This is the worst kind of smarmy, superstitious bullshit. If you want to defend Ailes on the merits of who he was, then do that.

Also, I realize Cornell’s cause of death had not been officially confirmed when this article was posted, but shame on Deadspin for putting a link to a suicide hotline at the bottom of articles about a murderous thug who killed himself in prison because he didn’t want to face the consequences of his crimes, but NOT…

Really? In baseball, a single great player (even one like Trout who is in the conversation for greatest player of all time) cannot even drag his team to the playoffs singlehandedly, much less bring them a championship.

I think the point is that the article is not improved by silly hyperbole.

That the president has the legal right to declassify info as he sees fit means that technically, this is not treason.

And the funny thing is, in baseball you can make a better argument that a team can improve to the level of at least winning 1 championship without tanking and rebuilding. You get your teams like the 2005 White Sox in baseball who win with a combination of luck and players having the best seasons or postseasons of…

I don’t understand the appeal of national sports talk shows. I consume quite a bit of Chicago sports talk in part because I like the hosts, but mostly because Chicago teams are who I follow so I want the coverage tilted that way.

Yeah, their insecure and frankly bush league ticket sales policies probably have a lot to do with whatever atmosphere there is.

I try to take solace in this, but it’s hard because Trump was so far beyond the pale as a candidate that anything short of a historical trouncing would have disappointed me. Even before the result was known on Election Day, I was queasy at the idea that Trump was at least going to have a respectable showing. If he’d…

Yup. The poor quality of play in EVERY SINGLE THURSDAY NIGHT GAME is a much bigger issue. The solution should be to eliminate Thursday night games or restrict them to teams coming off a bye.

Non-compete agreements are probably the most bullshitty of all of the bullshit foisted upon the American worker. And of course it’s no surprise that the corporatocracy supports them despite the fact that they are the antithesis of free market capitalism.

Sure, but most sports have a considerably higher barrier to entry. Comparatively few people have the physical capability to play football even at the high school level, to say nothing of the other factors (time, money, health risks). Even for the less dangerous sports (and the ones that are offered to both sexes), you…

Because on the low end, it is also a question of maturity and decision-making alongside motor skills and reflexes. Plus there’s a risk/benefit analysis for seniors that isn’t but there for kids. A hypothetical 10-year-old who would actually be safe to drive isn’t harmed by not being able to; a healthy and independent…

Yup. A few weeks back on my way to work, I was on the highway in the left lane about to pass someone in the middle lane. Who decided that he needed to make the left exit and swerved over, while braking, right in front of me without looking. I am not exaggerating when I say that if I had not been staring directly at…

Brady is going to be 40 this season. Anything other than falling off a cliff would be miraculous.

My wife’s company has a really generous PTO policy except that you can’t roll it over from year to year. Every year, two of her coworkers leave days on the table because “what’s the point when I’d just sit at home?” Um, because when you don’t use it you’re essentially working for free? Managers at her company…

But unless your company decreased the total amount of PTO when they combined sick + vacation, you didn’t lose anything. If they would have given you two weeks’ vacation and a week sick leave, and instead they gave you three weeks PTO, it ends up being the same. (If they did use that as an excuse to cut people’s…

“There is a reason that most Americans don’t use more than a couple days of PTO a year”

Jeez...now I’m wondering what career in Utah pays $200k a year while exerting so much control over someone that they can’t take their PTO. At my company you’d be a VP or higher earning that much.

Why does every discussion about commuting take the NY/DC/LA/SF-centric idea that people only have long commutes because it’s too expensive to live close to work? Outside of those cities (and in plenty of urban areas where companies aren’t located downtown), the reason for commutes is simple: two earners. The odds of a…