The Swamp

Joe K

I think the death of the mid-range game is hardly a farce and is instead a byproduct of teams playing a much smarter brand of offensive basketball. Unless your shooting percentage is 150% higher on midrange jumpers than on 3s, it's the most inefficient shot in the sport. I'm sure guys like Kyle Kor...

Joe K

I think the death of the mid-range game is hardly a farce and is instead a byproduct of teams playing a much smarter brand of offensive basketball. Unless your shooting percentage is 150% higher on midrange jumpers than on 3s, it's the most inefficient shot in the sport. I'm sure guys like Kyle Korv...

Joe K

Maybe only the lawyers and psuedo-lawyers are truly outraged at this. I cannot underscore enough how illegal what Chicago was doing - or how corrosive it is to a functioning democracy. If the last 13.5 years have made anything clear, it's that a huge number of Americans believe that Constitutional ...

Joe K

I wonder how the hardcore Rightwing anti-Semites will handle this. It is difficult enough for the hardcore rightwing pro-semites. I was listening at work with two orthodox docs who hold Israeli citizenship and have spent chunks of their lives over there. Their views are far more informed than mine,...

Joe K

Why do I get the feeling that Netanyahu speaking to Congress (this is the invite where Boehner went behind Obama's back and broke that law from 1790-something, right?) is a big fucking deal in that it will galvanize politics even further? It's hard to think of a better example of the Right's outrig...

Joe K

Earlier in this thread, Shirley commented about the relative lack of posts about college hoops. Not sure what the cause of the lack of posts is, but I do think the overall quality and watchability of the college game is the worst it's been in a long time. To me, the average NBA game is far more enjo...

Joe K

Surprising this hasn't already been posted. http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/12397807/anthony-mason-former-new-york-knick-forward-dies-48" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Mason was possibly the most unlikely good NBA player I can remember. He had a goofy body and g...

Joe K

All the ESPN hoops guys I follow on Twitter are reporting that Derrick Rose needs another knee surgery. He apparently re-tore his right meniscus, which is the same injury he had last season. Tough break for the Bulls.

Joe K

Crazy NBA trade deadline today. Miami and OKC are both shaping up to be dangerous 7/8 seeds. Miami has no depth, but Dragic, Wade, Deng, Bosh and Whiteside is a nice starting 5. Also, I thought OKC did great at the deadline swapping Perkins for Kanter. The playoffs are going to be ridiculous this y...

Joe K

Crazy NBA trade deadline today. Miami and OKC are both shaping up to be dangerous 7/8 seeds. Miami has no depth, but Dragic, Wade, Deng, Bosh and Whiteside is a nice starting 5. Also, I thought OKC did great at the deadline swapping Perkins for Kanter. The playoffs are going to be ridiculous this y...

Joe K

Crazy NBA trade deadline today. Miami and OKC are both shaping up to be dangerous 7/8 seeds. Miami has no depth, but Dragic, Wade, Deng, Bosh and Whiteside is a nice starting 5. Also, I thought OKC did great at the deadline swapping Perkins for Kanter. The playoffs are going to be ridiculous this ye...

Joe K

ETA: I did read that Atlantic piece on ISIS, and it is not very deep nor useful. It only mentions Wahhabi variant of Islam once, in passing, making no mention of the systematic projection of that sect over the past 60 years by the Saudi royal family. It points out superficial, and ultimately useles...

Joe K

I sort of agree with Gunpowder that King's stance here may be as much about Lewis as it is about Sharper. Even before the rape issues arose, most people would have ranked Sharper behind Reed, Dawkins and Harrison, so I highly doubt he would have ever come close to the HOF. And given the way the publ...

Joe K

"Would someone with a rumored history of anti-Muslim comments have shot his white neighbors over a parking spot" is a pretty fair question to ask. FWIW, the father of the two women killed said something to this effect, as he said that regardless of what the immediate trigger was he believ...

Joe K

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... n-charged/

So, how many U.S. media outlets will call this terrorism and/or call for a broader dialogue about the dangers of Islamophobia? Not holding my breath here.

Joe K

Smith's coaching results speak for themselves, and I always had a ton of respect for his off-court activism. Off the top of my head, it's hard to think of a more prominent activist for Progressive causes in the sports world.

Joe K

The right-wing media is a little more gleeful about it, but this isn't a left/right debate. Duh, of course it is. Every member of the mainstream media is a liberal, pinko commie. Every. Single. One. I'm pretty sure Brian Williams is actually pretty right wing himself. I know he's expressed admirati...

Joe K

(Also, while I'm leaning towards garden variety hypocrisy, I'd like J-Lo to atleast consider irony charges against Pats fans who threw a 2 week "no one respects us" tantrum and are now reveling in the Sherman pic and "Bitch Mode".) The "Bitch Mode" thing is particularl...

Joe K

Johnnie, we all exchange barbs around here. But, you are taking it to a level that's awfully surprising. Boston sports fan inferiority complex. Actually, just Bostonians in general. Its a weird phenomenon where the entire world and the sports gods are against them and their teams (see Curse of the ...

Joe K

I'm sort of curious about how this would be going if the QB were Cutler. Would it still be 100% coach's fault or would it be closer to "its a bad call but your QB cannot put the ball where a defender has a play". On this point, one of my co-workers is a former D-I QB and backup in the NFL...

