+1 Code Red

I just left a job where I used to travel to the Dallas area regularly. For 20 years I have seen the north side of Dallas grow. And while it is nice, it certainly is very much bland. I could be secretly transported to a random Starbucks in Plano and never be able to guess where I am. It’s just chain restaurants, strip…

The food is great in New Orleans.  The rest of it is smelly, hot, wet and overrated.  

I have no illusions that this will turn into anything but a Wild Card loss, or at best a loss to the Dodgers in the NLDS, but it’s been fun.

Lol. Philadelphia fan telling someone else to “stay classy.”

Every Belichick disciple seems to do this shit. Belichick is an asshole, but an asshole who is extremely brilliant at football stuff.

The Nationals didn’t seem to need him. They improved without him there. The point is that teams have gotten smart on figuring out how to win without spending a shit-ton of money on guys based on their past performance.

No he get’s them overpaid. Bryce Harper is a great example. His former team is heading to the playoffs while his new one is sitting home. And the Phillies are going to be stuck paying for his past performance for awhile.  

Because you can reach up and touch your helmet during the at bat.

Correct.  The real problem is that the benefits of all productivity has been placed into the wallets of owners and management.  Things like extra leave and vacation wouldn’t put a huge dent in productivity at all.  

So Mr. Whipple squeezed that one out of his playbook?

You have to wash it down with that shitty Iron City Beer

Don’t think so. More vacation time...yes. More actual sick leave instead of masking it as “paid time off”...yes. End to the abuse of contracting versus hiring actual employees...yes.

“Innocent before proven guilty” is a legal phrase (kind of) that has nothing to do with the Patriots signing and cutting Antonio Brown.

So colleges and universities actually have people trained to investigate such allegations that may violate a student code of conduct, and involve police when necessary. Iowa athletics should have removed themselves from the process to start and let their office, their cohorts at Iowa State, and the local authorities…

I’d like to star this, but even I could have hit that softball.

Yes. 

Thanks Mrs. Cousins.

Yeah he shouldn’t have been pitching on three days rest there.  Especially since he had been pitching on short rest for about half a month prior to that point.  With the day of rest there, they should have gone with Bush in Game 2.

And be cranky in the process.  I thought I would like Ratto at Deadspin but I find his schtick to be a little predictable and boring.