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5 days 15 hours ago	Boliver?  More like	Boliver?  More like Bolivia! Sorry, that was a terrible joke.  Reminds me of the time I met a young Jerry Seinfeld, and he told some joke about airline peanuts.  It was terrible, lacking any proper lead-in from his previous jokes.  I told him, "Jerry, you need a better introduction for these little tidbits of observational humor.  Why don't you try something like 'what's up with airline peanuts,' or even 'what's the deal with airline peanuts'?  That'll grab the audience's attention." Anyway, I heard he did well for himself.  Don't really know, I don't watch TV, spend more time writing my novel.  Which reminds me of the time I explained to Philip Roth that he really needed to add an accent to the punchline for Portnoy's Complaint.  But that's another story . . .
1 week 3 days ago	Seth, honest question - are	Seth, honest question - are you aware that the details of the Phillips-Hundley affair were widely-reported back in 2009 when Phillips was fired?  Your reaction would make a lot more sense to me if you believed that deadspin was revealing previously private information about a sexual affair, which isn't the case here.  This is more a case of examining a story that was big years ago through a different lens, focusing on the espn reaction rather than Phillips' conduct.
1 week 4 days ago	Agree with all those stating	Agree with all those stating that this is an absurd moderator overreaction.  The Steve Phillips story was huge news when it broke years ago, whatever Seth's opinions as to its newsworthiness may be.  Deadspin, among other things, engages in media criticism, and is retroactively assessing the hype surrounding that story given the passage of time and in light of current information.  They are not revealing any heretofore hidden personal information -- the news of Phillips' affair was all over the media years ago. If you don't think it's worthy of discussion on this board, fine, shut down the thread.  But to say that this is "an article of the kind that makes people with functional consciouses hate Deadspin" and  "the purpose of the article is to cash in on the pain they can cause in their subjects' lives" is hysterical pearl clutching,  and is obviously based more on preexisting dislike of deadspin than anything in the article itself.  And to accuse a poster of a "gross lapse in moral judgment" for linking to this article is offensive.  Beware the next person who makes an innocent joke about Tiger Woods' affairs, you'll be denounced as a heathen.
4 weeks 2 days ago	I have nothing that hasn't	I have nothing that hasn't already been said, but just wanted to add my congratulations and thanks.  Great job Heiko.
6 weeks 5 days ago	Two possibilities here: 1)	Two possibilities here: 1)  He's a young whippersnapper who has no idea that, before being a GM, Dumars was an amazing basketball player.  Those whippersnappers!  or 2)  He was just making an innocent joke about the Piston's recent troubles. Which oh which could it be?
9 weeks 17 hours ago	You're losing this one,	You're losing this one, Champ.  Badly.  Maybe step away from the keyboard for a while.
11 weeks 1 day ago	Coach K once broke all of my	Coach K once broke all of my fingers right before my big piano recital.
12 weeks 5 days ago	Interesting that they've . .	Interesting that they've . . . won every game, save one, where they score more.   It's not that unusual to win games where you score more, but dear god, how did they lose one?
15 weeks 11 hours ago	Whoa Whoa Whoa . . .
15 weeks 11 hours ago	I have no excuse for the	I have no excuse for the title.  I knew it was dumb, thought it might earn me some unnecessary downvotes, thought real hard about it, and then went with it anyway.  As Joel Goodson once noted, sometimes you just have to say what the f*ck.  Sure, he said it in the context of turning his home into a brothel and hooking up with Rebecca De Mornay on the L Train, and I used it in the context of making a moronic "I Can Has Cheezburger" reference in a post about Iowa basketball, but when you think about it are they really that different?
15 weeks 1 day ago	Perhaps it would be a tough	Perhaps it would be a tough matchup, but I think the odds are pretty good that Gonzaga doesn't even make it to the elite 8.  Which would give Michigan a chance to advance to the final four without facing anyone higher than a 3-seed.  Pretty good deal.
15 weeks 2 days ago	Dear lord, the bronies are	Dear lord, the bronies are taking over.  The apocalypse is nigh.  Sure, it's a really cute apocalypse, filled with sparkles and giggles and inside jokes that most three year old girls wouldn't get, but an apocalypse nonetheless.
15 weeks 2 days ago	Being in the the section of	Being in the the section of the bracket that has Gonzaga as the number 1 seed would be better than being a 1 seed ourselves.  Come one, #7 overall ranking!
