Finance right now is 50% bullshit, 45% trying to hide who’s getting screwed by any given deal, and 5% actual, substantive, maybe-kinda-complicated analysis. Finance isn’t complicated. It’s really not. You: (1) find a way to value a bunch of apples; (2) find some way to make sure you’re comparing that apple to other…

Dude, so wrong.

Pretty sure he wrote “jargon,” not “advanced jargon.”

Or it’s literally the same thing. If Aaron Rodgers isn’t ready week one, he’s sitting behind Favre . . . or that guy who the Texans cut. Either one.

Not sure how that contradicts the OP, who simply said that sitting is better than starting for a lot of elite QBs. Nothing about being the backup or not, which really is irrelevant; either they can play, or they can’t.

He could have traded Griffin. It’s the only path to a championship for the Clips.

Not really. If kids don’t like doing something, it’s hard to make them be great at it. You can make them do it, but they’ll be OK at best, not great.

“ Now that we know for certain Jon Snow’s true parentage—a mystery for literally two decades, since the publication of the books—he seems like a likely choice, not just because his morals align with Dany’s but because the dragon’s blood that runs through his veins help could carry on the Targaryen line, a main goal…

That’s a super technical way to avoid the question. Whether you call it
“the third pick in the draft” or “Dunn” doesn’t change what it is - a pick in this years draft. From what I hear the Sixers don’t necessarily want that.

Is “here” in Boston or Philly? Because that makes a ton of sense for Boston, but I get the feeling Philly wants more draft picks like Love wants to defend the perimeter.

So you’re theory is that most GMs evaluate a player by seeing how much he can dunk on Orlando’s 22nd best player? You might as well just watch them play NBA2016.

That could still happen.

How do you figure? The US is more competitive in soccer than the entire rest of the world is at basketball.* And nobody says that teams like Germany or Serbia aren’t “competitive” in basketball, even though they have as much chance of winning any championship as you and any 4 of your friends do.

GODDAMIT LEBRON DON’T KEEP CAPPING C

That, uh, wasn’t me. Not a once have I said anything is bad or good or made any sort of value judgment about anything. That was you, reading all sorts of values into “masculine” and “feminine” that don’t mean anything to anyone except you. I also didn’t say that Tig looks masculine. I didn’t comment on how she looks…

How many ways do you want to hear “Yes?” You and I both know that if you see a bunch of Tri Delts going to the formal you’re not going to say, “Wow, what a bunch of masculine looking girls.” And if you did, everybody would say, “Christ, what’s wrong with you?” Hell, Tig would. That’s nuts.

And lose by 20? Probably.

I understand what you’re trying to say, and of course we shouldn’t pigeon hole people into categories based on dress and so on. But there’s a difference between acknowledging that there is a norm, an average, a common, whatever, and saying that you’re not a woman or a man unless you are the norm, the average, the…

It means having an appearance normally associated with men. C.f. feminine, having an appearance normally associated with women.

Thanks for the input, LeBron’s mom.