“That’s the plan.”

Unfortunately they also decided after SMU that, regardless of how badly the institution loses control of its program, there isn’t anything bad enough to merit the death penalty. 

The school recently announced the hiring of new head coach Greg Brandory

Exactly. I didn’t even know there was a hole until he ran through it.

In native culture “maize” is a synonym for “no timeouts remaining”....

“I just wanted to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.”

Not really an obscure rule - it’s from the original Knickerbocker rules that modern baseball is based on:

Perhaps there’s some obscure baseball rule I missed, but I’m pretty sure you can’t strike out 10 batters in 3 innings.

Lazy take, dude, considering a couple of the Cards’ all time heroes are Gibson and Ozzie. StL gave proper appreciation to Andujar and Lou Brock. Yadi is more beloved than anyone else on the team.

Yeah, lots of racist shitlords in the huge geography of Cards’ fandom, but the Cards are hardly some White Power cult’s fever…

It’s fucking Turkey! Who gives a shit! What person in a position of power would actually give into Turkey —

It’s OK to talk politics as long as you don’t venture into controversial topics like the value of democracy, the right to protest your government, or the right to due process.

Yeah they’re both rich but isn’t she different rich, in that she started off “poor” while he had a “silver foot in his mouth” (thanks Ann Richards).

I’m being nitpicky, so I apologize, but like climate change, the issues in Hong Kong are really human rights issues, not political issues.

A . . . checkered history, you say

Hakuna Frittata! Ain’t no passing craze

The general rule seems to be, the whiter the bad guys the better the story. If the villains are middle eastern, they might as well be Uruk-hai with turbans. 

I believe it was after Sum of All Fears that Clancy’s “writing” process became “handing off a 12-page outline to a ghost writer while I roll in my great big piles of money.”

Is there a more on the nose college sports nickname than the Volunteers? 

He volunteered not to be a Volunteer?

My brain is broken.

Last time a Tiger jumped on a pile of bodies it got a 7 iron upside the head.