I was totally unimpressed by the trailers, particularly the writing and the humor in them. The movie is much better in both respects. In hindsight, I think the trailers suffered by having to bastardize the dialogue into something that could be approved for all audiences. The film itself is a very hard-R, especially…

Both movies were cooked up in labs years ago and play into a decades-long commitment to the extended comic universes and the money that comes with it.

Every other outlet was more than happy, for business reasons, to announce that the anti-Beyoncé rally was real, and happening, and preposterous. Any more preposterous than the hordes of reporters standing out in the rain right now waiting for phantom reactionaries?

Hey, have you not heard! My Knicks drafted Khristgod Porzingawd this year, fully absolving all previous errors. Yours is an easy if unacceptable mistake to make. I will now accept an apology, thanks!

Saul Katz, is that you?

Assuming that Burneko’s stuff for Concourse counts in Deadspin’s favor, I’d totally agree that Deadspin’s politics commentary is better.

I recently got into an argument about whether the many fuckups and oddities of the Roger Goodell-era NFL were more the result of evil or incompetence. My tendency was to lean toward evil — the NFL seems like too unstoppable a Brand behemoth to be actively bad at its primary function of hosting professional football…

Dear Jim Murray,

I don’t know if they’re public record in Massachusetts, but, man, I would love to see his visitor logs.

This is actually an underrated rock bottom for poor Johnny Football: When a guy who has agreed to coach the Raiders AND Browns (taking the latter job when he was still reportedly a prime candidate with other, non-cursed franchises) decides that YOU are not worth trying to fix.

The point isn’t that he “realized” this was a good strategy.

S.t.i.n.K

But is he the subject of multiple Latvian rap anthems? No? Then, please, stop wasting my time. SMDH.

If David Blatt has been telling the Cavs all season to run more, I don’t think you’d have to be much of an “insider” to find that out, given that everyone in the building would presumably know that.

For what it’s worth, if I recall the conversation correctly, Brian Windhorst said on yesterday’s Lowe Post podcast that it was David Blatt’s idea for the Cavs to run more... from before the season! They just hated him (or, at least, disregarded him) so much that they were not doing it.

“I would have been way more negative about the prospect of the DH coming to the National League in my press conference last week [laughs]. I didn’t think I was that positive, so obviously I needed to be more negative.”

The blueprint to beating Tom Brady was a familiar one for anyone who remembers the Giants’ two Super Bowl wins: Get to Brady. Get in his face. Get in his head.

Oh, agreed, Kaep’s definitely the best he’s worked with. And as you said, there’s a lot more to this than just the QB, which is the only position that tends to come up in discussions of Chip Kelly’s effectiveness.

Still, I can’t shake the sense that the single most important factor in the perception of a coach’s skill is whether or not he has a good quarterback. In San Francisco, that too remains to be seen.

Moe’s Southwest Grill is better anyway. And not just because you can eat it and not die from E. coli.