Don’t do it too quickly, I came down here to see those replies.

Yeah, when I saw this line:

I spent a solid 5 minutes trying to think of a duck tail joke before remembering that was Drew Gooden. I still have the picture on my clipboard though, so...

Definitely. Definitely mad about the way he plays the game and not about other stuff.

It’s Kenny. He’s playing Kenny.

The short term focus demanded by LeBron (rightly!) crashed after 3 amazing and 1 ok years. Ironically things went on roughly the same time scale as Miami as end-of-bench flotsam accumulated at well above minimum salaries.

Look, I can solve this for you, but it’s going to take a 5 year guaranteed contract for me and at the end of it even if you are begging to change direction I will swear that we are on the path I have foreseen and that all will work out.

I am a reasonably satisfied The Athletic subscriber, but the homepage and app have become notably less useful over the last 3-4 months. Lots of bloat with national names being layered over seemingly despite which teams I’ve chosen to follow. Anyway - still a good local sports page replacement, particularly if you have…

Apparently Bauer used something in the first inning of his last start to provide the data on this.

Look, I’m clearly a Browns fan and you’ll know this by the end of the sentence, but what if the ceiling for Mayfield is not Drew Brees (I get it, they’re both short for QBs) but Steve Young? Hyper-accurate mobile quarterbacks who tore it up in college with innovative offenses that conventional wisdom suggests won’t…

The angle on those “e” and “g” is killing me.

Of course just before this happened they blew an obvious two-for-one and I was convinced it would cost them the game. When LeBron leaves they are going to lose a million in a row.

I’m excited to watch The Big Game this Saturday night.

Yeah I think part of the problem is that it only takes 2 people being interested in ignoring analytically-inclined valuations to get bidding up on a player. You could also get a couple people being rationally irrational by buying what they believe are the marginal wins between contention/non-contention or knowing that…

I would also add that the (true!) statement that free agent dollars are the most inefficient per win is rarely followed by the (also true!) statement that free agency is the only place to buy wins for the short term. Sure it would be great to have a pre-arb player to fill this hole on my roster, but I have the hole…

I hear you, but this market isn’t a very free one. The players (esp. Moss) appear to understand how they got here and they are laying the groundwork for getting out. Either by credibly threatening (hope so) or actually striking they can rewrite the rules of the market - the CBA - more favorably.

His nickname was Crime Dog.

Anthropologie. The husband/boyfriend couch is always crowded, everything smells and it is just the fucking worst. The one near me has taken it to another level and also has basically no cell service.

Not sure why the accompanying picture is Mike Greenberg calling in a ransom demand.