I’m going to disagree on Sauerbrunn. She has not looked herself. And more troubling, she looks slow - she’s not getting to stuff she should get to and Naeher is making poor decisions to compensate for that. I totally agree that McDonald would have been a great sub for this. Horan and Lloyd should have gone in earlier…

They need to pull Sauerbrunn. She’s was shaky again today and she just looks so slow out there. I’d like to see Davidson in there again. She looked good and I know they played her wide before, but she is a very competent center back if they need her there. 

She was only a true decoy for about 5 minutes today when Spain popped her and realized that she was too hurt to run anyways. I don’t think Carli could have gone 85" today with the heat and we really would have had no speed with Megan/Carli/Tobin (who looked slower today too but just generally seemed to be out of…

She and Lavelle were the only ones with any speed today. I do wish Crystal wouldn’t have played it quite so wide all the time. We just had no presence in front of the goal so when it was that wide Rapinoe had nowhere to go with it.

The whole front line looked slow and Morgan looked not just slow but injured the whole…

Both of these are mostly accurate, though some of the passes I think were less sloppy and more an anticipation of speed that Morgan just didn’t have today. She looked slow and gimpy pretty much the whole game. I don’t know why Ellis left her in that long when she looked unwell and was getting beat up on the whole…

Amy Acker would make a great anything - she’s got such range.

We are seeing that here too (though maybe I live in your metro area). One of my employees had coached baseball for his sons for years and was really looking forward to both coaching again and umping at a different level for a little spending money during retirement. He’s already thrown in the towel on umping after a…

Spot on with the two sport suggestion, and it’s even better if they aren’t “naturals” at one of the two sports. They will definitely develop skills that will benefit them in the other sport if they choose to go all in on it down the road, maybe most importantly how to enjoy something and work for something that…

Yeah this case is so much WTF. The findings are seriously “They were women in a bar, so what were they expecting.” It’s simultaneously “she was asking for it” x 4 and “he didn’t rape her, what’s the big deal?” Yikes. 

I think the loss of generational continuity can be a big one. There aren’t very many stay at home parents now which means cooking is less likely to be as much of a part of the routine for a lot of kids. Once kids are old enough to help, they are often in oodles of activities. Also, high schools rarely offer home ec…

This doesn’t seem unreasonable to me, though maybe it could be phrased better. Having lived in 3 border states and now in a couple of non-border states, I’ve realized “hot” or “spicy” is seriously relative. I’ve been warned about “spicy” foods in Midwestern states and DC that had the same kick as a marinara sauce…

Truth. A cheap rotisserie chicken is the greatest lifehack for folks new to cooking or people short on time or people cooking for one. You can make a ton of things from a rotisserie chicken - tortilla soup, enchiladas, chicken and rice, all manner of salads and sandwiches, Chipotle style bowls and burritos, an…

Also, not exactly related to your question, but I really feel a need to voice my horror at the bat-wielding mother-beating son choosing to major in political science. There’s no way he picks that unless he thinks dad can get him work in that arena, right? Like he can’t become a lawyer with his criminal history (I…

They made him look at “beautiful rainbows”... oh, the horror, the horror.

Yeah, Shanahan seems to have definitely been the victim in multiple incidents. It sounds like the real reason he withdrew is because it dredged up the case of his at the time teenaged son beating his mother to the point of skull fracture, broken arm, and in need of surgery for internal bleeding. Said son graduated…

I’ll echo the consensus opinion that it is extremely unlikely you’d run into that kind of behavior at any casual type of gym - Planet Fitness, LA Fitness, a neighborhood Y or rec center gym, but I also totally get that you can tell yourself it is just anxiety talking and unlikely to happen but that doesn’t mean you…

I think it’s also worth at least wondering how much prescription narcotics and now the passage of time have distorted things in her mind. A bad landing in a puddle jumper, even on a runway, with seatbelt off could make someone hit their head/do some damage to their neck. I can’t speak to the early 90s, but as a teen…

“Second, YOU CAN’T LIVE AT THE GALLERIA. It’s JUST a mall.”

Clearly you never saw that very special episode of Saved by the Bell in which Zack white knights a homeless girl who works/lives at the mall. 

Same. I don’t take Lyft very often, pretty much just when I’m traveling, so I don’t have a wealth of experience but all my drivers, save one whose driving in NYC was pretty terrifying, have been delightful people. Maybe I’m weird, but I always get butterflies while I’m waiting for my Lyft driver to arrive. It’s sort…

The name is/was definitely terrible, but it was a really solid affordable option for work clothes for a variety of sizes. My grandmother always looked so put together and she did much of her shopping there because it was affordable and they carried a Tall in pants (or atleast they used to, she died a decade ago). My…