Yes, a sliding tackle is a "hard" challenge. It's essentially the same thing as a baserunner in baseball deciding to slide into the player covering the plate. As in baseball, it's a fantastic way for someone to get hurt. Except in baseball, the baseman knows the slide can come from only one direction.

AJ Pierzynski's List of Unwritten Dinner Rule Violations

No...that won't work...I can't read.

She offered to leave, and he told her not to.

I've always thought of it as we're all standing in a big circle, and you're standing in the center of the circle, pointing to each of us in turn and telling us why our teams suck. Though this headline is phrased in the second person, it's not actually addressing me, it's addressing fans of the Houston Lone Star…

You walk into a strange NE liquor store and you go, "well, hell, I don't know a single one of these local microbrewery brands, and I don't want to take chance on something that's going to have, like, lilac or passion fruit in it or something, what am I gonna drink?" and then you look over at the domestic shelves and…

"Reebok: A shoe brand that won't corrupt your male children." And then "won't" is underlined 'cause it makes it look like the competition will

"So, um...after Damon intercepts Manny's pitch, they'll...I dunno...Kevin Millar will make a Schilling joke, and then they'll just pass the mic to whoever wants it."

Way too short, though. It's not the Buttfumble without Sanchez' final desperate grab for the ball transitioning to just lying there, face down in despair.

I thought it was pretty light on likable characters, too. Whitney Able's character is the most engaging, but she's got barely any backstory—she's rich, she doesn't like her fiance that much, and um...she speaks Spanish? That's it—while Scoot McNairy's character constantly gets backstory but none of it mitigates that…

I only felt that briefly, and then there was a very long urge to shave my face using overpriced gimmicky razors.

Oh...right...I could have done that Incognito...

Nah, this little piggy just got dislocated and popped right back into place with some lingering soreness

I think the answer is: sort of. Ball-doctoring is illegal to prevent spitballs and to prevent pitchers from gaining an unfair advantage.

It's a bracket for how bitchy, not how many there are. The critical mass of the anti-vaxxers' bitching exceeds that of the CrossFitters, even if there are less than them. May the group with the highest per capita bitchiness win!

I never thought I'd see someone show less hustle to first than David Ortiz, but here's Babe Ruth to prove me wrong.

I've never noticed how he sees the fumble get picked up and just sort of gives up and plants his face in the turf before.

What if you want to both crate and couch train a child at the same time?

I am a Sox fan as well, which definitely adds a bit more emotional resonance to games (my grandfather lived and died in the space between their first two World Series championships, and I got to see 3, and he was a much bigger fan that I will ever be), so I agree my bar to enjoyment may be lower. To be honest, I…

I can completely understand how baseball can be boring: the scores are low, the games aren't restricted by minutes played, even the best hitters are returned to the dugout 2/3rds of the time, and most of the time over half the players on the field are standing still. Nonetheless, it never is dull for me. For me, most…