That’s a good point but I think it speaks more to the vagaries of the sport itself than it does the salary structure. NBA and MLB are pretty similar in being soft-capped, that teams can basically go as far over the threshold as they want, but there’s a price to be paid for doing so.

This is a great comment. 

I think it’s ‘shat’ but I’ll defer to the AP style guide. 

“Lamb” (the gospel according to Jesus’ childhood friend Biff) is a hilarious read about those awkward adolescent years of Jesus. And I’m not a Christian but I found it pretty respectful to what I understand Christianity to be about.

Hating In-n-Out has become so fashionable it’s almost underrated again. Definitely worth eating the burger, fries are pretty meh. 

I remember that reaction to Tosh being much the same as the gist of this current conversation: if you’re going to make a rape joke (or a Holocaust joke, or whatever), it goddamn well better be funny.

That was fucking gold.

Totally this. I don’t know if I’ve ever listened to a Muse album end-to-end but I’ve spent about 15 hours watching them live.

She says very clearly that this is not about losing weight.

The ‘jackpot’ line was the meme-able part of the video, but I was most struck by what an incoherent shithead Terry Collins was.

Celebrities, activists: stay on Twitter. Keep broadasting your truth.

“Yes, it’s the children who are wrong.”

I knew he and Skip were friends, but I didn’t know it was love.

WHO WON GROWN UPS 2?

In my head, there is a Venn diagram of “I absolutely have to see this” and “I absolutely can never see this,” and the middle of that Venn diagram is this movie.

Katie, I’m sorry to crash your review thread but can I please get a Kinja follow from the AVC family?

Plus, people good at lighting stuff on fire usually come cheaper than people good at rendering three-dimensional effects on software.

Your pop culture reference game is strong today.

Yeah I once left Funkadelic somewhere during Hour Four, but I think that’s ok.

On a similar note I’ve emailed every NHL team with my ‘sumo goalie’ idea.