I respectfully submit that you don’t know any practicing Mormon ladies then...

oh, don’t I know. though I still find it way too ridiculous to refer to myself as an “Ole”.

and you’ll only owe $4.50 for it on your taxes!

that said, I DEFINITELY appreciate your willingness to chat in the comments. even if you are a stuck up Carletonian ;)

lol, your claim that goddamn CHRIS CHRISTIE is “center right” shows you know very little about politics (not to mention Mitt Romney and post 2001 John McCain). just wow.

Optimus Primitive made most of the points I would’ve, so I’ll just add on to his:

All Star break is a week long now. Given that, and considering that they get paid millions of dollars and get June-September off, I don’t think most working people would cry over the fact they might not have two days off in a row over the course of 8 months.

eh, Detroit would be fun to watch, but Philly and Denver? no thanks. agree that the Lakers will be a shitshow, but Kobe’s at least an interesting story.

“The Milwaukee Bucks, quite possibly the second best team in the East”

At least you can take solace in the fact that this team’s ultimate upside was getting slaughtered by a legitimate contender in the first round. Sucks to know that your team will likely not make the playoffs, but this Suns team was never going to advance past the first round anyway...

there’s a difference between “trust” and what’s going on here. life tip: if you’re a grown man or woman, and your mom or sibling has joint access to your bank account, STOP IT. that’s called co-dependency, and/or immaturity.

and yet they did, and yet without two of their three best players (both of whom are All Stars) they came within two wins of beating one of the best teams of all time in the NBA. so, yes, they are championship contenders.

Kevin, I love a lot of your NBA writing (particularly on the business aspects) but your player evaluation is sometimes woeful. You “could buy” arguments that Mike Conley and Andre Drummond are more worthy of the max than Tristan “10 and 10” Thompson? lol ok.

lol, thanks for the update on your mental state, two weeks later. you seem a bit unhinged.

I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean.

and if you think “we all have better things to do” than fight about comments, ignore them and don’t delete them, especially when comments critical of your dumb joke have multiple stars - that just serves to skew the narrative. DeadspinTM brand commenters are the worst.

I mean the description of his dead body, traded by you for a joke and some internet-stars. Franzen’s article was self-serving and dumb, but whatever. I have no interest or trade in the movie. But your comment was tasteless and unfunny, and you can posture all you want now about how it wasn’t SUPPOSED to be funny, how…

ah that makes sense :)

how many critical comments will you dismiss? this comment is completely unfunny, but good try.

stop projecting. plenty of people have read and loved his work. this is not an endorsement of the movie.