I loved Irvin laughing louder and louder to try and confirm that the threat was just a joke, and Smith didn’t even crack a smile. I don’t think he’s the one Michael.

I don’t want it out of the game either, but it still pisses me off when guys are made to answer for an obviously clean hit that doesn’t even leave someone injured just because it’s a big hit.

“A cane is the last remaining weapon a gentleman can carry without being questioned.”

Can we get audio focused on Giovinco when he went to the corner to celebrate after his free kick goal? I’m already 99% certain, but I just want confirmation he was screaming at the opposing fans, “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?” 

Fully agree about how rare it is that something extremely hyped lives up to that hype. But going back to food, there is also a heavy nostalgia component as well as primacy bias involved that can actually warp how we perceive taste. With my Portillo’s example, my co-workers had grown up in the Chicago area and eaten it…

I thought my co-workers were going to murder me when I had just moved out to Chicago and they took me to Portillo’s, and my takeaway was, “It’s pretty good but nothing otherworldly.”

“the consequences of their actions” FFS

I was speaking more to the sport in general like the post I was responding to was doing, which was cherry-picking mostly primarily attacking players of diminutive stature (Vidal being the exception in both not being a primarily attacking player or being of diminutive stature). I haven’t followed Scotland’s run through…

Right but for goalies, center backs, and usually defensive mids, where speed and technical ability aren’t as much of a requirement, you generally want a few of them to be tall enough to effectively defend set pieces. Prototypical CBs are 6'2"-6'3" these days - i.e. Pique for Spain. Of course I’m not saying this is…

The refs initially thought she was part of the WMU sideline, which is why they threw the flag. Once they realized that she had climbed down from the stands and run onto the field (you can see where she was sitting when she gets the car keys from her mom as she’s being kicked out - adorable) they picked up the flag and…

I am 30 today. Due to a massive hangover it really hadn’t dawned on me that I have been on this earth for 3 decades, until I saw this morning that AIM was shutting down, and then it hit home. I haven’t logged onto AIM since college, but damn if I don’t vividly remember the butterflies when you got that first “Heyyy”…

All valid points. It is embarrassing how excited I get to go to the American Outlaws bar to watch the US play T&T even in the pre-Hex round of qualifying. But the average American fan is only tuning in for USA/Mexico. And while I agree wholeheartedly that CONCACAF qualifying is a joke (knocks on wood), remember the…

Laughing at racist jokes about Native Americans? Well if it doesn’t work out with the Panthers I know one NFL organization that would be glad to have her...

I’m not implying that viewers from anywhere outside of the region were tuning in for the games as one would with high-level UEFA or CONMEBOL qualifying matches, or that the games are even world-class affairs, but if you don’t think that USA vs. Mexico in WC qualifying is not a compelling sporting event, then maybe…

Since it will be 48 teams for the first time in 2026, CONCACAF will have 6 direct qualifying slots for the first time. So it’s not like a country that is used to going is suddenly going to be automatically left in the cold just because Canada gets a free ride. Even after you figure Costa and Panama to be shoe-ins,…

Great fade by Mina there.

I got Poison Ivy in 6th grade from holding the hand of my girlfriend who, unbeknownst to us, was already infected. Does that count as an STD?

No I got what you meant. Although it sounds like there are reports that out of his huge array of weapons they are saying there were at least a couple with full-auto capability - which I’m guessing they mean without a bump stock/gat trigger. Whether they were semi-auto and then milled or were fully-auto and registered…

Very possible, but it would still require milling to modify to full auto.

They definitely are very lax. But machine guns must still be registered and licensed. So the availability of “legal” automatic weapons (those obtained before the ‘86 federal law) is restricted and pretty cost-prohibitive given their rarity. The most likely outcome is that he used a bump fire stock or a gat trigger -…