Wrong. The solution is for the players union to do its job and ensure that the CBA guarantees some kind of life-changing money for players who perform as one of the 5 or 7 best at their position. The NFLPA is a great example of a union that sucks.

This. I think and thought it was trite and shallow, especially during the final 5 or so years, but at the time it was progressive:  trans parent, gay weddings, homeless / implied sexually abused kid who finds a group that loves and protects her....none of that had been close to being done before. Sorry that we Gen…

Congrats on 4 years. You have give yourself, family, and friends the best possible gift.  

That’s fair, but the way you said it the first time sounded defensive, as if you were trying to make yourself feel better.

What’s this have to do with him being Jewish now?  

Defend players’ right to be true free agents, make their own decisions, and have an opinion / take a stand at all costs.....unless it involves the media, then defend the media at all costs, regardless if the individual media member behaved in a highly unprofessional manner.

The tone of that piece I think was to allow you to decide whether his behavior is admirable or not. In other words, think for yourself, which is easy in this case because there is no proof of concept: Gase apparently works his ass off, but hasn’t been successful. Accordingly, there is no corollary between…

This. And if you haven’t read the Chicago team’s coverage then you wouldn’t understand why I subscribe. They go in-depth and regularly level advanced metrics and analytics. Plus Danny Leroux’s NBA column’s and salary cap analysis is worth the price of admission by itself. Leroy’s has stated that he gets to write…

Deserving of more stars

Just curious - how else other than advertising should CNN get the $$$ it takes to pay their employees, most of whom don’t get anything close to the millions it takes to pay on-air talent like Coopper, Blitzer, and Burnett?

Almost none of them give a shit about us (including the demigod Squad) - trust me.

I honestly don’t know why more employees don’t unionize, but it has little or nothing to do with loopholes in the law. I live and breath that law every day, and it is absolutely set up to protect employees and labor organizations.

So you think Bernie sat on his hands and allowed them to unionize because he didn’t engage in illegal conduct, because everything you just described is illegal and would be reversed by the NLRB.

You don’t “allow” employees to unionize.  It’s their choice.  Employers can campaign against organizing, but ultimately, its the employees who vote on whether to organize.  

Bernie didn’t form that union;  the employees did, because Bernie wasn’t volunteering to treat them as they wanted to be.  That is how union organizing works....Chief.

That is true, but Bernie regularly accuses management that won’t give labor what it wants of being greedy bastards who make money on the backs of the working class. When you take an extreme position like that, you can’t have it both ways. You are or you are not. Bernie is casting stones at others when his own house…

Kids as a rule are always better than adults at everything that matters.

OK, so now we are equating supernatural happenings for which there is zero precedent / info / reality with coming out of the closet in 1985, about which we have plenty of information, know how GD scary it was for people doing it (maybe even moreso for women) and that the vast majority of people at that time (especiall…

This.  Splinter is a blog with takes and that is totally fine.  But at least do us the solid of admitting that the take in this post is less about journalism and more about that you don’t agree with what The Hill’s article implies.

That’s the trouble with some witness statements where airplanes are involved. These are people who are literally terrified and understandably aren’t able to think or remember clearly.  The vibration they felt, for example, may have been from the captain executing a rapid descent to 10,000 feet.