What is Gardner doing with that bat? A True Yankee™ like Paul O’Neill would’ve unleashed that bat on two water coolers and four helmets by then.

I am quite positive this exact list exists on a fetish website somewhere as best people to overhear having sex.

Yeah, “unprotected Miami pick!” sounds great until you remember that that Miami has an owner who is willing to spend even on middling playoff teams and a GM who has never shown the slightest interest in a true rebuild and a market that draws free agents.

Rory having some Troubles I see

Thank you — this is a great summary of the actual issues at play here. It makes me feel crazy when people don’t realize the max salary is an income redistribution tool for the middle class as much as anything else.

the owners seized the opportunity to leverage the “super-team” boogeyman in the ensuing round of bargaining, with themselves positioned as parity’s noble defenders.

The problem with the supermax is that the true superstars like LeBron and KD will still be underpaid and generate enough off-court money that they’d rather have the flexibility to play where they want, with whom they want.

For “stars,” players #10-20 who aren’t good enough to be leading stars on a championship team,…

NBA economics are weird and we should probably figure out how this works before we go yelling about this stuff as though the NBA economy functions in the same way as the NFL and MLB do and calling people stooges for ownership.

I think you’re a little hard on the ringer piece, which seems to be pretty on-brand for deadspin these days. The only way you can take that article as an ownership puff piece is if you’re pushing the argument that owners purposefully created an environment that enhances player power on the chance that in the long run…

At least one employee complained to legislators about his obsession

Not to defend the governor here, but Foxhoven was often described by his colleagues as “Makavelian.”

If it’s in the fridge it’s fair game. Thug life

FUCK YOU, JEFF. MY NAME WAS WRITTEN ON THE YOGURT.

Dolan is like that guy Gary at work. You fart in his office and steal his yogurt and then all of a sudden it’s litigation and death threats. Chill Gary 

Yup, I read the headline and said, “Oh no” out loud. I thought for sure we were in for a new Kyrie-esque taek.

This did not go how I thought it was going to go. I actually think of Ned Yost as less of a pud now.

I agree!

I think it would be basically impossible for the Lakers to make this work, salary-wise, but I guess at this point we shouldn’t rule anything out.

Australians: HAHA, Mate! “Rooted in Oakland” is like saying, “Fucked in Oakland!” Crickey!
Oaklanders: If we wanted to say that, we’d just say, “Raiders fan.”

I found out last year that I’ve been overtaxed for 7 years due to the size of my property being incorrectly inflated by the appraisal district. But there’s nothing I can do to recoup my overpayment because of the two year limitation they set. So it only makes sense that my overpayment and his underpayment essentially c…