He mentioned it briefly on the first Deadcast when he came back. I don’t remember the exact details of what he said (it was in early February if you want to check the Deadcast archives), but his explanation was something fairly simple/straightforward like “we all went to a bar after the Deadspin Awards, collapsed and…

How can they even get away with that from a legal standpoint?

Employees weren’t allowed to take paid time off out of concern everyone would use it to look for other jobs.

Good question. I think part of the judgment has to be the opportunity cost. The reason people still call out Sam Bowie as the original draft disaster is because the following pick was MJ; if the rest of the draft had been a bunch of scrubs, people would just go “yeah, Bowie never lived up to the #2 slot, but he did…

On the plus side, he’s only under contract for another...let’s check...four years, $120 million. Not only is he a horrifically bad player, he’s also wildly overpaid!

In the Seattle area, Goodwill has drop boxes around the area for recycling clothing.

Disagree. People would get more excited and more discussion if they actually knew that the trade discussions involved Odell Beckham Jr, possibly the most “wow” WR in the league on pure athleticism and incredible plays.

To me, the best repetitive storyline is “last year’s QB draft class was better than this year’s draft class”. Because it’s trotted out every year, to the point that if you compile the quotes year by year, it just looks absurd:

Brace yourself for the horrors you may find there.

No, there wasn’t really any solid info against drafting Fultz #1 overall. He wasn’t an unquestionable stone-cold lock to go #1 overall like Zion or AD, but Fultz was firmly in the top-tier of prospects in the draft and there weren’t major health or emotional red flags warning people that his career might fall to…

Atlanta:

One quote from the original article jumped out at me:

It’s also odd because the whole purpose of KonMari is to keep the stuff that sparks joy and eliminate things which don’t. If he “likes to tell people he has it”, that means it’s sparking joy. So KonMari itself would argue that he should keep that snakeskin jacket.

I think the easiest way handle this situation is that if they suggest meeting up, you turn it right around and ask for their information instead.

The NCAA’s thoughts upon reading this article:

Don’t quit football because you think it’s the righteous thing to do; just do it because it’s what you really want.

I wonder if they just hit a saturation point on the “old games working on modern systems” market: At some point, everybody who’s really nostalgic for Might and Magic or Jazz Jackrabbit or whatever have already bought those games from GoG...and few people without nostalgia are going to go out of their way to buy such…

There’s maybe only one relatively novel line of defense in here, and I’m going to blockquote it.

The other option is to follow up your verbal discussions with a short summary email “just to confirm what we’d discussed...”.

My criteria was “making one All-Star team”, as it’s very easy to check and indicates a player who was very good in at least one year of his career...and even that (be very good once! just once!) itself filters out the overwhelming majority of lottery picks every year. No, it’s not a perfect criteria, but it’s a nice…