Excellent analogy.

This is a terrible argument though. All the circumstantial evidence points to the footballs having been deflated. Just because the NFL went out of their way to prosecute Brady in the worst possible manner doesn’t negate the fact that all the circumstantial evidence points to the footballs having been deflated.

Irish; 18th Century.

It’s not like he put much thought into this...

So he only gets to “discipline” you if he catches you? Is that the deal AP had with his kid, too?

This is a very long summary of the article, which made all the same points you’re making but was written more coherently.

This website alleges that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had nearly identical policy positions during the 2012 campaign. There are two possible conclusions here:

You’ve forgotten about Miami’s own Vanilla Ice...

The half dozen or so British friends I have all do ;)

I disagree with your statement. Your entire gripe is with the grammatical choice made by the author, and the choice reflects a British, rather than American, way of talking about the sport. Because the sport was developed in Britain and then exported to America, it makes sense to use British English when discussing…

If a British person were talking about an American sport, wouldn’t you expect them to use the appropriate terminology?

Counterpoint: stop writing articles about Donald Trump.

I think you’re confusing the issue. Buying clothing with a (possible) rapist’s name on it is problematic no matter what color jersey. But that’s not what’s being discussed here.

There are plenty of obvious instances of teams relying on some combination of laziness and misogyny to market sports paraphernalia to women—and what Tampa is doing is, like, the archetypal example of this.

Sure, I get that. But some women like the way a pink jersey looks, and would want to wear it. I see it all the time, for example, with pink Red Sox jerseys. Many of the women I know who own such jerseys follow the team as or more avidly as many of the male fans. They just also happen to like the Red Sox logo on a pink…

I agree with all of this. And yet, that doesn’t mean you can’t market the game in a different way to some women than you could to men. Selling pink jerseys isn’t necessarily condescending in and of itself; it only becomes condescending if you do it like the Bucs.

What was even the point of all this?

Oh I completely understand what you’re saying. But what I was saying was, it sounds like she could just as easily have given the child up for adoption anonymously. Anonymously dropping the kid off at a police station in a basket or something would have preserved her image and given the kid a chance at life.

You think she worried that her image would be ruined because she gave her child up for adoption?

I have been extraordinarily lucky and have had the pleasure of witnessing, in person, both this game AND Clayton Kershaw’s 15-K no-hitter last year. Hard to say which was more impressive, but they’re both clearly HOFers.