Yeah, that means that not only was deGrom incredibly dominant in the aggregate; he NEVER gave up more than 3 runs in a game the entire year, and only gave up 3 once. That’s an otherworldly level of consistency. It’s not like he mowed guys down most of the time but had a few clunkers mixed in.

Then, with me out of the way, she took the bucket and disposed of its contents, just as she had with countless bed pans when working at her grandparents’ hotel.

Oh, I’m sure deep down they are. It’s just a convenient way for them to pretend to care about black people, while everything else they do is either explicitly intended to make their lives worse or is callously indifferent to them.

To me it morally hinges on how much food you’re taking in total. It shouldn’t add up to more than one meal. If you pig out with multiple plates at the breakfast buffet and still take more for later, that’s not okay.

I’ve done this, too, and have never once considered that someone else would see something wrong with it. It’s the same plate of food whether I eat it in my room or in the breakfast area.

Isn’t it possible that it’s just a poorly thought-out addition by the writers to elicit an emotional reaction from the audience?

Isn’t the NHL the league with the strictest salary cap out of the big 4?

Not only that, but they spend a disproportionate amount of time complaining that the LeBrons of the world can’t earn $75M salaries. I’m a lot more concerned about the practice squad NFLer, the minor league baseball player, the D-league basketball players, etc. Some of whom are not only poor by the standards of pro…

I like your option 3, as the primary objection I have to shortening rookie contracts is that I believe teams should be able to exercise some level of control over keeping their players; the big injustice as I see it now is how many players are being woefully underpaid.

You’re right that actual competence and smiling are not mutually exclusive. As a customer, I value competence quite a bit more. And while I recognize that a server would be incentivized to smile/act perky if he or she believes it will net a bigger tip, that doesn’t impact my perception of good service.

Taking other people’s leftovers (and entire steaks from the table) is clearly wrong, but I’m confused by the people who are aghast at feeding leftover steak to a dog. What else would you do if you had a small amount left and you were full? It’s silly to throw it away, I’m not going to overstuff myself and be…

I could not care less whether or not my server smiles. As long as he or she is not being rude to me, all I care about is how well the job is being performed. One of the best meals I ever had was at a restaurant where our middle-aged server never cracked a smile but got our orders exactly right and always seemed to…

I’m all for expressing sympathy to his friends and family, and recognizing the impact his work had on so many people, but someone in my Facebook feed referred to his death as “tragic.” I’m sorry, but a 95-year-old succumbing to natural causes is not a tragedy.

I’m not defending Francesa at all, but why would someone call in to a sports talk show to ask the host’s thoughts on Stan Lee’s death in the first place?

To my enormous shame, I have yet to get my two younger kids to eat the same shit that my wife and I eat every night.

I, too, am haunted by that song. Something about the combination of the lyrics themselves and knowing that Zevon wrote them fully aware that he would die so soon.

It’s a lot easier to make the case for some type of limits with Supreme Court justices because it’s a lifetime appointment. In theory, every elderly Congressperson at least has to make a case for staying in the job by winning an election every 2 or 6 years.

I used to eat basically nothing whenever I was sick, because I didn’t want anything. As I’ve gotten older, if I have a head cold I generally keep more of my appetite so if that’s the case I eat as normal.

I think as a collective they should be getting a bigger piece of the revenue pie, and are thus underpaid, but individuals at the top are way overpaid compared to the young players who are really getting screwed. Javier Baez earned $657,000 in 2018! And that doesn’t even get into the minor-league players who, outside…

I was curious, so I looked up the highest paid MLB player in 1993. (Bobby Bonilla, $6.1M). Plug that into an inflation calculator, and that equals about $10.7M in today’s dollars, or less than a third of what Clayton Kershaw makes as the highest paid player in MLB today. So the highest paid players are making quite a…