Cold.

I was wrong. I took a minute to look it up and it turns out that public funding was used to pay for $72 million in infrastructure improvements around the construction of Gillette Stadium. The real example to point to is Metlife Stadium, which used no public funds at all.

Look, I know how beloved anything involving the Patriots is around here, but I don’t understand why more owners can’t just look at what Bob Kraft did and use their own money. Granted, Kraft is a lecherous little creep and he definitely did try to get money from Boston, and Providence, and for about two weeks in 1999…

Boston can make a real run if they send some package of picks and players (ideally giving up just one of Smart, Bradley or Crowder) to Sac for Cousins and whatever garbage they want to include to complete the deal. IT and Bradley are a proven dangerous backcourt combo, and assuming Cousins will cool off coming to a…

Not arguing there, IT would be pissed, just like Crowder should be upset, but that’s still what the fans up here would do.

It is what it is. IT has been a goddamn monster this year, but if there was suddenly all this fervor that Harden or Westbrook could come in and run the point they’d be showering them with “Come to Boston” chants, too. Different tier of player, sure, but the sentiment is the same.

You got me there. I actually looked up the numbers and there’s no doubt Hayward’s a better defender, especially accounting for the larger sample size.

Doesn’t matter, I’m on the clock. I win.

I like Crowder just fine, wish his scoring was a bit more consistent but he’s a great defender and of course we’ll take the points when his shot’s working (I’ll even go one step further and admit that his scoring has actually been quite consistent over the past month or so, despite what I just wrote). I just think,…

That Hayward is easily an upgrade over Crowder, particularly when it comes to scoring the ball - and given Hayward’s history with Brad Stevens one would assume he’d be a great fit on the team?

When I was a senior in high school I paintballed the entire outside of the school, including a few of the shitty portable buildings which had vinyl siding that needed to be replaced where I did my damage. Some tool turned me in; I claimed my target was just all the stuff the freshman class put up for Homecoming week…

My dick doesn’t play basketball with you or anybody for that matter.

To be fair arugula is a pretty highfalutin vegetable.

What smells like shoe polish?

Maybe I’m a sucker for puns, but this will not get the appreciation it deserves.

Duckman reference! That show ruled.

Adomian’s “The Body” is fucking tremendous. I always give out URLs with a “DOUBLE U DOUBLE U DOUBLE U”

This is so stupid. +1

No, good comedians, Bill Burr jumps to mind immediately because he’s an actual fan. And also note that I said “who understand the game well enough” and further note that they’d be on HBO and would be free to say whatever the hell they wanted. Miller has been a hack since like 1996.

Pair the play-by-play guys to call the games with a rotating cast of comedians who understand the game well enough to talk shit about whatever’s happening on the screen.