Or it’s because the atmosphere of smells and sounds is actually part of the Alinea experience, but not the Chili’s one.

You can really tell who in the comments isn’t familiar with Alinea.

““A lot of our guests come in from New York and San Francisco, wherever,” he said. “And a lot of flights were canceled. We refunded their tickets. If this party would have contacted us and said, ‘Here’s the situation. What can we do?’—and everybody is saying the babysitter canceled at the last moment and I have no…

““A lot of our guests come in from New York and San Francisco, wherever,” he said. “And a lot of flights were canceled. We refunded their tickets. If this party would have contacted us and said, ‘Here’s the situation. What can we do?’—and everybody is saying the babysitter canceled at the last moment and I have no…

“I’m of the mind that children exist in our world and children eat, so I don’t see why they shouldn’t be welcome in any restaurant or anywhere else in the public sphere that is not dangerous.”

For one thing, they apparently do:

“the couple purchased the tasting menu”

““A lot of our guests come in from New York and San Francisco, wherever,” he said. “And a lot of flights were canceled. We refunded their tickets. If this party would have contacted us and said, ‘Here’s the situation. What can we do?’—and everybody is saying the babysitter canceled at the last moment and I have no…

“I feel for them because reservations are hard to come by and it’s not like they planned on the sitter cancelling.”

Cite? 

““A lot of our guests come in from New York and San Francisco, wherever,” he said. “And a lot of flights were canceled. We refunded their tickets. If this party would have contacted us and said, ‘Here’s the situation. What can we do?’—and everybody is saying the babysitter canceled at the last moment and I have no…

“If the restaurant doesn’t want parents doing that they should allow them to reschedule or get refunds in the event of childcare emergencies.”

Is the headline talking about “political” politics or office politics? Cuz it sounds to me like they’re talking about office politics.

In fairness, a big reason for that is that a lot of HOFers get 0 media attention between induction & obituary.

Exactly—money donated for this wouldn’t necessarily be donated for anything else.

Why look into it when you can do what this author did and say “Who cares what he did or didn’t know? Fire him anyway!”?

See, the reason I feel uneasy is that a “hit” in the MLB requires two things:

What does any of that have to do with Ted Williams?

What?

A lot of people forget that Willie Mays is a dick.

Was Pete Rose “losing his shit over this” or were people asking Pete Rose what he thought and he answered them honestly?