Thanks for doing the Lord’s work Neil. Since He’s too busy.

Thanks for the local perspective. To add to it for our fellow readers worldwide, Montréal is an amazing and fun city in summer. Everyone heads outdoors, there’s so much to do, competing festivals trying to draw crowds, open-air exhibitions everywhere. It’s very family-friendly and not too spendy and you can have a…

...they basically rebuffed the Spanos family at every turn when they tried to bilk the citizens for a new stadium.

Yes, the Padres’ stadium was the harsh lesson that learned San Diego good. They wised up when the Spanoses approached the trough.

The right of first authorship plays a big role in this process, with the slick lawyers piling up billable hours telling the harried municipal staff “Why don’t we draw up the agreement, it’s standard language that other cities have used in similar situations, we’ll tweak it and fill in the blanks, and then you can…

It’s not the tax but the taux d’échange that’ll kill you, actually.

I don’t know, man, all this vacarme has a chance to turn this whole affaire into a Cirque.

Isn’t it a little early to crown this guy? Sure, he had a good relief outing, but this is a very small sample size, just two inning pitched.

And people tell me I’m to dry, too poker-faced when I compose an ironic post, they enjoin me to use winkies and ackernyms so they can figure out I’m being /sarcastic. You sir, win the match. I’ll reread a few times until I detect the tiniest kernel of a clue that you’re pulling our leg, but until then, that’s a fine…

While I’m no great fan of Megan Rapinoe’s antics and sportsmanship, this is an easy beef to take sides on.  

Andy Reid mismanaging time in any context definitely does NOT strain plausibility!

Look, it’s scientistical that it does not. You’re arguing that he can’t reason/decide his way out of a greasy french-fry scented paper bag, but I argue that his reptilian brainstem, when presented with bacon olfactoriness, overroded the hippocampus and short-circuited to the limbical bypass. You’re positing a…

Look, I can Wiki and Pro-Football Reference with the best of them and I actually did after I posted, but my point stands. We don’t even think about Blaine Gabbert any more. Such a bust, such a squander of resources should gut a franchise, but instead, the Jaguars just shrug and move on, went back to the draft trough…

[Psst, I know it’s about his waffling (get it? a breakfast reference), I’m continuing with disbelief, based on his girth, that his synapses would short-circuit before a non-choice he’s not forced to make, that he’d just take both. In footballery, Andy Reid would both go for it on fourth-and-one and punt if he could,…

...they get 100 complaints a week and there are 3 investigators in the division with no overtime authorized.

Ultimately, he waited too long...

It tells us a lot about the nature of pro football and the NFL that for the life of us we can’t remember anyone from the 2011 draft, offhand.  We’ve moved on two generations of players since then. 

100% that Jake Locker was picked ahead of Blaine Gabbert because he has a better-sounding name. Blaine is kinda foofy, sounds like a Liberal Arts slacker New Hampshire rich kid from Oberlin College or somewheres. Jake, now there’s a name you can set your watch to.  Jake.  Jake.  It serves as an interjection and a…

lol imagine having this dick as a professor