As far as Jon Snow being Aegon VI not mattering goes... I liked that! I never understood why it should matter. Dany’s claim in her own mind was based at least partially on birthright, but it wasn’t why literally any of her supporters were following her. Cersei got the crown by murdering everyone. Even the one…

Sure, but I don’t think massacring half the city was strictly necessary to do establish her reign of terror. I think after she wiped out the Iron Fleet, the Golden Company, and the city’s defenses people would be right well afraid of her. If she really had to show she wasn’t fucking around and wouldn’t just meekly…

Someone more clever than I dubbed him Flat Earth Shammgod

It was finally briefly mentioned in the last episode, with Gendry’s elevation and the rise of an unnamed Prince of Dorne. Also the vacancy at Highgarden. But up until then it has been bizarrely absent from the story. Shouldn’t lesser lords be currying favor with the two main factions? We’ve only really seen it with…

Yes, that makes far more sense. In the show pretty much no one exists who has not been seen on screen. 

I understood Jamie to be planning a murder-suicide.

I’ve always thought this show’s refusal to have off-screen relatives was strange. I get that they don’t want to cast a million different roles and have to try to retain the actors for six scenes total over eight years, but you could just mention another branch of the…

I believe Brett Brown has said in the past that Embiid’s normal playing weight is around 270. With the layoff he had around the All-Star break he may be closer to 280 at this point, but I doubt 300.

Mike Trout is an unusual dude. Seemingly all he likes doing is hunting, going to Eagles games, and talking about the weather. It is legitimately strange that a guy who spends his summers in Orange County chooses to spend his winters in South Jersey. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Trout is determined to play in…

That would make this the most successful Bucks season since at least 1973-74. Somehow I think their fans would survive.

The max extension would be for significantly more than Embiid’s five year, $148 million deal. KAT’s max deal was around $159 million baseline, and Simmons’ will be larger than that. And with the Rose Rule it could escalate further.

So Henry is going to ruin Julie’s life by giving the address to his documentarian mistress, right?

I get that no one trusts Magic, the Lakers, or Klutch at this point. But realistically Simmons has no leverage to force his way to the Lakers any time soon. Sure, the Knicks got bullied into trading Porzingis. But the Knicks are idiots. The stars that force an exit almost always do so during or after their second…

The Sixers were missing two of their starters last night. Granted, Wilson Chandler isn’t very good. But the guys backing him up are even worse. JJ Redick on the other hand is pretty key to their offense and Embiid/Butler/Redick/Simmons lineups have been quite effective. Also, the Clippers are from an awful team.

Halladay struggled at the start of his career, famously getting sent back down to the minors and having to rebuild his approach. The end of his career was derailed relatively early by shoulder injuries. So he was only the dominant Roy Halladay you remember from his age 25 season through his age 34 season, which is a…

MCW played his first year and won Rookie of the Year. The rest of his career hasn’t gone so well.

Every sport gets the hall of fame it deserves- apparently all-time NBA greats deserve to sit through every half-way decent college coach’s boring as hell induction ceremony.

Chris Hayes raised this question on Twitter once, so Eno Sarris did an analysis at Fangraphs. He estimated that even under the most pessimistic set of assumptions a random dude like Chris Hayes should get at least one or two hits in a full season of plate appearances.

Yeah, it very strange to me that these guys are using the same accounts as blue-checkmarked adults that they were using when they were in high school. Obviously you want to keep that stuff separate. When you sign your MLB-contract start a new account.

I was aware it is meant to be called “The Hundred” but I nevertheless always think of it as “The One-Hundred”. And they can’t stop me.

Two things-

Stuttering John sounds nothing like Bob Menendez. Kushner and Trump have both met Bob Menendez.

Trump being on tape saying he is proud of Menendez, and that his was prosecution was “very unfair” isn’t exactly on-message for Republicans wanting to run against his corruption.