Santa Clara.  Barf.  

There really is no American equivalent for many soccer rivalries in our professional sports.  College football is the closest approximation, but even then, it’s a shadow of a shadow.  Soccer rivalries really are proxies for war.  

Seriously. I’m Asian and I can count on my two hands the number of states I feel I need to visit. My question about places I want to see is basically this: How would visiting a random bar on a Wednesday night at 9pm turn out?

It’s a football game in November.  Calm yourself.  

I suppose it is regional. Farmland would definitely be rural, but, to me, so are heavily forested areas. Tahoe, I think, falls into that latter category. Yes, there are areas of Tahoe which are more residential and commercial, but when I think of Tahoe as a whole, I think mountains and forests. The most generous I can…

Wait, you consider Tahoe and Paradise urban?  

It doesn’t sound like he has the most expansive or exclusive collection, but it’s good enough to qualify him as a sneakerhead.  

Yes, ahead of the Niners cutting him, which is what they were going to do.

1. Giants

Fuck the Dodgers!  

Aw nuts.  

The building I live in in SF is valet only.  

The building I live in is valet parking only.  So while it sucks that you have to trust your car to a stranger for the last few hundred feet, I think it is mitigated by the fact that each “customer” is a regular, and because we see each other everyday, both sides are far less likely to screw with the other.  

The thing about PacBell and South of Market/China Basin/Mission Bay is 100% true. I love the Giants. I love PacBell—when it was being built, I would go to the site once a week just to watch it rise. But the myth that PacBell spurred the growth in the area is one thing I can not stand.  

No, I’m quite sure you missed my point.  Even if it looks like a $70,000 car, it performs as well as a car twice its actual price without the hassle of dealing with the attention that comes with cars twice its actual price.  So you get a car that can perform like a $200K+ car for $130K, and get the attention of a car…

Isn’t that part of the appeal of a 911? It’s a car that can hang with cars twice its price, but isn’t flashy like them. They’re recognized and rare enough to be a “nice” car, but common enough for people to not make a big deal out of them. To me, that would be a selling point.

I went to NYC for the pizza and the fancy restaurants, but the only thing I left with was a jones for the halal food carts.  

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You’re right that promotion/relegation isn’t the sole reason that America sucks at soccer and isn’t the sole reason that the MLS is a joke, but it also isn’t hard to see the benefits of pro-rel. For one, it requires owners to invest in their teams. A bottom feeder team can’t be content to ride the coattails of the…

I’ve found that steakhouses generally serve the steak ever-so-slightly rarer than asked for. I think this is because a rarer steak can be sent back to be cooked a bit longer, but a steak that is served more well-done than asked for can’t be made more rare. On the other hand, steaks ordered rare tend to come out…