Nah, for dinner music instrumentals are better — less distracting and easier in the background. I really like GPM’s “Spanish Guitar” smart playlist for dinner time.

Watt, you made the worst internet mistake. Never respond to “that guy”. That’s like responding to the “grays” on Kinja.

I’m not as familiar with men’s development around the world but I assume pay-to-play is suboptimal wherever it happens...and in men’s international soccer you really can’t afford suboptimal development on a big scale because there are just so many countries putting so many resources into better programs.

Notable predictions from Stephen A. Smith’s ancestors:

He is, however, 6-for-6 when it comes to screaming his predictions in a condescending tone.

More world cup winners than the Euro. And way more entertaining.

Thank god that “THAT GUY” didn’t take Friday off.

Fuck you Schilling. Fuck you for preventing me from voting Rovell. Worst tweet should always be Rovell.

Muhammad Wilkerson is extremely fed up with the Jets.

And now you know the reason why they don’t!

The Russians were attacking everybody and anybody, not just English hooligans.

This is going to be fun. The one thing you know with Russia is that they will accept this ruling gracefully and not threaten retaliation.

Ok. I will play this game. When a child taunts another, do you let it go or do you attempt to correct the behavior? He taunted the shit out of BC as went all-around the bases, and they voiced their displeasure.

It’s gonna be an odd 3-site-run for the World Cup - Brazil not being ready to host, Russia acting insane, and Qatar and all the dead people.

Flipping the bat is celebrating success. Acting like an asshole when he passed the catcher was worthy of someone picking up his flipped bat and ramming it up his ass.

They weren’t cross with the player for succeeding or for being an asshole, but because they weren’t good enough

Yeah, that wasn’t about the bat flip, it was about keeping his finger in the air the whole way around the bases and getting in the catcher’s face at the end. A bat flip is one thing, but what he did was clearly poor sportsmanship.

What I would have loved to see was if the next time that #16 struck out the entire BC bench came out, jumped around the infield, and held their fingers in the air while mouthing off to him as he walked back to the dugout. No need for violence.

Sure. But watching his home run and flipping the bat was only about 20% of what this guy did.

Well how about the whole team pull their pants down and hang their junk out at the pitcher while chanting suck it, suck it, suck it. And why not have the batter go around and spit on every player he runs by in his home run procession? Defense had better keep it to themselves unless they want to be accused of attacking…