As a former shop girl one of the biggest lessons I learned was: never judge a book by its cover...the person in the sweats or raggedy jeans is gonna drop the most dough (I know...there is also a race component in this story); conversely the put-together person you think is gonna give you the big fat commission is a…

Welp, I guess that’s it for acting. Time to look for human remains in Anthony Hopkins’ freezer.

it is like Netflix has never met a child

How convenient.

I suppose working out trades with St. Louis and San Francisco that Stanton refused were all part of the long con.

Better than translating the team to “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim.”

I don’t know who the last team was to have two 10+ WAR players in a given season and still miss the playoffs, but I know who the next one is.

Look out Houston. Now you’re only going to win the division by 10, 15 games tops.

Yes you are. You’re saying that because Stanton turned them down that he just “strung them along” and was “never interested”, ie it was a predetermined outcome that he’d turn them down as in how a rigged game has a predetermined outcome.

Yes, but you could remain open to the idea that he just decided against the Cardinals rather than being opposed to the idea from the beginning. Shockingly, maybe he wasn’t sold on moving from Miami to Missouri. Or he wanted to go to a team that wasn’t in tough against the Cubs every year. The idea that just because…

I think it’s pretty telling that because Stanton has apparently eliminated the Cardinals from consideration you take that to mean he was never interested whatsoever and was only stringing them along.

Hot take!

Is anyone else shocked by the disgusting amount of misogyny in these comments:( it has been up for a few hours and I have already found;

Agree totally, except about Giles. He was shaky long before the playoffs started.

“Jerry Rodshoffer. 945 Summit St.

excuse me Kevin Can Wait. please do not slander Kevin’s ability to wait. he waits for us all so we don’t have to

“Sir, it appears that the likable, fun Astros might make the World Series.”

Fan interference - I’m pulling for the Astros, but that’s not okay. It looked to me Judge pulled up when he saw the kid.

Of course, that’s still open to some website (say, Gawkmodo) declaring war on some celebrity (say, Louis C.K.) and making readers think bumping up his reports would be a public service.

Here’s a thought.... put up the same web site, allow users to add stories about people who assaulted them, but the stories remain hidden until some threshold is passed. So, if one angry ex has an ax to grind, then the story is only seen by the website owner, but if five women come forward to talk about the time that…