It does sound like something from Portlandia.

I think the big difference you have there is type of game. A timed game or round based game you can play out the clock to the end because generally there is a default assumption that either anything can happen (a baseball team cannot be strategically defeated - it's just beaten). Likewise most pro sports you can…

Sorry dude, are you really making a comparison between showing up for games unpaid because of contract negotiations when no existing CBA exists and two sides can't agree on terms and not showing up for games you're expected to because you feel like you don't have your A game and/or a fan is bothering you? Is that…

Sorry dude, are you really making a comparison between contract negotiations when no existing CBA exists and two sides can't agree on terms and not showing up for games you're expected to because you got drunk the night before or weren't taking your job seriously for a month?

It's not like the NFL is exactly great at conflict of interest. I don't think the NFL rescinded or even forced John Mara to recuse himself in doling out cap punishment to his division rivals because maybe, just maybe he wasn't the most partial guy to be heading that thing up.

Thing is, if something hypothetically deadly or injurious happens to Wilson in his home, unless the Times can prove how this is normal procedure for them they really don't need to apologize to be open for litigation. The hard thing for the Wilson family will be to prove that the culprit got that information there.

Well, it's not really unusual volatility. Only making 123 when you expect 150 is an 18% drop. Lionsgate only went down 10% primarily because I doubt analysts expect that drop to be sustainable but it's relevant enough that the stock was currently overvalued.

I dunno... I mean yes I absolutely agree with this conceptually but if we start digging into the archives of Jezebel, do we think allowing people to be complex beings that make mistakes or say/do stupid things is the normal mode of operations for celebrities here?

IMO - that's been one of my greatest pet peeves about hard difficulty settings in RPG's. Often it DOES feel like you can't command something, you have to micromanage it which doesn't feel like being a general or a commander or a leader. It feels like I'm playing a game. I find it sort of sucks the RPG element out…

Honestly, I get the impression this isn't about what McDonalds should do, it's more about not liking McDonalds as a company.

Worked for Stallone. About the only way you're going to get people to take a 5' something dude seriously as a heavyweight boxer.

I dunno. Historically that wasn't the case. In the 80's it was a trickle of Superman films every few years. That was it. Then late 80's to 90's it was Batman every few years until B&R. Then nothing until Marvel did X-Men and Spiderman. I'm forgetting where (Daredevil and Blade fit in timeline wise) And in…

The problem is, some of those laws have already been overturned in court because libellous speech which you can sue over is not criminalized because that's considered to be the first domino that falls in the suppression of free speech. New York's high court struck down its anti-bullying law for that reason.

What I find myopic about this is the fact that athletics were historically a component of a well rounded education. That's just simple old school Renaissance Man stuff. The point of sports were not to break even and they have been traditionally subsidized because they ARE student enrichment activities. They are not…

Beautiful analogy.

Ha. Well I don't know either of them personally. To me its just a business capitalizing on the name. Jordan's bad points were infidelity and gambling addiction. I'm just saying if either of them want to create a classy restaurant I think they should have the option. If a person thinks a wrestler is by definition…

You also have the quandry of how are people qualifying attraction when they ask this question. Are men and women answering the question in the same way and arriving at different answers or are men and women answering differently based on socialization and interpretation of the question.

To be fair, Michael Jordan has a steakhouse. The issue is Hogan only allowing certain types of casual clothing in a casual restaurant. If he wanted to make it suit 'n tie, he's certainly free to do that.

MRA'ing really isn't my bag, but I know where the argument for this originally came from. When people were looking at issues of how society was oppressive to women, some came back and looked at how a lot of the little things influenced the status of men. Things like machismo and vixation on virility steered men…

Completely unrelated to anything, but as I was reading this tangent it reminded me of Hubbard's "Never explain - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."