Do you really want to be with someone you can’t trust, anyway?

The problem is that without a draft, professional sports as we know then could not exist. If everyone entered the league as a free agent, teams in big markets and successful teams would have an enormous and probably insurmountable advantage, at least in leagues with salary caps. You’d have to pay a guy a lot more to…

Well, that answers the question of whether Norman will be an overpaid disappointment.

Different people want different things out of their vehicles. As a non-enthusiast, I want reliability, fuel economy, and as little stress as possible. On my 5th Toyota, I haven’t been truly disappointed yet.

I don’t know about ratings, but McDonalds is head and shoulders above other fast food chains when it comes to service. I stop there once or twice a week for breakfast and if there are ten cars in line in front of me I can count on moving fast. Meanwhile their employees are polite and I can’t remember the last time…

Two things. First, his response to the Hurricanes’ tweet was pretty mild by Twitter standards. He asked a legit question about a decision the team made. He didn't attack anyone.

Exactly my thought. He was not charged with any crime in connection with Smith, right? And they can compel him to travel all the way across the country? I mean, as a former NFL player he probably has better means to afford that than the average joe, but maybe not that much better considering that he’s currently…

I must have missed the unit in health class where our genitals determine our interests and preferred activities.

NBC’s coverage is so hosed in general. The start times are bad enough, but the other bad thing about airing multiple games is that they keep the early one on NBCSN and force you to go to another channel that you may not have for the late one if there’s overlap. I missed the beginning of Blackhawks-Blues Game 4 because…

I'm guessing the group of people who'd bitch about not being able to watch every playoff game is way smaller than the group of people bitching about games between two Central time zone franchises starting at almost 9 on a weeknight.

To suggest that starting games at damn near 8:45 Central doesn’t impact the players is preposterous. At least when it’s done because the home team is on the west coast, you can argue that it’s part of home ice advantage. When both teams, all of the fans at the arena, and the majority of viewers are on Central time,…

I'm happy for the no-hitter, but I wish Arrieta didn't throw 119 pitches in a blowout. Especially when his effectiveness went off a cliff in the playoffs last season.

The most amazing point in this article is that there is someone who struggles to hit John Danks.

So because calculating calories consumed and calories burned has so many variables and is not precise (a valid and important point), we should abandon it for an even less precise method? That’s like saying it’s too hard to calculate my expenses and income down to the penny, so I should just stuff a wad of cash in my…

I worked at a hotel he stayed at during a tournament, oh, 12 or 13 years ago and the housekeepers reported that he didn’t tip.

No thanks. I don’t want to pay $16M a year for a 29-year-old whose best season may have been an outlier. Way too likely that some of that money is an overpayment that hurts them down the road.

I'm guessing there's more to this story and there might be something about Norman that makes the team more amenable to parting ways. He's already been a bit of a loud mouthed distraction. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, but it might (along with the other considerations) push them over to letting him walk.

A lot of these are pretty vague, even in the link. “Handle interpersonal problems”? “Cope with ups and downs”? I thought this was going to be a list of practical skills (which are also lacking in a lot of teenagers today).

Pretty sure whiskertriscuit meant “could of.” The difference is that “could’ve” is fine if the context is informal; “could of” is just plain wrong in all circumstances.

Humans are weird.