That was a touching scene. Brad Marchand is still an asshole, though.

So the rules are unfair, Man City still broke them by lying, forging documents and acting above the rules. I have no sympathy for them.

I generally have pretty good reading comprehension, but I cannot figure out why this post, no matter how much it equivocates, seems to be defending Manchester City.

Jesus, man. This is harrowing. Like everyone else in the comments, I’m glad things didn’t go differently.

I kinda feel bad for Zion in all of this.  That would suck to have to go to the Pelicans.  Pelicans and Grizzlies from a self marketing aspect have to be two of the worst places to end up.  I imagine Jim McKay saying in Zion’s mind when New York and LA were in the top 4...”The thrill of victory...” and then LA and New…

So you want teams in seeds 5-8 to join the tank party?

“my public defender could have got me off.”

Everybody equal before the law! That’s why I love Amurica!

I was troubled about how the police had gathered this evidence, so it’s a relief that if I had been ensnared in this sting, my public defender could have got me off.  There is justice in this world.

Bix is well known to wrestlers, and interacts with them on Twitter. It feels more popular now because he’s in the thick of it. If he was anything like me growing up, not a lot of my friends were into wrestling, which made it feel more niche and much smaller. 

Agreed. I wonder if it feels more in the culture because Twitter and the internet in general make you hear the opinions of people with your shared interest more than has ever been possible before. I haven’t heard anyone in real life talk about pro wrestling since the 90s, and there wasn’t a single name in this article …

Yeah, I’m not sure where Bixenspan gets this idea that Professional Wrestling is more culturally effusive these days. Even 10 years ago, people I worked with who don’t watch wrestling would know Cena, Randy Orton or even Seamus. But nobody I work with these days knows Seth Rollins or Balor or Kingston. I guess people…

I’ve never watched wrestling but in terms of its popularity as a cultural reference, it has to be way down. I could name the most popular wrestlers, even 10 years ago, but I couldn’t name one single wrestler right now. What are the odds that a wrestler will be on the Simpsons? Or do a guest appearance on a popular TV…

That’s nothing. Mike McCarthy has been an uncredited extra in every episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

Fellow Bears fans watching him burn over and over and over

I have a serious question. Who are the 2+ million people who are watching this? I just don’t see the entertainment value in watching people fake wrestle for an hour or however long these things last.

This. The actual answer, as posted in the piece, is: They set us up for no reason. Euron was a red herring, and killing one dragon was supposed to even the playing field even though it didn’t.

What if Dany, instead of losing her shit and going after the people, instead flew straight at the Red Keep and burnt it to the ground, and under the Red Keep, there were more caches of Wildfire, which set off a chain reaction throughout the entire city? You still get the massive destruction and death of thousands,…

I thought Ronald Reagan died 15 years ago.

I say this as a lover of the books and the show, warts and all, but part of me wishes this show had never been made. The over-analysis of it has driven me nuts, and I think the world would just be better if it had never existed. Are Weiss and Benioff getting death threats yet? Reddit and Twitter are cesspools but man…