A marg! Do not @ me! Read more
I think we have it easy, in some respects: Yes, we cover sports, which are a cesspool, but I think over the years we have covered them in a way that tends to attract readers who are slightly smarter, more skeptical, and more wry, who come here in part because they want something different from the sports-radio culture… Read more
You don’t need nearly as much specialized baby stuff as the world will try to sell you. You need almost none, in fact. Read more
Diana’s still here! Read more
I don’t know whether to be flattered or horrified that it’s become pretty routine for people to ping me in Slack whenever, like, David Brooks publishes something transparently about his dick woes, or some restaurant promotes a burger that’s six feet tall and encased in molten gold. Read more
Yeah Patty’s take on this is exactly right. Especially for those of us who work remotely, I think it would be a real shame if our internal staff chatroom became something that we were all doing with an eye toward chunks of it being published as like lol aren’t we all so cute and funny at some point. Read more
Yes, absolutely! To me there is no convincing argument for not just completely ending college sports permanently. Read more
Kyle on Gamergate, Scocca’s “On Smarm.” Sincerely, to me those are among the best pieces of cultural criticism written in the 21st century. Please commence owning me for saying that. Read more
More original and mind-bendy jokes, more informed analysis that builds on the blog topic, and way, way, way fewer Well Here’s My Take hot air bullshit and meta-analysis of whether the blog is good or not. Read more
I think so. The events of Infinity War play out with a lot more urgency and it doesn’t sag horribly in the middle like Endgame does. Read more
This is chalky but I think it’ll be GSW-DEN and MIL-TOR. Home-court advantage teams usually win because home-court advantage teams usually are better to begin with. Read more
It’s just a hand daintily plucking up a piece of food, man. Maybe we shouldn’t just take for granted that all possible expressions take place within the context of fucking 8chan or whatever? Read more
Granting the dubious proposition that anyone can be a good ruler, the answer is Sansa. Read more
Wake me when there’s an NHL player worth watching. Read more
Right but what “home-court advantage” means isn’t “a guarantee that you’ll never lose at home,” but rather “theoretically you can win the series without having to win another road game.” Read more
People keep saying this like hockey is a real sport anybody should care about. Read more
Git a rope! Read more
You’re right, the NBA definitely should have awarded its 2017 Most Valuable Player award on the basis of what would happen in the second round of the 2019 playoffs, instead of giving it to the player who most deserved it in the 2017 season. This is a smart and good take. Read more
Gah, thank you for catching that. My brain is soup. Read more
It’s not strictly the complaining I’m talking about. Last night he flipped out at the refs and griped throughout the entire ensuing defensive possession over a delay-of-game warning that cost the Raptors nothing. It wasn’t like he was trying to get a call. It was like he was having an anxiety attack and channeling it… Read more