Joe K

So Bill Simmons got suspended a month for calling goodell a liar on tv. Cris Carter flat called Tom Brady a liar on tv. Has he been suspended yet? Or is it because he's a player and not the commissioner ESPN won't get their peepees smacked by the NFL powers that be? Simmons didn't get suspended bec...

Joe K

I'm a 49ers fan and it still kind of haunts me that they didn't have Gore or Kaepernick run the ball on 2nd-and-Goal from the 5 against the Ravens two years ago, since their offensive line had been wearing out God's LB and Co. for the entire 4th quarter. The play call by Seattle was about 10 times m...

Joe K

Might as well talk about something non-controversial... Does winning the Super Bowl change Brady's place among greatest QBs? I think by getting to his 6th, he's put himself pretty firmly ahead of Peyton in terms of the generation's best, but would winning his 4th make the MOntana/Brady debate close...

Joe K

I think eventually, you just have to take Occam's razor to this bitch. As Hume famously said, "What's more likely...that the laws of nature would suspend themselves so that a human being could conceive via parthenogenesis or a that Jewish minx would tell a lie?" Well, what's more likely.....

Joe K

I think Goodell is a terrible commissioner, but how on earth is it in the NFL's interest to go out its way to frame or smear the Patriots here? Let's put aside for a second the facts that (1) Goodell views Kraft as a trusted advisor and close confidante, and (2) Tom Brady is one of the most famous, ...

Joe K

We're about one news cycle away from the Patriots calling a press conference to say this was a false flag operation by the NFL (and/or maybe the Colts I guess). Actually, it sounds like the Pats found their fall guy, as Jay Glazer is reporting that the league has identified a "locker room atte...

Joe K

"Listen, I won't drop all my physics knowledge on Thursday but it if gets to Saturday ... God help me. Also, ignore that this is atleast a two week trend and that Brady has said in the past he likes deflated footballs." Yeah, I really think that Belichick decided to give the second press ...

Joe K

Yeah, Deadspin has a clip up of Bill Nye's interview with Good Morning America where they asked him about it.

Bill Nye wrote:I'm not too worried about Coach Belichick competing with me. What he said didn't make any sense. Rubbing the football? I don't think you can change the pressure.

Joe K

What's not ambiguous - the fact that the Pats are the cheatingest franchise in NFL history. Yes this is put together by a Patriots fan, it still is quite the interesting list. That someone in the fanbase even thought to try and do that to change the narrative is lolz. It's okay. You all root for co...

Joe K

I don't think many players outside of Baltimore or owners outside of Indy to give a damn. It's the media/people that leap at a chance to bash the Patriots that are driving this kerfuffle. “Now twice, under Bill Belichick and possibly a third time, they’ve cheated and given themselves an advantage. ...

Joe K

Well seeing that the only cheating would be ball boys somehow extracting the exact amount of air from 11 balls while on the sideline of a game that's nationally covered and the NFL itself has 50+ cameras at, you'd think there would be some evidence of some kid crouching in the corner deflating ball...

Joe K

I feel like the Rodgers thing where he likes the ball overinflated kills Brady's plausible deniability. To go back to seams; every pitcher would want them higher. If over or under for a football are both known preferences, you'd have to know which Brady liked to adjust. Yeah, while it's certainly p...

Joe K

Grantland's Andrew Sharp with a pretty complete synopsis. Can't really disagree with anything he says here. Even the not insane people insist on bringing up the fact that the Pats would have won anyway. It's like it's okay to cheat up to the degree where you can ascertain that it wouldn't have affe...

Joe K

Yeah, the other relevant point here is if you assume that the Pats doctored the balls for the AFC Championship, you know damn well they were doing it for quite a while. I very much doubt Belichick or Brady or whomever decided that this was a strategy they needed to employ for this specific game. So...

Joe K

Rosenberg's an idiot. I doubt Bronto was using that as proof of anything. The point was that the only people who seem to be getting upset about this are Pats fans somehow. I wouldn't trust the NFL to do an investigation of what Goodell had for lunch, but unless they come up with anything (highly un...

Joe K

Just like last week, the NFL has scheduled Seattle for the early game. It would seem more logical for the game in New England to be first and the west coast game to be second. Wonder why the NFL disagrees? I think they schedule it before the playoffs begin and they figured Brady and/or Manning woul...

Joe K

Just like last week, the NFL has scheduled Seattle for the early game. It would seem more logical for the game in New England to be first and the west coast game to be second. Wonder why the NFL disagrees? I think they schedule it before the playoffs begin and they figured Brady and/or Manning woul...

Joe K

By the way, Boston sports fans have a talent for awful tattoos. When I was still living there, I went to a sports bar to watch a Celtics playoff game and a guy there was showing off a tattoo he had on his thigh of Varitek shoving A-Rod. Hands down the most ridiculous tattoo I've ever seen in person.

Joe K

I got bets on NE -7 and Sea -7 and a big teaser on both down to -.5 (i.e. to win). I don't think either game is close. Indy's defense hasn't shown they can stop New England. I'll say this one is NE 38, Indy 24. And I won't bother to post the same thing in the other thread, but give me Seattle 27, G...

Joe K

The right is a bunch of religious nutjobs and the left is a bunch of pussies that abandon the very principles that they're suppose to be fighting for just so they can appease every asshole with a Qur'an. How do you define "the left"? Because if you changed that phrase to "Democrats,&...

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