Or maybe his agent spending the last 2-3 years letting everyone in the world know that Harper was going to abandon his current team and his fan base if someone offered him more money made him... and this may be hard to fathom.... deeply unlikable. And maybe that has something to do with the ability to market him,…

I’ve said it on so many of these takes, and I’ll say it again: when the player’s previous teams don’t seem to be making any effort to keep them you should seriously wonder what they know. Who is going to know better than the Nationals whether Harper is good for that team? Who is going to know better than the Orioles…

I was and am a terrible athlete, but nothing gave me more confidence and mental strength growing up than six years of jujitsu. The answer to not being a well rounded young person isn’t to shy away from your weaknesses, it’s to work on them and develop them. And nobody ever laid a hand on me again after I laid out…

I hated gym class, but that’s because I was an idiot moody kid who didn’t know a damn thing about what was good for growing up well rounded because I was an idiot moody kid.

Isn’t that what world renowned means? I suppose I was talking about Kokonas himself so yes, Alinea (and his cocktail place, The Aviary) both deserve their own credit for being outstanding.

In wrestling, the difference between cage matches and the Hell in the Cell traditionally has been the ability to escape the cage like Khabib did after the fight.

So did a world renowned Chicago restaurateur.

This is why I utterly love the Costco Kirkland brand cling wrap, which comes with a restaurant style slide cutter. I just pull off a long sheet, press it onto the container, and once it’s pre-fitted I can cut it cleanly.

I dunno about that throwaway line that for sure the Chiefs knew what Romo knew. Isn’t a pretty damn logical explanation for Bob Sutton’s firing that the Chiefs were like “jesus, the B+ QB in the booth knew the offense’s tendencies, why couldn’t you call the right defenses?”

It probably didn’t help that the Wii didn’t come with a controller on which those games were playable at a high level (except to SOME extent Mario Kart). Nintendo realized that as much fun as motion was, they needed to start building functional controls back into their systems. The convertible joycons are a pretty…

Because the PS4 has been the market leader since its launch (before it, really, since the PS3 and PS2 were as well), which means it’s not particularly news. Or interesting. The surge of the Switch, especially in comparison to a mostly failed predecessor, is interesting. 

Well ultimate has two accepted meanings in the English language. One is objective, but that’s not the one you’re talking about (nor, clearly, the one Claire is using). The objective one, meaning the last or final event, is not an matter of opinion; the ultimate day of January is the 31st, the ultimate episode of…

I think the point you’re making is that they should be responsible for the accident because they served someone underage. That’s a perfectly reasonable opinion but not currently the law most places that I am aware of. The essence of dram shop tort liability is that they are responsible for the accident if they…

Been to plenty. I also have defended dram shop litigation in my career. The point is these are fundamentally different rules.

I agree completely. I didn’t make my point particularly clearly, which is that the rule doesn’t give a shit if you’re a driver or a passenger. The server is simply expected to deny service to someone who is visably impaired (which is almost never at the legal limit and varies widely from person to person). 

While it’s notable that she was underage and a jury might take it into consideration, I’m not sure it makes much of a difference with this theory of liability. The idea behind dram shop liability is that you were noticeably intoxicated to the point where the bar should no longer have served you. Not asked whether you…

Redden was barhopping, but it’s also a puzzle as to how the lawsuit knew that she didn’t get carded. Maybe it came up in the criminal trial?

In many states, including mine, it is technically illegal to serve somebody who is visibly intoxicated. 

The article correctly points out that this is a state by state issue, but at least in the state I practice in the issue is not that she was underage—it’s a question of if she was overserved.

Fucking brutal. Take all your stars.