A massive thanks to my friend Jemma Arman for her edits and comments on each of the ten articles in this series, to Tom Ley and Megan Greenwell for greenlighting this series and for sticking with it, to Hannah Keyser for giving me the opportunity to write for Deadspin in the first place, and to the GMG design team for…

a cool thing kinja sites are doing now is snapping back to the top of the page after i’ve scrolled down to the portion i wish to actually read. very helpful

I have discussed this with Neil a few times already, and I have some strong opinions as a former Rays season ticketholder, former St. Pete resident, and current Tampa resident.

Nobody cares what the #2 news team says, buster

Somewhere there’s a guy named John Ringo who’s kicking himself for becoming a writer instead of pairing up with Paul George as an unstoppable dad pun duo in basketball.

The Philadelphia 76ers beat the Lakers 143-120 yesterday, despite star point guard Ben Simmons scoring just eight points and going 3-of-13 from the field. That should tell you just how talented the Sixers are broken the Lakers are...

Richardsons first check will bounce even higher.

“Do you want to know the terrifying truth...or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?!”

And when the LA Galaxy beat the New England Revolution, the revenge on Boston for the last four months will be utterly devastating.

Hopson: “Ah, I see you’ve played Knifey-Spoony before!”

ESPN is also salty. They have 50 new graphics and 40 hours of Anthony Davis is Coming to Hollywood content in the can. This really throws a wrench in all of that. Brian Windhorst had interviews booked, damn it. 

LeBron’s off-base with his claims that players are getting ripped for “disloyalty” when they want to leave.

Hometown fans will criticize players for leaving for obvious reasons, but criticism from non-hometown fans are usually due to special circumstances, like:

In the last 30 years two top flight free agents went to the Lakers (Shaq, LeBron), two went to the Heat (LeBron, Bosh), one went to the Ws (Durant), and one went to the Rockets (Chris Paul). I think that’s the whole list. Oops, I forgot: LeBron went to Cleveland. That’s seven total signings in 30 years; three of those…

Look I’m not bitter I just want the correct call at the correct moment. If that means a booth review every time the ball moves an inch in either direction and an extra two hours added to every game and the game is irrevocably broken as every instance of every play is examined down to the last micron and all of you…

So the football program doesn’t care that a Southern miss said “no”?

Milwaukee shows Thon, Detroit whips out Johnson

I owe you an explanation for why I’ve been away for two months

“What a great time to be alive in Venezuela.”

Should be hung somewhere.

Man, that’s a lot of words just to make a semi-workable cat pun.