Burneko’s got the thinnest skin on here - point out a flaw in one of his less well thought out takes and he’ll delete your post and block you, or accuse you of being a troll (when obviously he’s the one trolling). Pretty weak if you ask me - I tend to avoid his posts now.

I’d say this whole situation is about 90% the Red Sox’s fault, and I’m not a fan of either team (and I don’t take my sports overly seriously anyway). Your posts have made it pretty clear that you’re a Boston homer - don’t you ever find it odd that so many neutral fans tend to side against your team for their idiocy?…

And Russia, don’t forget Russia! An official ban on executions doesn’t mean much if they just literally murder you instead.

This is bad advice. Very, very bad advice.

That’s 1 in 40, not 1 in 50.

Depends on the state.

Sure it does - I’m guessing you also don’t live in Mexico and as such probably have an overly cynical view on this. Not saying you’re wrong, you could be right, but I doubt you’re the best judge here.

Iceland is most definitely full of white boys (like... pretty much every guy there). Not Trump supporters though, which is a huge plus.

Subpar cuisine? My friends and I found the food there to be pretty amazing - the people you’ve talked to must have been going to the wrong places (or made the tourist mistake of trying hakarl).

Why is the San Antonio / Miami quote a dumb quote? Seems pretty clear that what he’s saying is essentially “each of those teams will beat any team in the other conference except each other, but each may face a somewhat tough matchup within its own conference”. Basically, the only way one of them doesn’t win is if they…

What am I missing here? Why is this a dumb quote?

You could also have titled this article “If You Need to Follow These Instructions, You Should Probably Look For a New Job Immediately”

Representatives of a human rights-violating nation who invite socially aware NFL players in a hope that they can twist their views? Agreed, those guys are idiots.

Weird, right? It’s almost like that’s part of his job or something...

That’s not that crazy - slightly different, but every contract I’ve ever had which involved vesting over some period of time (for example, a stock grant that vests over 5 years) automatically vested if I died. You could argue one was already granted and one wasn’t, but the basic idea was the same - a contract that was…

Every time I think that I can’t have more respect for Pop than I already do, he proves me wrong.

From a stats nerd: what he said was neither “losing [his] shit” nor “froth[ing] at the mouth”, it was presenting a well-reasoned defense of his opinion after you misstated it and accused him of hating a group (stats nerds) that he had taken pains to say he understood and valued.

You must be fun at parties.

Sounds like a plan - head over to China to organize a union and let us know how it turns out! That might be tough - I don’t think they’ll give you internet while you’re being detained, and the Great Firewall can be a real pain.

So how do you feel about the Joe Mixon case? Should we not question the amount of force he used to resolve a situation in which he was touched first? Are people who think he should have been expelled “splitting hairs”?