“But this is the NHL, where more teams make the postseason than don’t.”

I can’t believe I missed knowing about this by almost two days, and I’m somehow even more gutted by the fact I did. I have been going through a rough patch lately, and even though this news is no surprise - we all knew it was coming - it hurts harder today than I thought it would.

Feeling you in Chicago - two days late because I was too wrapped up in my own personal trauma to even know it happened. God, I’m gutted by this week. Just so many bad things happening (most personal but this one just is piling on).

Yep. This week especially.

“counterpoint: why the hell wouldn’t men be sexually attracted to a woman that is giving birth?”

Man, after reading your bullshit comments throughout this thread - and I mean ENTIRE, since it’s obvious you feel so insecure in your original statement that you need to defend it against the overwhelming majority of statements against it - I’ve come to imagine that you’ve never once felt oppressed in your life.

His image.

“Please keep in mind the other mystery here, concerning how one guy can invite 44 people to his bachelor party.”

This year has seen some REALLY bad umpiring. And yet they wonder why they’re getting “abused” by players.

1) The city itself never had 7 million residents. Its peak in the 1950s was around 2 million.

The Buddha was the best. Seconded.

Imma say this and then I’m done. I find it both amusing and tiring, how LBJ stans simultaneously make apologies for things any time he’s compared to MJ, and then throw shade at MJs accomplishments. Let’s look at a few:

That’s precisely the point the original poster was trying to make - MJ made other players around him better. LeBron doesn’t. Pippen also still had Phil Jackson as a coach in that 55 win season. Which coach has LBJ had that has the same number of championship rings as Jackson?Don’t worry. You don’t have to answer that.

Pippen: so good that when Jordan retired after the 93 season, his scoring average as the leader of the team barely budged. He averaged 22 ppg that year. HOF perhaps if you average that over a career, but his career average is 16.1 ppg. Pippen was great, but look at his career and tell me he’s in the HOF without MJ.

Kukoc and Rodman were great supporting pieces, but if they’re your two best players you’re still not getting higher than 4th in the conference.

Jesus. How do people not get that the reason those Bulls teams had so many good players is that they learned from MJ and Phil? With the exception of Pippen and Grant, most of those guys would have been career journeymen had they not lucked into playing with MJ/for Phil. Don’t tell me Craig Hodges or Stacey King or Luc…

You’re overlooking the coach. Spoelstra’s a nice guy, but he’s no Phil Jackson. Shit, LeBron took David Blatt to 53 wins. Coaching matters too.

This is one of many points people overlook about Jordan’s greatness. Pippen was a rare talent, but couldn’t do it on his own.

Perhaps you’re not racist. I don’t know you so I won’t call you one. But Subban gets called out a lot more for doing the same shit a lot of other players do, and yet there’s only one visible difference between him and other players, so, you know, optics.