The Pirates will have to trade her for other hostages with more team control.

You’re right. The Rooney Rule is to ensure that new blood is considered in the hiring process.

Exactly. If he had gone after Nasser on the courthouse steps, the likelihood of severe prosecution goes down significantly. In a courtROOM? Geesh ... he’s going to get it. I was rooting for him, but he’s going to be punished severely.

Good luck hiring good reporters moving forward.

I was a frequent reader of his. To his credit, he even offered to get coffee once (I can confirm his Starbucks issue). At that time, he was at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was trying to establish an online revenue model. I told him that I thought a hyper-local subscription model backed by a national chain was…

He is (was) innovative. As a beat writer 10-15 years ago, he was engaging readers/commenters on the PG & Trib’s site and blogs in a way that few if any sports reporters were doing. Have a take on the Pirates front office? He’d often reply to your post to affirm or correct it. Sometimes he’d even reply privately to say…

His fame is built on a strong foundation.

What am I missing with Dunkirk? I love Christopher Nolan. I love war movies. I thought Dunkirk was a boring mess. I never even caught a single character’s name.

MSU’s automated phone system right now:

Heartbreaker is definitely worse. First, that’s why it’s called a fucking HEARTBREAKER. They don’t call blowouts BRAINEXPLODERS, which is the only thing I can think of that sounds worse than breaking your GD heart.

Not to mention, the Pirates also have stated that they’ve used profits in the past to pay down debt. They’re decreasing the amount they owe into the team, so that they will get an even bigger percentage of that $1.25 billion if/when they choose to sell. It’s a scam.

When did being an “influential” sportswriter even become a thing, though?

Not to mention this is a matchup of SEC schools ... essentially his base.

I know I’m late to the discussion, Katie, but I finally took my 9-year-old to it this weekend and I have a hot taek.

I was going to point out that there are two types of billionaires: the guys who founded a computer/software company and had to scratch and claw their way to the top; and the guys/gals whose grandpa was a railroad tycoon and have lived a life of doing exactly what they want. Both of these types have had people killed.…

Exactly. Not to mention the entire plot of the movie is based around that slow speed chase. You’d hope that you could put a little more thought into the primary plot of your billion dollar movie.

It’s too bad that MLB wouldn’t step in and block the deal, then.

Sounds like he was hoping he could eat at the Y.

When I saw the choking, I assumed they were doing a Joe Flacco impersonation.

I blame a lot of this behavior on Sunday School. As someone who grew up going to Sunday School each week, I can vividly remember picture books and coloring books that depicted Bible stories such as Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus, etc. and — in the stories — they seemed just like regular people, except they all had beards…