100% all of this. All the talking heads (cough, Bill Simmons), getting on their high horse about Davis trying to leave with 18 months on his contract never mention that the CBA, at the behest of small market owners like NOLA, essentially creates a system that prevents a player coming into the league from realistic…

“[L]ook at France’s World Cup-winning side and you’ll see plenty of immigrant stories not dissimilar from, say, Almoez’s family emigrating to Qatar when he was a child.”

Also, don’t forget that St. Loius only had the Rams because they originally stole the team from Los Angeles by offering a sweetheart financing stadium deal, and even then only got the team because the Rams’ then owner Georgia Frontiere—who inherited the team from her sixth husband when he drowned while swimming in the…

Hopefully the exact same number that didn’t scream about the 1999-2000 Super Bowl because that was LA’s, not theirs?

Kevin Brown suffered b/c he was a dick (non-lovable version) to the media, and like so many pitchers of his era, his numbers look worse because he pitched during the steroid era. Even though for a stretch of six or seven years he was probably one of the ten best pitchers in the league, and probably in the top five for…

Can I talk you into also supporting Andruw Jones and his 62.8 bWAR and 66.9 fWAR for the HOF? Or at least being entitled to more votes that Vizquel and ffs more than 7.5% of the vote?

I mean, I think that there were very few people who don’t think that Rivera deserves to be in the HOF, but that doesn’t stop them from also rightly pointing out that him being the first unanimous selection is an indictment on past voters who have denied others who were unarguably “greater” players from the honor. 

Tell your friend Shaq was 300lbs when he entered the league at 20, and he seemed to end up a pretty decent player.  

The critical difference though is that baseball has no salary floor, which results in a whole bunch of teams spending as little as possible while still collecting revenue sharing. Institute a minimum spend of say $140m would result in a better split for the players, since it should have a smaller reducing effect on…

Exactly, it’s not as if people wanting the cap and max salary to go away are asking for some unfettered system. It seems simple - minimum salaries and revenue sharing with a salary floor would result in a equilibrium with more money going to players and less to venture capitalist owners.

You describe yourself as a “classical liberal” on dating apps, don’t you...

Additional points for noting the counter-argument that it happened so fast and unexpectedly that the Plaintiff could not have possessed a reasonable apprehension of the physical contact.

I’d say that kinda makes sense. But I think if that’s the purpose, his execution is severely lacking. If he wants to make that point (even though the basic theory is over a century old), that’s fine, but there is no intellectual consistency that I can see with how he uses the quotation marks. For example, from the…

I’d bet that the root cause is physical. My completely uninformed theory is that the Sixers determined there was something about his previous motion that was causing or significantly affected by his shoulder injury and so he’s been instructed to change his shooting motion. I think that’s a difficult enough endeavor…

“Major” is different than simply population. It would arguably encompass “culture” as well. So maybe you could claim Austin, but if you ask someone to name the top 10 American cities, you’re not including Columbus. Also, both Austin and Columbus, as well as most of the other cities people seem to be claiming on this…

Cool cool cool. None of that applies to Lacob, who is a VC/hedge fund guy, who you know, basically builds/creates nothing and doesn’t really employ anyone you might consider a “working stiff.” Fuck off back to www.reason.com?

I believe that the top of the bagel is better than the bottom of the bagel, and so here is what I propose as a business plan: A bagel that is the top of the bagel on BOTH sides.

Draymond is MAYBE the third best player from that draft. And I’d bet that a fair number of teams that don’t already have Durant, Curry, and Klay on their roster would take Beal over Draymond also.

You jest, but are pretty much on point. This whole episode would have been avoided if the game wasn’t being played in Houston’s trash bandbox of a stadium.

To be fair, your expectations should be tempered when even the writers on the site don’t seem to understand what a macguffin is . . .