No. If a billionaire can take $10 million, he’s going to take $10 million, whether that drives his profit on the team from $50 million to $60 million, or from $150 million to $160 million. (The idea that there’s a scenario where they’d need that $10 million to break even is absurd.)

This got easier for me when I stopped trying to think about percentages on small orders. Now I tip $2 for a single takeout order, adding $1 for a second ($3 total), then $2 ($5 total) for a third, etc.

Not really, but in comparison, sure. Typical winter lows are in the high 30s. It usually rains about a quarter-inch a day, which is either a perpetual slow drizzle (jacket sufficient, umbrella optional) or shorter bursts of heavier rain (usually avoidable). Certainly, some days are clear, and some days dump an inch of…

I could deal with those crystal clear, absolutely freezing days as long as there weren’t already piles of brown snow along all the roads, melting a little in the sun and refreezing on the pavement.

I lived in Michigan for the first 22 years of my life, then Toledo for the next 3. I moved to Portland 100% to get away from snow.

Cold is fine. Snow is not fine.

I like watching TV with my wife more than I like playing video games alone.

In an early commercial, I found the image of Hugh Grant Pepe Le Pew strolling along the top of a speeding train and calmly saying something like “Now now, Bear” surprisingly funny for a movie that I assumed was terrible. Then they removed it from every subsequent cut of the commercial, and I thought these losers…

When I was young and strong, I’d get unpleasant altitude sickness above 10,000 feet. Now that I am not-so-young nor-so-strong, I wonder how I’d do at 7,500. I might be fine! I suspect that same calculation was part of how they picked Estes Park. High enough for snow, low enough that probably everyone’s going to be…

I feel the same way about The Wild One, Forever, and I’ve barely seen it mentioned at all. I might rank Refugee and American Girl and maybe a couple other very famous songs ahead of it, but those just don’t feel personal to me enough to be my favorite.

You just might be on to something.

OK, not gray, brought over my unflattering Disqus profile picture, so I’m clearly merged. But there are no old comments anywhere on this site, let alone any of my own old ones? So I won’t really know if that’s been merged until those comments are actually here.

I have to test whether I’m automatically out of the grays. I thought already having a Kinja account would make this less confusing. It didn’t.

Isn’t that aspirin thing a pretty widespread (and misogynist) cliche?

Voted homer. I just feel like a lot of what makes hitting a homer hard comes down to proper swinging technique, which you could take steps to improve over a couple hours, whereas dunking is pure muscle strength. If you swing a bat for an hour, you’ll probably be swinging it better by the end. If you jump for an hour,…

I watched at least four seasons of this just a couple years ago, and it's that cast that had me coming back over better, easier to watch shows.

There are two ways I look at this:

No, +/- doesn’t hold any value for any position:

+/- is a terrible stat. Dekeyser ($5 million a year for the next 5 seasons!) is the defenseman they shouldn’t have protected, Green ($6 million for one year) is fine.

ncasolowork3 is the only one baselessly speculating here.