Maybe I’ve got a hangover from arguing with people who seriously think things like “Nixon in ‘72 was to the left of the modern Democratic party!”

And that’s why Bernie had no effect on the platform Clinton ran on, right? Come on. You can say Clinton made political mistakes - she certainly did - but she wasn’t actually running on her husband’s platform from 1992. You can say Clinton came out of the gate a hobbled candidate - and maybe she did - but I can’t help…

Willis was almost certainly referencing one of the Chapo Trap House dudes’ comments in a recent profile that others must “bend the knee” to them; I think the indignation arrow is pointing in the wrong direction on this one.

If we’re talking “indispensable” -

Here’s the secret:

The Monstars could’ve used KD’s skillset! Can we talk about the Monstars’ weird fucking roster construction, even for a 90s style of game?

I don’t remember if I cried - I was younger than you were - but that’s a good entry.

I was REALLY close during the Ravager funeral. If they’d hung in that moment for an extra two minutes I might’ve tipped over.

If I’d had two pieces published in the NYTimes in the last decade, I’d have it in every bit of bio I had available. I don’t follow that many people on Twitter, but I do go look at the people who my follows are retweeting a lot, and his bio looks totally normal to me for someone who’s freelanced for various media…

Requiring people to frontload all context and disclaimers every time they say something to prevent them from being misconstrued when one thing they write gets attention from outside the people who are already familiar enough with their work to not need to context and disclaimers is another step in killing interesting…

That’s nothing on the greatest team name in international sports, New Zealand’s basketball squad: the Tall Blacks.

I don’t watch college ball, so all I know about his game is what I read and heard people describing when projecting him to the NBA.

The post-LeBron Heat could’ve been so much fun, but Bosh’s illness became apparent and (much less seriously, but much more preventably) Wade couldn’t handle the idea that the team might be better off with him letting Dragic do his damned job.

I think “you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you can negotiate” is probably his best line, but he’s got a few.

Well, Jalen Rose has his line that “positions were invented to help amateurs follow the game,” which isn’t ACTUALLY true, but every year rings a little truer. In addition to the growing understanding that you need jobs to get done, but you don’t need them to get done by specific positions*, I think what we’re really…

Nobody’s signed anything yet. We’re in this weird gap week where teams are finally officially allowed to talk to players but the signing doesn’t start until ... actually, I think it’s today. But this is the same gap period that allowed DeAndre Jordan to agree in principle to play for the Mavericks, and then change his…

Danny is pretty obviously aping Golden State. The thing that has been constant in GS for the last three years, aside from “holy shit, Steph Curry,” is that outside of Curry, his backup, and the true bigs, the rest of the rotation is tall and positionally interchangeable. Klay, Barnes, Green, Iguodala, Livingston,…

Thanks. For me its the element of artistry that I have a “bias” against - as a sports fan, I like to SEE artistry, and I enjoy it when artistry helps lead to victory, but for whatever reason my sensibility about “sport” says the judgment of artistry shouldn’t be necessary. I do see how in both skating and gymnastics…

So when everybody agrees that the outcome of a judged boxing match is ludicrous (as happened to Pacquiao the other day) what’s going on? There’s a window for subjectivity, but it’s only so wide?

For fuck’s sake, did I try to compare my knowledge to yours? Did I say you should agree with me? Did I even say I was obviously right? I posted what I posted based on my understanding, I admitted my understanding was not in depth. I invited the idea that I was wrong, and ready to revise my opinion. You summarized that…