Yeah it started like that but by the end I felt like it was subtly shitting on Howard. Like it was crafted to make him think it was a puff piece but had some barbs:

Okay so I admit this was a bit murky but on your final 2 points:

Can we please note that the signature on that letter is about the closest one could possibly get to writing “SS” while pretending to mean “SG”?

I think I’m on board with the guy who said Al Davis but to inevitablely drag politics into this, doesn’t USFL-era Trump have an argument here?

2 articles by the same guy trying to do both:

Oh boy, as the only Chelsea fan working in the US at a UK-based company where about half the staff are Liverpudlians this is like Christmas come early for me!

Ah yes you are correct on the seeding.

Ugh you’re right about the vast majority of what you said there. So damn frustrating.

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!