Counterpoint: Knowing that you are getting paid to drink beer you didn't have to buy is awesome. My coworkers aren't assholes though, and they like beer. We also print for a lot of local breweries, so there's usually something good around. If not, our next door neighbor is a beer store/tap room with 40 taps and a wall…

(And when penalties like that get called, at what point does the optimal offensive strategy become kicking the ball intentionally at the defender’s arm?)

VAR is shit. Getting everything right should not be paramount. Keeping the game moving should be paramount. VAR was introduced with the premise of getting badly missed calls right. If VAR has to call a referee over to the screen to double check their work of checking on the referee’s initial call, it’s already too…

My office does a yearly summer “picnic” where we all go outside, grill some burgers and brats, people bring in desserts and side dishes, and the office pays for drinks: soda, beer, hard lemonades, etc. They always buy more than they need to, and the alcohol just goes in the fridge in the breakroom. We’re told that…

My girlfriend on long car trips loves to play the “Name all 32 NFL teams”-game.

But the important thing here is that since Drew is gone, I can state for the record that the official stance of the Funbag is now that mayonnaise is awesome and delicious and one of our finest condiments and makes just about everything better. Mayo forever.

I saw someone mention that VAR wasn’t a big issue in Russia last summer and it got me thinking that lack of experience with VAR in the women’s game might be contributing to the issues in this tournament. Throw in FIFA changing the rules and its not surprising that the WWC refs were clumsy in the way that they handled…

I have to give credit, when I originally saw the headline, I groaned about another VAR post from Deadspin, but I thought this was an excellently written article about the reasons behind some of the current issues and how we got here. Completely agreed that the decision to ratify the new rules just before the WWC was a…

You would think that, if we truly were making a concerted effort to ensure everyone knows how we feel about the World Cup, you would know that we love the World Cup, and are mostly just disappointed about the completely avoidable roadblocks FIFA has accidentally set up, which have worked overtime to make the World Cup…

God loves everybody the same and nothing wrong with you lefties....

The VW opener is absolutely a brilliant design. Easy to us and in 4 years my camera has never needed cleaning. Other vehicles constantly get dirty.

Kennedy grabbed a fistful of Utland’s jersey and pulled her to the dirt. Not a incidental tug, but like, really dug her fingers into the material and held on for dear life.

This is exactly how international soccer is always covered. Germans play a technical, serious style, Brazilians the ‘samba’ inflected beautiful game, and so on. Always correlates with national stereotypes. 

Some sloths try to give a shift.

Jalopnik needs to have an Altered States week, with Torch being the group’s psychedelic Sherpa.

Torch forgot to lock up his stash

Torchinsky is contagious. Somebody contact the CDC.

Not really. The camera stays covered in all instances except when you actually need it, so it always stays crystal clear. It’s absolutely amazing and I love it. 

There’s a cover on the lens that retracts. No greasy fingers, but a bit overkill

You didn’t get the Peugeot 407 in the USA did you?