This was the biggest joy of watching the Little League World Series last year. Obviously the major league game requires more strategy, and the games are shorter to begin with, but it’s great to watch a pitcher throw a pitch, get the ball back, and throw another one right away.

How should this be fixed? I don’t see how you eliminate it entirely unless you eliminate the concept of service time altogether (which might be the right thing to do). Say that a player can only be kept under team control for X years after he’s signed, regardless of when he comes to the majors. Then there’d be no…

That’s a part of this discussion that has been almost totally ignored.

Yeah, I think it depends on the level of traffic congestion. I agree that if you’re talking about a highway that is truly gridlocked at rush hour with cars crawling along bumper to bumper, autonomous cars won’t help much. My commute in a medium-sized city isn’t quite as bad, except in cases of accidents and in a…

You’ll be forever stuck in the grays here, but that’s basically the same thing I thought. No doubt there is a giant problem with college costs and the admissions process as a whole, but I don’t really care that the author couldn’t get into a good school after he almost flunked out of high school and then ran up a…

I think there’s a much bigger potential gain, in high-traffic areas, from being able to pack the cars closer together and remove the human element of the driver than there is from a higher top speed. If you’re going 20 miles on a highway, going from 60 mph to 180 mph only reduces the travel time by ~13 minutes. But if…

That’s true; I just question how much that scenario is going to come up for most people. I mean, if you’re single (or the only person in the household drinking the wine) I can definitely see not wanting to finish a whole bottle at once. But doesn’t an open bottle last for at least a few days?

Brown is going to be 31 before the season starts. It’s a near certainty he’s getting paid for past performance.

True, but at least there is a wider recognition of the fact that the revenue-generating sports bear virtually no resemblance to the student-athlete ideal and there is growing traction to remove the defacto developmental leagues for the NBA and the NFL from colleges. In the case of the NBA, they’ll probably go back to…

Yeah, I think this is one more reason that it is long past time for high-level athletics to decouple themselves from college once and for all.

My wife and I switched our weekly grocery shop to Friday evenings and it’s a total gamechanger. Not only are the stores less crowded than they are on Saturday afternoon, but then we get what is usually the biggest chore of the weekend out of the way and can fully relax and enjoy the weekend.

No winners here. Hecklers who get personal suck, but grown men who threaten to resort to physical violence in response to words also suck.

And the MD-83 is an old plane, so it’s kind of terrifying that nobody ever realized that this was a possibility before this. It would frankly be more reassuring if it was pilot error in not performing a required inspection.

Nothing wrong with that...just understand that you’re spending “a little extra on something you enjoy” rather than buying a true necessity.

Non-DIY people (not me) find it hard to stomach $900+ for brakes, $1700 for wheel bearings, $1500 for CV half shafts, etc on a car that is worth next to nothing

Came here to say exactly that. If $50 a month is going to make or break your budget, then $500 is way more than you should have been spending on a car payment in the first place. And if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, you should not be voluntarily replacing a perfectly good 3-year-old car. The dollar amounts and…

There’s a wide line between a car that “breaks every day” and a car that carries a $500+ payment. My first three cars were valued at $3,000 or less and while they all had mechanical issues over time, I can remember exactly two times that I broke down and got stuck. Everything else that went wrong had a least a little…

I agree that it’s ridiculous that the NFL bans marijuana when their players rely on dangerous, addictive painkillers, but I find him comparing himself to Colin Kaepernick to be highly offensive. Kaepernick was blackballed for doing something that has never been against the rules of the NFL; Irving was repeatedly…

Honestly, I’m surprised the 5-year survival rate is as “high” as 3%.

When is it okay to EXPECT a replacement dish when it comes out with mushrooms that are not listed in the menu description of the item?