David - great job as always with these Mets posts.

Lainez rain circles around the USMNT all night.  That is lame.

Edit.  And the top 4 teams from each division make the playoffs (with the play-in game for the 4th spot).

I’ve been wanting MLB to ditch divisions for years and go to a balanced schedule. I don’t care to see, for example, my Mets play (full stop) the Marlins or anyone else 19 times a year. With 32 teams, one division in each of the AL and NL. You play the other 15 teams in your division 10 times and, similar to the NFL,…

Will never understand why the ref doesn’t just keep a running tally - whether during regular play or in stoppage time - of all the time attributed to delaying tactics.  I get it that that’s what stoppage time is supposed to be, but for fucks sake it cannot be that a player getting subbed out in the final minute of…

Definitely agree that goals scored from open play or goals conceded from open play, or the differential between the two is better than yellow card tally.

No criminal investigation of such matter shall be undertaken by the postsecondary institution unless such investigation is done by a campus law enforcement agency staffed by law enforcement officers who are certified peace officers by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. Nothing contained in…

That is an interesting painting on the wall.

Take a gander at the sign by the red taxi . . .

The most recent “era” (essentially, the ‘80s and ‘90s, maybe that’s two different eras?) produced 8 HOF QBs: Aikman, Elway, Favre, Kelly, Marino, Montana, Moon and Young.

The fact that you are a Republican voter in Maryland I would think makes you less likely to favor the EC - i.e., your vote being “meaningless”. If there were no EC, your vote (whether in western MD or neighboring PA) would just be a vote (presumably) for the (R), same as anyone else in the country, regardless of…

This argument has never made sense to me, and when made it consistently seems to assume that in a pure popular vote scenario it matters in what state a vote is cast.

Well, the “healing process” does not really (or, rather, should not) have anything to do with the university or its fans. It has everything, though, to do with the victims of Sandusky, for whom I do no think a Penn State conference football championship qualifies as part of the process of healing.

As others have said, it’s not the severity of the hit that is the issue. The guy made a desperate attempt to either block the pass (which he didn’t) or throw off Bradford’s mechanics enough to affect the pass (which he did) - problem is, he gambled and also ended up hitting/slapping Bradford in the head and also more…