Synergy is the key here.

Steph would be an elite player playing for any team in the league. He made the Warriors, not the other way around.

Thompson and Green? sure. But Curry was looking very good before any of those guys were on the team when he wasn’t injured every other week.

Nah. Steph also fits the “drop on a wasteland team and still be amazing” test - look at what he did last year. A lot of the underlying metrics show that just the threat of his shooting (his “gravity”, if you will) bends defenses to such extreme measures that it enables the rest of the offense to excel.

Before national TV and streaming rights the owners made some extra coin with local TV. Obviously, Milwaukee was never going to be able to compete with NY, so the salary cap was instituted. Fine, it’s outdated and should be changed, but fine. The individual player cap is what is bullshit. The choice Durant made…

Doesn’t Durant’s signature shoe deal, compounded by winning, make this pay cut a wash?

“Random Luck” = Warriors draft a transformational talent, and he spends the first four years of his career hampered with recurring ankle issues, when he had zero injury history before hitting the NBA.

The thought of instant replay for balls and strikes makes me want to die. And if they ever implement it (rather than robot umps, which is perhaps the future, but not what the NFL is doing) the duration of the average MLB game will approach the average human lifespan.

Yeah, this site doesn’t have copy editors, and it shows. Though to me it seems less necessary on this site because they rarely produce original journalism, just link to articles from actual newspapers and paraphrase them with a little snark thrown in. Since they’re not breaking stories, they have less of a…

Did they shitcan the precious fuck who puts periods in abbreviations like “N.F.L.”? That’s really all I care about.

This piece is timely, heartfelt and completely true, until it self-destructs in spectacular fashion in the last paragraph. Then, BOOM! I’m still picking charred and twisted pieces of text out of my hair.

Embrace change, don’t fight it. Difficult for some but necessary for future growth. That is something the Newspaper Guild fails to grasp. “You don’t honor a tradition by endlessly repeating it. You honor it by marching forward in its name.” - Theologian Gabriel Vahanian

It’s funny to me that a blog like Deadspin’s Concourse, one of many under the former Gawker brand, is sticking up for copy editing. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll defend copy editing until the day I die. But to think that these former Gawker blogs aren’t a massive part of the reason copy editing has been devalued is…

“Every person who works here also has the ability to be a copy editor at a moment’s notice.”

I don’t know Diana. You guys have shown them that they can get millions of clicks without the need for editors.

How many copy editors work for Deadspin?

You can also blame bloggers for killing copy desks. Bloggers take a copy edited piece of journalism, quote the good bits, and bury a link. Revenue diverted. Yes it’s the Internet. But still. BTW maybe a good copy editor (or even a bad one) would have saved Gawker.

There is no such thing as a newspaper without a copy desk.

Just to clarify a bit, there are two main layers of editing at the Times — the copy desk and the “backfielders,” which in most newsrooms are called the city desk. The backfielders assign stories and then work closely with the reporters to do the big-picture editing ... make sure it’s about what it’s supposed to be…

We all really should be blaming this on Craig and that goddamn list of his.