Do you live up to your potential on a daily basis?  I know I don’t.  

You’re being too literal. I just wanted to say “wooder.” I love the northeast and very much dislike LA.

Angels: No fans with no expectations, beautiful weather, ocean front property on the Pacific.

How can you be that thin-skinned when you’re a career 55% free throw shooter?  

It’s pretty standard, my friend. Kuchar didn’t owe the guy the full 10 percent given that Kuchar was probably shouldering a larger portion of the responsibilities of the round, but he owed him more than $5,000.

As someone that decries the more reactionary liberalism of now, yours is a terrible, terrible, terrible take.

I have no doubt that there are widespread attempts by ownership as well as the players to influence the trajectory of contract negotiations in favor of their respective interests.

From a purely baseball standpoint, nothing in either Machado or Harper’s careers suggests they are worth what they’re asking, and every GM in the league knows it.

I don’t know many people that say “fuck em.” They just have a hard time empathizing with someone already making tens of millions of dollars in his struggle to make a few more. You’re basically asking the average person to care about the bottom-half of the richest people in the country in their battle against the…

It works out to reductio ad absurdum. Using such absurd logic, I could reduce all grievances leveled by any group in the US as bellyachers who have it so much better than billions across the globe.

If Americans are going to be such lazy, fat assess that it is a profitable enterprise for catering companies to distribute $8 bags of popcorn to us as we waste away in a stadium seat, then the person whose labor is bringing our fat asses that popcorn should get a proper paycheck and benefits. Otherwise, it’s not a…

I agree, as I said, these are structural issues that undermine labor as a whole. We assist the owners in every business when we elevate the importance of some people’s labor at the expense of others. “Those guys earned it because they’re ‘really smart and hardworking,’” not appreciating that we’re essentially making a…

I tend to agree with you. Nevertheless, we must understand that the players don’t cut a particularly sympathetic figure. At least not when they’re haggling over millions while many of the employees are working for organizations in the largest, most expensive urban areas of the country and getting paid subsistence…

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The NYTimes also reported that the accuser informed SJL’s chief-of-staff that she intended to pursue litigation against the foundation. She requested to meet with SJL, that SJL refused to meet with her, and that she was was fired two weeks later.

It’s the next two paragraphs in the same article:

I didn’t say world class. I said a player capable of filling in short-term while Dembele recovers. In other words, a player as good as a 31-year old Boateng with a bad hip.

An intelligent signing by Barcelona, to be sure, but I’d be more worried about what this says about Barcelona’s academy than anything else. How do they not have a forward in the academy that can fill in for a couple weeks as Dembele gets healthy?