Your gym sucks.

I agree completely that anyone who can’t afford it shouldn’t spend money on lottery tickets. I resent the implication that anyone who wants to must be ignorant.

How many times has that actually happened?

I’ve always wondered this, too. Because if you have a check, you have to technically deposit it in one place even if you immediately move money around after it clears? I guess if you picked a very large bank, and spread the money around to get under the $250k FDIC limit as soon as possible, you’d have an almost zero…

It really depends on how much you plan to spend each year and how comfortable you are digging into the principal (which probably depends most on how old you are and how worried you are about leaving money behind for descendants).

99.9% of the time, I think complaints about “media elites” being out of touch with reality are absurd and politically motivated. When it comes to sports media, though, I think it’s a valid complaint that people like Breer spend time reporting about the business of sports in a way that is completely irrelevant to…

Between him and Bell, what a bad year to have the #2 or #3 picks in a fantasy league.

If every offense and QB are capable of a stellar performance, then what’s the value in a stellar performance anymore? I realize that the NFL has been trending towards more offense for decades now, but this year has been unprecedented. The occasional 45-42 shootout can be fun, but not when every game looks like that.

This feels like a solution everyone can get behind until the NCAA, rookie age limit, and amateur draft are abolished entirely.

It’s not uncommon for me to be the only server on during lunch service, so I have to handle all the tables.

Asking someone how old they are is absolutely asking them for personal information. And asking a stranger who is at their job how old they are is out of line, IMHO.

It’s pretty rare to find a job that pays exceptionally well in areas where housing is exceptionally cheap

inordinate amounts of private space that they don’t need

Before this comment thread, it would have never even occurred to me that a city would have an ordinance requiring that a car you keep on your own private property must be moved every 3 (!) days, and that they could seize it if not. I can certainly understand restrictions on street parking, and perhaps restrictions on…

That’s cool. Also, nobody paid money to watch you run, your coach wasn’t signed to an eight-figure contract, and your team wasn’t being used as the de facto minor league for a multi-billion-dollar professional league while you reaped zero money from it.

he had a pair of takeout slides, including this one bordering on the egregious

Who’s the wife beater on the Brewers?

Most of baseball’s unwritten rules, especially those regarding celebration/excitement, are indeed stupid, but what exactly is good about a player basically saying, “yeah, I’m not always going to try my hardest”?

Not only that, but all stadiums should be built with retractable roofs. Cutting the number of games by 8-12 would get the playoffs over with sooner, but you’d still have the rainout problem. And the weather can be plenty bad in April in a lot of cities. An entire Twins-White Sox series got wiped out because of snow.

The baseball season is too long, but the fact that so few teams make the playoffs (really, only 6 out of the 30 are guaranteed a series rather than a single game) at least means that those April and May games are technically meaningful.