I used to handle budgets for my department at my old gig, and for years as long as we continued to hit 20% profit or better, the powers that be left us alone. Then overnight, we were told 35% or better, which was/is completely impossible in that field. My department was laid off in batches over the course of three…

I don’t really know when this switch was flipped, but it is no longer important or good for a business/company to just make a profit. Somehow, someway, they have to make more than that, as there is always a way to make more, people and consequences be damned.

I mean, if Acuna had pointed at Martinez and done the D-X crotch chop towards him, you might have a point. Taking an extra couple of seconds to admire the fact that you just hit a baseball halfway to the moon doesn’t exactly qualify as poor sportsmanship in my book.

Jesus, that was an incredible play and Joe Buck made it sound as exciting as eating corn flakes in a bowl of lukewarm milk.

I wanted him to respect the game & respect me as a veteran player.

It is rather unfortunate that companies figured out that the “average” American only half reads anything and don’t really care who produced the content, even if the source is as suspect as a fart after eating Taco Bell.

I thought you were supposed to be covering sports, not covering journalism. Is there some way that I, the average reader, could register my displeasure at this non-sports content to your manager? It has turned me off the idea of clicking to find out about the new Mazda lineup.

Thanks to Wohl, Warren has now locked down the cougar vote.

Yep. I live in Texas and they tossed out their beloved Sam Houston outta the governor’s office to secede. He was the president of Texas, a senator from Texas, and the governor of Texas and that didn’t save his career. The people of Texas wanted slavery more than they wanted to keep him in office. Hell, my kid goes to…

Khalil Mack was also an unannounced guest when he came in to sack Cousins on air because there was no one who bothered to stop him.

It’s an error, but I just don’t think it’s very egregious. And while I don’t think anything is anybody’s fault here, why isn’t the narrative “Josh Hader isn’t going to forget this one for a long time”? A big arm with a 2 run lead, 2 outs and a man on 1st should bring that one to the 9th intact. Can’t do much about the…

Yeah, this issue came up on the Salty Waitress column over on the Takeout a couple weeks ago.

Speaking as pro-employee, restaurants should integrate the costs of employee health insurance into their pricing. Restaurants who insist on this surcharge are, as you say, just passive-aggressively complaining about…

I strongly, strongly recommend clicking through and watching him get torn to tiny little brand-humping shreds in the replies.

Yeah but Watson just has the natural born ability to read a defense. That’s god-given.

No, the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. The punishment fits because it’s fitting both this crime and all the other incredibly dangerous similar crimes he’s gone out of his way to commit on the field over the past decade. You get one DUI, you get a year in jail. If it’s your sixth one, the judge isn’t going to be…

This will be Burfict’s 14th suspension in his NFL career, and his third for an illegal hit. After his ejection, the Raiders captain ran off the field blowing kisses to the booing crowd.

If he’d only knocked a woman unconscious instead, they’d have him back in a month at worst.

Here’s the big difference. In ten years, there will be different teams at the top of the Prem. Man U will come back. Chelsea will come back. Someone will be bought be a billionaire and make a run to the top.

I don’t understand what The Matrix has to do with anything.

This was just a normal Shadowrun session.