You left out Sauce Castillo, which is frankly more than a little disingenuous (just kidding). But you’re right; the fruits of Hinkie’s trades are far from surefire things. On the other hand, who’d he part with in his recent trades? Obviously the last time he traded a valuable asset-Holliday-he got a couple high…

Okay, but “heist” wasn’t a word that either I or the person you initially responded to used to describe Hinkie’s trades. There’s not much to be gained from quibbling over the extent to which Hinkie won those trades; I think the larger point is that he did win them, often by a wide margin, even if they were panned at…

Yes, astutely noted. I still don’t see the need to criticize that aspect of Hinkie’s tenure when it was one of his clear successes, and there are so many other legitimate criticisms you could make.

It’s not that relative. Michael Carter-Williams for the Lakers first round pick and that absurd trade with Sacramento were both unequivocal “wins”. Just because they’re not the same as Ainge’s Brooklyn heist doesn’t mean he didn’t win trades.

Why was the top-rated thread for this article deleted? (Unless I missed something, but I don’t think so.) I feel like it’s pretty disingenuous of Deadspin to stifle overly popular criticism of their articles. I’m sure you’ll claim that the OP for that thread was being intellectually dishonest, but that’s really not…

I agree, too bad the author’s not exactly one for nuance.

Yeah, it’s hard to envision how they could make significant changes now. One route is to trade McCollum for a very talented power forward or center (given McCollum’s slight overlap with Lillard) and insert Crabbe, maybe, into the starting line-up. Plumdog’s more of a high-end backup big man. But then it’s a question…

Front offices seem to make this mistake from time to time. A team early in the rebuilding process overachieves and their front office gets convinced that they can replicate it year in and year out, so they shell out whatever it takes to lock all their guys in (along with a cute free agent signing or two). Portland’s…

I think he’s just pointing out that win-loss records still matter to a disturbingly large subset of baseball writers.

Anyone know why Batey got 15 years and this guy got 17 despite not touching her (even if he egged it on and did plenty of other horrific stuff)? I’d have liked both to get in the 20-25 year range, but I’m just a little confused about the reasons for the discrepancy.

Well, I’m not sure how else you evaluate someone’s qualifications & merits other than by examining his or her record. The way forward is to fire Demps and his staff and Gentry (who seems like an excellent assistant coach but may not be cut out for a head coaching job), as they’re already on the chopping block, replace…

Maybe they’re not ‘hamstrung’, but there’s also no clear way forward. They’ve got Solomon Hill & Asik signed through 2020 on deals paying each of them 12 or 13 million a year (faint chance it pans out for Hill, sunk cost for Asik). They don’t have a good wing player; Buddy Hield’s far from a sure thing; Jrue Holiday’s…

Pretty dubious claim about the pelicans: you really think they have 4 NBA starters? Stephenson barely made the roster; Asik’s become one of the worst players in the modern NBA (even against the rare teams that feature centers with strong post skills); and Tyreke Evans should probably be a sixth man at best. He also…

perfume genius is great, and so is this cover, and this has nothing to do with anything, but whenever I hear the lines, ‘wise men say/only fools rush in’ I always think of spiritualized’s ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space, which has to be among the best of all possible songs.

interesting, thanks for the info. i’d kind of guessed that they just wanted to reset after those lackluster two years that followed the world series win in 2013 and felt that changing the announcers might draw more viewers. but that never made much sense because orsillo was pretty great

yea, was there ever a clear explanation for why they pushed orsillo out? i’ve always been confused by that

eh, it’s unlikely those are high-discount sales this soon after initial publication, so I’d be inclined to believe the “across format” sales do refer to actual hardcover/e-book sales. of course, those sales figures are also super misleading because publishers of these types of semi-prominent books ship out way more…

the existential horror of it all! oh wait, this does not matter. not everything is erasure & calamity & trickle-down venom from the patriarchy. sometimes it’s just harmless commentary.