Hopefully I will still be able to get hot photos of bikini clad models mailed directly to my orthodontist’s waiting room.

Quick, somebody make sure SI never called Peter Thiel gay.

Ebert was such a good writer. When he literally lost his voice due to his jaw cancer surgeries, he took to blogging and wrote some amazing things. His website is still a trove of great reviews covering about 40 years of his work.

This is perhaps my favorite Magary entry ever. So cool.

The number of odd/disgusting things eaten by my Polish grandfather are too long to list in a tweet. Lots of pickled fish of unknown origin.

my pop-pop ate onions like they were apples too! what’s with grandpas and onions?

Flowers in the Arctic

BECAUSE IT’S NOT A MALL, IT’S A DESTINATION.

In the immortal words of George Carlin:

I’m not greedy. How about a small percentage of your contract? Or, we can pay by the hour. A few hundred an hour seems reasonable. Think of me like a lawyer, but more qualified and more important. You only need a lawyer when you do something wrong, but my services are helpful when you do something right as well.…

Yes, Stanford and Michigan are known for handing out econ faculty tenure to any bum off a Greyhound.

“This is contradicted by MLS’s very existence, which is profitable as a whole, driven largely by attendance.”

The fact he wrote a book on a relatively novel economic subject and managed to see not only its thesis be mostly spot on in the future years, but to have it gain near universal acceptance is a damn impressive resume. Of course he could still be wrong about things, but as far as economists and their public…

I’m not an economist, but Noll and Szymanski are. (It’s my journalism degree that I got from a vending machine.)

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Neil deMause is one of the best-respected writers in the U.S. on the subject of franchise economics and stadium finance. He’s been covering this subject for decades, in greater detail than just about anyone. His book, Field of Schemes, was on the leading edge of covering the…

The money is not in the MLS team. It is in the SUM which the MLS owners control. SUM has the marketing rights to the MLS USMNT USWNT ,

Is that you, Progressive Liberal?

The worst part is that Snyder is making them walk there.

Ugh... I guess I’ll wade into this mess.

Mr. Met, NOOOOOOO!