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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I swear I'm not trying to trick you: Kobe Bryant has been absolutely terrible at basketball for three seasons now. Literally the only reason he's been able to have "flashes of brilliance" is because the Lakers are a complete dumpster fire and they basically were letting Kobe run the show in a frantic race to the bottom. Imagine how incredulous you'd be if someone tried to tell you they thought Rose maybe had a decent season based on highlight clips.
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    I'm cool with Seal Boy over Soler.
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    Come on, man; Kobe is Kobe. He's been talked about as the same no-passing, taking all of the shots, ball-hogging player his entire career, so let's not pretend he went through any kind of time being a different type of player regardless of who he played for or with. Paul Pierce and Kobe Bryant aren't very similar players, so just thinking the the latter could adjust like the former doesn't make much sense. Plus, again, I'm not making up how bad he's been post-Achilles. It's actually kind of baffling how you've completely missed how much he's been joked about/bemoaned over the last three seasons. He's basically useless as a basketball player; everyone else you listed made major changes to their game or minutes or even who they played before when they could still actually contribute.
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    The talent simply isn't there; he's been absolutely terrible this season outside of a handful of games. That unavoidable fact aside, again, it comes back to thinking that if a player could "just" become a completely different player after 20 years in basically the same role and on the same team, then sure, he could become a valuable role player. None of those players did that. This isn't being David Robinson and just cutting your minutes; he would have to become a completely different player, if he were actually even capable of playing usefully consistently. Pointing to guys like Garnett and Pierce and Carter, who changed teams and systems and roles much, much earlier in their careers (sometimes multiple times), just doesn't work.
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    That's quite the motley collection of players you have there; Tim Duncan is probably the best comparison, though the huge difference there is Duncan didn't topple off a cliff due to injuries and diminished talent. Robinson stayed on the same team, but he played "only" 14 seasons and then retired after the first season his value dropped to around replacement level; Malone did the same. McGrady bounced around and was pretty useless his last few years. Payton hung on 2-3 seasons too long. Garnett's been pretty worthless for about 4 seasons. Paul Pierce had a couple of OK at best seasons post-Boston, but proved pretty definitively this season that he's likely done. Shaq was a mostly useless freakshow for years bouncing around the league outside of that fluke season in Phoenix. Carter's been a journeyman dude for most of his career. Not really too many good comparisons; Bryant was in denial about not retiring after annihilating his Achilles in 2013. He's been terrible since then.
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    Very few players on his level do that. Plus he's been terrible at almost everything for a while now. Last night was a [expletive] miracle.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, if a player becomes a completely different player they might be a different player.
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    schwarber is just happy that some of the cubs are able to walk http://i.giphy.com/glwJXvn8j7S3S.gif
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    There's a nightmarish MLB Network commercial that looks like it was shot by a Public Access channel and features repeated unsettling closeup shots of his Gollum-like mug.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I can be your hero, baby. I can dong away the pain.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I'm dumb, but not Donald Trump-dumb.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    It reads better if you pretend they just made fart noises instead.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Today was a good day.
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    Only one dong? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U11R8Gki86c/Vf-l_5o9p1I/AAAAAAAAUDI/pyfsVyTa5aA/s1600/outrageous-egregious-preposterous.gif
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    Dammit. So close yet so far in the "sign the right Cuban" game of life.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    And they are, without a doubt, the same type of people who want to arm all the teachers Pretty sure one of them is the Darren Wilson jersey-guy.
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    I'm mildly surprised you know who the Padres are. I don't even own a baseball.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    This is a damn fine burn.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    And that's the "good" Cardinal forum. To be fair, there are quite a few very good posters over there. But there are are also a number of irrationally homer-tastic, meatball, delusional wingnuts, a few of whom are the ones keeping that particular discussion going. Viva el Birdos isn't that bad on balance, either. Cards Talk is a total cesspool. Yeah, there were some other GWR users giving good counter-arguments, but not nearly enough. Too much meatball leeway.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    There's at least a couple of goofy meatballs there who seem REALLY invested in the idea of "unwritten rules" being enforced via violence as a kind of life mantra. TT was brave for wading in to that one.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    And if it were up to me they'd precede every game with a wonderful Castro montage set to "I Will Remember You."
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The shockwave made him pee a little.
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