I still think Barry is 5'11", but he blames his bad posture. Read more
I think people tend to like dominant NBA teams just fine, unless their fans go out of their way to be dickholes. Most of the great NBA teams I grew up with, except the Celtics, didn’t provoke hatred the way the Cardinals or Patriots do. Even the Showtime Lakers, who were playing for a crowd of preening gross… Read more
How did it go? Read more
It’s almost as if nobody knew what they were doing! Read more
Rex Morgan, M.D. and The Family Circus are both valuable parts of any real comics section. Read more
And here’s a Deadspin appreciation of Peanuts: http://deadspin.com/5870111/counte… Read more
I refused to participate in this exercise, but here’s Deadspin coverage of The Family Circus by people who actually read newspaper comics: http://deadspin.com/5871970/this-g… Read more
That is a STRONG TAKE. Read more
Whether a call is definitive is a separate question from whether it was the correct call to have made. Without replay, whatever the official calls in real time is the result of the play. With replay, everything that happens in real time is a provisional and tentative result until a committee finishes studying and… Read more
You are a good sports blogger, Barry, but you fundamentally misunderstand the appeal of sports if you prefer replay review to live action. Read more
I recognize that “Chris Paul stinks” has all the contours of a lousy opinion (COUNT THE RINGZZZZ!!), but I can’t make myself stop believing it. The personal numbers say he’s an all-time great point guard, but what other all-time great point guard has participated in so little team success? Iverson and Kidd both… Read more
I believe Shaq could have been the undisputed GOAT, playing 40 pounds lighter and with incredible finesse, if refs had whistled every foul committed against him and every foul he committed. Read more
This is a correct take on replay. Definitive real-time calls, even if they’re occasionally wrong, are superior to always having to sit around waiting for a committee with a television to tell you what it was you just saw happen. Read more
Correction: I originally wrote that the 2003 Finals was five game; it was six. Read more
Yikes, RIGHT. 3-0! Read more
When we were talking about this last night, I went with the Diamondbacks beating the Yankees in Game Seven, just ahead of the Red Sox coming back from down 3-1 against the Yankees. On reflection, though, “Not the Yankees” probably counts as one of my top three personal favorite teams in sports, so those shouldn’t… Read more
This is correct and one of my longstanding fixations. Sportswriters basically treated the whole Belle saga as if his bum hip were a natural and predictable result of his being surly to sportswriters. Read more
Tim Duncan is my favorite player of the last 20 years, but those VORP figures reflect that fact that peak Kevin Garnett was unbelievable. In that three-year span Garnett averaged 23.1 / 13.6 / 5.6. In the playoffs, he sometimes guarded Shaq one-on-one in the post and sometimes guarded Kobe one-on-one on the wing. It… Read more
Here’s Jordan’s performance on the VORP leaderboard over his career: Read more