“Any other team’s best player” is a bit much to say of Pippen but... he would’ve been the best player on many of the other teams in the league at the time, sure. Mostly agree but ehhhh, I don’t think he was the second-best player in the league for his time, wouldn’t go that far.

If they had the balls to eat a little TV money and go back to an eight-team playoff instead of sixteen, it wouldn’t be so exhausting. When you play 80ish games like in basketball or hockey, you don’t need such a looooong playoff season, you know who the top of the crop is.

So this is the first time Mike and Mike both agree with me? Neat.

As the last person under 40 who still reads physical newspapers, I fear the horse may have already left the barn on this one, Mr. Bennett.

If a tree fell into a nationally-televised channel but no one watched, was it really nationally-televised?

I was sorry that his name did not turn out to be Cornholio and that his list of demands did not involve “T.P.” for his “bunghole”.

Green pools, green medals, makes sense.

Anyone of any gender is allowed to wear a romper, of course, just know that whatever gender you are, you look like you have an adult baby fetish and whatever your gential arrangement, you’re either gonna have a wedgie problem in the front or in the back (or both!) in about ten minutes.

I was going to debut a bundaslinga at the beach Memorial Day but then I remembered I’m 6'5 320 pounds and no one wants to see that. Cargo shorts it is.

+1 Snake Paddlin’.

+1 Feel It, Feel It

There was no reason for a season this year other than TV money, really. The only team with even a chance to derail LeBron on a tear is Golden State and we gotta stand around a coupla weeks more pretending that’s not the case.

When there were a lot more minor leagues there were B and C leagues, yeah, but when minor league affiliations codified and teams solidified their minors systems into 5 or 6 teams each, it gelled into Rookie/low A/A/high A/AA/AAA. Why they specifically picked that naming convention, I’m not sure, but there did used to…

.211, even against teenagers, once they got a book on him?

The General and ITT Tech gotta advertise somewhere. In the words of Nelson Muntz “gotta nuke somethin”.

The Anthem is political because it has been highjacked by soldier sniffers and cop slobberers to be a symbol of their own toxic jingoism. In theory, you’re right, in the practice of the day, it has been stolen to mean a thing so it means a thing, even though it by rights shouldn’t.

Maybe they lean liberal because the athletes they’re covering tend to be from horribly oppressed minority groups, dealing on a day to day basis with the racism, sexism, etc of a still deeply over conservative society and so there’s no way to separate those things out on a basic level?

It can’t be as bad as L.A. Goddamn UTICA has a more functional mass-transit system than L.A.

TLDR: Soccer man surprisingly astonished that America doesn’t throw money at soccer in the shameful ridiculous unconscionable ways it throws it at football, baseball, etc.

If the Mets were reasonably healthy, they’d be pretty good.*