Lesson: outline appropriate places to vomit in all future roommate agreements.

I won't pretend like buzzfeed is anything other than "successful", but I think one should credit them for being a very successful media/entertainment entity. They got something right.

why do gawker, buzzfeed, etc. exist? pageviews

Just to clarify, the so-called "America murder joke" was made in the context of the post being a few hours before the World Cup game last week between the U.S. and Belgium. It's fair to criticize her on a number of things, but pretending like she was threatening anyone with her sports taunt shouldn't be among them.

I believe that the special (free) category of visas granted to people attending the World Cup expire within 30 days of the final (it's invalid for entry to the country after the 13th, but people can remain in the country beyond the end of the event) - would these individuals need to apply for asylum before their visa…

I'm sure there are some 20-year-old athletes uncomfortable with it (fwiw, Chris Culliver is 25 and Tim Tebow is 26 - I assume Tebow's religious orthodoxy means he's not supportive of gay rights, but he has distanced himself from negativity toward gays in the evangelical community), but if they know they're in the…

Suggesting "play longer" / "keep going" is an easy thing to say, but the reality is that at some point it puts the athletes at risk.

Ignoring strikeouts, but in terms of being able to neutralize Gwynn, Frank DiPino seems to have been the most effective: Only pitcher with over 20 PA and an OPS under .300.

In general, I would expect the top couple relievers (set-up man, closer) are quite good (in many cases) but otherwise bullpen arms are a good margin inferior to starters 1, 2 and 3, but they might not be as great a margin between them and starters 4 and 5. However, if you can get to a guy in the 6th and 7th who is…

Runs scored across 162 games and pitches faced over that period involve a wide range of situations - it's not surprising that there's not a clear correlation. If you were to target just specific scenarios you could better explore the efficacy of this strategy... perhaps look at "starting pitcher batters faced" and…

No it wasn't - "The Decision" has been tweeted about constantly for four years!

I agree that it's important not to extrapolate profound "greater meaning" from such a small sample size - in this case 90 minutes (or really, the 18-30 minutes that were most decisive). As you summarized, the conclusions that can responsibly be made from this are that Brazil relied too much on one player to organize…

When I see someone like this, it reminds me that every "tattoo artist" needed practice before they got to be any good. This guy must have a lot of friends that aspired to be tattoo artists and dabbled in it for a while before deciding they just weren't cut out for it.

Is the cute Brazilian girl crying?

It's L.A., bro, "sweet cans" are a dime a dozen.

I'd love for someone with greater familiarity with the laws at play here to weigh in and clear something up for me - was this mostly a case of making sure the victim and his family get some significant judgement from the case? I suspect that the two inmates serving time for the crime will not pay off 100% of their…

Jay Cutler was born in the wrong era.

At the Chile-Netherlands game, I saw two Chilean fans dressed up as miners, complete with the hardhats equipped with lighting.

Still better than Man of Steel (in that it was only a couple minutes of my life and I got it back as stoppage time later in the match).

I thought the headline was because the U.S. "only" lost to Germany 1-0 (without the team's key forward)...