The MLK “kill yourself” letter remains the mostly bugfuck insane thing that we don’t talk about enough. It should be mandatory reading in high school history classes.

what if it spilled on a bear’s nest or whatever? what if a coyote slipped in it? would you drink 84 gallons of oil? i rest my case.

It seems like you are discounting the Apartheid government’s knowledge that Apartheid couldn’t last and they absolutely did not want a nation controlled by the natives to have nuclear weapons.

The part where you accuse people of being nazis and then disallow any dissent or discussion. Without apparently understanding the irony (and stupidity) of such a statement.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an WNBA article in the context of “here is a great sequence, fun story, or interesting move” on Deadspin. When 90% of a league’s coverage is about how people are sexist for not watching the league, they will never grow. Write good content about interesting games (if that content exists).

“Anyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi” - not saying it’s good btw, but come on.

It’s like they are willfully blind to the fact that 90% of sports fans are men, and most men (outside of degenerate gamblers and upskirt peepers) just don’t give a shit about women’s sports and never will.

Fundamentally I think the problem with this story is that it’s operating on the same misunderstanding as the people who don’t get why fans stop rooting for a team when it leaves their city. “So what if the Rams are in LA or the Raiders are in Vegas now? It’s the same players, right?”

Fact is by and large people root…

Lax is kind of a shit spectator sport (as someone who played my entire life). It is okay live, but TV hasn’t figured out how to shoot a game to make the action both clear and exciting. It is all long shots which makes it feel slow.

Because women’s sports across pretty much all disciplines is equivalent in skill to high school boys teams, and no one wants to pay money to watch that level of skill.

It’s pretty simple.

Same reason why I don’t watch the D-League, MiLB, AHL, or Cleveland Browns games; why watch a lesser product when I can watch the best?

Let’s be real and I ain’t hating, just real talk. It isn’t good product. All the shouting”Britney dunked!,” She should dunk, she’s 6 9, she should dunk with her elbows. Without the NBA throwing money at this pool,they would have gone the way of the other leagues. It’s about a skill set of a good high school team. I…

Your handle is the shit.

Fans of popular men’s programs like Kentucky, Duke, and North Carolina follow players into the NBA.

You said it. This piece GREATLY overestimates the extent to which people’s fan-dom “follows” their favorite college athletes to the pros. The number of guys who played on my favorite college team isn’t going to give me a rooting interest in a game unless there is truly not a single other aspect of the matchup I care…

People don’t follow their favorite college players into the pros in any real sense, unless they don’t have a pro team already or their pro team happens to draft their favorite players. For instance, as an OSU grad, I didn’t become a Boston fan when Evan Turner went there. I live in DC and watch Wizards games…

I could use the 5 bucks...

Thanks for the peice...still working my way through and had to pause to push back on this a bit.

I’m in Kansas, and honestly don’t know who my local team is. Or how many teams are in the league.

I have no solutions. This post just reminded me of this picture. And I think it does a good job displaying the problem.