I pickle pretty regularly, but I don’t use cans or boil the brine or anything. I use the sort of quick method that Bert Burneko posted on Deadspin a while back, just a gallon freezer bag full of sliced cucumber, with like 1/4-1/2 cup of a mixture of rice vinegar, fish sauce, brown sugar, salt, and whatever spices I…

I agree, but I also wonder if the superstar ballhog were, you know, not Kyrie, maybe would it still work out? Jimmy Cheesebutt probably messes up that chemistry, Lebron does (but that’s arguably worth it), maybe KD does, and Kyrie, but there are plenty of superstars out there who probably don’t, too.

That reminds me of a story, not from me, but from my dad. He was in a frat in the early ‘80s, and my grandfather came to pick him up one day and entered the frat house. He was appalled by the carnage inside, but generally kept it to himself. But he had brought the family dog. The dog, seeing the horrific sty for what…

The head brewer from (I think) Scratch Brewing was trying to introduce some “rules” for what you needed to do in order to be considered a “farmhouse” brewery or be making a “farmhouse” ale, but it doesn’t appear to be catching on.

I use it when I make pickles. I use Burneko’s method from Deadspin, but the recipe I made recently called for a little bit of fish sauce in the pickling liquid. It adds a nice, savory backbone, and as long as you don’t use too much, it doesn’t taste fishy at all.

I was going to say exactly this. Analysis of Roman-era amphorae suggest that fish sauce was a MASSIVELY important food product throughout the empire.

Tyson Wheeler!

I read it more as a continued indictment of the current free agent market. I don’t think Lauren was saying in any way that he was wrong to take the guarantees now, that kind of life-changing security is worth it. But in a free agent market that is working the way it is supposed to, it would have been a much harder…

It wasn’t supposed to be, but man it seems like it.

The position of Sausage Bureau Chief will not fill itself, but, one could presume that said Bureau Chief will be filled with sausage, whomever it may be.

2016, actually. Been decriminalized for over a decade, too.

This evolution in the commentariat from occasional recognition to full-on conversations is a development for which I am absolutely here.

THE NERVE, BERT.

I’ll never understand people who stan for the multi-billionaire owner and corporation interested only in taking their money.

Makes sense, since alcohol withdrawal is one of the only drug withdrawals that can, on its own, kill you.

I think Porthos is referring to the staff-wide opinion that the Pelicans were stupid for not submitting to Lebron’s demands and moving Anthony Davis to the Lakers before the deadline, regardless of the offer. When it was out there that the Pelicans had purposefully negotiated in bad faith, the entire Deadspin staff…

I was basically going to make this same exact comment, but you nailed it.

That was my thought. I have to feel like Columbus fans are pretty jacked up about this. They get to cheer for a team that looked at their options and said “fuck it, we’re all in,” instead of a team that said “we might be really good in a couple years, guys!”

Yeah, but Peter Chiarelli was really, really bad at his job.

In regards to religion in sports, it also has a lot to do with the fact that the best athletes also tend to come up poor (this is true across the globe, actually). Poor communities tend to place a much, much more stringent focus on religion, due to factors of education, economics, cultural heritage, etc. Obviously not…