If by “equally” you mean “commensurately”, then it probably did. If you mean did their dollars increase the same amount, obviously not. I don’t have a problem with it. Max players drive the league, not the minimum ones.

That’s not the “big” thing. It’s “a” thing that will benefit a few players. You’re glossing over the fact that minimum salaries are increasing 45%, veteran salaries are increasing, and so are those who sign for the bi-annual exception. And health care for retired/current players and free tuition &tc. Gotta dig a…

How has union leadership screwed over the majority of their membership?

Fair enough. I agree rookie deals should be improved, just a little less sure about the bench warmers.

Yeah, pretty fucking astute of you, two thumbs up.

That’s not a great parallel. A number one pick being screwed over on his rookie deal isn’t remotely the same as the 13/14/15th members of an NBA roster receiving markedly less than the marquee guys.

Yea, but no one’s paying to watch Ian Clark play basketball. They pay to watch Lebron and other stars; it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

I always enjoy how the standard Deadspin response to a Bill Simmons article is to treat it like he’s dead serious when half the time it’s obvious that it’s tongue-in-cheek, winking toward his homerism and tendency toward hyperbole. “Indefensible’s” a stretch.

Well, upon surviving a car accident, one could comment, “that collision wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought, I just broke my leg instead of getting paralyzed or dying.” Or that’s how I take Reid’s remarks. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s normalizing Trump or that he won’t be a vehement critic of him in the future. And…

That’s a fair point about the long and ever-disturbing trend of the Trump normalizing. Still, though, given that you led your post with a reference to, ah, ‘gratifying’ Trump, I just don’t know that that’s how I’d interpret Reid’s remarks. Trump did, after all, drum up huge publicity and support through that batshit…

Really, Harry Reid’s the guy you want to go after, among all the millions of more deserving candidates?

Does anyone know why they’re not willing to shell out money for Trumbo? Buyer’s remorse after the Chris Davis contract or something else?

I think the goalie and one of his other teammates are clearly trying to shield him during the melee, but that definitely doesn’t hold true for all of his teammates. Pretty scary.

That’s true, but this election does seem to have marked a slight shift in how elections are funded, with the surge of independent donations that fueled Bernie’s (and, to a lesser extent, the late-stage of Trump’s) campaign. I know the resources you’re referencing extend far, far beyond just campaign contributions, but…

How dare you make light of Teddy R’s quite respectable showing in 1912! He took a considerably higher share than any of the third party types in 1824. But on a more serious note, given the increasing polarization of U.S. politics and the rise of the progressive wing of the Democratic party and its horrifying…

You’re making a lazy, dull argument. A Chinese filmmaker can cast whomever he or she wants; the white savior trope you’re knee-jerk reacting to isn’t pervasive in the Chinese film industry. And it’s not uncommon at all for American filmmakers to twist or alter aspects of their films to appease Beijing or render their…

Shaw’s gone my man, Shaw’s gone.

Definitely not a reason to get your hopes up, but with 2 weeks to go it’ll be interesting to see if the media can create a major story out of faithless electors and maybe spur a few on-the-fence ones to go another way. One in twenty thousand? Probably, but it’s an interesting step. All I’m saying is, I’m glad this…

She or he can respond to whatever post she or he wants to; it’s absurd that you think s/he has some obligation or requirement to voice outrage about the other topic to give an opinion about this one. 

About the same as it did an hour ago; what’s your point?