I wanted to make the point using any athlete in any sport but with Kevin Durant being the current major free agent I just used him as an example. I admit I don’t know much about basketball but I think this applies to all sports with free agency. Durant and any other athlete need to take care of themselves first and…

I really don’t understand the anger over stuff like this. You might not like Durant’s decision and think it’s wrong but to get angry seems to point to thinking Durant owes you something. He’s got to take care of himself and if he gets a better offer than the one from your team it’s just tough luck. Like you said, any…

‘Gator tits’ sounds like a really cruel nickname or something.

Ugh, really? You have my sympathy. It’s a wonder you didn’t decide to be homeless instead.

Excellent user name/post combination.

Dammit! I wanted to make that joke!

*proletariat

Excellent argument, I’ll have to pass this along to my fellow proliteriates. My go-to method has been to criticize the lumping of everything together as The Government. IME right-wing Christians are especially bad about this: In everything that it does the government acts as a unified whole whose goal is to subvert…

Mike Tyson? That makes me sad. He seems like one of the few athletes who actually regrets a lot of the stupid shit he did in the past. It doesn’t make him a good guy but it’s all too rare to even admit he was wrong.

I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ that brings it up but this is a great example of class warfaare waged by the rich. The Congress people* are simply acting on behalf of cheapskate owners. Situations such as this are the reason I almost always side with players up against the owners/league in any sport. Sure, NFL players…

I’ve always enjoyed his essay on the Maine Lobster Festival, Consider the Lobster. Boiling lobsters alive has always struck me as an awful act too.

Yeah, ‘contributed to’ would’ve been a better way to put it with RG3. Snyder made things worse with his blind support of the guy (and horrible field maintenance!) but I can’t think of an owner who would actually have improved the situation.

I was about to put ‘contributed to’ up in a quote block in response but I realized I didn’t actually say that. My “in no small part ruined” might have been better phrased that way. I had in mind the stories about Snyder empowering RG3 and making him uncoachable (best illustrated by the end of season ‘make some…

The ‘Worst Person’ award is competitive (I’d go with Gilbert), but for ‘Worst Owner’ there’s no contest. Dan Snyder makes a fool out of himself and his team at every turn. He in no small part ruined a great QB (that a tremendous amount of draft stock went into) who could’ve transformed the team (and proceeds to get…

+1 uninformed vote

I think that means you belong in The Controversial Club.

+one and a half-ish fingers

Aside from everything else, those uniforms are hideous.

The Long Con: How the Manziels Conquered America

I loved everything but the shoulder pads; a very good look for her. It kinda looks like a medieval dominatrix.