That might be an American or North American-centric thing though. Federer/Nadal/Djokovic are pretty big deals in Europe.

Still? I’d go with more.

Well, without wanting to get in the weeds on it I think it’s kind of fair to say that Sanders’ entire campaign is again based on the idea that the reasonableness you’re talking about isn’t actually working either. That all it does is embolden Republican obstructionism because their worst case scenario becomes a…

So you’re about two elections away from things being decided via Steel Cage Grudge Match, huh.

Except if Bernie Sanders was, as a rule, on board with the DNC strategy of “If we cave to Republican obstructionism we appear to be the adults in the room and score points with independents” he wouldn’t be running for president in the first place.

If, like you say, Obama made this nomination not because Garland represents his preferred choice for the court but rather to put pressure on Senate republicans by daring them to seem entirely unreasonable by denying a moderate choice a hearing wouldn’t the worst thing in the world for that gamesmanship be for someone…

I think, deep down, we all wanted to be Alex.

“honor and support a great friend of Israel, and the Jewish people...”

If something I did turns out to be clever then, yes, I did it on purpose.

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Nope. I’m guessing he was just way into The OC.

An expansion team would still have to hit the cap floor, right?

So a Warmbier is being sent to the cooler?

Hate love all you want Bobby but I think the two of them are adorable. I just think we need to give them one of those cute names, you know, when we see this sort of coupling. You know, like, Voltron or Devastator.

Gossage is a Dingus. I’ve read The Bronx Zoo. Respect for the sanctity of the game isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when I think about those teams.

Well, you know, “special”...

He’s a legit businessman.

Yeah, Camille. We’d all prefer to not have to discuss Bill Cosby’s sex life but, well, here we are all the same.

Aha! This validates everything I’ve ever though about each of them somehow.

Some days I’m deeply conflicted about how I feel about capital punishment. Other days not so much.