Basketball was invented by a Canadian, but one who was so fucked up that he moved to Kansas.
Always bad weather, never single-payer.
Basketball was invented by a Canadian, but one who was so fucked up that he moved to Kansas.
According to Wiki, he "[struggled] in school, but [was] gifted in farm labour."
5: We The North. But holy crap, holy Mother of God, did a Canadian team just win the NBA title?!
This post refutes itself. As does more Javy magic
A Canadian team has never won the NBA championship when I wasn't in Canada.
I thought stats geeks had taken all the fun out of sports, until progressive journalists on Twitter decided to scrape that barrel dry.
I suppose people have to look at something inbetween football seasons.
8 It's almost like an alternative timeline.
A bunch of us owe him an apology.
Some said he'd never win a title.
Some said he was washed up.
But he kept grinding.
He kept going.
Now, Jeremy Lin is an NBA Champion.
Tweeted out by CBS Sports.
https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1139380490203353089
Wow, I saw innumerable tweets about the NBA finals and not a reference to Lin.
Was some of the latter video in the OP slowed down / sped up artfully for effect? Right before the dunks.
14: The Toronto Raptors have been crowned NBA champions, claiming their franchise's first title as well as the first for any Canadian team, and Jeremy Lin also became the first Asian American to earn an NBA ring, according to the South China Morning Post's Patrick Blennerhassett.
Here are Lin's highlights from the NBA Finals.
https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/1139416440006533122
13: Yes, the fact that he was be a bench sitter on a championship-winning team on which he played in one game in the final series for a a total of 51 seconds with no shots, assists or rebounds repudiates all of our takes...
(He played *slightly* more in earlier series, in 7 of the 18 games average of 3 minutes per game he played and was 2 for 9 from the floor (9 points 3 rebounds, 4 assists total).
Unexpected pwn from peep while I was looking up the stats.
19. 20: Maybe you need to check out Standpipe's blog.
Could someone explain what's going on in the baseball sequence? Did the runner get round the fielder, or was he cleverly blocked? I mean, I see that he ran round in the end, but I can't work out what happened to the ball and the commentary is, as usual, incomprehensible.
If it's baseball and incomprehensible, it usually means the in-field fly rule is involved.
I hadn't actually watched the video when I wrote 23. It's not really confusing. It's also only a little bit amusing.
22: Basically, this situation is ordinarily an automatic out for the runner. All the fielder has to do is tag him, or even just step on the bag with the ball. He'd have been better off running to the bag in this case, but Javy realises he's over-committed to tagging him and jukes around, getting to the bag first. He's known for doing stuff like this (see my link above with one of his famous swim moves). He's so good at it he's stolen home base four times.
Jammies kept score for four hours of a seven hour Allstar U-10 baseball game yesterday, because the powers that be were too pure to cap the games based on times or runs. The final score was 42-41. The games were supposed to be 6 innings, but this one went 7 innings because the score was tied 38-38. Two kids probably had heatstroke but the coaches wouldn't pull them because of complicated subbing rules. Seven fucking hours in the Texas heat.
Like half the team on each team had to pitch at some point. One of the teams had to play immediately after, and lost like 33-3.
I don't like being Romantic, but frankly anyone who wears a baseball uniform in public deserves to die of heatstroke.
29: Mossy is so romantic! If I could I would add on a few dozen heart-eye emojis.
|| Here it is Monday morning again, so what did the Supreme Court do? (a) decided not to mess with Double Jeopardy from separate sovereigns;* (b) rejected standing by one house of a legislature to appeal a decision striking down gerrymandering; (c) decided that the people managing local cable access in NYC aren't public actors for First Amendment purposes; and (d) split 3-3-3 on a narrow preemption question. |>
* This case may even have been addressed in a prior thread, mostly, iirc, about how it might affect the President. At the end of the day, only Ginsburg and Gorsuch wanted to expand DJ.
Opening lines from Roberts dissent in 31(d): Although one party will be happy with the result of today's decision, both will be puzzled by its reasoning. That's because the lead opinion sets out to defeat an argument that no one made, reaching a conclusion with which no one disagrees.
29: One of the interesting (and cringe-worthy) aspects of baseball is that it is the only sport that I know of where the coaches dress in the uniform that the players wear. (Generally not the case at youth-level, although one Pony League (13-14 yrs old I think) coach around here did wear one. Semi-creepy.)
When I die my time spent coaching and administering youth baseball will surely count against me. I offer no excuses other than infirmity of mind and soul.
What are the implications of 31(a) (with the beloved POTUS of course in mind)?
I think the argument that nothing has changed is essentially sound: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/17/supreme-court-trump-pardons-1365952
The risk was that the Court would say something Trump's people might be able to use. It didn't.
I was in a discussion last week with a colleague about whether the DC Circuit is likely to reverse the district court opinion that House Democrats lack standing to challenge Trump's repurposing military funds to build a tiny portion of The Wall. Will the government be able to find something in Ginsberg's decision on the Virginia redistricting case to bolster their position on appeal? Maybe!
I'll take your word for it, Charlie.
(FWLIW, the redirection of political disputes into arcane litigation is a notable feature of the third-world kleptocracy of my birth.)
A feature from before the beginning here. William Marbury is just one of the famous participants.
Were some of the proponents of the American Revolution just trying to prevent application of Somerset v. Stewart on this side of the ocean?