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On 23/06/2022 at 09:20, Pooker said:

Probably not. NBA is not known to be streamer friendly. 

pretty crazy not to be when you have, easily, the youngest audience among the 4 major US sports by average age

On 19/04/2022 at 12:43, Hobo said:

Imagine if all of pink floyd were your grandads though

It would make family gatherings a bit awkward since Grandpa David and Papa Roger don't always get on.

If Papa Roger would shut the fuck up about Margaret Thatcher and his dad dying in the war, we could possibly enjoy our dinner

Petition that I should be legally  allowed to murder someone if they won't shut up during a movie and keep asking questions about what's going on, when paying attention to the film and being quiet might clear up the confusion

Goddamnit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/john-prine-obit-253684/

Delving into retro games from my childhood to pass the time.

Playing Starfox 64 and have now realized that all of Fox McCloud's flying partners are complete dicks.

Falco: passive-aggressive, jealous shithead

Slippy: worthless and shitty at his job and always needing you to bail him out

Peppy: speaks in catch-phrases and reminds Fox constantly of his dead dad. Joy-kill.

2 hours ago, Pooker said:

I'm not happy with Wojo reporting that Rudy was being careless in the locker room. It's a locker room, with an extremely close team. Of course there's going to be touching. Even if Jazz players are privately saying that, keep it private. 

This is a guy who, two days before diagnosed, touched all of the microphones at his press conference as a joke

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I'm getting pretty tired of people treating this like a joke. A younger guy yesterday told me people were being "pussies" for treating this so seriously.

It's so selfish, only seeing it from your perspective. "I'll be fine, so it's no big deal!"

 Like...that guy will be fine. Rudy will be fine. I will be fine if I catch it, probably. But it's not about us, it's about who we might give it to. 

2 hours ago, Your Mom's Side Chick said:

I know it's stupid but this makes the whole thing feel real for me. Like I knew it was dangerous but this is like millions of dollars

The March Madness news did this for me. Of course, the NCAA is still forcing their players to go play, but to have no spectators...

But hmm, yeah, a world-famous actor and an All-Defense NBA player both get the virus. I mean, what are the odds, there's only 1300 cases in America am i rite

https://sports.theonion.com/nfl-rescinds-myles-garrett-suspension-after-review-foot-1839896771

So, I just saw the tiered-contract system and it's the most Vince McMahon thing ever.

"The XFL will use a tiered contract system for signing players.

Tier 1: $25,000 to $60,000 per game: 1 franchise player designation
Tier 2: $15,000 to $17,500 per game: 3 slots per team
Tier 3: $6,000 to $10,000 per game: 23 slots per team
Tier 4: $5,000 to $6,000 per game: 18 slots per team"

So, the guys within the locker room will not only be fighting the other team, but each other for the only high-paid slot. Good thinking. No in-fighting will come of this, I'm sure.

"LAW OF THE JUNGLE GODDAMNIT" -VKM

I'm doing some research to get into the idea of going to a Class-A game, since the Bowling Green Hot Rods (Rays affiliate) play right down the street from me. I can't think of a sadder fate in sports than being the Rule 5 drafted guy who gets offered back to his previous team. Like, your previous team didn't protect you, then the new team  that took you didn't want you, so back you go back to that previous team. That must suck

I enjoy the angle the Detroit Free Press decided to take on the Lions signing Danny Amendola.

"HEY, THE NEW GUY ALMOST DIED ONCE. EVERYBODY GET HYPE"
 

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2019/03/11/detroit-lions-wr-danny-amendola/3127974002/

The only thing I remember about the old XFL was that I ended up going to the same school as He Hate Me. Oh, and the coin-toss substitute race for the ball that got everyone hurt.

Kobe played limited minutes all the time during the twilight of his career.

This is easily the best Eagles song and, unlike their 1000 cheesy radio hits, no one's ever heard of it #hottake

The MyPillow guy is the creepiest human being I've ever seen in my life. There is no way this guy is not a serial killer.

10 hours ago, DMN said:

 

Live hockey is fucking amazing.

Everyone should experience it at least once. I went from hockey-basher to Nashville Predators fan in one trip that a friend and hockey fanatic thankfully talked me into

Been to five games since

8 hours ago, Red Devil-Taker316 said:

Michael Jordan is actually underrated. He's so far ahead of anyone else who played in the NBA it's almost laughable. Only people's misunderstanding and use of basic statistics make it seem that he could be caught up to legacy wise.

This. I absolutely love LeBron and still consider him a distant #2

3 minutes ago, Meacon said:

Pretty much. There are only five guys on the court. Everybody and their mum would have double-digit assists every game. 

Hassan Whiteside would average 1.5 or so.

10 hours ago, Cymbols said:

Football should count second assists like in ice hockey. 

 

No idea why on earth basketball doesn't do this either. Is it because LeBron would average like 25 assists a game?

5 hours ago, Gabriel said:

 

It's the same reason why I still haven't watched Game of Thrones. I was super interested when it started, missed the first season, acquired the first season, and then was just beat down with the bloody thing by people who wouldn't stop talking about it, and all of the media coverage it received through websites I visit. Eventually I'll sit down and watch it, but overexposure killed my desire.

I can relate to this in a way, but it's because my knee-jerk reaction, when I'm told over and over how great something is, is to find it underwhelming when I actually watch, simply because there's no way it was going to stack up to how it was being sold to me. Like when I rented 'Lost in Translation' after all my film-buff friends talked it up to the moon and I found myself really disappointed by it. Watched it again later and loved it due to the lack of over-elevated expectation

7 hours ago, DMN said:

Also, playoff hockey is the best time of any sport.

Hockey is my least favorite sport of our Big 4 for me to watch on TV and to follow in general, and yet it's easily my favorite live experience.

50 minutes ago, Ms. Canadian Destroyer said:

Loved to see Demar get some love in his return to Toronto. 

It's like Vince Carter, only the exact opposite

Edit: Yeah, was being a bit too flippant with my post. This is pretty serious shit now that I'm reading the details.