Your reactionary response to this article proves the writer’s point. “don’t play the fucking game then, simple as that” is exactly the point - as a black man playing the game has far different implications than it does for a white person. The very fact that that’s a fact is a pitch-perfect example of systemic racism…

My feelings are not hurt, despite your best efforts. You missed my point about Seattle. My point was that people’s allegiance to teams is predicated on the perceived connection between team and city; we support teams because they feel like they represent US in a larger context (city vs. city, region vs. region) and…

Regardless of my argument, every comment you’ve made (except the first) has included sour name calling - numbnuts, jamoke, idiot - which doesn’t address the argument itself. I’m happy to have a conversation about this, but you don’t appear to be interested in one, and rather are here to cast aspersions and make rude…

Now I feel old...Iran hostage crisis & gas shortages

“Jamoke” is a perfect example of the meaning. Thanks for the help.

Your ad hominem arguments give me strength.

Tell that to the fans in Seattle - they paid money and cheered and what was it worth when a billionaire decided to pack up and leave? These teams don’t mean what you think they mean.

The problem is we only hold athletes to these standards. If a really good trader takes a great offer at Goldman Sachs, leaving his smaller firm, people don’t judge him for it. If a college professor writes a great book and moves from Podunk U. to Stanford, we don’t begrudge her. If a doctor gets residency at a the…

Well there was the weed angle. That’s good for a few clicks. and some f-bombs. But yes, you’re point is well taken: Follow the money.

No, it’s not surprising. That doesn’t make it any less reprehensible.

That’s pure conjecture. A gun’s only purpose is to kill. So if you want to kill yourself, a gun is likely the most efficient way to do it. No gun, and who knows if those considering suicide have the wherewithal to find a bridge or slash their wrists or whatever other more involved method.

It must be exhausting patrolling comment sections for grammatical errors. Guess we all need a hobby. And yours is certainly less deleterious than collecting orphan girls.

what’s a PFG?

As a cloistered-ass white man, I didn’t even know that black folk claimed spades as their own. I learned it from a white man from Alabama so perhaps like banjos and country blues, it’s one of those lovely American traditions that crosses racial lines while being considered a core to cultural heritage across those same…

Curry isn’t getting superstar calls either. At least the refs are being consistent. Oh and only one of them is complaining like a ...

As a Warriors fan, let me be the first to say, “Ah, nuts!”

Just go with Bay Area. It’s basically one big Gothamy metropolis these days anyway. SF = Manhattan. Oakland = Brooklyn. Peninsula = Westchester. Richmond = Bronx. Marin = Connecticut. Berkeley = Berkeley. And on we go.

Also Jordan was an assh*le and the press didn’t like him. Curry is the poster boy for upstanding, graciousness with an “acceptable” amount of swagger. Basically the press corps is petty. They didn’t like Jordan’s holier than thou attitude (or his image vs. reality), while Steph is totally palatable. Not fair and…

This. Jordan’s Bulls were an amazing team, but Jordan’s supernova starpower (and the sychophants it birthed) mixed with his well concealed but still visible sociopathy made them easy to root against - they were classic jock bullies - loved by most, arrogant, entitled and cruel . And yes that Sonics team was fun,…

I wrote that same letter in college. But she remained a “once-” girlfriend. There was no “and-future.”