I don’t know why more ballplayers don’t climb the fence on balls like this, rather than trying to time a jump. He was camped out at the wall, he could have hopped up and been sitting on the top of the fence, making for a comparatively easier job of catching and holding onto the ball. I’m sure it has something to do…

I’m definitely saying this because I got an ice cream maker this summer and have been making some at least every other week, but I’d love to see some ice cream recipes if that’s at all in your purview. Any frozen, churned dessert, would work for me, really--the first thing I made was lemon ice and I made several…

I have memorized exactly zero fast food menus, if that’s what you’re asking, and it very much seems like that’s what you’re asking. Sometimes I just don’t know what I want when I get there. Even then, 95% of the time they’re not ready to take my order when I get to the squawk box anyways, so it doesn’t really matter.…

It’s less the batter’s body in the way on a throw to third (he’s actually slightly more in your way as a right handed thrower, when you consider the step to throw) and more the fact that a right handed throwing catcher can still make a snap throw over, or get up and step right into a throw in one motion (making for a…

Honestly, I find that the bigger slowdown when it’s busy is the fact that most McDonads’ now have the dual ordering lanes, but no way to speed up cook time, so they just take orders and everyone gets stuck at the pick up window anyways.

But they do add new items occasionally. Prices change, tastes change. Sometimes I’m ready to order a DQP with cheese, then I see the menu and decide hey, maybe I want some chicken nuggets instead, or a filet o fish (that one never actually happens). The menu doesn’t necessarily need to have anything new, it just needs…

Let’s be fair here, the problem isn’t that people can’t decide what they want until they pull up to the squawk box, it’s that you can’t see the goddamn menu until you pull up to it. I usually have an idea what I want before I get there, but sometimes the menu reminds me of something that I haven’t had in a while, or I…

The first question is also rather silly, in that I’d definitely rather have a catcher who will negatively effect the entire offense of the other team versus a catcher who will improve exactly one position offensively. 

Completely agree with you on all of this. The runoff is a bit misguided, but I get where it comes from (assuming the reasoning I’m using is correct). I think a line of distinction needs to be made between replay and measuring a for a first down, though. With a replay, everyone has a chance to take a quick breather, go…

The theory, I would imagine, is that no team is supposed to benefit from an injury or replay (beyond the natural repercussions of those events), so when the clock is “artificially” stopped in those situations, the offense can’t line up and snap the ball right away without losing time on the clock that they would have…

You know how when refs/umps get in the way of a really good game and people say no one’s here to watch the ref/ump show? Pretty sure they’re using that as the basis of their very poorly executed joke.

I’ve got to give it up to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and The Food Lab. It’s excellent at explaining why you’re doing certain things, not just telling you to do them. Also, I do like that while he does recognize that there is nothing wrong with traditional methods and doing things the way things have done for hundreds of…

All very good points. By all means, if you can get a great deal on something you want anyways, go for it! Half price wings are a great deal if you want wings! But anyone who’s going to a restaurant only to order whatever the best deal is, regardless of if they actually want that, is better off learning how to cook for…

I mean, I think the only question Settle needs to know the answer to is this: Are you planning on drinking the whole bottle, or will you drink it before it goes bad if you get it re-corked (local laws permitting)? Because if you’re only drinking 2 or 3 glasses and/or leaving the remainder of the bottle, it would…

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but I remember reading that for a good long while, certain gun manufacturers/vendors automatically enrolled buyers in the NRA. Obviously the NRA doesn’t actually care about the membership dues of that segment of the population, since it’s all about falsely boosting membership…

this is where a tough-as-nails closer is supposed to slam the door on a dipshit rally by a team with no business winning a baseball game. That is very much not what happened

Your bringing up the disgraced and dispatched dickhead Weintstein made me wonder, might there be a chance that it was another also dispatched (or at least displaced) dickhead who offered her this advice, years ago? Ike Perlmutter was known to be a problem within the MCU (Kevin Feige demanded to be left alone or he…

I mean, I get that most people aren’t umpires, or aren’t like me--a baseball rules nerd who looks into the rule book because something weird happened in a game then gets stuck reading it for the next hour. But the hand is part of the bat thing is just dumb. As dumb as the hand is part of the ball in basketball. It’s…

Oh, that one’s easy. Just tell them they’re fucking idiots.

Absolutely get that. I just think that in case there are people who care to learn the intricacies of the rules, it’s out here in the open, rather than just correcting the bad rule and potentially creating a different gap in their knowledge.