One of these is not like the others. Trubisky may or may not turn out to be a good QB, but I don’t see how you can fault the Bears for preferring a rookie with huge potential upside, who they believed in enough to trade up to #2 overall to draft, over Kaepernick.

Yup.

Right, but Altuve still has the edge.

Yup. Baseball is weird that way. If they can get to the postseason healthy, anything can happen.

IMO, Equifax should be shut down and the company’s assets should be confiscated and distributed to everyone whose data they allowed to be breached. Also the personal assets of company executives for that matter.

The only time I ever had the first pick in a fantasy draft, I took Adrian Peterson. In 2014. At least Johnson was injured during a game as opposed to missing a season for being a child-abusing dipshit.

Yes...and I would add that he didn’t want to address it while the game was happening and he and Michaels are tasked with commentating on the game. Which is perfectly reasonable to me.

All good points, and I would also add that NFL owners and GMs are too conservative and will hang on to a mediocre QB because they’re afraid of getting worse before they get better. Andy Dalton is the epitome of a replacement-level starter; a guy who can get you to the playoffs but not win playoff games, and certainly…

Yeah, I am generally anti-death penalty because of the number of wrongly convicted people and because even if we reformed everything else about the justice system (ha), it’s inevitable that sooner or later an innocent person would be put to death anyway.

I am always amazed by the cognitive dissonance of people who claim to believe is small government and rail against “confiscation” in the form of taxation, yet have no problem with police departments quite literally confiscating the property of people who have not been found guilty of any crime.

Other than their admittedly unpleasant defense mechanism, what’s particularly bad about skunks? I’ve never seen a skunk act especially aggressive towards people.

The problem is that not everyone can learn every skill, and that skilled jobs are decreasing too. If eventually the pool of jobs is significantly smaller than the pool of workers, it doesn’t matter if everyone is skilled and adaptable - someone is getting screwed.

It’s actually not uncommon for casinos to extend credit to gamblers, but $2.5M worth seems like a ton for a radio host. I don’t know exactly what kind of verification they do but you’d think before loaning that kind of money they would expect him to have assets to back it up.

What’s funny is that Dunkin Donuts is to donuts what Subway is to sandwiches.

If he was the greatest kicker of all time, it still would have been dumb to trade up to the second to take him. As you said, lots of good kickers were undrafted. If you really think one is special, maybe draft him in the 6th or 7th.

If he continues to improve his plate discipline, he’s an MVP caliber player.

The part about price gouging that nobody acknowledges is that in a disaster where supplies are scarce, it helps make sure that more people get something.

The thing is, starting over at square one probably gets them closer to winning the Super Bowl. Guys like Stanford (barring unlikely but not impossible late career development) are just good enough to keep you from being able to draft a really good QB. No doubt it’s easier to sell tickets and placate a fan base with…

Your logic in general is sound, and there’s no good reason to put mileage on your established stars in a meaningless game, but a non-contact injury like an ACL can just as easily happen in practice. Edelman was probably doomed to tear his ACL at some point this season no matter what.

Up until this season, the Indians and Twins were division rivals so Sale likely pitched against them more than any non-divisional teams. Is it really a surprise that the players who saw him the most had him best figured out?