Totally different circumstances. The Clippers would have gotten nothing for him if they hadn’t agreed to this trade since he was already going to Houston as a free-agent otherwise. The Bulls still had Butler under contract for two more seasons.

I don’t know. I didn’t mind having a small memento of my season. Neither I nor my parents had any illusions about me being an athlete. They wisely steered me towards theatre as sports proved to be less enjoyable once I got older.

Look at his math again. There’s only 11 years of Generation X kids in his list, but 22 years of Millennials. Way off.

Your math is off. Your Generation X is only 11 years while your Millenials are born across a 22 year gap. Try again.

Yep. Not to mention the fact that the handwringing about it ruining kids is completely ridiculous. Kids aren’t dumb. They know the difference between a participation trophy and a championship trophy. Plus it’s not like all contributions to a championship team are equal anyway. When I played baseball, I was the backup…

It was close between him and Curry the last couple of years, but you may be right.

That’s not really a sociology problem though. The problem there is the cultural baggage we’ve piled on top of the term. It’s become a catch-all for lazy, entitled brats rather than having any real defined meaning in terms of age range. As someone born in 1980, I feel like I’m in a gap between gen-x and millennials and…

I got participation trophies in little league and I turn 37 in a month.

Interesting. Though I imagine he’d get better with practice in those conditions. Diet and better training regimens would play just as big of an effect, in my opinion.

If you honestly think being 18 makes you an adult, you have age issues and you should feel terribly embarrassed. Also, it’s not really a matter of opinion. The term has a defined meaning. You can stretch it a bit, but your definition is not the actual definition.

Reposting something I posted on the thread above because I’m greyed and no one may see either comment, so why not.

It’s also worth noting that we have some data to support McEnroe’s claim beyond the subjective. Serena and Venus took a crack at the 204th ranked men’s player early in their career and lost badly.

I don’t think Garcia-Navarro was actually saying that. I think she was just saying that Serena may be the all-time best because of what she’s accomplished. Because she’s the most dominant player of all time. Comparing male and female players is a lot like comparing athletes from vastly different generations. Tyson Gay…

Nah... LeBron is the best player, but he didn’t have the best season. He coasted too much. Which is fine. His goal was to win a championship and he needed to have something left in the tank for the Finals. But you can’t take games off and be the MVP.

My guess would be that you’re either misremembering or you just ran into a bunch of people who pronounced it the same was as you by coincidence. But there’s no real way for either of us to prove our assumptions right, so whatever.

That every single person who used the internet in the ‘90s pronounced the word with a soft-J. Like you, I was also active on the Information Superhighway and I never heard anyone pronounce the word as anything other than hard-G gif. But we’re just two individuals, both with limited experience. Generalizing and saying…

That’s not even remotely true. Stop making up false facts to justify your preference.

I agree that it would be a lot tougher challenge than it gets made out to be by many. Though Canada is bigger than the US in land mass and they seem to be managing okay. Either way, single-payer doesn’t mean government run hospitals that can’t make money. It just means that the government picks up the bill at the end…

“But look how terrible the US Postal Service is run!” they’ll tell you. Completely ignoring the fact that anyone in the country can pay 47¢ to drop a letter in a readily available box and have it delivered anywhere in the country in a couple of days. It’s practically magic.

Even libertarians want some amount of socialism—roads, police, non-interventionist national defense, etc. Though I do no some extremists who are essentially anarchists and want literally everything to be private so you can opt in or out. What they don’t understand is that the system where they can make money and…