I understand this argument and there’s something to it, but people do forget — thanks to time and hindsight — a little bit just how good LeBron, Wade and Bosh were when they went to Miami, how absurd the optics were and how widespread the same “this will ruin the league” reaction was.

The year leading up to The…

You pretty much had this covered at Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins.

Yeah, that was a weird line of reasoning. They’d do it for the same reason they sell the broadcast rights to ESPN right now — ESPN has the infrastructure to broadcast it in ways NFL.com can’t and will pay a fuckton of money to do so. Having a website capable of playing videos does not make you a viable streaming…

The second point is the most important here, and the one that people who rail against the NBA’s salary structure always miss. Tom writes:

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I’m a Cubs fan, and Albert Pujols was the best player I’ve ever seen.

Nobody even seems to be able to remember that the Cardinals lost that fucking series in 6.

It’ll put him in the mix in his own way. If we’re getting into dumb ring-weighting hypotheticals, I’d say LeBron’s Miami titles carry a bit less weight than Jordan’s because of the way that Heat team was put together and the expectation that three superstars would destroy the league. Last year’s title obviously…

Sad to think he used to be one of the best drivers around.

This is what happens when you stop practicing abstinence.

“I wanted a grueling training regimen, a list of specialized drills to practice, and a weekly schedule with reminders.” 

Totally agreed. This feels like the real fertile ground for a good app. You already know you should do things like know where your teammates are or optimize a particular power — that’s about as…

And Drew is only talking about hitting a fastball. There are plenty of professional baseball players who can’t hit a good slider, let alone you or me.

Yes, “imagine a league without contract limits” is basically “imagine Yankees baseball, except each star is two to three times as valuable.” You’d get the same results except the teams would 1) never change and 2) never include Cleveland.

Forgive my cross-platform ignorance, but isn’t this generally a no-go for an FPS because of the massive difference in what you can do with joysticks vs. a mouse and keyboard?

This is a good observation. 6v6 allowed for lots of fun, inventive styles and variety in the chaos. If you wanted to run a goofy loadout and play the way you wanted to play, there was a place for it. 4v4 is much closer to Trials in terms of demanding optimal tactics and gear, and I don’t want to see multiplayer pushed…

Yeah, given that a lack of high-level content at launch was like *the* complaint about vanilla Destiny, I’m surprised by this.

What really blows my mind is the discipline required *not* to pull the trigger. That muscle memory based on visual cues is powerful — I remember when the Desolate armor came out and I kept having the urge to shoot at PCs wearing it because of that big glowing Taken target. I can’t imagining having the discipline not…

That’s actually a super, which summons a special pistol with like 6 shots as a special ability.

Teeing up “wacky” nonwhite names as jokes gets a little less tasteful each year. It’s funny when a blue-blooded LAX family has triplets named Sheldon, Rutherford and Rockefeller Shacklebolt III. It’s not that funny when a name from a different culture looks like “fart” in English.