When the fuck did the “apology commercial” become a thing?

Fair point about Moyes, but that doesn’t explain LVG, a manager notorious for burning bridges, and then Mourhino, another one who has a short shelf life. Neither were viable long-term, and both were Woodward’s choice.

And rumor has it that David “Feckin” Moyes is a potential candidate to permanently lead the USMNT.  If that comes to pass, expect this generation to wilt and fail.

Mourhino is only part of the problem. A large part, to be sure, but to omit saying that Chief Executive Ed Woodward has a sizeable chunk of the blame is to only paint part of the picture.

Exactly the same on my 2016.

Maybe Newton is not the second coming of Drew Brees, but criticism from the likes of Kelvin Benjamin is laughable. Steve Smith Jr., that’s a different story, but not Benjamin.

Yep, Benjamin loved to come to camp fat, dumb and unhappy.

FSU may have the talent to make the playoff, but only one team can win the ACC Atlantic, and until further notice, the favorite for that is Clemson.

The Athletic, which has been systematically pillaging talent from local newspapers for more than a year

Cal is a shoe-in to win their season opener against UNC.

Give me $10M and I could live very nicely, on a Caribbean island, and never bother anyone ever again.  Why can’t Charlie Sheen?

I bet he’s a lot of fun at Klan parties.

Those guys are just mad that the only “date” they can get is with Rosie Palm.

The Braves first used the method of dumping out their team in in the late 1980's, making trades like when they sent Doyle Alexander from the to Tigers for some Double-A right-hander named John Smoltz. They made other trades, and stocked the pond for 1990 when GMJohn Schuerholz when he took over the team in 1990.

The Mets would be wise to follow the Braves model and divest themselves of almost all of their top talent for prospects and draft picks. Then they could build a contender from the bottom up and invest in key free agents at the right time.

The final tally holistically would be 1 in 68, yes, but NASA incorporated improvements made in the wake of the Challenger and Columbia LOC events when they calculated their final PRA assessments.

In a word, no. There are no external tanks, and the contractors have disassembled the factories and tooling used to make them. Moreover, each orbiter has also been partially disassembled, with the flight-certified SSMEs (Space Shuttle Main Engines) removed and reused for SLS. On top of that the hypergolic tanks that…

A lot of the so-called problems are not engineering problems as much as they are bureaucratic problems. Boeing and SpaceX’s commercial contracts include a requirement that the spacecraft have a Loss of Crew (LOC) of 1 in 270 or better.

You’re correct in that a number of folks predicted the predicament we are in. I would add Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s “Future Shock” to the list. The book was exceptionally accurate in a lot of its predictions.

I agree completely -- there’s no reason for anyone in a company other than the HR or Legal department to stay in contact with an employee terminated for-cause.  I’ve had to terminate people for various reasons, and the last thing I would do is continue to debate after the dismissal was complete.  No good and a lot of…