I suspect his point was originally that he’ll be 29 for most of the season, so that what they’re paying for is mostly a 29-year-old player. That would be very easy to clarify, but this being the internet, he picked a fight instead.

1. Wins are what matter.
2. Wins are what matter.
3. Wins are what matter.

Anything advertisers and the government can do, people with worse things in mind can also do.

Reinhold Messner is astonishing; they’ve changed the rules so no one can ever a) solo climb Everest, b) in a single day, and/or c) without supplemental oxygen. It would be like if the Belmont Stakes put up a speed limit so no one could ever run as fast as Secretariat again.

I don’t think it’s about the gambling/image thing, I think it’s about the NFL hating that fantasy football allows people to make money on their sport without the NFL’s involvement (and profits). The NCAA is tolerated because they are useful idiots, but they hate letting anyone else tap football as a revenue stream.

Owners > players

I think there’s an assumption that if you’re a New York creative professional, marriage is something people do when they’re old. But in reality, lots of people get married straight out of college or even high school, yet that’s something you never see reflected in comics. I never thought of married Peter as being…

Then why not do it like football and have completely separate offensive and defensive squads? Shortstops are paid to hit, they’re paid to field.

I give flowers under two circumstances: to my mother, for Mother’s Day, and anonymously. Not even in a “secret admirer” kind of way, just birthdays or special occasions, because a) the mystery makes it more exciting, and b) I’m shy and deathly afraid said person will get the wrong idea slash sometimes it’s actually…

This is somewhat tangential to the point being discussed, but how long will it before we have to stop saying “blackballed” because it’s deemed to be racially loaded?

Police officer isn’t even in the top 10. Electrical utility workers are.

It isn’t hard, but not paying them is part of the strategy. This case is already being made out like they’re punishing regular cops for doing their jobs, rather than enforcing the law against bad cops who killed someone: the courts are against them. The people are against them. Now that they’re not even being paid…

It’s sad that this needs to be written, but let’s face it - if you are the type of person to do this in the first place, you don’t really care about anything the article said. “Of course all the attention will be on me, I just got engaged! That’s how it should be!”

The interesting facet of this isn’t just the dozen-odd people actually under indictment. It’s that the Department of Justice will be able to subpoena any and all of FIFA’s records relating to anything under investigation and enter them into evidence. That is likely to include, among very many other things, the…

The basic answer is history. For about a century in US history, fighting on land with soldiers and fighting in ships at sea were two completely separate things, so they were organized as separate government departments. The army essentially never deployed overseas, which is why the ships’ gunners, the marines, had…

Gooddell is toothless and powerless in court. Everyone, possibly excepting him, knows that. The whole point of the commissioner system in US sports is that it’s better to one have jerk, however arbitrary, making decisions than to leave it as a free-for-all among owners and players navigating the legal system.

This is true, but I think it speaks volumes about the players’ view of the NFLPA that they don’t really trust the union to take care of it. Money you earn is yours (after taxes, at least), whereas guaranteed benefits from the union and the League will only stick around until they are negotiated away. If you take a pay…

Billy is the worst.

UW has 20 teams - after cutting men’s and women’s swimming in 2009. That doesn’t sound like “adding more sports and more athletes makes money” to me.

I’m confused.