My 10-year-old self is STILL bitter about that trade... more than two decades later.

If you hadn’t been living under a rock for the past two decades, you’d know that Peyton Manning is hardly “a man who’s never had anything even remotely like that associated with him”... either that or you’re deliberately being an obtuse apologist, which frankly is worse than abject ignorance.

I couldn’t tell you. I’m a communist.

Well, to be fair you ALSO have to capitulate to a bipartisan system that presents a pair of choices that are far from Manichean in their differentiation.

You also shouldn’t have to kowtow to a political party to participate in a democracy... alas, here we are in 2016.

Perhaps reading the article above would help. Democrats don’t cast ballots at caucuses.

The fact that you linked to the Kindle version of How Not to Be a Dick makes me wonder if you actually understand the concept of “book”, Samer...

Considering it has been 30 years since the last African-based player won the award (Mohamed Timoumi of FC Rabat in Morocco), there is definitely a point to be made. But if anything, that point is that — just like South American players in the current era of football — African stars would not be stars without the major…

Gracias!

That’s one duck that won’t go Peking around for no good reason...

THANK YOU! I started rooting for Newcastle United back in the mid-1990s when my dad hired a Geordie as an assistant for a few summers. One relegation later, and the possibility of the next all too real this season, I at least have respect for the flip side of wishing for the benefits that can be accrued by clubs in…

It’s just Barry Bonds Syndrome.

I cooked professionally for ten years, and a garlic press is the most pointless kitchen gadget around. Beyond the cleaning difficulties people talk about, it provides bruised garlic that dulls its deliciousness. Why someone would want to pre-mash their garlic with one of these abominations is beyond me, and the…

I cooked professionally for ten years, and a garlic press is the most pointless kitchen gadget around. Beyond the…

That’s awesome. I went to college for a year out of high school, back in 2001, and then realized that A) I had no clue what I wanted to study, and B) paying the private-school prices I was (even with partial scholarships and grants) was absurd to be that uncertain about my course of study. So I took a decade off,…

Exactly. Nothing but tabloid humping and criticizing the local league without appreciating the fact that the United States is building toward a critical mass in terms of soccer interest that doesn’t merely hinge on TV broadcasts from Europe...

I agree that the call to completely eliminate a cap is foolhardy at best, downright destructive at worst, but that doesn’t mean that the MLS structure is entirely aboveboard either. There is room to appreciate the need to retain a cap and the need to critically examine whether some of the homegrown player and…

Even if those sheikhs did start stepping up, they’d be funding one team apiece, with incentive only to get the salary cap dropped and the single-entity structure dismantled. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing will likely never be seen... a veritable Schrödinger’s league that would be fun to posit upon but…

Except this is the straw man that every apologist brings to the argument, going completely off topic to make a strained point that has ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING TO DO WITH THE QUESTION AT HAND. There always has to be SOMEBODY straining to argue “Durrrr black-on-black durrr why blame cops durrrr them animals just…

I always preferred the Michael Scott spelling myself...

Should’ve been the Brewers... they had history in the league, after all.