Nick, I’m trying to make some sense of the report. A >$3,500 differential between Dare and Graham Counties is kind of insane, when you think about it. Where is that money going? $3500/student isn’t textbooks. And teacher supplements in those bigger counties aren’t going to be that extravagant. Is this just smaller…

C’mon, Jameson, urine you’re in the big leagues now.

So ESPN is outsourcing its public editor role to the comments section on Deadspin.

This is a significant blow to their competition.

His employer has deep pockets?!?

I think a well-produced highlights show is still viable content in the next 5 years (and beyond).

Keep in mind: they’ve chosen the profession of journalism. It’s one thing if a software developer reluctantly agrees to work on Hooli Box 2.0 because he wants to keep his job. It’s another thing for a person who signed up to be a part of the Fourth Estate to cower to the nobility.

The implications of quitting are interesting, so thank you for sharing. But couldn’t they just refuse to do it? Being fired surely would absolve them of any of their contract stipulations. I get it: a lot of local reporters want to stay and live in their town, so their career options are limited. But ...

Well, he completely whiffed on catching it. I don’t think the ball even made contact with his glove. When fans see someone with a glove (even a kid), they assume that guy is going to make the catch. So he probably gave his neighbors a false sense of security PLUS sucks at catching. So, no, leave the glove at home and…

Instead of bringing a glove, he should have brought a new pair of prescription eye glasses.

The steak question led me to another question of etiquette/appropriateness. I welcome feedback.

I like this. The “call on the field must be overturned with indisputable evidence” is based on the origins of reply in football, which was before HDTV and cameras everywhere. There’s no reason to assume that replay isn’t capable of seeing the correct call.

This isn’t being talked about enough. That was one of the worst slides in the history of slides, given the outcome. If he runs through the base, he’s safe. If he slides with his foot straight ahead, he’s safe. The only way he’s out is what he does — slows down, knees bent. It cost them the game, not replay.

Bunting is not hard. I mean, everything is hard when the ball is coming at you 90 mph, but bunting is not harder than hitting a line drive.

I realize the dialogue here is around the autonomous technology, but is no one going to question why the bicyclist didn’t see the Volvo and react?

You’re basing your (snarky) argument on the law applying to subcontractors. If you’re going to do that, you might as well put a hard cap on earnings, because I don’t see why Microsoft needs to have substantially better-paid janitors than those at the local elementary school.

The additional point to yours is that the Jets are still drafting THIRD ... behind two teams that will almost definitely take a QB. So they gave up a crapload of value so they can take the 3rd best guy at a position, and they don’t even know for sure whom that guy is.

But it would be very easy for Microsoft to do-away with low-salary employees, if they haven’t already. You could easily outsource those individuals ... which would be worse for them, btw, because now they’d get benefits from a staffing firm, instead of a software giant.

The other thing to factor in to this discussion:

I recently worked in corporate PR for a Fortune 500, publicly traded company. Any time a story came out about the CEO’s personal wealth, he would instruct our small PR team to try and either kill the story or flood the market with (sigh) fake news to try and drop the story about his new Manhattan apartment to the 2nd…