Holy shit, that’s awesome about your dad. How does he avoid Fox News at that age?

His job is to have powerless people on Internet comment boards hate on him in between purchases of over-priced stadium food and team jerseys. As long as he’s there to hate, the owners can continue to bilk local governments for stadium cash. He’s paid his market’s worth. Look up how much tax lawyers can get paid to…

Was referring to the language being used, not the provenance of the product.

I didn’t make it that far in the video from earlier this week. I was mostly talking about that, not any article he wrote. Will read.

Exactly. Ley’s bullshit about geographic relegation was fucking offensive, because it undermined a decent idea, and he also thought that the draft would be kept through relegation. You can’t have the draft and a relegation system. I just want one North American sports league to have some sort of decent relegation…

It also has a pretty hot name. I mean, some of the bros might not be into the French, but that’s their loss, right?

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.