My goodness, Gladwell has parlayed one semi-interesting book into a whole media career of buffoonery passed off as brilliance. He’s really on a role right now.

When it’s still being done over 20 fucking years later it kind of loses its appeal.

I’m in a very small minority, but I don’t mind Corbin. They just need to change him out of that ridiculous ring gear.  It’s actually grown on me a bit and is way better than his original look, but other than his gear, I think he’s a really solid heel.

I think X-Pac is in serious danger of losing a part of his legacy, as “X-Pac Heat” will soon be renamed “Shane-O-Mac Heat”. This incarnation of Shane is unbearable. It was fun when he was younger and actually put on a surprisingly good show.  Now it’s just embarrassing.  They either are too oblivious to know how…

People have been predicting baseball’s demise pretty much since it began as a professional sport in the 1870s. You can literally find 19th Century newspaper articles declaring the sport dead. It’s not dead. It’s not dying. It’s not in danger of possibly dying in some distant future. It is safe. But that doesn’t mean…

“The Popeyes chicken sandwich is here to save America,” trumpeted the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner. “Popeyes fried chicken is fantastic,” she wrote. “The meat is flavorful and juicy, encased in a spiky, golden sea urchin of batter—surprisingly light, uncommonly crispy.” “Best of the bunch,” an anonymous Eater employee wr…

$14 beers

You’re doing it wrong.

Sorry, I just can’t stand this complaint, because you only hear it in baseball. Are families not trying to go to NFL or NBA games? Because they’re even more expensive than a baseball game for a family of four. In some cities, including New York, it’s even more expensive to go to an NHL game (Rangers tickets are…

I’m playing wait-and-see on this.  I don’t buy it.  It’s an NFL owner, and Jim Irsay at that.  He’ll get his money back at some point.

I’m not sure what sport you’re following. The players run the league in the NBA (as they should), and the sport is more popular than ever. If anything, basketball might have the least entitled fans. Yes, there’s still a vocal contingent, but they’re most sequestered to college basketball, where they have their Dukes…

I gave up on the NFL quite a while ago, and all the issues of the past 5 or so years- including many of the ones you just outlined- have only reaffirmed my hatred of the league and showed me I made the right decision. I miss the sport of football (I don’t like the college game and don’t follow), but I just can’t be a…

Nah, soccer is really the only one that holds a candle. Baseball and basketball are nothing like this.  Hockey fans display a real tough-guy bro mentality because, well, the players encourage it by playing with severed limbs, basically. But when a player has real health problems, the fans also tend to be very…

My fear with the retirement of a highly-paid megastar in his 20s is that it is going to motivate the owners to try and force some kind of penalties or clawbacks into contracts for players who retire while still under lucrative contracts. And from what we’ve seen thus far from fans, they would probably fully support…

I came back and read this again after some time (3 months, can’t believe it), and I’m just more disheartened than I originally was. One of the mailbag responses points out that Jon’s parentage and the White Walkers were ultimately pointless. It’s absolutely true. GRRM made it abundantly clear that those were two…

One of my fondest memories from my playing days is a play not unlike this one, where I scored on a bunt single with only one error being made.  I laid down a beauty toward 3rd that just rolled gently along the line.  No one was picking it up, hoping it would roll foul, so I just took off for 2nd.  The 3B picked it up…

I agree that dragging out these old-timers for occasional appearances really isn’t appealing, but I actually think all wrestlers should be “part-timers” to an extent. WWE has gotten better about giving wrestlers time off when they ask for it, but they’re still on the road about 350 days per year. I think the entire…

“Apparently there’s some confusion about white nationalism”

*exasperated gasp*

Man... after reading this... the cast and crew really saved the last season from being anything but an epic disaster (or an even greater disaster than it already was). I give them all the credit in the world. To me, this script tells me that not only were Benioff & Weiss checked out, they were either thumbing their…