Oh God. They’re really out there. The Internet daily reminds me that reading comprehension is an honest-to-God skill that has to be honed.

And the people who think they’re being cheeky by only kinda-sorta treating it as a joke are just fucking annoying as shit. I didn’t read this article, I just skipped to the comments to find someone else who was tired of this. Why pile on a bad joke in the first place?

Do you think it’s that he’s not allowed to drink anymore?

You’re in the biiiiiiiiiiiigggg leagues when you’re into big league chew!

Oh. Oof. I cannot in good conscience give this a star. But since this is deadspin, and there is no good conscience, have it you bastard.

I’m wondering if everything is okay in the Burneko household.

I will always loathe the term “right to work” for how it’s used to suppress actual labor gains, but, yeah. That’s how employment works.

True. It’s the old “do-I-reward-humor-over-the-end-of-civilization” comment-section conundrum. You managed it with aplomb. Keep strong in the face of mayo-love.

Lebron’s going to miss games. If Davis or Leonard misses any games at the same time, they’re not going to win with only one of those guys and the scrubs. The question isn’t winning the playoffs, it’s making the playoffs. The health requirements are just not on their side.

This. The answer is they are not going to field an entire roster of NBA-level players, and the likelihood of the three stars being healthy enough throughout the season that they can make the playoffs to then “turn it on” is very low. I don’t doubt that the three of them and some scrubs could make a huge playoff run.…

I hate predictions, so I’m not going to predict that the Lakers will fail with Davis, James, and Leonard, but I don’t see what else they’re going to fill the roster with. That’s not a deep bench is what I’m saying, and championships aren’t won without benches.

I totally remember that! That Mark Jackson was involved was slightly less memorable, however. 

Fuck, yeah.

No shit. In the battle of rhetoric, rhetoric beats policy.

Please explain why you are such a big Mark Jackson fan.

That’s beautiful.

I swear there was another story about pedestrianism recently, but it looks like it was less recent than I thought. The previous stories are from 2015 and coincided with the publication of Matthew Algeo’s book “Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport”.

Visited in August of 2017. It was awesome.

Goddammit, that still gets me.

Interesting. I’ve been seeing some long-time commenters being sent to the grays, as well as a lot of accepted comments that I just want to reply “You must be new here”. I think you’re right about the cross-posting bringing in axe-grinders.