Or, they live in predominantly red or predominantly blue states, where their non-popular vote wouldn’t have mattered.

OTOH, if Clinton had been elected, the GOP would have kept passing the same vacuous “repeal Obamacare!” bills that they’ve been sending up from the House for the last seven years, knowing that they’d be vetoed, rather than being forced to craft actual legislation that might become law, thus revealing their…

//I can’t believe they have me programming wide receiver bots.
//Does this even compile on an AntonioBrown processor?
if (player.location == Locations.OpponentEndZone && player.hasPossession) { 
    if (player.code == “GRONK”) {
        player.ballAction(Actions.Spike);
    }
    player.locateNearest(Official.Any);
   …

Yes. Very forward thinking and brave of Duquette to have acquired the best pitcher in the world.

Or the fact that 60% of dudes in construction (ladies too) are just there for a paycheck and could give fuck all about the job or company they work for until it’s gone.

Because people want to believe that the working class is a group of skilled laborers rather than the reality of most of them working in retail.

Why do people ALWAYS go with construction workers as their go-to analogy for what “working class” means?

Yes, you’re right. It definitely is not a sports entertainment promotion featuring musclebound men wearing sparkly spandex costumes slamming each other around for spectacle. It’s some whole other, more serious thing.

if you’re in the late innings with men on base, one out and a close score, how could a bunt be boring? or a sac fly?

Bunts are anything but boring - it’s just that small ball is no longer in favor - everyone wants to slam a homer - and I guess fans only care about seeing the ball fly out of the park. But I don’t find them - or sac flies, boring.

No, it’s more like ejaculating on a candle, but the candle is actually your smartphone and the floor is lava.

I agree with this, especially when someone wearing headphones isn’t aware that they’re blocking something (as Kristin mentioned, they should keep their volume low and be aware of surroundings). I wear earphones at work sometimes, but I’ll only have it in one ear so I can still hear what’s going on around me.

Fuck it. Dizzy bat race in the 10th inning and call it a day.

Worth noting that the bunt/IBB combo started the top half of the inning as well, and it will start every half-inning under this format unless the home team is trailing by three or more. Whoever fucks up their bunt loses. Baseball!

I think that’s my main issue with it, actually. I’d like to do it myself and keep working on my podcast backlog, but I know it appears openly closed off to the world, which strikes me as rude, so I’ll never do it. Being a polite human in a supermarket often means you need to chat about whose cart has the right of way,…

Yep. That’s not what I want to see out of an extra inning game. What I do want to see is the amusing spectacle of position players pitching, but mandating that would probably be a bit much.

It doesn’t bother me at all when I see someone else doing this, but I feel so guilty when I’ve done it because I feel like I’m being rude. Probably because I know that I really don’t want to talk to anyone.

I appreciate your admonition to “be aware of your surrounding when you shop,” but I find that either headphones create an induced state of obliviousness or there is a correlation between people wearing headphones and being generally oblivious. Either way, my experience is that there is a disproportionate number of…

I have no explanation why, but I’m always bothered when I see someone doing this. It screams “I hate people and don’t want to talk to anyone” to me, which feels rude. I’m not sure why I would want fellow shoppers to be open and chatty in the first place, though, so this is pretty irrelevant.

The producers probably just assumed they were Bills fans dressed in their nicest clothes for television.