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Smart is a great defender but a s***** offensive player. It would be one thing if he recognized this and more or less stayed out of the way aside from performing his basic backup PG duties (a la Eric Snow), but he actively ruins possessions for us by chucking dumb shots and trying to be like James Harden. He has the confidence of Manny Ramirez, but the actual ability of Darnell McDonald.

14 in a row, just held the Warriors to 88 points. This is like the 2008 Celtics right now.

The Hornets looked an awful lot like the 2012 Red Sox bullpen tonight.

IT is a 5'9" Jerry Stackhouse.

Not to overload the hype train too much... but Tatum has 'next Paul Pierce' written all over him. And Jaylen could be the next Kobe Bryant.

Brown was gonna play a major role this year anyway (and holy s*** he's killing it tonight), but now we're gonna see what Tatum and I guess Ojeleye are made of. We're no longer the clear runner-up to Cleveland in the East, but should still be good enough to get a top-4 seed in the playoffs.

So much for the Gordon Hayward era. He's gone until 2019.

There are people who thought the Spurs should have dealt the #1 pick in 1997 for immediate help as well. Trade the pick if a truly outrageous offer comes along, like Anthony Davis or something. Otherwise hang on to it. Jimmy Butler or Paul George won't push this team over the top.

Theo's overrated!

There's only one basketball. They're also getting rid of Bogut (and I think Ezeli as well) to make way for Durant, so there goes a good chunk of their interior defense. Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant, but what weaknesses did the last two Warriors teams have that he solves? Yeah, he's a way better shooter and scorer than Barnes, but I don't recall those being problem areas for Golden State. Infinite offense isn't a thing. I'm not buying any of this "R.I.P. NBA" s***. People said the same thing when Payton and Malone went to the Lakers and again when LeBron went to the Heat. The 2004 Lakers look ridiculous in hindsight, the Heat needed a year to figure out how to play together, and LeBron had to carry them to the 2012 championship because Bosh was injured and Wade was playing like s***. Even the Celtics were only truly scary for a season and a half after they got Garnett and Allen - it took Garnett a year to fully recover from f***ing up his knee, they had one good playoff run in 2010 after a crap regular season, and after that they were just too old. Golden State might get a ring or two out of this, but before too long somebody's going to get butthurt about not getting enough shots or enough credit, locker room dissent will start to brew (as it tends to in a sports locker room full of guys with huge egos and successful track records), someone will probably get injured because NBA, and they'll look pretty beatable.

One of the first things I would do if I were president of all things baseball is mandate that all regular-season Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday/Thursday (the latter if it's a four-game Mon-Thu series, the former in all other cases) games be afternoon games, with the exception of Wednesday and Saturday night baseball on ESPN. Thursday should be an off day whenever possible. There, everybody wins - the players get an easier travel schedule so they don't have to wrap up some series finale at 11pm at night, and then hurry on to the plane and get to the next city and be settled and ready to go for the next game less than 24 hours later. ESPN** gets a baseball game timeslot all to themselves twice a week. Fans that don't live in Canada or Florida get more opportunities to watch the games as they were intended - during the daytime, with (hopefully) nice and sunny weather. ** or Fox/Fox Sports 1/NBC/someone else when ESPN finally goes down the drain.

Also, the strings that were pulled to get Marlins Park built. If MLB moves the Marlins out five years after the place opened, they'll have a bitch of a time getting any other city to agree to contribute anything to a new stadium. The Marlins are a disgrace but unfortunately we're stuck with them.

No to expansion, yes to relocation. MLB talent is already spread thin at 30 teams. Montreal would probably be fine as long as they got an acceptable stadium and had intelligent people running the team (i.e. can do a reasonable job of developing their own player). Fan support was non-existent leading up to the move to DC but starting in 1994 that team and that fanbase got dicked over so many times, in pretty ridiculous ways, that I can't blame them too much for throwing their arms up and letting go by 2004. Mexico City would be ballsy. Economically I think it can work. The Mexico City region has 20 million people, granted a good number of them live in squalor by U.S. standards. Still, it's a hugely important financial center, the rich are very rich, and surely you could whittle that total of 20 million down to a smaller but more workable number. Let's say we just cut out the bottom 80% (in terms of wealth) of the population for argument purposes. They don't exist. That would leave a population base of 4 million. Insert that into the list of U.S. combined statistical areas (insert Toronto as well), and Mexico City would be the 15th largest market - ahead of Minneapolis, Cleveland, Denver, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis among other current MLB cities. If you cull the workable population down to 3 million, then it's 20th, still ahead of St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Logistically, it's a bit tougher. The closest city is Houston, which is just under 1,000 miles away - about the same as Boston to Chicago. Some sort of southern division with Mexico City, Houston, the Rangers, Miami, and Atlanta (or Tampa if the Rays stay put) would probably be the only halfway-decent alignment, but that would mean blowing up the current alignment. And having an exclusively southern division in a game where most of the major markets on the east and west coasts could make things tricky everywhere else. Mexico City also cannot be in the same division as Seattle, Oakland, or San Francisco - in terms of travel that's on the level of putting those teams in the same division as the Red Sox. Also, security. I've never been there so I don't know credible all the safety concerns are. The fact that concerns even exist though would probably be a major deterrent for players and officials.

Could this guy possibly have any less value? Like, is it mathematically possible?

Tazawa thinks he's getting paid per pitch.

Why you letting Narcopli beat you...

It's not good when your OBP is sub-300 and your weight is over 300.

Poor Cleveland. That wind is probably blowing the dumpster stench all over the entire city.

Okay I'm getting very tired of mlbtv's "express written consent" commercial.

Yes, let's give it right back!

I will accept that also.

I will accept that.

Detwiler more like D'ohwiler

I guess shower mojo is a thing this year. I'm in the shower, somebody homers.

Brocktacular!