I think Nolan is fantastic and ESPN has no idea how to deploy her talent. She shouldn’t have to be held accountable for the latter of those two things. I also think she is likely not the only person at ESPN who has indirectly benefited from the company’s reorganization activity and honestly good for her and her agents…

Amazing how these salty old chuds like Werder find a way to level blame for their career short-comings at the still very much (relatively) small number of women working in their business. The other day the stump the schwab guy took a few shots at Katie Nolan in a tweet griping about how was let go from ESPN. Despite…

Yeah, I mean part of my point was that it’s easy to throw stones at someone else’s interest in a sport going beyond just surface level enjoyment until you consider that we all likely do that in some way with whatever sport we enjoy the most.

Yeah, I mean part of my point was that it’s easy to throw stones at someone else’s interest in a sport going beyond just surface level enjoyment until you consider that we all likely do that in some way with whatever sport we enjoy the most.

I treat both men and women who keep box scores at baseball games equally... with contempt. Just have a beer and watch the game you nerd. Now excuse me while I get back to mock drafting my 2018 fantasy football teams.

Less of a city and more of a series of interconnected strip malls with no zoning laws that happens to have a mayor.

A one-sided one? Not sure how / when the term has been taken to mean two evenly matched opponents or teams. 21 matches, mostly in the later rounds / finals of big tournaments, between two opponents generally ranked at the top of the field, I think generally constitutes a rivalry even if Serena has been wiping the…

For any parents going through this I highly recommend infant motrin and a small amount of bourbon. The motrin should be given via oral syringe in the pediatrician recommended dosage. The bourbon is for you, and should be served neat, with maybe one or two ice cubes depending on the quality.

Agree - but man I would have bought the shit out of that cookbook that never happened. The story of why it didn’t happen alone is such tragedy / comedy / coincidence that Burneko will always hold a special place in my heart.

I always thought there was a dishonesty behind all the comments here that were essentially ‘fuck barstool except for PFT’ as if he was kidnapped into working there.

Exactly this. I noted this in another reply but a friend who used the full paternity leave at his firm, which was a generous 8 weeks, was basically told it was more of an optics thing and no fathers actually used that amount. ‘Lack of billable’ hours was sited as a reason for him getting passed over for promotion that…

I know a guy who works for a place like that and ended up using the full 8 weeks as a way to extend their baby’s time at home before having to go to daycare (his wife’s workplace didn’t have a great maternity policy). When he got back he was basically told it was unprecedented for father’s to take the full time, and…

My workplace has 2 weeks paid paternity plus a generous vacation policy. I was able to take nearly a month off within the first 6 months after the birth of both my kids. I did it 99% for myself / family, but also to establish a precedent on my team as the head of the group had made multiple comments about only taking…

They also have Baja Blast. This should not be overlooked.

My wife had a good approach to this, I think, although it may not work for everyone. She wanted to take my last name, because although it’s not actually ‘goodtimes’ it is almost as cool, but wanted to keep her last name going (she’s one of three girls) without having to hyphenate. Luckily, her middle name was almost…

The backstreet boys cold open alone should have earned them another season.

It definitely seems like there’s a style-guide out there at GMG that targets certain artists. I’m not an every day visitor to Jez and rarely comment here, but it seems like everytime I do there’s another post shitting on Megan Trainor. I wonder if it’s the Nantucket thing? Which to me is funny because I’m pretty sure…

20 year-olds not voting in mid-term elections aside, I agree that those statements don’t paint a picture of enlightenment... but are we applying that standard across all artists evenly?

Interesting - I just googled the lyrics because I have a habit of tuning out the words in pop songs... and wow. It reads like it was written by a non-native english speaker but otherwise I don’t see anything attacking anyone. Genuinely seemed body positive, other than maybe defining things in terms of what ‘boys like’…

Is it me or does she get a disproportionate amount of vitriol for what sounds like middle of the road top 40 music? The genre itself isn’t really for me, but as near as I can tell all of her work that’s gotten radio play merits the sort of ‘meh’ reaction described above. Is there something else about her specifically…