So for Yank audiences, we should say cockmuppet? That works for me.

“..half-baked and overcooked..” is really some Krugman level mixing of metaphors. Are we sure we know who wrote this?

There was a great article about this a few years back.

The only good Christmas song is The Pogues, Fairytale of New York.

New York, 1999 or maybe early 2000. In college in Connecticut, but in the city for the weekend visiting a friend who goes to Columbia. Go out to a bar with group of her friends, one of whom is truly, strikingly good looking. Leo DiCaprio walks into the bar, and people sort of lose their shit. He and his friends camp…

Sale is better than Scherzer and Strasburg. He would have been your number 1.

They should have insisted on Devers or Benintendi being included (if not both).

I’m not happy.

WS should have insisted on Moncada, Devers, and Benintendi from the RS.

That’s at least tepid. “Aside from his monster 2015....” Right. If you ignore the 10 WAR season he put up when he was 22 years old, then he’s pretty average.

Yes that would be bad. Not because she is a woman, but because she has absolutely no managerial experience at any level. If she spends the next ten years in a series of increasingly prominent coaching positions, with success at each level, then I would be open to the idea. I would similarly be against the idea of…

I think you need to amend that to don’t live in Manhattan or the part of Brooklyn north of Midwood and west of Brownsville. Some of those Brooklyn neighborhoods are more expensive than all but the worst parts of Manhattan.

Come down to Chicago. We have a (small) supporters club and regularly watch games.

They also have played by far the most difficult schedule of any team in the league. They will run off a few wins in a row in December/January when the schedule is easier and will be back to boring mid-table mediocrity.

Worst part is the the Times or The Atlantic or whoever will think of it as some sacrifice or burden to stop hiring exclusively out of Harvard instead of the incredible opportunity if would be. I really wish one of the east coast “elite” media institutions would, for the next 2-3 years as an experiment, not hire anyone…

I would be a lot more impressed here if she named the producer. Pretty weak tea.

Browns will have the number 1 pick next year. They will take a QB. They will not lay out a bunch of money for a placeholder while their new #1 overall pick sits on the bench.

Probably right, but I would put money on KAT as a dark horse.

He’s the anti-Steven Adams.

If you haven’t already seen it, you should immediately watch Borgen. Basically the Danish version of the West Wing with that actress playing the first ever female Prime Minister in Denmark. She absolutely kills it.