Not as awkward as finishing 6th, getting smoked by Barca, and then spending two months flailing about looking for anyone to take the job after Poch refuses and they rejected the players’ choice, all the while Pogba makes more and more noise about forcing his way out rather than playing for Highly Experienced Manager…

It’s not necessarily about affordability so much as the plans simply don’t exist. A lot of parts of the US only have one or two options for high-speed internet and in a lot of those parts the options are pretty terrible, and/or come with throttling and data caps, etc. Perhaps it’s American-centric to focus on that,…

Ask not for whom the bodyguard came, young Kraft. The bodyguard came for thee.

Soft? They’ve just figured out what they can get away with. Gone are the days of people in their 20s being in awe of their employers, especially when they know it’s a good job market and the employers generally don’t care about them. Employees no longer get lifetime jobs or pensions or in many cases a great wage or…

He collapsed/passed out after the Deadspin awards, possibly wasted or not, and ended up choking on his own blood and had to be taken to the ER for some sort of emergency head/brain surgery, which apparently required several weeks of recovery time. I don’t know if we’ve gotten or are going to get more than that.

Sure seems like the Celtics did way better when they were a group of low-ego role players hungry to prove themselves and able to mesh into a harmonious balance than when they have a lame-ass wannabe alpha dog constantly making headlines about how he’s trying to use his extensive single-championship experience to…

As a GT fan, I can assure you getting a four-star recruit is rarer than a player dying.

Good thing they play in the AL. Could you imagine the strike zone if a 30-foot-tall pitcher ever had to bat?

Lot more skill required to strike out a major league hitter than to raid your employees’ pension fund and do a bunch of stock buybacks so your buddies can take home a seven-figure bonus next quarter.

Because twitter is terrible and full of hostility, so almost everyone’s natural reaction when attacked on twitter is to go into a defensive crouch because they assume the people attacking them are trolls doing so in bad faith.

I forget which of the recent games it was, but in one (perhaps all of them) he went up on just a normal random play and looked for all the world like Dwight Howard doing his dunk contest superman dunk with the ball almost violently flying through the hoop with such force and velocity. Unlike Dwight, the game clock was…

Weird how so many people “just acting” in video games seem to have all picked an acting style that requires the regular use of crude racial stereotypes of the sort that would be considered offensive if used in any other context. Almost as though the RP is an excuse to get away with doing and saying racist things that…

I think the point is that Netflix isn’t so much “lots of cool stuff and lots of crap”, it’s lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of crap and also some cool stuff if you can sort through the crap to find it. He mentions over and over how much of Netflix’s content is completely generic formulaic…

And if you had just paid him?

I don’t know if I’m voting for Bernie or another Democrat, but this is an unambiguously good piece of news. It’s always bothered me in previous presidential campaigns how the campaign staff model seems to heavily revolve around extreme overwork of 18-24 year-olds (regular 100+ hour weeks for minimal pay with no…

It’s not the sport’s *biggest* problem, maybe, but the fact that baseball’s fan base is so much older than those of other sports is definitely one of its biggest problems, and that’s definitely related to the pace-of-play concerns. Maybe if you start four-hour playoff games at 6 pm eastern instead of 8:30 pm some of…

Is it unfair? Sure. So is life.

Thanks for going into detail on this. So, so much of the discussion about the Steelers’ so-called offers like 5/$70M focus on painting Bell as greedy/stupid for not signing up for such a huge figure, without noting 1) like almost every NFL contract, the back half of that is basically illusory and not worth discussing,…

Losing your job and having your life ruined is the kind of thing that can happen in the social media era if you choose to be a racist asshole out in the real world where everyone can see and take video. Given the tone of your post, seems you’ve already figured out you should keep all the nasty things you believe to…

I’m gonna guess “Contractor” appears nowhere on the guy’s birth certificate but is rather the name of his Eve Online avatar or something that he spends a massively unhealthy number of hours in his dorm playing. Guy sounds completely maladjusted, which means he’s probably alone because he had multiple complaints from…