The_Admiral

Fisher is burning baseball in an active shared market, a potential future market, and a third longshot-potential market. How hard can it be to get him on a hot mic saying that black guys smell like weed so that he can be forced to sell the team? Fake it with AI if you have to, I don't care. Make the son of a :censored: deny it.

Carolina Hurricanes II: Gettin' Hurricanier

Seems like Salt Lake City and Las Vegas should both be expansion locations while keeping the A's in Oakland. What a completely embarrassing situation.

Oh god they did the New York Knicks City Never Sleeps jersey but worse.

SAY THE LINE,BART! ...we live in a culture of working the refs

I envy your mental health, and you're right about the 16/17 Penguins being a good comp.

Nope, very real The John Fox era was supposed to symbolize a steady hand on the wheel and a commitment to the basics and all that but that was when I really felt "man, this team's just gonna be bad forever."

lol, you thought people were being annoying about Taylor Swift being a Pentagon psyop, try a team owned by the guy from THE CARLYLE GROUP

Either the second/last Trestman year or the first John Fox year. Take your pick: the Packers blowout on Sunday night or the Seahawks game where they punted on every possession. At one of those points they crossed the line that divides man and bum.

A tradition that the Minnesota Wild crapped all over with their captain-of-the-month-club concept. Even two is pushing it.

Don't forget the Bears, who supposedly got this parting gift of the #1 pick from Lovie Smith and turned it into one of the most incompetent starts to a season I've ever seen while the Texans absolutely warp-sped past them in their rebuild. They outclassed more of the league than not.

You skipped a step: they all became die-hard Ravens fans first and then they pivoted to saying that if you don't support Taylor Swift cooking the planet so that she can larp as a high school senior from Denton, Texas, you hate all women.

I've seen people say "Oh, this Super Bowl is going to be TERRIBLE for conservatives!" No, it's terrible for liberals: one team's logo used to be an Indian plastered over five Republican states, and the other one has a white guy at running back.

Getting way off topic here but it's of interest to me that part of the downfall of the church has been the centralization from ward-based, stake-based communities to a bunch of MBAs in a skyscraper in Salt Lake City dictating everything for everyone. Part of that is that everyone has to follow a standardized design for meetinghouses which, yes, has the goofy-ass basketball court that's also a wedding hall, but is also a bland McArchitecture that strips any sort of local input away and maximizes efficiency while minimizing construction costs. I don't think they carpet the floors anymore but they do carpet the walls. I assume some descendant of Joseph Smith is in the carpet wholesaling business or something.

What if everything you ever wanted... CAME IN A ROCKET CAN

I forgot who pointed it out on Twitter but it was that for all the talk of the Ravens' organizational excellence under their 15th-year coach or whatever, the team on the field is a bunch of certified dum-dums when it matters most. IQ leaks all over the place here, I guess.

yo ass so big I heard you fulfilled three Rooney Rules

Yeah, but they're all in southern Alberta, which is a hotbed. The WHL produces all sorts of Albertans named Jaxxsyn, Huntzmin, and Crambon, but for some odd reason they aren't Mormons. It's a small market that already has one very well-entrenched team playing a sport that's well-entrenched in the church. Resources are finite and I just don't know how you make Salt Lake City a two-sport town with the two sports running concurrently, especially when one is basketball.

Frankly, I blame the white pants.

"OHHHH AWWWW JIM WHAT A SMART MOVE TO SET UP 1ST AND 10" - Tony Romo on Roquan Smith picking up a 15-yard penalty for just knocking a guy on his ass unabated

Lamar Fields

The stadium should be playing the original version of a Black Eyed Peas song

Agreed. We went over this weeks ago but Brady was a passenger for the whole first act of his career who got by on O-line, defense, run game, special teams, and boy-next-door-good-looks narrative.

I don't think so. Reid isn't on the same level as Belichick in terms of building a system that was damn near foolproof and plug-and-play. The Chiefs are doing it with talent more than process. Their offensive line is a bunch of lunkheads who almost screw it all up; Brady's line was nearly impervious. Chiefs defense is fine; Patriots defense was unstoppable until Belichick seemingly got bored doing defense. We're not getting 20 years out of the Chiefs. I will give you that both teams get deus-ex-machinaed out of trouble by the refs but luck is the residue of design and you see the same thing with the Packers and Steelers as much if not more; besides, we live in a world where success comes by working the refs so they may as well reflect the zeitgeist.

ITT: Enough recency bias to power a small factory