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I don't want to put too fine a point on it, the situation in Gaza is intolerable, but the point remains that it's very easy for a bystander nations to have 'serious' reservations about what other countries see as their vital interests. The problem for Israel is that it has worked hard to squander much of the West's willingness to accept what they are doing by being beastly to all the Palestinians they have not been at war with for the last 20 yrs. I have to believe if the Israeli public had ever voted in a government that was even remotely interested in working toward some solution in the West Bank other than the Likud 'solution' of somehow just eventually pushing all the Palestinians out of the West Bank, their international diplomatic leeway after the Hamas attacks would be greater. But now it is what it is. You have an Israeli government that deserves little sympathy, led by one of the 21st century's new blow dried wanabe-fascists on one side, and a group of completely malignant killers on the other. There is no question which side the Western choice ultimately has to fall, but that doesn't mean anyone has to like the choice. And how do Egypt and Jordan skate by the condemnation they should be under for keeping the Palestinian civilian population trapped in Gaza with Hamas? That is a piece of this equation that is missing. When the US was going after ISIS, the civilian populations were often able to flee the scene and leave the battlefield to the armed contestants. The Gazan civilians are caught in the middle by the choice of their supposed friends.

people i know who dont even watch the nba have started to ask me "what's wrong with the pistons?" thirty minutes later they regret asking me that.

Sorry I'll just agree with you next time, obviously my mistake. a-bombs aren't really important part of WW2 anyways so I apologize there too

this is merely an investment for Gores, he doesn't care if they win or lose.

The two mystery names have been revealed and it’s kind of what you’d expect. Mark Walter, the Dodgers’ controlling owner, and Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations

And Cam is just a wardrobe manager.

None. I'm done.

True, could you imagine if Baez had a similar clause except it was a guarantee he'd opt out if the person left the organization? That person would be treated worse than Milton from Office Space.

HaHa. Maybe not in miles, but one of the truly terrible 120 mile drives in America most hours of the day.

Definitely without no doubt the best summer city in North America.

Seven points in six December games...yep...let's hope he keeps it up

The caption says it all

watching nbatv with steve smith and jamal crawford doing their usual bit of saying nothing of substance. theyre really pleased that draymond can still practice so he can be around his "basketball family" because that's really important for him right now. wait...what? how is draymond a victim in this? why does he deserve sympathy? he's a ****ing thug who has kicked, punched, and beaten multiple players and teammates over the years. how about how nurkic feels? or jordan poole? or all the guys draymond has kicked in the nads? nyah. what's really important is how draymond feels. useless nba tools. steve smith is a complete fraud. not sure how he got to be nba royalty. draymond should be kicked out of the league under modern standards. bill laimbeer must be wondering where all this sympathy for thugs comes from.

Why does Hayes shoot a 20 footer with 20 seconds on the clock? Unless it is a dunk a guy like that should not be shooting in that situation.

anyone who decks pat bev deserves a ****ing raise and bonus.

Cam Newton said Goff, Dak and Purdy are just game managers.

The only people that move in the Pistons offense is the ball handler and screen setter.

Plz translate.

… like, here…. (You’ve got to NOT be surprised at all the stuff going on in Jersey now. And truth be told, it’s been an awful season - up to now - for NY/NJ football teams.)

Sometimes violence is the answer. Nothing will change with Green until someone smacks him in the mouth.

Maybe Draymond should get a full calendar year to think about things. Think Adam has the balls?

Agree that WWII is the pacific is actually the apt parallel. 2400 people were killed at Pearl Harbor. so WWII in the Pacific was anything but 'proportional' to that. But what Japan did on Dec 7 is like what Hamas did on Oct 7 in that it demonstrated that a nation was facing a hostile malignant power that had to be ended, not just 'responded' to.

We are in agreement.

If they sign Yamamoto, great.... I haven't said that they shouldn't. But going back to my original point: Many fans seem to approach their payroll with the view that this team having a payroll lower than 2023 would be a failure.... personally, I don't care whether the payroll is or isn't lower. If they managed to land Yamamoto or Imanaga or someone else at the higher end of the market on a longer term pricier deal, great, fine by me. If they can't accomplish that but go the more Lorenzen-esque route, that's fine too. Either way, I just want them to make moves that make sense within the context of what they are trying to accomplish in 2024 and beyond. The dollar signs are irrelevant to me.

The other Arab countries are afraid of bringing the fight to them. It's such a tribal culture as well. They don't hate Hamas as much as we do because in their heart they feel some sympathy to them. Yeah I said it.

He's looked a lot better the last few games, hopefully he keeps it up

Another A24 film. Curious to see how they get Texas and California on the same side in a civil war.

People keep pointing out that Arenas averaged 10.9 points per game his rookie year.

And we have a winner.

what are the odds the pistons break the nba record for consecutive games lost and then the spurs break that record? hilariously, the two highest paid coaches in the nba coach the spurs and the pistons. if i coached the wizards i'd be asking for a raise.

I heard he killed 16 Green Bay Czechoslovakians last night.

MLB Network, I mean the whole network, is kind of a general pet peeve for me because it is so obviously and offputtingly marketing-driven, although I do like the show MLB Now, but only when Brian Kenny is on it. In fact, if he were to leave the network, I might stop watching it for any reason altogether. But my specific peeve today is any MLB Network countdown show about top plays. They have these throughout the year: Top Plays of the Week and Top Plays of the Month, and in November, it's Top Plays of the Season. I had gotten about halfway through this year's Top Plays of the Season when I simply couldn't stand to watch another second, because fully 40% of the top "plays" they show are hits, with all but one of those being a home run. And a home run is not a play. A play involves decision-making. You have to decide how to react to the action, what route you take toward the action, and the specific response you make. That's why plays, in general, are defensive in nature. You have to make a series of decisions along the way: what direction to break in, what spot you're moving toward, what you do when you get the ball, where you throw it, maybe deking the runner along the way—all that goes into what makes a defensive play a play. A play is something you make happen. That's why a home run is not a play. You don't make a home run happen, because while a play is process-oriented, a home run is an outcome. And there's not too much process you can put into a swing, since you are usually reacting to how the ball is arriving to you. But a home run swing, really, isn't even a reaction—it's a decision to swing as hard as you can on whatever the next pitch is. That's why we see every player swing as hard as he can and miss the ball entirely a lot. If the player connects with the ball just right, it'll be a hone run. But miss the ball by just a centimeter, and it's a long flyout, and nobody would ever confuse a long flyout with a top play, even though it frequently results from the exact same kind of swing a home run does. But a defensive effort that fails to get the out can still be a great play if the defender does everything exactly right and still misses the runner by just a hair. I can prove to you that a home run is not a play: when was the last time you heard an announcer say something like, "Here's the pitch to Carpenter, and there's a loooong fly ball and it's outta here! Home run! What a great play by Carpenter! He made an outstanding play on that home run swing!" Don't bother, I'll answer for you: never. It has never happened. Because a home run is not a play. 😁 But, the offputting marketing-driven machine that is MLB Network will continue to include home runs in their top plays programs, because the majority of all the on-field events they market to us are home runs, because Chicks. They're never going to change that, but it's still going to bother me every time I see it, and I will complain about it every time, which makes this the platonic ideal of a pet peeve.

I'm sorry, but I'm not the programmer behind this software. If Threads is so great, I'm sure Invision Community will consider it for inclusion in a future software update.

I think the lawsuit talk is a joke about the fella that suggested the Tigers sue Rodriguez for… something.