2nd highest GK in the world (De Gea I guess?) If that turns out to be true, this may be as bad as fans think and really all about agent fees for good ole’ Raiola…

Here’s one!