This past year I’ve heard for the first time of people boycotting the NFL because of the league’s handling of brain injuries and domestic violence. AFAIK that’s unprecedented - people who want to watch a sport giving it up because they hate the company purveying it. It’s probably not a problem for the NFL yet but that…

This are what the best team in the world look like.

I look forward to hearing you explain how your family are doing.

The worst experience of my life was dislocating my knee at 17. For $16 million, I’d do it again.

But that’s sort of my point - you have to be really short-sighted to think possibly winning one match with an injured player is worth the risk of probably losing more matches later because you lost a key player to a brain injury.

Why unfortunately? Do you think the majority of managers are actually any good?

If using one substitution is a bigger concern than possibly losing one of your highly talented professionals long term, possibly forever, then you have no business running a professional sports team.

Almost all of our laws and jurisprudence on determining parenthood comes from the pre-DNA era, to say nothing of gamete donation, surrogacy, and everything else. So far we’ve muddled through with precedents and such, but actual reality is getting further and further away from the world which laws attempt to regulate.

Calling the culinary abortions they serve “subs” is an insult to the American tradition of the big-eating working man. A sub, or a hoagie, or a hero, or whatever you call it is supposed to be a monster of a sandwich. Half a pound of meat and cheese at least. The kind of thing you eat in between four-hour stretches of…

Craig has actually talked about this and it’s part of the reason he left - his mockery of the late-night format eventually became the late-night format. Blandness is almost inescapable.

The rod is 4cm around and the string goes around four times, so that’s 4*4 = 16 cm.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I do it solely to piss you off. I don’t even like soccer, but I hate you more than I hate soccer.

They’re largely based on what kind of diet it would be required for the millions of overweight and obese Americans to lose weight without otherwise changing their lifestyle, which is probably even more stupid.

We don't hear about Jameis Winston's questionable behavior in draft speculation for a simple reason: the people involved are a bunch of middle-aged white men, and as much as middle-aged white men like shitting on the prospects of talented young minorities, they dislike talking about sexual assault and how our society…

1. Disrespecting the game = not playing the way 50 and 60 year olds like to pretend the game was played when they were young.

Missing: "Professor" Vic Chalker from X-Factor. The confrontation was built up over six issues, as he constructed a giant suit of armor with enough weapons to exterminate X-Factor, making it better and better. Finally he confronts X-Factor, the audience has been prepped for the introduction of a new supervillain, it…

DKNY classic trunks are basically my perfect underwear (this picture is from Amazon and kind of awful).

DKNY classic trunks are basically my perfect underwear (this picture is from Amazon and kind of awful).

The statistical comparison thing is a sportswriter argument, not a fan argument. Most of the arguments against PEDs are sportswriter arguments and not anything anyone actually cares about. But because sportswriters have the platform, what they think is what dominates the discussion.

Professional athletes are trained not to flinch so if they get hit, they get the foul.

I actually think the prequels deserve less respect than they get - what they are mostly remembered for is poor acting, bad accents, and over-reliance on CGI characters, but if you get past all that, you're still left with convoluted plots, cheap attempts at drama that lack emotional payoff, mid-act interludes that…