I’ve read that his humbling experience playing baseball caused him to ease up a bit. He learned what it was like to have limitations in a sport (even if he did shockingly well for a person who hadn’t played baseball in a decade).

So, about 67% of the country?

Agree generally, but because the Bulls were so great on the perimeter, Rodman wasn’t required to chase around guards and small forwards.

I have responded to this miscarriage of journalistic responsibility on my personal blog with an article titled, “What we’re talking about when we talk about Hillary Clinton’s hot sauce being problematic for women.”

Really any team that tried and didn’t openly loathe one another would be an improvement.

Much less sanctimony; no subtle racism - “those” “showboats” doing it the “wrong way.”

James Harden is in the wrong sport. He was born to be a DH.

That’s a great comparison - they want to parade around in the press like Christian Bale losing 80lbs for a film.

Sure, and I extend that complaint to all of them. It’s heightened in this specific case because of the rest of the strangeness around the film.

The thing that always bothers me about these efforts is that they become narcissistic career building by the actor, rather than a tribute and/or look into the life of a musician. And Nina Simone is so important for so many reasons. This doesn’t need to be about Saldana going on a press tour and talking about how hard…

They should just tap out and let the Jazz play the last two games.

Oh fuck, they tried to have Saldana sing?

Picture of what he was jerking off to:

That finals was interesting.

Nonsense. A game company hired these people. A game company feels there’s some benefit to have a working product by Day X.

If your extra labor adds value to the product, it should be compensated. If it’s important for a game company to have something working by day X, then they should pay for the labor necessary to make it so.

In all fairness, there are so few Asian people on planet Earth that you really have to just hire white people.

It will get devoured against any team with a big who can score and make free throws.

The defensive disadvantage of Love v. Drummond is muted in crunch time by his terrible free throw shooting. The Pistons have to take him out for long stretches when they start fouling. Love should be at the 5 for each and every minute Drummond is getting hacked.

I’m not sure I get the angle of these. Having been a denizen of locker rooms and similar collections of athlete dudes through college, he’s got the spirit pretty right. That’s not to justify any of that talk, but that’s how it is.