This may have been asked in a different thread, but could ESPN feasibly charge a monthly subscription fee for unfettered access to their WatchESPN app, similar to what HBO has done with HBONow/Go? I cut the cord a few years ago, and get my live sports fix via OTA broadcasts, along with using my in-laws’ cable account…

Ah, yes we do disagree slightly. I think there are some cases where a person can be impaired entirely without their awareness and through no fault of their own. For instance, a cardiac or neurological event (embolism, stroke, etc.) could lead to impaired cognition without any "cause" by the impaired driver. I don't…

Yes! Exactly this. If someone fails a performance test, then followup with whatever kinds of tests are necessary to determine the cause of the performance failure. Assuming a direct relationship between imbibing and decreased performance is inefficient and ineffective.

Ah that's true - they settled out of court.

Yeah these suits are insane. The Sam Smith/Tom Petty lawsuit was crazy too - why did Smith have to pay royalties for Stay With Me's resemblance to I Won't Back Down, when Petty has said on record that he didn't care about The Strokes admittedly stealing the riff from American Girl for Last Night, and when the Chili…

I've brewed a couple of batches (an IPA and a weird Belgian porter) that I spiked with a cannabis tincture during secondary fermentation. The flavor/aroma of the weed never survived the process of being cooked into grain alcohol, but the effects were dynamite!

fantasypros.com gives you average ADP data from MFL, ESPN, CBS, and Yahoo, along with average rankings from something like 70 different experts. Plus, it lets you select which sites/experts are included in the averages.

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+infinity to Founders Breakfast Stout. KBS isn't bad if you're a bourbon barrel aged stout kinda person, but I'm not. When I lived a few blocks from Founders, I probably had a Breakfast Stout every day it was in season. Excellent call.

I had a weird speeding experience in Ohio - we got pulled over doing 67 in a 65, by 2 police cars (one with a drug dog), and searched because the driver was "too polite" (this was written on the police report). We didn't have anything on us besides a pretty glass pipe that was being returned to a friend we were en…

I thought Burneko's description of King in the lede was untoppable until this. +1 post-vomit duckface

Yep, that's the correct answer.

My god that was well written. Mayweather is from my hometown of Grand Rapids, and I always wondered why I never read about him helping out the community beyond throwing a couple bucks at the public schools' sports teams every so often. Now I see. Fuck that guy, and fuck his dirty money.

Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs? Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs.

This really calls for a photoshop contest.

Solid post! It looks like Skip Bayless has the highest ratio of "I/Me/My" to "We/Our/Us" of all the columnists on here. Depending on how you want to operationalize pompous, that ratio could be a pretty good index, i.e. higher scores would indicate that a person used more self-references than group-references and was…

Here, he does little summaries at this link.

Really nice work. Hopefully Theo Epstein can eventually be a shining example of why teams should consider shelling out bigger bucks for top tier GMs; the last two years haven't been pretty, but fixing the Cubs won't be a quick fix.

Thanks, and no offense taken at all - my skin is hardened from years of battle with people who are much smarter than me, and from playing fantasy football with a bunch of whiny lawyers. I'm looking forward to the followup.

Aww, c'mon man, I'd like to think my response came across as a little bit thought more thought out than the original poster, but I agree that the general point can come across as overplayed. In any case, after reading the article, I'm doubling down, because it was really bad.