According to Fangraphs, he was the ninth best SS in baseball by WAR in 2010. Every guy ahead of him was younger and payed less.

Praising years of mediocrity is like praising mayo for always being in the fridge whenever you need to mitigate the dryness of a sandwich.

“What they are calling the RQ-X/UQ-2 will be optionally manned...” as long as you have pilots in all the power positions at these traditional slow-to-embrace progress aerospace institutions, you will still have planes designed around the man and not vice versa. The only advantage I can see to having a new…

Lions push people over in their chairs? Well ya learn something new every day.

“Ceci n’est pas un combat”

The only correct answer is 140 pound Pedro Martinez gripping fat Don Zimmer by the ears and dumbo-tossing him aside.

Gotcha. I never made it to Pax River, but almost took a job with MFC, to work ALIS for the F-35, and would have spent a lot of time in Pax River. Many of the guys I worked with in EBS were former MS2 guys in Owego that had been laid off from one program, or another.

Yeah, and from my former coworkers stories, it seems like I pretty much know how this project will start to head, once LM is at the helm...

I was a TOW Marine. Our staff NCOs didn't like it when we called our Humvees "cars," so that's exactly what we did.

Former USMC rotary wing guy here... We call them choppers all the time. "Get to the choppa" is uttered at least three times daily in a Marine Corps Flightline shop. There is an unspoken quota, I think.

I usually don't but I read this one and I am glad I did. He nails most everything that is wrong with the NFL and the culture that holds it so dear. Now can he do the NCAA?

Okay guys, I know a large percentage of us never read the linked articles on these posts, but seriously, drop whatever or whoever you are doing and go read that story. Lund does the damn thing here.

Shula actually referred to BB as "belicheat" like some dimwitted internet commenter, so there you go.

Good thoughts.