Man...the stratification of reactions when it comes to dogs is fascinating. 

Why do you have to return his dog? Did it get into your fenced yard and he can’t get back out? 

Yeah that’s the strange thing. Oregon PNW, generally, is warmer and less wet than Washington PNW (which is warmer and generally less wet than BC PNW).

With you until that last paragraph. The inverse can’t possibly be better...fans would leave the sport in droves if the Warriors were given the top draft pick/best odds to land the top draft pick this past half decade. I’m struggling to come up with a better solution than the one currently had?

Not that it’s ‘the same’, but Intel has like 20K employees in the Portland area, so these fanbases share more in common than they’d like to admit. 

I don’t watch a ton of regular season basketball, but holy cow when did Chris Paul become this bad!? Last year, his hamstring injury was a big reason they lost to the W’s in 7. This year, I saw a credible argument yesterday that Austin Rivers is more valuable to the team than he is. 

Is it possible for players to have Sophomore slumps after their Sophomore season? Cause that’s what this all felt like for those two. Though I’d be more worried about Tatum. Kobe brain can be cured, but it’s usually terminal if you’re not aggressive and relentless with treatment. 

I can’t stand the Celtics, but if I’m pretending that I root for them, I hope they don’t get Kyrie OR AD. Kyrie seems to be becoming locker room cancer more and more every year, but now his play isn’t making it worth while. AD would be a one year rental, because why they heck would he stay? And, since Boston hasn’t…

I can empathize with that. That team won’t matter in the scheme of the Finals, but they WILL overachieve, upset a higher seed in the playoffs and get a gentlemen’s sweep put on them by Milwaukee or some other better team next year. They will, however, be a team you could cheer for. That would be better than this…

I like Bert, but their ain’t no rippling abs with his writing montage. 

If Pierce can handle being the butt of jokes, he can absolutely be ‘the guy’ that NBA fans love to dunk on for years to come. I don’t think he’ll be able to handle it mentally, but I don’t even see Boston fans coming to this guy’s support. It’s like he was created in a lab to spew awful takes, being 100% earnest in…

Maryy that woman! Again, I mean!

Feel free to respond to my argument, further down string, then. 

In short, because men’s and women’s divisions are not two sides of the same coin. In most sport, men’s division is synonymous with the best athletes on Earth, and the women’s division is the best female athletes on Earth. Stated another way, female sports is a protected class. Because of this, you have to define what…

Chris, I separated Caster from the transgender issue by stating she is unfairly and unfortunately targeted by this rule. I know she isn’t transgendered, and either you’re purposely trying to mischaracterize what I said, or I wasn’t very clear. I apologize if it’s the latter.

As I’ve argued in other strings, this isn’t a good argument. 

Okay, but you were a high-level competitive athlete, surely you have to understand the broader challenge that women’s divisions of sports are facing here, right? This actually has very little to do with Caster, she’s an unfortunate and unfairly targeted victim of a larger issue regarding the challenge of m-f…

Cool answers, but you aren’t paying attention to the landscape. Caster isn’t a transgendered athlete, but the rules around testosterone they are putting in place are aimed squarely at that scenario, because of fairness to biological females (and accordingly, their testosterone-related disadvantage). When a m-f…

The problem with the Phelps example you give, is that people see men’s and women’s sports categories as two sides of a coin. In reality, the men’s division, in most (but not all) sports is another way of saying “the top division of human competitors”. When you look at it in this reality, Phelps having an extreme…

You can say that again.