Periodically I see a tweet go viral and the original author eventually jumps in with “okay, muting this tweet now, bye” and I’m always in favor of it. Just go do something else. Twitter’s stupid, if you’re on it long enough you’re going to tweet something you regret, and you can’t take any of it too seriously.

For something that could be so good, the internet sure can be bad.  It will be interesting to see if we can rise above our own worst instincts and save our society/culture.

You’re not wrong, but it’s a lot easier to close ranks against an outsider like a fan than an insider like a coach; there’s no failure of oversight, implicit culpability, or self-reckoning when it’s just a rando like there is when it’s a dude hired and empowered by an organization.

Are you paying attention, USA Gymnastics, USA Swimming, Taekwondo, USOC, etc etc etc? This is what you’re supposed to do when someone sexually assaults your athletes.

Dash midfielder Sofia Huerta appeared to be groped by a fan

“Sometimes, obviously, your moral compass can trump business interests. And it can cost you your job. Look at the Colin Kaepernick.”

“Ladies and Gentlemen, let me say this, I have nothing to say. (Continues talking until the universe expands to the point we all die from Universal Cold Death)“

You know, I’m beginning to think this Stephen A. Smith guy might not be that smart after all.

I gotta ask about the extraneous capital “I”s.

bipartisanship 

It’s like looking for a black person in the Trump White House; or in Foxborough.

FedEx Field is where you go when you want to be close to nowhere, adjacent to nothing, and 3-4 hours reaching the foregone conclusion.

An underrated sports joy is being the visiting fans and having the stadium ring out with “DE=FENSE” when the home QB is on the field.

I know your comment isn’t an essay prompt, but I think about this a lot. I am convinced that the large majority of people are not idiots. As with so many other things, the stupidest 15% of people and the ~15% who enable them take up all the oxygen and draw all the attention, and our society has to be designed/warped…

I always have to remind myself that the hipster Williamsburg that everyone talks about is not the one I’m thinking of.

My ugly 2-deep wall of eagerly awaited Sports Illustrateds, if I’m lucky, will sustain my brain after I can no longer figure out how to operate digital devices.

Milton Friedman is the switch. The idea corporations are only responsible for shareholders equity means increasing share price is the only thing that matters. 

I used to handle budgets for my department at my old gig, and for years as long as we continued to hit 20% profit or better, the powers that be left us alone. Then overnight, we were told 35% or better, which was/is completely impossible in that field. My department was laid off in batches over the course of three…

I don’t really know when this switch was flipped, but it is no longer important or good for a business/company to just make a profit. Somehow, someway, they have to make more than that, as there is always a way to make more, people and consequences be damned.

People aren’t complete idiots