“When our lives depended on it”

They are, in fact, doing okay according to the standings, but they basically play Rockets-lite, except instead of James Harden and Chris Paul it’s 100% run by a still-pretty-good-but-not-great-and-definitely-aging Blake Griffin. And the Rockets peripheral players actually do the 3-and-D thing decently, whereas the…

Alright. He’s deserved every one of those critical blogs about him, so the least we can say is -- good shit here, Peter King. Well done.

Holy fucking shit I lost it when it zooms in on Roth searching on Bing.

They’ve got a goalie wearing #19? What the fuck?!?

Look, I’ve never worked in service like this, but I’m a big proponent of always tipping well, short of absolutely dreadful service that is clearly the fault of the server/bartender, and not related to some externality they cannot control. It blows my mind that anyone would ever think that they shouldn’t tip at a…

Maybe it is because I’m in SE MI where cars are kind of a big deal, but my dad taught me when I was 12 or 13 that because of the way airbags work, holding the week and 9 and 3 or even down at 8 and 4 can save you from serious injury. And as the post says, it’s definitely more comfortable. A little surprised this is…

Albert, please never stop writing blogs like this.

Hell yeah hook this shit right into my veins! This is my pet hot take and nothing will ever convince me it is wrong.

I have no shits to give about the HOF, but I must say it’s great to have Tom Scocca’s new project out there. He’s carrying on skewering the powerful people that deserve skewering. Keep up the great work, Tom.

Who is the best player of that generation?

Trout will be just under 30 when he’s on the free agent market in 2020. Define “overpaid.” Teams are getting smarter, but what we’ve usually seen is that guys like Trout sign a big deal around 30 and the front half of the contract produces seasons where the team gets surplus value, while the back half of the contract…

I can forgive the Vikings fandom, but the Michigan fandom...

The second best part of all this is how the Rockets and their incredibly boring and sinful version of basketball keep losing. I can’t get enough!

The only way there will be a “report” like a Starr Report is if the Special Counsel’s Office is shut down/defunded/hamstrung in some fashion, and they are able to pass materials over to Democrat-controlled HJC and HPSCI. Even then, there is undoubtedly a boatload of evidence and analysis that requires classification…

I love this comment and I am going to frame it. Thank you, you’re a Great American.

I agree on OSU, but I’m in Big 10 country so I have watched OSU play more than OU. The bottom line for me is that Haskins dropped 60 on a Michigan defense that, while obviously overrated in retrospect, is still one of the better defenses in the country. Nobody in the Big 12 plays defense anymore. I honestly hate OSU,…

Okay, but I didn’t defend UCF’s schedule. I didn’t feel the need to bash it like ND’s because it seems to me that UCF’s schedule is, on its face, pretty much always going to be a rung below almost any Power 5 contender. So we are in total agreement. I only went a little deeper on ND’s schedule because they have a…

Okay, you make a fair point, so let me restate what I wrote — strictly looking at the “football resume” that UCF is able to put together for a CFP bid, the criticism of UCF not being in a Power 5 conference and not bulking up in the non-conference is valid, even if these factors are not entirely under UCF’s control.…

I don’t think UCF would, but I agree on all the others.