...it’s really not. No team’s failure to make the playoffs will get them kicked out of the league next year.

“He showed a lot of heart. He’s a true competitor. We’ve decided to suspend him indefinitely, for one match.” - Coach K

The NBA isn’t trying to break into the upper echelon of professional basketball leagues which already consists of numerous far superior non-American leagues.

Pro/rel has its supporters and detractors, but one reason MLS is so resistant to it is because of its structure as a single entity, which it seems clear is…

He intimidates it onto his head.

No one delivers new paradigms and outside-the-box thinking as former Goldman Sachs bankers.

True change can only occur from within. Whenever you want to burn down the system and start afresh, best to always elevate the number two guy, because he’s the one that’s been there before. Always sitting there, right next to the current boss, plotting all the ways you’re going to change the system instead of piping…

I mean, the only fair way to judge Hinkie is relative to his actual goals. His goal was to field some truly terrible teams, and boy, did he deliver.

But the trade, in your situation, would’ve been Kyrie, Frye and a protected-2018 first for Clarkson, Nance, Jr., the Brooklyn 1st and uh Jae Crowder (whatever). Doesn’t look as much of “a pretty good haul”. As much as they were in a no-win situation, basically they traded Kyrie for a 1st round pick that’ll barely be…

He tuned in just to check out the competition.

Do you think Pence was confused momentarily when he heard Rippon’s Mother was going to be on CNN?

So would the VP.

It’s pretty obvious. It comes in a line of passive aggressive comments. I’m saying that it sticks out like a sore thumb in the tweet, and Barry could have addressed it in the article.

spitting image of his mom there...

Krapsnaps, indeed.

Why don’t they just wait until those tax cuts boost the economy, resulting in more tax revenue, which would allow for more tax cuts to boost the economy even more so they could cut taxes more on all the sweet new jobs created by the stadium and all the sweet new revenue generated by the deficit they’ll run because the…

I meant per year. We’ve been paying hundreds of billions of dollars per year to build weapons that (I hope) will never be used, and other weapons that are being used with little benefit. We spend more on our military than anyone else (or is it more than everyone else?).

ETA: Note that the second of the stories I linked to above involves patient dumping with an extra-evil and murderous twist: the hospital had the patient arrested and he then died in jail. Much cheaper and more convenient! And I’ll bet the complicit hospital administrators and personnel mostly self-identify as…

Four: vital infrastructure (roads, water, sewage, etc.).

In 2005 I had to threaten a nursing home that was killing my grandmother that I’d go on the air and “out” their scam (they refused to release patients so they could get their Medicare money). They had her on a mattress on the floor in a room with three other elderly people and she was wasting away because the food and…

Three things that should not be for profit; Prison, School, Healthcare.