Got a Mazda6 with (at the time) all the gizmos. The radar cruise control is hands-down great. Lane keeping is a little weird at first, but I don’t mind the little nudge, but it’s really nice when it’s raining and hard to see the lane markings. Of course I have to be aware if it is picking the markings up, but when…

I’m fascinated by the imagery of Xi parading by the troops rather than the traditional them parading by him. Obviously that’s how it works when inspecting on smaller scales, but on this large scale it’s oddly compelling. A really strong way to say “this is the guy in charge”

I was getting geared up to contend that water is not wet, ready to lay a blistering argument that nobody could deny.

I have no problem admitting that, even though he’s now in Filthydelphia, I still got a huge mancrush on Harper

Especially once the producers realized she was the only one of the female gladiators that could compete and put her in every event

They really do need a good baseball game, especially now that Switch has that problem solved with Super Mega Baseball

I just watched the Durham Bulls - a pretty good baseball team - in a semifinal playoff game, second row behind the plate, with unlimited standard concessions, for $17/ticket

Deadspin was a favorite location for Terry Reardon, but he only just now read some Drew?

So Chicago’s only points were scored by a kicker?

I originally poo-pooed NFL because, obviously. But thinking about it... it’s the only one of the three where you’ve got a whole team that can help you along the way. As long as you could keep pace with a couple big men leading the way, get a few good blocks along the way, and have enough in the tank for a final dash…

The NCAA’s going to find a way to complain about this, right?

It’s too situation-specific to really make general statements, but I always at least check ABnB/HomeAway with hotels and I’ve done a number of trips very successfully with them. I’ve used it in LA, Paris, Rome, and Florence for way cheaper than any hotels in the same locations; and for longer stays, there are positives…

I feel like the ticket price argument is compelling. I’m not in a MLB city so paying $100/ticket for decent seats once a year when I’m back home isn’t bad, but I can get a much better seat at the Durham Bulls for $10-15. And they don’t have any problem filling the stadium up, even with huge numbers of us damned…

Most traditional sports at their core are pretty basic games, it’s generally not hard for a newcomer to get at the gist pretty quickly. And they show on TV very well. But most esports suffer from some combination of things like opaque goals, non-centralized action, and way too much going on at once.

Are esports the future, a niche, or a fad? I’m bullish on them in the abstract, but the current crop seems inherently hamstrung by only being engaging to those that play the game; nobody’s made a video game that you can get into without actually playing it (unlike pretty much all of the popular traditional sports).

So when the new overlords inevitably run Deadspin into the ground, where should we migrate to?

Prometheus and Bob was one of my favorite Nick things, full stop

The elders speak of a land far away, a place of myth and history, where men are free of the constraints of mortality. They tell us it is a dark place, but we hear its wondrous call in our hearts, and yearn . Nobody dares speaks it name, but somehow we all know it true:

Kids these days, ruining fencing’s fine conservative image.

And the way that it slides into that other river? Disgusting