That’s how you know this was some shitty franchise. The Spurs would’ve had photos and a paternity test ready to roll and gaslit this guy into playing hard to support his kid for a decade.

Here’s a fun and completely unworkable idea: An MLB provision, much like the criteria for getting an NBA supermax deal, that allows a player to become a free agent after winning MVP or some combination of lesser awards.

“we have him for three more years”

Why does Mike Trout keep padding his stats with empty appearances on base?

This really highlights the need for investment in high-speed rail. The fact that a flight is the only efficient way to get from San Francisco to LA to fight the Twitter guy who got mad at you for insulting Sam Dekker’s white pride is just absurd.

fuuuuuuuuck

Cubs fan here, and if he’s hitting .250 to .270 with a .330 OBP and the occasional power to go along with the glove, I am very OK with it. Anything more than that is a bonus.

Does it, though? They still hand out huge deals every year. They’re still gonna offer $400 million for Bryce Harper. They’re still good at finding value from young guys and lower-paid vets. They can afford a premium for a light-ish hitting defensive stud, and I don’t think there’s much evidence it’s hurting the…

Psh, Steph isn’t *gaining* height, he’s still 6'3". Now sure, if his teammates are giving him HGH in the middle of the game, that’s a problem (his teammates have other jobs — let the trainers do it).

The Warriors are a truly awesome collection of talent, but this is a very revisionist view of LeBron’s Heat. At the time LeBron went to Miami, he, Wade and Bosh were Nos. 1, 2, and 4 in PER. They were all perennial All-Stars, and LeBron and Wade were both All-NBA 1st-team regulars. They were absolutely the league’s…

I agree with that, and it fits into what I’d consider the only acceptable category of replay, which is “did the ball or puck cross the goal line?” If it happens during a natural stoppage without interrupting play and answers a concrete, simple question that directly affects the score, sure. Otherwise, like you said,…

This is the most sensible idea I’ve heard yet outside of abolishing replay.

It works for goals/touchdowns because those things are infrequent and have built-in stoppages. Everything else is just awful.

Correct and correct. Burneko’s contention that LeBron was just hanging out in the space when Durant crashed into him is insane. When Durant starts to drive, LeBron is 1) outside the paint and 2) below the restricted area. He steps five feet into the lane to get in front on him. It has nothing to do with any leaning…

Your key point — and the one so many people lose — is that refs are going to blow a handful of calls every game, because it’s impossible to referee supermutants running into each other at the speed of light with percent accuracy. They might blow them in the first quarter; they might blow them on the final possession.…

I dunno, if you handed me a list of guys who are going to be making $45 million in ‘21-’22 as the next wave of supermaxes rolls out, I don’t think a 33-year-old Steph would be high on my list of concerns.

There is absolutely something to this. That non-call felt an awful lot like the end product of a boatload of teams sending angry tape reels to the league of Harden hunting for contact with his arms on that same move.

This is all true, and he probably should have gotten the call, but the schadenfreude of Harden spending like three years hunting for pedantically correct and infuriating fouls, and then not getting one there, was on some level relatively satisfying.

I dunno, can they really do anything different by working together (or for that matter, could they do anything to work with him, if they were so inclined) that’s going to make a meaningful difference? It’s not like if 30 people want to stop him, they can all get out and push to make the Kart go faster.

Clarkson got DNP’d the moment LeBron demoted him to Jordan Crawford.