Psst, the 2015-2016 Golden State Warriors/1995-1996 Chicago Bulls match-up is never going to happen...

Truth be told, I'm a sports nut and an over-analyzer. Even so, I still find it ridiculous to be debating the never-possible match-up of the 2015-2016 Golden State Warriors and the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls.

In the '95-'96 NBA season, the Chicago Bulls set a league record by going 72-10 during the course of the regular season. Many players, coaches, and analysts alike thought the record would never be broken. If the Golden State Warriors win at home tomorrow night against the Memphis Grizzlies, they will do just that and finish the season 73-9. So what is every NBA analyst under the sun discussing? Who would win in a 7-game series between the two teams. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. It would have been one thing if the two teams had broken the league's regular season win record in back-to-back seasons, but it's quite another for the record-setting teams to be separated by two decades. The game is much different in 2016 than it was in 1996. In '96 teams were often led by their big men: Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo, etc. Name me three such centers in today's game, let alone six. Can't do it, can you? Today's game largely revolves around the three-ball. If you don't believe me, just ask Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and the 72-win Golden State Warriors. Like in any sport, for better or worse, the NBA has changed through the years, and not only is a match-up between the '95-96 Bulls and '15-'16 Warriors never going to happen, it's impossible to even accurately hypothesize who would win the series due to the changes in the league over the past 20 years. The only reasonable comparison we can make is how dominating the two teams were in their respective seasons. Did one team face stronger competition than the other? How many blowouts did each team record throughout the season? Given the rules and style of play at the time, did one team face certain obstacles the other didn't, or did one team perhaps appear more consistently impressive than the other according to the eye-test? These are all reasonable, debatable questions. However, the question, "Which team would win in a 7-game series?" is nothing but gobbledygook. Let's just learn to appreciate greatness when we see it and not feel the need to immediately grade it like it were competing in a Miss American pageant. Simply appreciate the past and present for what they are and don't try to conjoin the two in an impossible future event.

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Boycotting jukeboxes because of TouchTunes

I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun...

Trump's Lie Tally at the CNN Debate

1) "We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We had never done so well. Every – everybody was amazed by it. Other countries were copying us." 2) "But the thing we never got the credit for, and we should have, is getting us out of that COVID mess." 3) "The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounceback jobs; they’re bounced back from the COVID." 4) "Not going to drive them higher. It’s just going to cause countries that have been ripping us off for years, like China and many others, in all fairness to China – it’s going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things." (tariffs) 5) "He also said he inherited 9 percent inflation." 6) "No, he inherited almost no inflation and it stayed that way for 14 months. And then it blew up under his leadership, because they spent money like a bunch of people that didn’t know what t...

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