Seriously though, the federal government should seriously consider adopting an ag subsidy program targeting almond growers that pays them to switch to other less water intensive crops. Almonds, and nuts in general, use a bizarrely disproportionate share of all of California’s water, largely due to arcane local water…

For many of these people, getting to the olympics is the crowning achievement of their lives to date. They’re not going to walk away from all of it and their years of hard work and preparation because the ceiling is leaking. That said, they have every right to complain if the ceiling is leaking.

Touche. He’s literally losing more money than anyone on this, as it means a major event being pulled from his team’s arena.

and it has the internet... someone sitting there can read her stupid book and write a review of it on amazon. that wasn’t necessarily true in 1999. she must not have realized that times had changed.

Ima go ahead and say she’s not 29.

But the stuff James Frey lied about was at least a little plausible, no?

Wouldn’t it have made so much more sense to handle the jump in the cap by proportionately scaling up all existing contracts and maintaining the existing salary structure in the league? Would have led to dramatically less upheaval and chaos. The CBA stipulates that X% of the revenue must go to the players. The current…

Wouldn’t it have made so much more sense to handle the jump in the cap by proportionately scaling up all existing contracts and maintaining the existing salary structure in the league? Would have led to dramatically less upheaval and chaos. The CBA stipulates that X% of the revenue must go to the players. The current…

If you’re going to define “worthiness” in some cosmic, meta-physical, or philosophical sense, then have it.

Somebody’s a real douche this morning, isn’t he?

They’re doing a good impression of the exact 180 opposite of Sam Hinkie’s approach right now.

Because who are you coming to the Mavs to play with? They really don’t have much talent on their roster, especially now that Parsons is leaving. Do you really think guys are just jumping at the opportunity to suit up next to Wes Matthews this summer? Dirk is absolutely amazing, but he’s way past his prime and only…

“One of those”? People who get how supply and demand work?

Exactly. Few deals in the business world are zero sum. Most deals exist because doing business together is beneficial to both sides.

Yes more championships would be great. But Boston has won enough that there isn’t this insane organizational imperative to “win one for Cleveland”, etc. Now that these Cs owners already have one title, I imagine that having a team that spends the next 5-6 years in a row in the playoffs, winning 50ish games a year,…

Perhaps they can’t find or acquire a superstar because there is an incredibly limited supply of superstars in the league and almost none of them are on the trade market. Jimmy Butler is a good player, but he’s a marginal all-star game backup, not a super star who will lead you to a title. They couldn’t trade for a…

Its almost entirely due to the “the concentration of elite talent.” There are only 5 players on the court at once. The best player on the court has a much larger marginal effect on the outcome then the best player on a football field, essentially always. Swapping JJ Watt or Aaron Rodgers onto a random bad NFL team…

WIN.

Yes, “sounds like a dumb trade made up as a a facetious joke.” That’s exactly what it was. I said I was being facetious. Somebody’s butt hurt about rooting for a crap team, oh boy.

I was being facetious. Sounds like the kind of dumb trade Philly makes all the time.