No relegation, laddie. The EFL has 72 teams, all of which can (potentially) be a Premier league team. 

If the city is going to actually own the stadium, though, that doesn’t seem unreasonable.

to be fair, st louis is an actual legit soccer hotbed from before it was cool.  now, good news there, bad news they invented white boy pay-to-play travel teams, but maybe they can overcome that and actually bring POC into the game.

I can’t wait to be horrified by the food at the venue.

The balls are the chin of the penis.

Andrew, you say “Stewart’s pronunciation of data [sic], a product of growing up in Yorkshire, England.” That’s not really true. Stewart’s pronunciation on TNG (and most of the time he acts, really) is not a Yorkshire accent, but rather Received Pronunciation (also known as ‘typically British’ or ‘The Queen’s English’).

the new helmet doesn’t fit right; it gives him a headache; the chinstrap feels weird; he can’t see his periphery (which makes him more vulnerable to big hits and less likely to track the ball in the air); the league’s “health and safety” initiative is bogus and just an attempt to limit liability; there’s no such thing…

Isn’t this what he always does though?  He creates a crisis, then “solves” it by cutting some “deal” which is really just him backing down but which his idiot base still views as a great deal from the great deal-maker.

I saw someone suggest that towards the end of 2019 Trump and Co will reach a “deal” with China on trade (that will be basically what was in place before) in order to boost the economy one more time before the election run up really begins. Thoughts?

“Unions are for pussies” says man who enjoys 8-hour workday, weekends, paid vacation time and not worrying about exploitative child labor.

Also, you don’t form a union because your boss is an asshole. You do it because your company is owned by The Chernin Group and collective bargaining is going to offer you a lot more protection than a real nice boss.

No one ever formed a union because they wanted to make less money and have less job security. Your boss keeps you around because the value you produce is more than what he pays you, a union just helps ensure that gap is smaller. 

huh.

We used to say that “every time you make something idiot proof, they make a better idiot.”

I couldn’t help but read this as a basketball starting 5. In which case I definitely like having Buddha coming off of the bench. Seems like he’d have the temperament to be the quintessential 6th man.

Well, at least of the salted, cured meats.

Pastrami is the most sensual of meats.

Priceless, man.

...enter old Holden Sandman.

Enter 2015 Holden Sandman