Welcome to West Allis! :)

It is nicer in person, and it’s nice to be certain that the game is going to happen when it’s 37 degrees and sleeting. It’s never going to be Camden or Wrigley or PNC or AT&T — the walls and roof are high even when the roof is open — but it’s not the dungeon it looks like on TV.

My hope is that it will be easier to find gear without Wahoo now. When I lived in Cleveland a few years back I had to search high and low for something that was (a) not pink and (b) didn’t have Wahoo on it. I’d find something that was perfect and then, whoops! there it is on the sleeve, or at the base of the neck. So…

I literally keep a book in my car at all times for those moments when I want to grab a meal by myself. Even if you don’t read the book, it doesn’t give off the same “midday alcoholic” vibe as staring into your drink.

You don’t always need to buy ahead for assigned seat movies, though. Sure, for The Last Jedi over the Christmas break, but after opening week it’s really easy to roll up to the theatre and pick your seat at the ticket booth or kiosk.

Do you live in my apartment? Because I’ve spent numerous summer evenings doing this exact thing. It’s great.

It really struck me how courageous it was for Spencer to even open up in the first place. I don’t know how close she and Chastain are offscreen, but there was a real risk that Chastain could have listened and then not done shit about it (or worse, used the information against her).

That’s how it works when it’s positive, for sure. But it can also be toxic, especially in hypermasculine environments, where it gets tied up with homophobia and can result in violence, especially when these guys use women (or, in Franco’s case, queerness) as a channel for their bonding instead of having intimacy with…

Yep. You see it a lot in bro culture, where the most important relationships these men have are with other men, and women are viewed as the enemy, except these guys aren’t homosexual, so they get thrown for a loop. The progressive version sometimes manifests as “queer” even though what they really are is straight guys…

Based on the trailer, they’ve also got a casting problem, because the actress that plays Heather Chandler is amazing and the actress that play Veronica is not. So you’re going to kill off the charismatic and fashion fierce fat girl (and the black girl and the gender-nonconforming kid) in favor of the bland white…

Oh, I see. Everyone has to be as physically able as you and conduct their lives in the exact same way or we’re doing it wrong. Or maybe I could gate check my bag, and you could check your attitude and we’ll both be better off.

It accomplishes me not having to try to lift my suitcase above my head without banging another passenger in the noggin.

If they can get batters to stop stepping out of the box and adjusting their gloves between every single pitch, I’m all in.

So, alas, I think there are too many moving parts, too many other interested teams with more financial flexibility and better trade chips, for him to wind up by the Bay.

Same on the eating too many thing, but I power through. :)

This answer doesn’t include caramel M&Ms, which are fucking amazing and well above the gross Reece’s Pieces imitation that is peanut butter M&Ms.

I liked the first season, but the second season crept into “Nice Guy” territory for me with the whole Francesca relationship.

Mine is “my throat feels funny and all I want to eat is potato chips and orange juice.” Fortunately, sometimes that’s early enough that zinc and vitamin C can knock it back.

I think it would be cool to do this, but cooler for them to allow girls to play and compete as long as they were able. Sure, most of them couldn’t hack it, but neither can most of the men, and playing together at lower levels would socialize the idea that it is normal for women to play baseball.

It’s such transparent bullshit, given the number of sports reporters who cover the games who have never played.