Boston itself might be 23rd as a city, but the Boston metro area is 10th largest in the country; also Red Sox and Yankees are teams that have massive fanbases outside their home cities.

Yankees and Red Sox means the overall market in this country will always be skewed slightly toward AL.

“Listen, thousands of Nepali slaves are dying to build Qatar’s World Cup venues. You want their deaths to have been in vain? We have to keep building — for the slaves.”

James Harden passed the ball to Dwight Howard with an open lane and Dwight Howard suddenly thought he was playing Hot Potato. Somehow this is James Harden’s fault.

I know Dwight can’t dribble anymore, and Harden’s supposed to be The Man, but I can’t help but think the wrong Rocket is getting a lot of attention for…

It’s great. And the conceit/quirk of a hip-hop colonial musical isn’t a random imposition — it’s specific to Hamilton’s story and the central thesis of the story, that as a lower-class West Indies-born immigrant to the colonies, Hamilton represented a model of American success and living that finds echoes in…

Yep. Also the need to find creative solutions to the difficulty of getting a camera near the action allows for lots of image stylization (small, wide-angle lenses placed in the goal; long, telephoto images of action). The fact that there’s a lot of light and that players are illuminated both from the top and bottom…

Basketball man does good basketball thing, puts ball in hole fancy way.

Doc isn’t that great a coach, so he doesn’t know how to get a lot out of subprime talent. His 2008 Celtics had three, maybe four future HOF players at or near the peak of their powers, an elite defensive specialist in Tony Allen, Perk at the apex of his career. This Clippers team is simply not as talented — only (!)…

I love this so much. The greatest of all possible responses.

"My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina."

Harry Shearer hates Family Guy even more than he hates the last seventeen or so years worth of Simpsons episodes. He almost certainly asked that his characters not be included in the crossover.

Nah.

The Rangers? I think there are websites that specialize in major league lacrosse coverage.

My parents got in on the “uniquely spelled name” trend long before it was popular, and I’ve resented them for it nearly every day of my life. Names aren’t artisanal. They have meaning and weight and they’re the first impression a human being is able to make on another. We carry them our entire lives. These stunt-names…

Yep. The only kid on the list I don’t instinctually distrust based on name alone.

Meanwhile, actual boxing experts/fans know exactly what to make of last night’s fight:

I know we all live in irony-ville these days, but can someone with more time and energy mount a boycott against Burger King for throwing in with a serial abuser?

I have to imagine between now and tomorrow Pop will devise some sort of strategy to minimize their problem dealing with the Clippers’ high screen-and-roll. There are too many sharpshooters on the Clippers team for it not to be defensive priority #1 for the Spurs.

Weird to imagine that might’ve been Duncan and Ginobili’s last home game... Ginobili was having an off-night but Duncan quietly put up another double-double.

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