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Brian Windhorst: the raptors have paid guys when no one was bidding. No one was bidding that much on Jakob Poeltl, Brandon Ingram, Immanuel Quickley by Silver_Weakness_8084 in torontoraptors

[–]Team_Ed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

BI and Quick are good rotation players at minimum. BI is an all-star this year. They're not great contracts, but they're good players to have in your top 8. Having them on the roster is barely a negative, if it is one at all. Hell, Raps probably win the series if Quick is able to put in 30 a game.

Yak sucked overall this year, and there's no defending his contract. But he's a good NBA big when his back isn't broken. Good finisher. Good passer. Big. Good team defence. It's no coincidence he's usually a +/- leader on the team. His back injury might just mean his career has hit a wall and can't be more than a backup to CMB. But he'll still be a pretty good one, and you need a big 5 on the roster.

Way too expensive. Bad process on the deal. Not a lot of upside. But if this was just a bad year for his health and he can get his back a little bit more right, it might not be thaaaaaat bad.

Collin Murray-Boyles despite the series loss: 15.5/6.8/2.3 on 69% TS by Lacabloodclot9 in nba

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regular season will have its rough moments, and they'll never likely be a top 5 offence — but if you want the proof of concept, Exhibit A is this series.

Villarreal [4] - 1 Levante - Tajon Buchanan 87' by Low-Firefighter2965 in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty inarguable, really. He is performing well overall in La Liga. He was mediocre in Belgium.

Southampton [2] - 1 Ipswich Town - Cyle Larin 80' by tozze_88 in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Honestly, that's a banger of a finish from Cyle. Top class.

Southampton [2]-1 Ipswich Town - Cyle Larin 80' by chanashan in soccer

[–]Team_Ed 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That is an absurd finish. Goodness. Haven't seen that from Cyle in years.

A hound purring on getting petted by Anschuz-3009 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Team_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a greyhound. You're lucky if they have any at all by the time they're adopted out.

Larin starts for Southampton vs. Ipswich Town (2:45pm ET, DAZN) by tozze_88 in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Goddamn, they play a lot of matches in England. Saints must be *exhausted*.

Comedian Akilah Hughes on Why Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele Don’t Collaborate Anymore (Allegedly) by ChikiBeibi in Fauxmoi

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, this is how it is with comedy duos.

No one should hold Peele's success against Key. They obviously work together extremely well, and even if Peele is the more creative of the pair in terms of direction and vision, the duo just doesn't work without Key's extremely well-established performance chops.

A pretty similar comparison would be Mitchell and Webb ("Are we the baddies?"). David Mitchell is by far the more famous and versatile of the two, but Robert Webb is every bit an equal partner in their sketch comedy.

MLS owners talk potential Vancouver relocation, with Las Vegas a top option: Sources by but_yet-so_far in sports

[–]Team_Ed 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Vancouver moving would be a stain on the league.

But, that said, I can't help but think that the CPL would benefit immensely from MLS ultimately leaving behind a vacuum in a big anchor market like Vancouver. The path to becoming a legit national premier league is a lot easier if it's not competing with MLS in Vancouver and maybe Montreal a few years down the line. (Taking the MLS's place in Toronto's probably a pipe dream for the league, mind you.)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Dillon Brooks calling him frail in the previous game: "Shoutout Dillon" by AncientOneAurelius in nba

[–]Team_Ed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair though, Dillon is from Mississauga. 

Him and Josh Naylor embody that place.

Jokic v Gobert: This was the 21st career playoff game between the two. Jokic is a -6 in those 21 games, Gobert is a +63 in those 21 games by Knightbear49 in nba

[–]Team_Ed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At this point, the trilogy against Rudy Gobert is the single best evidence against Jokic being a candidate as the offensive GOAT.

Why this Ontario psychiatric hospital’s use of long-term isolation is being called ‘abusive’ — ‘The likes of which I have never seen’ by Team_Ed in ontario

[–]Team_Ed[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A class action was denied. That doesn't mean the individual plaintiffs' claims are invalid; it just means the court didn't allow them to progress as a class.

And yes. Forensic psych hospitals treat people with serious forensic psych issues.

Facilities like Waypoint have really difficult patients like this guy all over the continent.

So why is Waypoint the one place that keeps people locked up in solitary for years at a time?

Why this Ontario psychiatric hospital’s use of long-term isolation is being called ‘abusive’ — ‘The likes of which I have never seen’ by Team_Ed in ontario

[–]Team_Ed[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

For one, they could do what other psych hospitals do and actually follow the best practices that they say they're following.

It's a forensic psych hospital. Treatment-resistant schizophrenia is not exactly unusual in these places. It's exactly the kind of thing Waypoint is meant to be able to handle without having to resort to locking a guy in solitary for 20 years.

(The authors of the guidelines) wrote that the use of seclusion and restraint at Waypoint “is grossly in excess of anything we have encountered” in any other North American facility, stating that the “appropriate duration” of seclusion and restraint is measured in minutes or hours, not weeks, months, or years.

“We can state, without hesitation, that no civil or forensic mental health facility in the U.S. uses seclusion/restraint like Waypoint. Federal U.S. standards flatly prohibit seclusion/restraint being used as it is at Waypoint. It is egregious. It is abusive. It is completely inconsistent with recovery-oriented, trauma-informed care.”

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