18 weeks 1 day ago	I don't know, I found it	I don't know, I found it surprising when our point guard, who was an otherwise skilled player, shot 31% from the line his freshman year.  That's the kind of thing that's less surprising when its a power forward or center who makes it in basketball mainly due to size, but you don't typically see such struggles at the point guard position.
18 weeks 1 day ago	Or I'm just making an	Or I'm just making an innocent joke about Conlan's surprising difficulties at the free throw line during his time as a player, maybe that's it.
18 weeks 1 day ago	The more surprising news (to	The more surprising news (to me) information from the linked article . . . Travis Conlan is Michigan's director of basketball operations?  Really?  Our inexplicable struggles from the foul line are starting to make more sense . . .
18 weeks 5 days ago	This is a silly question.	This is a silly question.  Even if he is the second best QB on the team -- which he obviously will be -- the coaches aren't going to burn his redshirt just to give him garbage time plays against EMU.  As long as Gardner is healthy, they will preserve his redshirt.  If Gardner goes down and they need Shane to play, his redshirt will be burned.  It's not a matter of choice.
18 weeks 6 days ago	Our problem wasn't so much	Our problem wasn't so much incorporating the spread, as incorporating the pro-style aspects given [insert "Denard's limitations as a passer" or "Borges's inability to maximize Denard's strengths in the passing game" here, depending on your preference.  I have no desire to reopen this debate]. It's a lot easier, when you already have a quarterback capable of passing the ball in a traditional pro-style system, to then take advantage of that QBs legs using some spread elements (even if the QB is not quite the runner that Denard is).  It looks like this is what Borges is planning on doing with Gardner next year, which sounds great to me.
21 weeks 17 hours ago	What a bizarre statement.	What a bizarre statement.  Care to elaborate, because I honestly have no clue what you're thinking.
21 weeks 1 day ago	Maybe I'm out of the loop,	Maybe I'm out of the loop, and apologies if this is a stupid question, but what's going on at USC that all of these commits are backing out?  Is it just the disappointing season they had, or something bigger?
29 weeks 4 days ago	What are you talking about?	What are you talking about?  Denard had a lot of carries in the second half, and got stoned on all of them, including a fumble. I'm as critical of Borges' playcalling this game as the next guy, but "Denard didn't get the ball in the second half" if the least legitimate criticism I can imagine.  If anything, Borges was too stubborn sticking with the Denard runs after it became clear that OSU had figured it out.
30 weeks 2 days ago	Ugh.  The only benefit of	Ugh.  The only benefit of this was that Michigan's huge alumni base in the tri-state area would be able to attend games every couple of years without getting on an airplane, and they screw that up by putting Rutgers in a different division.  Idiots. At least there's basketball, I guess.
30 weeks 2 days ago	I, for one, will by raging	I, for one, will by raging against this injustice every other year.  You know, during the 45 minute car ride.  As I am driving my entire family to experience the joy of Michigan football without having to bring two young children on an airplane.  At a stadium where I can have Grandpa and Grandma bring them to their home 15 minutes away when they inevitably want to leave before halftime. This . . . stinks?
30 weeks 2 days ago	Agreed.  Michigan games in NJ	Agreed.  Michigan games in NJ every other year?  Yes please. Rutgers joining the Big 10 is like bad weather - if it's inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it.
42 weeks 2 days ago	Yeah Brian, focus!  We all	Yeah Brian, focus!  We all know that we don't possibly have a chance of beating Alabama unless long-haired Internet bloggers do nothing this week except for thinking about beating Alabama, you know, really REALLY hard!
1 year 1 week ago	In 1994, the Violent Femmes	In 1994, the Violent Femmes did the same thing to us, but worse.  They had a concert at Hill Auditorium, on campus, the night that we lost to Wisconsin, and trolled us with the Wisconsin fight song.
1 year 1 week ago	More like 100% chance it was	More like 100% chance it was meant as a joke.  Even if someone took every other part of the article seriously, the "carnations" line at the end should have been a tip off.
1 year 6 weeks ago	Rutgers is ranked the 68th	Rutgers is ranked the 68th best university in the US by US News and World Report.  Not amazing by any means, but better then a number of Big 10 schools.   http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/page+7
1 year 12 weeks ago	Why don't you say it a third	Why don't you say it a third time?
1 year 16 weeks ago	or words like that couldnt be	or words like that couldnt be used... Words like what?  Beyond a third grade vocabulary level? If you're implying that it's such a strange and unusual word that people shouldn't use it on this message board, you're embarrassing yourself.

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