2010 title team

Except there’s no opinion about Albert’s writing in heartbraider’s comment — what did heartbraider say about Albert’s piece? If you think Gawker as an entity has a fixed anti-Franzen position so that all that needs to be said about any particular piece is “of course, you hate Franzen!”, then you probably just…

“The collective public breakdownkakke that Pats fans displayed on Tuesday in the wake of that ESPN report was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.”

If it wasn’t being driven by money, the sensible solution would be to make the scheduling of pre-season games optional, and let the teams schedule themselves (the way college non-conference games are scheduled). That way teams with high turnover could schedule other teams in a similar boat with the understanding…

And not at all surprising that a Bourgeois Red would be all mixed up.

If you don’t want people commenting on something, then don’t post it across a network of websites whose business model is premised on an active and often inflammatory comments section. Since when is Gawker Media or Kinja about what is wanted, needed, or pertinent? I don’t care about Albert Burneko’s family any more or…

Fair point, but wouldn’t you also want it over as soon as possible?

Yeah, when I first read “We don’t really trumpet it because if someone thinks they’re getting away with it, they’ll try to again.” I thought it didn’t make any damn sense. I guess what he means is that they would rather spammers think their votes aren’t being counted in the first place rather than thinking they’re…

I know it shouldn’t bother me, but the more I think about it the more disappointed I am with LeBron not winning Finals MVP. You can parse valuable in all kinds of ways, but to me these awards should be about what should go in the history books. And someone who didn’t live through this Finals but is scanning a list of…

To the extent that you’re allowed to ethically, could you explain the parameters of what you can and can’t say about your source? Are you allowed to report anything that’s being independently reported elsewhere? It’s just strange reading a Deadspin article about a New York Times report about an FBI investigation about…

I wonder how teams’ legal departments feel about compiling all this data on injury risk. The theory behind the concussion lawsuits in the NFL isn’t that players didn’t know concussions were dangerous, but rather that the league/teams had better data and misled the players about it. I can imagine a scenario where a…

Mysteries of a Basketball Team from a City Whose Football Team Has For the Past 4 Decades Been Dominated By Its Rival From Pittsburgh

“Coffee as a pregame drink is popular in the NBA: Darrell Armstrong, Toni Kukoc, and Luigi Datome all enjoyed it.”

The human race could not survive dicks being located on the side. If you made it any easier for teenagers to sneak attack hit their friends in the balls, no one would make it to age 20 with working testicles.

You sure it’s not Joey Callow? Common mistake.

Rules of the 6th grade Spelling Bee were that once you got to the final two, you weren’t automatically out when you missed — other person had to spell your word. Round starts with three spellers left, and I’m up first. I was feeling really cocky about how long everything else was taking to spell their words, so I…

Sorry, but you can’t complain about taking stats out of context and then compare LeBron’s efficiency playing next to Matthew Dellavadova and Iman Shumpert to guys playing with much stronger supporting casts. If a bad LeBron shot is the best this limping Cavs offense can produce, you can’t fault LeBron for taking them.

Assuming “Major League Dues” is the players’ association dues, that’s a pretty good bargain, given what salaries would look like without the union.

I consider myself a very rational, levelheaded person, but by the end of that Top 10 list I was about 30% convinced Andy Kaufman was going to deliver number 1.

But flipping that around, should we change the rules of baseball so that a pitcher who doesn’t have a good curveball has to throw one? Who says every flaw in a player’s game needs to be exploitable? The more important principle is that something that’s supposed to be a penalty shouldn’t be used to the penalized team’a…