Everything I know about Maryland athletics:

I like the pacing, the snap to Sorkin’s dialogue. But I get so fucking tired of the contempt. And when he’s writing his conscience rather than non-fiction characters, I usually hate what he has them say.

I’m almost on board with this, except pumpkin is disgusting.

Thank you, baseball gods, for yea, though you punished me with playoff elimination for the Nationals, you hath soothed my wounds and blighted mine enemies.

Everything about this story is just really fucking sad.

you’re married to a dude named Henrik Lundqvist, right?

For God’s sake, it’s not like they were doing the wave or anything!

You sure about that last one?

But he broke up with President Obama and that was super important. Everything he says is important. He is important.

Strongly, strongly disagree. I thought the premise was good and the science solid, but the writing was incredibly weak. All of his characters have the same voice and no depth. I couldn’t tell you a single thing about Mark Watney that distinguishes him from any generic astronaut character except the botany thing, which…

Please tell us more. Just one Werth story to cap this nightmare of a season.

“bashing”

Hey, she didn’t claim 9/11 was an inside job this time or that the moon walk was faked, so at least she’s making progress.

But he swears he loves us!

Have you read this?

When I wrote that comment, there were probably 6 or 7 comments that were just. . . not helpful.

So you’re saying that hockey players aren’t naturally just a better breed of human than other athletes?

A lot of troglodytes ungreyed in these parts. Disappointing, but not surprising, given the topic.

I think that’s a really interesting point. I also think that Lampard and the other people quoted in this piece frame the scenario entirely as being inappropriate because Americans were grieving and the whole world was/should have been grieving with them.

You misunderstood.