I love you guys and I love this site, but you occasionally choose very curious hills to die on. It’s 2019, kids: Steve Kerr is not the problem. Let’s try to keep our eye on the ball. 

It’s always fun to hold someone to standards they set for themselves. Congratulations, you and Clay Travis agree on something.

MLS lacks a certain identity and history. There’s no team with a defined playing style. Is there one team that plays an all out attack like Man U back in the day? Is there a team with the Liverpool/Dortmund high press? Is there a team with Barcelona posession, or even some team that is just great at defense like the…

I’m not saying they can't win without Durant, or even that Durant is more important to their success than Curry (he's not), just that they are better with Durant than without. 

The best point guard of the 2000s put up 33 in a half tonight, man. There’s no universe where Chris Paul is a better player than Steph Curry. That ship has sailed. 

...and change the uniforms like every year, and tear down a fun part of the ballpark to make everything a bit more corporate and “classy” and Yankees-y, and install a smug asshole that’s a hero to another region to condescendingly run your team and blame you for not loving it...

In an ESPN puff piece last year, he had the gall to claim that he hadn’t heard any negative narratives about the team from the people in Miami.

Hey guys we found PG’s burner account.

And then the San Jose Sharks said, “Okay, but I’m going to need you to hold my beer, my coat, my phone, my keys and my pants. I mean, you shouldn’t really need to hold my pants, but you get my drift.”

Stastny was the one that should have gotten the call. Throwing Pav down onto the ice is what caused the bleeding.

Except that their season wasn’t “stolen”. Which is what I was counterpointing. The call is moot. They fucked up on their own.

Your key word is “accidentally.” The cross-check was intentional. Now if you were to intentionally — not accidentally — bump into someone on the street, and that person fell and died, you’d better hire a really good criminal defense attorney.

I don’t think Eakin should’ve gotten a five minute major, but I also don’t think Vegas got screwed or that the result was stolen. I could see it called two ways that would’ve been justified.

The guy sitting next to the Human Brick can say, with a straight face, *that was a bad shot*

Yes. Also even if you shorthanded for 5 minutes you are still allowed to stop the other team from scoring 4 goals.

Having paid no attention to this series, yeah...blowing a 3-1 series lead and then giving up four goals at a rate of one goal per minute in the third period of a Game 7 is typically not getting screwed. It’s imploding. 

they also gave up 4 goals on a 5min PP. That is horrendous. I think the call was legit. Not an easy one to make, but wtf was Eakin doing with his stick off the face off anyway?

Counterpoint:

I poke the keyboard with my nose!

I’m at the point where I actively support Dumb Guys in sports just because it means they aren’t Dumb Guys doing something much more important.