Honestly, your math has to be wrong. I refuse to believe that the cost of the car, depreciation, wear/tear, gas, insurance and any parking are less than 2K a year in a city like NY. No way.

always the worst, laziest, stupidest answer. “just move”. lol

Only if you let us rant in return? So here’s mine.

We had rented/zipped so many cars between last summer and Christmas that it totaled something like two grand

That’s like $400 a fuckin month, pal

Well, you said you just bought the car for the weekends, so I’d imagine taking a train to your garage once a week would still be a lot less stressful than the daily battle.

I know this is a huge stretch and attempting to use Sports As A Metaphor for Life(TM), but there’s a certain “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” message in there. If you are the type of person who thinks poor people are poor because they didn’t do The Right Things, then you probably think LeBron lost to the Warriors…

The term in social psychology for that is BIRGing, which is an acronym for Basking in Reflective Glory. One of the key studies showed that we wear apparel of a team more frequently after they won. The opposite is called CORFing (Cutting Off Reflective Behavior), and is grounded in cognitive dissonance. You can prove…

Speaking of LeBron, let’s jump in a time machine. It’s 2007 and LeBron can’t close out a series because he passed the ball too much to his teammates. Sure Jordan punched a teammate, orchestrated a coaching change, nearly took his talents to MSG, gambled, and cheated on his wife, but at least he was a competitive…

A lot of fast food places time the service. If your times go up on average, management can come down on the store, the managers, and the employees. No raises, staff cuts, etc.

The people may hurt by these things are also the same people who refer to the team as “we”.

Right? Like they’re just running this little NBA charity to help fit white guys with fancy hair play basketball.

Yeah, I agree - although it is on the fans to recognize the “relationship” dynamic (ie. their relationship is to an individuals appearance in the media, and on the court - someone they’ve usually never even spoken to) and act accordingly just as much as the players.

The implication that teams (and fans) are “giving” these players “everything” out of anything other than self-interest is particularly hilarious

Take down this libtard trash.

Liberal garbage written by establishment elites.

I’m amused that Alma Sanchez seems to think NPR is a single show.

The odds are maximized by having your best player guaranteed to go as many times as possible. This is why you bat your best hitter third, not fifth.

I considered explaining this in more detail in the post, but I ultimately felt like it would have gotten too tangential. Signing Berry was a good thing! But by tagging him for an entire season, the deal became more expensive than it might have been had it been done last year. The Chiefs in recent years have used the…

After playing last season on the franchise tag, safety Eric Berry signed a long-term deal with $29.8 million guaranteed. (March)