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Gavin (who is back in town)

@11mmyjohns.bsky.social

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Big root beer guy. International ETF trader. Not top 20 in the world at crosswords but maybe top 200. Appreciator of the fact that the 1999 New Orleans Saints had two quarterbacks named Billy Joe.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 10h

“It is transphobic to know anything about basketball” is a position that I would really prefer not to be mainstreamed

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 10h

if you don’t know that the account River Tam is a woman you shouldn’t speculate anything about her takes on things

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

It’s your taxonomy; I will leave it to you to determine whether we need “wet (fat)” and “wet (thin)” or whether wet covers both.

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

I said to this friend that I would have been fine with Adrienne Adams or Zellnor Myrie or whoever; Mamdani was my second choice because of his inexperience (I’m a Lander Man), but Cuomo was a bridge too far for a variety of reasons (and given his conduct I was right)

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

I know you loathe Cuomo; I just make no assumptions because I know you’re not a Mamdani fan either (which is fine).

I’m pretty sure that my best friend, #2 to your #1 in my personal list of Mitt Romney appreciators, voted for Cuomo. Which is a bummer (but he’s not a Trump guy even a tiny bit)

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

Revisiting this and while you are 100% correct, I must say that Torii Hunter would say (and be correct) that this demonstrates the declining percentage of Black baseball players. You need “rail thin tall Black guy whose smile contains the anger of ten thousand armies.”

Basically The Bob Emergency

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

I root for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. No outcome, positive or negative, is certain until the entirety of the contest is over.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

In the Mamdani romps universe, “Mamdani is The Truth”* versus “Cuomo was just that bad of a candidate” is not going to be answerable for at least a year; New Jersey is weird (and I love New Jersey!) and they are not New York

*not actually, New Yorkers would never vote for Paul Pierce

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

I am internally freaking out about Mamdani, so the fact that you are *not* doing that, despite liking him considerably less than I do (I don’t know if you prefer him to Cuomo and don’t intend to ask) is helpful

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

(In these cases, Short didn’t work on AD because his manic physical comedy didn’t mesh with AD’s elaborate verbal comedy and Mantzoukas didn’t work on PNR because his character was an *understated* jerk. He wasn’t crazy or wild or anything, he was just a pretentious asshole)

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 12h

Martin Short is definitely funny sometimes. But not always. Martin Short on Arrested Development, like Jason Mantzoukas on Parks and Recreation, was a situation in which a funny person briefly appearing on a funny show simply did not work together for whatever reason.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Orlando and Eugene I understood right away but I’m genuinely having trouble with the other two

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

For a long time I didn’t realize Martin Short was funny because my main association with him was when he was on Arrested Development and his character wasn’t funny at all

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

“Go and sin no more” the first recorded instance of “it’s over for you hoes”

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

the only Dort we recognize in this house is Luguentz

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I want to start a thing where “eugenicist” means that you want the world to be run by people named Eugene

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Associate Justice Whizzer White!

Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

What a great demonstration of the maxim that sufficiently motivated people can turn any conversation into a ranking of the all-time best NBA players

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I do have Shaq ahead of him, but think it’s a valid argument either way. Agree with all of the others (in some order, I feel confident in a top 4 of LeBron/jordan/kareem/russell - that’s my order but ymmv and then a massive and fascinating argument for 5). Maybe west and Oscar? But probably not?

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

Big Daddy Drix, you are speaking my language. One of the first things I look for in a conversation with any person, about anything, is where they rank Kobe all time. Between 9 and 16? Fine. Above 9? Red flag! Above 5? Genuinely concerning.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree, and, like, fine. There’s no need for us to expend any effort trying to move the other person. You are of course right about the historical issue.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that you correctly set the lower bound of Kobe Bryant’s basketball ability at top 15 means that I am so overjoyed at your reasonable takes that I am willing to concede almost anything. We’re just talking about different definitions of good, and that’s fine.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

I’m saying that people who say Hamilton is bad are almost always saying it for a reason other than the actual musical quality of the book, music, lyrics, and performance.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

then this becomes about the definition of “good.” Saying Hamilton is bad because it sanitizes our slaveowning rapist founding fathers, to me, is like saying Kobe Bryant was bad at basketball.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 1d

There is no argument about whether or not Hamilton is good. Of course Hamilton is good. The argument is about whether it is acceptable to be cringe, and there are some people who would rather pretend that good things are bad than be cringe. It’s understandable, but they should get over themselves.

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