Upon learning that the tarantula wasn’t a deal-breaker, my two sons have asked for your address and preferred Mother’s Day gift.  My wife is taking it remarkably well.  

“I’m kinda shy but mostly excited. And courageous.”

The full exchange between LeBron and Silver:

My first thoughts! It reminds me a bit of the Ty Cobb story:

Literally every single basketball fan outside the crazy half of LA thinks Kobe ruined that franchise for a decade with his late-career antics.

I hope a coach comes in that values me, respects me, wants me as a part of the Olympic plans.

Not really the same thing. Jordan was never in a position where he wasn’t one of the best players in the game. Even old Wizards MJ was a great player. As for Kobe he sure as hell got roasted plenty once he became shit Kobe his last couple years yet still insisted on taking all the shots.

Say what you will about Jill Ellis’s decision making, but not playing your 37 year old aging star for all 630+ minutes of game time was probably a pretty sound decision. 

Or get rid of the last name altogether, and only call him “Doctor,” as if you were a drunk patient showing up in his ER at 3 AM and couldn’t be bothered to learn his name.

I would have gone a slightly different route. I’d agree to call him “doctor” but I’d tell him that his real last name will never, ever be used. He’d have to basically choose between maintaining our previous arrangement or constantly being referred to as “Dr. Feelgood,” “Dr. Nick Riviera,” “Dr. Demento,” “Dr. Mengele,” …

I’m an adult I should be able to call him Bob (or Dickhead) if I want. Do you agree?

I’m getting in early on the action for once

You’re “genuinely asking” why people watch football? I’m genuinely asking why people like you bother to “genuinely ask” questions like this all week every week during football season?

It’s an escape from reality on Sunday and Monday for several million people. Whether it’s good or not, I have no specific opinion. But that’s the answer. Some people read; some people do the crossword; some people dress up like ancient knights and fight with plastic swords while hopped up on Sudafed and ambien. It’s…

“pay to build us a new stadium or we’re moving to LA.”

on the one hand: awful, late-capitalist hellscape.

I’ll go one further—I think those outlets are *intentionally* misinterpreting what Soto said, because it casts him in a negative light. It makes it look he’s being a petulant child who can dish it out but cannot take it, which suits the narrative they’d like to amplify, particularly in the context of “the Cards play…

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”