Viacrice? 

That surprises me cause I woulda gone for “I’m a Diva, baby” if this was Family Feud Style. 

I said this above but it feels like a cousin of Hotepism - like a way of assigning deepness of character to yourself so you don’t get lumped in with the “basic blacks”. 

It’s not a threat, it’s just tiresome to be constantly reminded of some unique characteristic someone has, that you’ve never forgotten about once in all the years of knowing them, and that guides all conversation back to that person when it’s about the collective experience of being black in America.

Man, is there ever a more Gail looking woman?

That’s like holding the costuming of the BBC’s 70's and 80's productions of plays and stories set in the pre 1900s or hell pre 1800s against them. A lot of shit we take for granted evolved from a seeming neanderthal place. If almost every entry from a specific time shows these same flaws distribute the criticism…

I do wish everyone had our sense of unconventional problem solving. 

You have a blind wedding where everyone wears a blindfold and observes the ceremony using every sense BUT sight. EZPZ.

I say go even further. Give each team a set number of drives per ‘game’. Gawdy scores no more - you get 4 drives per game and the % you convert into points is where the game hangs in the balance .

Part of the problem is that so many of the coaches currently in the NFL subvert the notion of parity by being Football Guy dinosaurs chasing after outdated platonic ideals. Yes there are talent disparities in the NFL still but I can’t believe for a moment that Trubiski would flourish like he is this season with half…

Sometimes in a game, the rules change to enhance that which you were already doing.

Just play over the line if this is where we’re going.

It’s easy to respect a shutdown pitcher for making the other team look like fools, but it’s such an individual effort that stymies the individual effort of 9 opposing players - that’s at least part of why I don’t love great pitching in aggregate although I respect the individual performances. I don’t want to see an…

This also raises another question - where is the line between good defense and incompetent offense? Like, if I see a 9-6 box score, I think the more plausible scenario of how the game unfolded is rank incompetence from both offenses, not defenses making inspired play after inspired play.

They’re not the worst defenses in the league historically or relative to this season. They’re both below average to bad defenses relative to their peers this season, both going against two of the best offenses this season that seem to be more than mere historical footnote.

You want less drives per game then?

Can’t wait for this to be over so you move on to another story.

Exactly my first thought! Like whoa man.

They falsified the premise SPG laid out. As bananas as it seems, it’s almost like you’d be more comfortable with this if they said well beforehand “We just want to show other white people that white people are incredulous racists deep down.” You don’t like the window dressing - why burn the house down?

Totally. The difficult thing with this particular letter is that to some extent the guys perception seems so baked in that it seemingly presents an impediment towards getting out of his own head. It’s difficult to walk the line of helping someone break out of a self defeating thought process without confronting and…