“it goes to all the players not in those categories.”

“it goes to all the players not in those categories.”

Bingo. The best soccer player in the world is one of 22 on the field. The best baseball player in the world gets perhaps four to five of 40 plate appearances per game, or pitches once in every five. The best basketball player in the world can single-handedly use half of a team’s possessions on a given night.

It’s this weird, infantilizing attitude of sticking up for the players by telling them what they should value and how much money they need to make.

Yes, this is basically saying “it’s bullshit every player can’t make max money while also playing together while also having the owners make all the money the want.”

Deadspin’s collective ideology on NBA collective bargaining is weirdly straight out of The Fountainhead.

I’ll repeat this until I pass out: The biggest beneficiary of the individual player cap is the league’s middle class. If Kevin Durant can make $70 million, JJ Redick, Otto Porter and Ryan Anderson aren’t making $20+ million. For the vast majority of players, it’s a feature, not a bug.

I don’t expect Deadspin to have some universal position on any issue (many voices, many viewpoints), but when it comes to the NBA CBA, I am surprised how many writers here are downright Randian in their thinking. You could slap a “Who is John Galt?” bumper sticker on some of these posts.

I have no trouble believing Austin was entitled and Doc was doting, but I’m not sure that passing on two years and $50 million worth of late-stage Carmelo is a bad thing.

I’d watch the fuck out of this. It also reminds me fondly of Sex House, the Onion’s “reality series” that took a dystopian turn.

“The Triangle worked because some of the smartest and greatest basketball players of all time placed their trust in a guy who turns out to have been too stupid to deserve it.”

It’s such a weird blind spot for someone whose success was all about managing personalities and understanding personal strengths and weaknesses. It’s like if Bill Belichick became convinced the hoodie was the actual reason he won all those titles and spent years obsessing over how to get the whole team in hoodies.

This must be why Doug Collins and Del Harris have all those rings.

I understand what you’re saying, but I think it understates the historical insanity of what Federer is doing this year. Most tennis greats — including Federer and Nadal — peak decisively in their mid-20s and fall off predictably along an aging curve. The skills required to execute at the highest level require…

I played it on my Macbook and had a good experience. It doesn’t exactly demand laser-precision mouse skills or anything and I think a mouse-and-keyboard interface is the right one for the game.

FWIW, it’s available on Mac as well — I played it on my Macbook.

I think if they had made Mass Effect 4 and it had similar problems but advanced the story, characters and lore of the ME universe more directly, it would have been landed better. In my mind, as someone who liked both games, that’s essentially what DA:I did. People are more willing to overlook some pretty serious flaws…

Sometimes you get Dylan the all-time great, and sometimes you get the drunk Dylan mumbling through his set.

Distilled to one word: water. As a home inspector once told me, water is the enemy. Do not be fooled by the fact that water gives you life or comprises most of your corporeal body. Water is out to ruin your home, you and everything you love. Mold? That’s water. Roof issues? That’s water. Plumbing? Foundation? Weird…

There were a few, but they were all on the same side of the bracket. One of them (Houston) got beat by San Antonio, and the other (San Antonio) had horrible injury luck. There’s good basketball out there; it’s just not distributed for a great playoffs right now.