this is the most important comment of the year 

His MFA alternative rankings were/are likely his best contribution to the public, as they absolutely skewered some of the worst parts of the professional writing world.

There must be some projection happening here, because pointing to a small number of people benefitting from a exploitative system and saying “hey, maybe the system isn’t so bad!” is lacking any sort of real-world understanding of, well, anything. Go look up “noblesse oblige,” because your comments here reek of it.

lollllll what a deliciously garbage take, attempting to co-opt progressive values as some sort of shield for the objectively exploitative (and not progressive at all) charade that is college athletics, particularly football and basketball

EXACTLY

lol yes, 22 to be exact.

jesus christ that Hoiles grand slam has to rank in the top 10 moments for Orioles fans over the past, what, 20 years?

the subsection of the FSU fanbase that believes Winston did no wrong and the police did no wrong have about the same level of fervor as the PSU fans in that still think Paterno did no wrong. What a shit show.

There’s a lot you can critique about Simmons, but I’m happy about this. Maybe the bar for Good Sports Content is pretty low, but at least Simmons continues to pull solid writers into his orbit with the freedom to call bullshit on whatever they want. 

I don’t think they lost more in leverage than already known. They didn’t have much. And Toronto played this masterfully. I have to imagine the middle-of-the-night machinations were started in part because, seriously, not everyone was awake to possibly counter the Raps odder.

Spurs are moving on with a really solid…

they were the 1 seed that got swept by the GOAT and a herd of goats. they fired the coach of the year. they have a strong youth movement and DeRozan is a massive cap hit. sending him away for a Leonard rental is as much about clearing cap space for next year as it is rolling the dice on making a run at the conference…

everything about this is awesome. i have an extremely unimportant question for the room:

I’m really shook from the “A Letter From a Parent” but even if I hadn’t read it before reading this mailbag, I am so fucking pissed off at baseball dad, as that is some legit trauma right there, forcing your son to play ball in his own fecal matter. Maybe a trauma that lands on the lower end of the spectrum, but…

here’s one that I think is one of the trickier synonyms to parse: “the community.”

ok, this is excellent, and is now tied with “lebron goes to boston by forcing boston to trade kyrie back to cleveland” as my preferred scenario

I’ve always wondered if any decent-to-high-level draft picks have gamed the system somewhat so that they tumble down the ladded to the middle or back half of the first round — and in doing so, land on a better team, with a better chacne of looking good (and being well coached) and winning etc etc etc.

I’ve been able to track my growth as a person over the years by how I think about two particular characters on the show.

def not episode 1. the flashbacks happened during Josh’s surgery for a gunshot wound (tho the pres was shot as well), and it was a high school that got hit with a pipe bomb which ignited a huge fire.

there is a con, though it’s on the extreme end of the outcome bell curve: hemorrhoids.

why no shout out to Drew Magary for writing the article you’re talking about? although, that GLORY BOY doesn’t need any more ego shining so maybe it’s for the best