“PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR. HAMMER LIKE A PORN STAR. RAKE LIKE AN ALL-STAR,”

No I am owning a 38 year old for thinking that somehow the Giants weren’t a better than average pick for the a kid of the late 80s picking his team (which I agree is 90% a winning team or one passed on from family).

So you want pity? In the 28 years since you hopped on a bandwagon the team has been to 3 Super Bowls, which is tied for 4th most, won 2 Super Bowls, which is also tied for 4th most, and have been watchable (arbitrarily set at 7 wins or better) in 19 of those 28 seasons,

I know it’s good fun to rag on Manchester United, but I think they have a legitimate shot at avoiding relegation this season. 

I used to live in Cleveland and didn’t realize how much I missed their particular brand of delusion until you reminded me just now.

Sad story in light of plenty of pieces in recent years (here, here, and here) about the financial pitfalls athletes face.

AP needs a good financial advisor to bring discipline to his finances and whip it into shape.

Homophobia has always been a kind of problematic catch-all of a term precisely because it couches all forms of bigotry and intolerance in the range of fear. And while, sure, there is likely an element of fear/dread in a lot of people’s anti-gay biases, characterizing these biases as a “phobia” too often seems to miss…

Peck’s column popped up in my newsfeed on Saturday and I read it all the way through. Within its text, one thing became clear to me (me: a 57 year old gay man who went through the early 90s in NY and LA - and all that meant, too): Peck is stuck in a time and place and suffering from arrested development. I’d wager…

it’s none of his business. Let people be who they are, honestly. This rings like the arguments back in ‘08 that Obama wasn’t black enough. Ridiculous.

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

Jesus, man. That “Don’t touch Grayson!” was clearly sarcastic. 

He was being sarcastic.

Really, you just need to look at his background to see where this stuff comes from:

Sometimes the writers here come off as living in a bubble. 

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart. 

I’m pretty much in the bag for Serena Williams as a rule. She’s been one of my favorite athletes for 20 years. That being said, she isn’t and has never been a good loser and that day certainly wasn’t one of her finer moments. She embarrassed herself and basically ruined Naomi Osaka’s moment. 

It’s “policed as closely” as foul balls, three-point shots, and touchdowns.

The question then becomes, how far is too far? A foot? A leg? A body? Ten feet? No matter where you set it, you’re back to making fine distinctions, just in a different spot. Otherwise, you leave things to the judgment of the referee and wind up with wildly varying calls. In the age of VAR, you need clearer standards…