OT, Oct. 28 -- "1240+ comments are just too many" edition

Now I have a strong urge to find Turkish Allen Iverson highlights. I also like Brandon Roy of the Blazers, but most of his teammates are boring. It’s also fun to watch Rondo and Allen on the Celtics.

With them gone I haven’t even thought about the NBA except for when I see ads.

My interest in the NBA started dwindling in the early 2000’s anyway.

but I sincerely hope that the NBA first contracts a few teams and then implodes. The hubris of that league was worse at its peak than almost any other sports league, and now they’re going to have to figure out how to pay for it. Can’t wait.

it was one of the most sad, mournful, dull sporting events I’ve ever gone too.

Having known a few lifelong Clippers fans, its not an existence I would willing participate in.

The NBA can get fucked.

I was one of the biggest NBA fans left in Seattle in 2008. I followed the Sonics religiously, discussed them online just as avidly as this community discusses baseball, I analyzed each draft very closely, and was nearly as much a fan of the league as I was of the Sonics. I was at least partially defined by my passion for the Sonics and for professional basketball as a whole.

When the Sonics left, the switch flipped. As much as I liked basketball in the general sense, I quickly realized that the Sonics were the straw that stirred the drink of my basketball fandom and all interest and passion for the game is gone. I’m not really even particularly mad – I just can’t be bothered to care. There’s too many other compelling things to do in life than to follow a league that so overtly doesn’t care about having me as a fan.

I think the experiment in Miami is intellectually interesting, but I can’t work up anything more than the desire to check the headlines on how it’s going.

and there’s a huge percentage of games that end in blowouts that never get exciting. That said, I still was happy when the Sonics did well and was angry as everyone else when they moved to OKC. And who knows, if they had stayed I may have eventually enjoyed the game much like how I went from being a casual Seahawks fan to a diehard football fan. But I’m not going to cheer for a team in another city because it’s just not the same. And I know that Seattle will never get another team while that evil, corrupt midget is gone as commissioner. I do enjoy watching college basketball though. Shrugs

linky

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but from everything I have read and understand, driving through Mexico is taking your life into your hands and is not something that should be attempted alone. Lots of militias, roadblocks, and “toll roads” where you get robbed in order to be allowed to pass. I would really think twice about doing it, especially by yourself.

You should do it as much as possible

This was a preventable death.

It was some kind of press conference and the guy is trying to carry on while that thing is buzzing all around the room before the security guy stepped up to be a hero

Seriously people, I really don’t want to get fired for something like this.

Someone else can have it.

I know for both KEXP and NPR I have the choice on their sites how I want to open a stream, and I can choose iTunes or something else.

Then just drag that file into iTunes.

But cats don’t do that for no reason, so there’s something going on. She probably needs to get checked out by a vet.

Tell them, if you are getting rid of the cat, but definitely get the cat checked out first.

linky that might be helpful.

But have you tried changing the cat litter you use? I’ve heard of cats doing that just because they suddenly decided they hate their litter- sometimes you have to try several different types before you find one that works

Unless she won’t come back of course.

I know that most of my cats refuse to go to the bathroom in the litterbox because they’re used to going to the bathroom outside.

But it’s good to hear that you managed to get out.

Zobrist and Travis Lee are 4th and 5th on mine.

and former Mariners Tim Belcher!

Who? They have a combined WAR of 160, but I’ve never heard of either of them.

Terrence Long was born on 2/29. He’s a leapling.

Better than Joe Morgan.

After that it’s John Valentin, Kevin Tapani, George Mogridge, and John Mayberry. There are worse days it seems.

David Wright. Same day, same year. We are twin brothers.

Jesus Christ!

Huh

Followed closely by Jim McCormick and Dwight Evans.

Fangraphs tells me he played in 1901. Pretty meagre crop on my birthday.

February 6th.

Woo

I’ve opened a bottle with a credit card before.

I hadn’t brought my keys with me on this trip so I didn’t have my bottle openers on me so I went to the front desk and asked the girl that worked there if she had a bottle opener. Her reply was “I don’t need a bottle opener, I’m Danish” then quickly opened my bottle with a highlighter pen. I thought long and hard about proposing to her on the spot.

and I can do it with a car key in a pinch

Too soon?

People like this are dumber than ants.