Yeah I’d be fine with just one replay ... on neverending loop ...

I don’t know whether it’s fair but it’s definitely stupid. If you think forces beyond your control were your undoing, that’s easy to bitch about! It’s when you know *you’ve* failed that being asked to talk about it seems exactly as painful and pointless as it assuredly is.

On replay it was very clear that the nose of the ball touched the ground; at the time the ball was in the receiver’s control, but there was a subsequent bobble before he finally gained control. Wanting that to be a catch is a reasonable viewpoint, but under the rules as we think we know them to be, at least since the…

Who the hell ever listens to voicemails? Who, indeed, ever LEAVES fucking voicemails? At this point voicemail’s only meaningful purpose is as a cringe-inducing plot point in terrible romantic comedies.

Dallas also hacked Iguodala once last night, late in the 3rd; he had just missed two FTs (the only two the Warriors missed all night) but made both after the intentional foul.

I dunno, I tried a Minnesota road job once, and while I got so distracted I almost crashed into a moose, it was pretty enjoyable in the end.

As far as I’m concerned the real reason the Clippers should not trade Chris Paul is because almost any player they could conceivably get in exchange would make their team more likeable and might even help create a culture in which Blake wasn’t an incorrigibly whiny flopper, and this could undermine the narrative,…

The other one should also have been called, but you need new eyes if you think Burfict’s wasn’t far worse.

I’d expect that from SMU, actually.

<i>The Bulls and the Pistons played a Kevin Costner movie of a basketball game last night</i>

Seven, not five. You missed the last two by the green team.

[S]elf[-righteous, smug prick] on a shelf

I enjoy the part where one of the announcers credits Billy Donovan with “[drawing] up that play.”

There was no provocation - Emery was just a little bored and looking to rough someone up.

“Today the coaches were rehired, with the assistants given extensions.”

Please tell me you little shits gave the old man a Buckner jersey every Christmas from ‘86 to ‘03.

Upon waking this morning I was struck with the sudden realization that our friend Tom W was right all along - Ley IS the biggest dick on the internet! Why, you ask? Look at the photos, the vines, the youtube clips - look all you want and YOU WILL NEVER SEE THAT BAT FLIP. It was horizontal when thrown and stayed…

I’m not saying that. But you didn’t say the article proved him to be a shitty, hacky, drively writer - you said it showed he’s a dick.

You said that an article, the sole substantive point of which was to say that Bautista’s bat-flip was cool, was proof that its author is a huge dick. I’m having a hard time grasping how that would not be about the bat-flip.

The proper way to pay this fine: