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Sadly no. Grantland, which I liked a lot, was more of a general interest website. They didn't cover the day to day of sports much but ran longer-form magazine type pieces and covered music, movies and television as much if not more than sports.

I've never read the Athletic much but the idea of getting good local coverage of teams was one of their selling points. If you eliminate that then they're just one of a dozen outfits churning out national sports coverage with "insiders" getting league-wide scoops. To the extent that local...

That's not quite true re: Snyder. He bought them for 800 million in 1999 but the point still stands for the most part. I mean, he ran that team about as poorly as it's possible to run a team with effectively no on-field success and being accused of everything from racism to sexual misconduct and...

Why not? It's basically an idiot proof business model. Either he gets an absolute sweetheart of a deal on a stadium by threatening to move which makes profitability a near guarantee leading to an increase in franchise valuation or he can move, get a sweetheart stadium deal in a bigger market and...

Right. Venture Capital doesn't buy things like the Athletic, they invest in them and build them up and reap the rewards of them being sold. They get artificially inflated by VC money to increase the sale price and then someone like the NYT gets to look at the actual business and a ton of people...

They did everything they could to build a subscriber base, sold to a big media conglomerate, and the new owners are now cutting things to the bone in order to maximize profitability. It's the venture capital dance we've seen a million times.

Yeah. The unfortunate reality of the situation that Dubas left is we need swings. I'd much rather have, like, the #40 and #75 than just 28. Cram the system with those high scoring CHL players I crave.

If there's a player you like, interviewing them is probably good practice regardless just in the odd case that they slip enough that a trade up becomes more workable or even in the event they fall to you. It's not common but we've seen guys drop 15-20 spots from pre-draft rankings before and at...

He had a 1.54 ERA last year

https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1667239881167216640 This is pretty incredible. It's basically that scene from the Wire about taking notes on a criminal conspiracy.

It's a little surprising in as much as Arizona's been a circus before and Doan was the one guy who seemed determined to see that one through to the end. To the point that, as a player he seemed so dedicated to Arizona(or at least living in Arizona) that I sort of started to question what his...

But the only reason they are the "core 4" is because the team has done a largely bad job of filling out their ranks with guys who are also major contributors. If the Leafs had developed another forward who was up there in scoring the emphasis would be on them less. The point the team is making...

Again, this is where we come back to the idea that we're somehow clever enough to see that Marner is a liability in the playoffs but NHL GM's aren't and will offer the Leafs very valuable pieces who step up their game in the playoffs with all the required gritty grititude. I've never said that...

Oh. So all we have to do is trade Marner for a bunch of really good players and somehow figure out how to add a young all-star C while staying under the cap. My mistake I thought this was going to be hard.

I didn't say anything about what they might sign for. I said that making a trade that makes the team worse in the hope that a few years down the road you can put together a team without much of a chance to win is a bad plan that most guys won't want to be around for. But, you know, thanks for...

So the plan is to make a trade that probably makes the team worse for a few years but, by the end of it, they might be able to emulate the flukiest post-cap Cup winner? Yeah, try selling Matthews and Marner on that.

Well, no. Because we have seen them produce in the playoffs. As we should now just take as a given any good player can run into hot goaltending. But beyond that there's just a more fundamental problem of the talent level of the team. Trade one of Nylander/Marner/Matthews and yes, you're no...

But that's kind of countered by the way free agency was different. Detroit drafted and traded their way to the team they had. The teams that win the cup today do the same. The difference is really more about how long you can keep a team together, not how the team is assembled in the first place...

That's the thing. People seem focused on this entirely false dichotomy of either thinking a group of 4 players is "good enough" to win a cup or not but as basically every champion proves, it's more about building the team behind your big group. No matter how extreme the example. The Oilers...

Sounds like Messi will head to Miami, opting for a chunk of MLS' soul over gigantic dumptrucks full of Saudi money.