She didn’t fall apart, she gave up.

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That’s cuz vanilla is actually black.

The CBA prohibits strikes, soooo

Nah. My whole point was that trying to make one to one comparisons between two things that aren’t really alike misses the mark.

Buxton is very fast. People tend to compare very fast athletes in major sports to sprinters. Those people miss the subtle differences that set sprinters apart from very fast atheletes in major sports. This video is a good illustration of some of those subtle differences.

I think the problem might be that keeping your eye on the ball as a player is such an important rule that’s been beaten into heads for so long.

Absolutely. As I noted to someone else, my point isn’t that this guy sucks at running, it’s that trying to take guys who need to excel at so many individual aspects of a sport and compare them to guys that only need to run misses the mark because the runners break down each individual aspect of locomotion.

It’s not a dumb idea. I was always a fairly good sprinter and and mediocre baseball player, but when I played baseball that’s exactly what I did. I just relied on the base coach to tell me when to go and got into a two point sprinter’s stance on the bag.

Yes, he’s not running in a straight line, but he’s still pretty inefficient. There are plenty of good base runners in baseball who also have good form all things considered.

To be that fast with such awful form and so much wasted energy is pretty impressive.

Second, I disagree that there’s no system that would help small market teams avoid these sorts of circumstances.

I think the league is going to have to create a Designated Player/Bird Rights+ system that allows those players’ present teams to go over the cap without counting that towards their luxury tax liability and…

You didn’t do a great job of explaining why the money difference was negligible for practical purposes. Anthony Chiang at the Palm Beach Post broke it down well:

I feel dumb for trying to fact check this

To be fair, “bet on yourself” deals rarely pay off in sports. Good for Dion that he got it to work in his favor in this instance.

Good taek

Again, sales /= value. Even it was. Lebron was selling shit for like a decade before Steph. Beyond that, I didn’t say Steph wasn’t valuable. 🙄

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Selling jerseys and getting all star votes is a very poor indicator of value to the league and to a franchise. Beyond that, you’re a simpleton for assuming that a statement addressed to Lebron’s value must also mean that the writer doesn’t believe Curry is valuable.

😂 yup