so he can accomplish SFA and disillusion the base even further, leading to Cotton 2024? Hell yes!

The best part is, you just know this guy is not being ironic. The only WS wins that get less respect are the $YEAR Marlins wins (c’mon, name one)

Sixers fans put up with years of terrible, unwatchable basketball in the belief that this was the only way to build a championship team. The Sixers are not a championship team. Several other teams did NOT try to pretend that going 10-72 was good, actually, and 4 of them are in the Conference Finals - with 3 of them…

Magary (I think) called it a “basketball Ponzi scheme” which is... fucking perfect

Jalopnik tends to really overvalue certain cars (old wagons, old E series cars) and wildly undervalue certain others (anything that might appeal to, say, a more “urban” demographic/most non 1980 Ford Ranger trucks).

lmao Canadian telecom “competition” is just like its American counterpart

No point, his contract expires next year. They might be able to take on a bad contract and some picks for him, but I see no point in tanking next year because like how does this team become worse than Atlanta/Chicago/no-Kemba Charlotte etc.

Because their parents and their parents parents did it and look how long they lived! (and lol you think you’re gonna convince some country Caribbean twice your age to stop a habit because of some science-y shit you learned in school?)

Some granola hippie with crystals is not a doctor, no matter how many chiropractic schools they attended

The only thing they can do is dock points (12 to be exact) if the team actually enters administration. They would be started the following season at -12 points. This does nothing for the issue of “making sure the players get paid”.

It sounds cool as a “proof of concept” idea - it wouldn’t be usable or practical in any way, and I think that with how locked down Mac OS is now, it may not even be possible. The hardware you can use is very specific and it appears that you’re... not gonna get to use WiFi anytime soon. But as to the rest of your post:

Not sure if you intended to be sarcastic but this nearly WAS an issue with Frank McCourt’s Dodgers.

The NHL is more popular than the NBA, which is why you need a full TV Guide and a Golf Channel subscription to watch their playoff games and why there are at least 5 NHL teams with <80% “stated” attendance

also the worst thing Ballmer might ask you to do is use a Surface, not listen to his vanity band

I always think about Phyllis Schafly torpedoing the Equal Rights Amendment, thinking she’d get a spot in the cabinet, and being left to serve tea to the boys

they also went to countries and said “we like X group more than Y, X is now our comprador class, Y can live in huts” which had great fun effects in place like Rwanda

Take a look at OKC’s cap sheet and tax bill (3.6x on each dollar over the cap or some shit like that). I think that very soon we might not have to worry about Westbrook “not making it out of the first round”.

Someone else (it may have been you!) noted that DC United tickets are more expensive than Caps tickets. That sure is sustainable!

“wanting to enrich themselves at the expense of the [...] sport in the US” describes, like, nearly every organized body involved in soccer in the United States.

yeah this clearly ended up on Kotaku or Jalopnik