Poot, do you know of a way to figure out which mattress companies are attached to specific manufacturers in China or elsewhere? I ask because I had a Bergad memory foam mattress that I purchased online from Bergad about 13 years ago. It was my Goldilocks just right mattress. But now Bergad no longer sells directly to…

The Zinus mattresses are definitely at a good price point, but they aren’t for everyone so if anyone is considering one and can find a friend who has one who might let you try it out for a minute, I’d recommend it. I heard rave reviews and my Bergad memory foam mattress was 12 years old and I thought probably nearing…

This is a weird and not particularly cheap recommendation, but the Yogibo pillow works surprisingly well for me. I side sleep and relatively recently herniated a couple of discs in my neck (or rather, the person who plowed into my car herniated them for me) resulting in all sorts of neck issues with sleep that I…

So true. I don’t think I know anyone that puts significant miles on their bike who hasn’t at least been clipped by a driver’s mirror before. There also seems to be a class of driver who becomes unreasonably angry and aggressive when they see cyclists. A couple of months ago I had a guy lay on his horn and flip me off…

Meh, she’s small potatoes right now - Candice is brought to you by the fine folks at Larry’s House of Discount Furniture who donated 100 bucks and a chair to her last campaign. I think this little screed is Candice’s audition for potential corporate slime benefactors to tell her what to do during her Ohio Senate…

Definite shade. I miss Shade Court.

And it gets bonus points for having a theater built just for it to run continuously for years on end. Yes, I saw it in Bochum when I was 14. It was utterly indefensible auf Deutsch but I LOVED IT. It’s so stupid it is kind of fantastic.

This was what I thought of when I read the Peck article too. Much like Bret, the performative edgelord act got him a lot more ink than he would have received otherwise. 

If you get a chance to watch the match with Chile somewhere (not sure whether the full match is posted anywhere), it will totally reaffirm all you said here. She looked damn good, not just for a 20 year old, but for any player. And she’s such a danger on set pieces too. Just a very complete player who is going to be…

The ref did not have control of the match from the get go. That was a terrible non-call and then it looked like he was considering sending McKennie off for a minute and thought better of it. I’m sure the Mexican fans were baffled by at least one non-call on Miazga going through the back of someone, but this was so…

He’s a hard worker and very competent. If we had better talent on the rest of the field I think he’s fine in that spot and he benefited some from the attention they had to give Pulisic too. I think once some of the other talented youngsters are out there he could be dangerous. I’d like to see him out there with…

Why was Lovitz even on this team? He looked lost on the field and badly out of his depth earlier in the tourney and that’s the sub he makes? That was so strange. I initially thought the announcers had it wrong that he was warming up, but nope, he brought in Lovitz as Boyd who was actually good at creating…

Oh god, where has this gif been all my life?

Those kits were so hideous. Like I really would love to have seen the design brief on that order, “so we’re thinking men’s bathing suit circa 1890...”

Davidson did see playing time. She looked damn good in the match she played and I actually thought she probably should have been given the start over Sauerbrunn at CB in the following match just due to the matchup favoring Tierna’s speed and size over Becky who was looking pretty slow and a little off at that point. I…

In fairness I think Pulisic is pretty creative, he just doesn’t have the same level of talent surrounding him on the national team that Rose does on the USWNT and there’s only so much you can do when other teams can just swarm you and say “fine, come beat us with Ream and Arriola on that side of the field.” That’s not…

She was a bad ass all tourney and people forget she is not really a defender. She primarily played forward and midfielder in college and still plays forward and mid with her pro club. She was so solid and so underrated all tournament. Other teams went at her hard all tournament and her play was good to brilliant…

She’s delightful. Also, this and the part II are worth watching because Sam Mewis is also delightful and they are TERRIBLE at this game and then come back to play again after planning a strategy and are still bad at it.

All of the above plus impressive lack of self-awareness since if they didn’t care they wouldn’t have bothered to comment on twitter?

They didn’t have great options. They had no support back from their midfield and were out numbered on the left side. If they had played onto her from that side she had help wide in Rapinoe and Morgan crashing in on a run. The other centerback probably should have closed on her but Lavelle would have likely nutmegged…

Her twitter activity is great. Also, the USWNT BFF quizzes on youtube are great because she and Mewis are so terrible at them and cannot stop laughing at themselves. And she rooms with Mal Pugh and Andi Sullivan in the DC area and they seem to have delightfully 3's Company style goofy lives together.