Yep. I’m not a vegetarian (just had chicken for lunch!), but eating meat is just as ideological as being a vegetarian or vegan. If you’re comfortable eating beef or chicken or especially pork, you have basically no grounds to object to eating other mammals (save, uh, humans, I guess) and equally little grounds to…

This was definitely a seminal moment in sports radio.

It’s clear to me why at least Abrams and Beto aren’t running for Senate: being a two-time loser in statewide elections is not good for your career! What I don’t quite get is why coming in 7th in a presidential primary is all that much better. Either way, you can probably write your own version of Some New Beginnings…

Yeah, they play a lot of ugly, messy games. It gives me a lot of appreciation for how good KD is, because all their other guys float in and out (Steph and Draymond will have games where they suck and Klay will just kind of evaporate every so often), but KD’s always there, ready to give you an efficient 32 and 7.

The sonic similarity between “mi-” and “ni-” had me really worried about where this call was going.

For two legitimately extremely good teams playing relatively close games, the first two games of this series have both been horrible.

In a way, it’s actually better if the college owns the frat houses. If the houses are owned by the school, the school has far more oversight power and can actually mandate changes. My grad school didn’t own the fraternity houses and, as a result, couldn’t really force anyone to do anything.

I’m not sure what the answer is, but it’s sure not Jon Ossoff, one of the single blandest politicians in the country. 

This is a good point I hadn’t really considered. Now they can see that they’ve been jobbed, which probably adds to the gripes.

Did they? I mean, seriously, how do we know? I agree wholeheartedly that apologizing to the teams and promising to change things is a dumb strategy on the part of the leagues, but is it meaningfully worse than acting like a dictatorial psycho?

Yeah, that would’ve been the most--and I know how absurd this is to say about a show that has both dragons and zombies--realistic outcome. Probably would’ve made for shitty TV, but it would’ve made a lot of sense. (I think the way to do this without just having three episodes of everyone conclusively getting their…

Ha, great find.

I’m pretty good with Google and I cannot find a single other example of anyone using this metaphor on the internet.

They locked themselves into Narrative Prison years ago with the White Walkers story line. There was really no way out without a vaguely unsatisfying ending.  

I’ll admit to being much younger than Ray, but is it even true that there was some sort of glory era where people didn’t work the refs? This strikes me as yet another one of those “back in my day” things where there’s actually minimal evidence for the position.

I love Mike Breen. He’s very good at his job. I’d take him over Marv Albert (but probably not Kevin Harlan, who’s fantastic).

It’s such a bummer they have to work with Mike Breen, who is a delight.

Honestly, this article makes me really like Carlos Vela. He spent a long time in Europe, played for some big clubs, had some success, and apparently never seemed to really give much of a shit or like it all that much. Now he makes a lot of money, plays relatively low stakes soccer where he’s the best guy on the field…

Daniel Jones looks exactly like every fratty Duke grad who moves to NYC to work for an investment bank. He’ll fit right in trying to sneak a bump in the bathroom at Phebe’s.

He also went 0-3 against Pitt and 1-2 against Wake Forest. You gotta love it!