The Sixers are a fun young team now, but maybe wait and see if Embiid and Simmons can stay healthy for an entire season. before you get too excited.

Counterpoint: Is it really “heaven” if that’s the kind of asshole that gets raptured? I’ll be cool with hell or whatever other afterlife there may be if it excludes those jamokes.

I’ve got an account there, and previously at KSK, but my schedule prevented me from watching the games/participating in the live threads a couple years back and I sort of forgot about the place.

Love this video. Didn’t expect to see DJ Shadow brought up in the comments on a Deadspin story about WEEI idiots though!

I didn’t know they were still around.

Fifty cents on the dollar is probably a far more generous figure than they’re thinking of if they bring up arbitration.

Actually, the War of 1812 basically guaranteed that the British would never again support Native Americans militarily again and directly led to the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny “, so it had a pretty big impact on the nation too.

I don’t recall who said it originally, possibly Molly Ivins, but in comparing W to some of the more whacked out Tea Party types said “Yes, Bush is wrong about almost everything, but at least he’s wrong within normal parameters.”

I feel like he got a really bad rap just for being a dick to the incompetent management in Sacramento. What has the guy actually done that’s that bad? I’ve talked shit about my bosses and coworkers in terrible jobs too, I’m not gonna hold that of all things against the man.

If the death penalty doesn’t deter people, I’m not sure that torture will either

Good point. He could even be like “I call my white players ‘boy’ too!” if he got called out on it.

You laugh now, but “sweaty fat guy” gets you some free buckets down at the gym.

Oh, big props for going in hard on Erdogan, but it is still kind of hilarious that a guy who couldn’t see playing time in the playoffs because of his atrocious defense is willing to talk so much shit. He’s clearly an honorary Deadspin commenter.

That is kind of burying the lede.

Oh, Manny absolutely deserves in too. I was just limiting my discussion to guys on the ballot now. I also think it’s a disgrace that neither Griffey nor Maddux got 100% of the vote.

I was/am ABD in a criminology program, and I can tell you that a whole lot of people have a mistaken belief in the deterrent power of punishments. They completely overlook how criminals do not expect to get caught, so harsh punishments don’t really enter their thinking.

“Nigger”? Or would he go for something less plainly offensive?

To be fair, the XFL was also concerned with titties. As in the ones prominently on display on the cheerleaders to the point some of the announcers were embarrassed by it.

Hispanic does not include people from Brazil, Belize, Suriname, or French Guyana. Latin(o/a/x) does.

Hot Take Alert: All four guys that got in should have, and so should Edgar Martinez, along with known awful human beings Bonds, Clemens, and Schilling. Mussina also deserves in, in my book, but I’m willing to hear arguments on why he doesn’t belong.