You mean sports, which are by an overwhelming majority played in arenas funded with taxpayer money, should have absolutely nothing to do with politics? Ok, Jan.

still a bit more hostile than it needs to be.

I didn’t even think of that personal benefit, but fuck yeah.

Ditto as a magazine/web article writer, and I also write speeches/ talking point roadmaps, for a very educated, erudite, and generally highly respected speaker. And even she falls into those verbal tics.

Them and their droogs are giving the ol’ in-out to the democratic system.

In what universe has Bryce Harper, who is generally noted as an exciting player with major stretches of injury/inconsistency, been “elevated above Trout,” who is often described as the best player in baseball and already penciled in as a likely first-ballot Hall of Famer?

I liked where you touched on how some of this criticism tends to be some form of projection—either of personal insecurities or of preconceptions of the “fortitude” expected from atheltes. (I would call it the “Disease of the Right Way” that also saw people criticize Embiid for crying after an emotional loss.) 

I hate the planned obsolescence that POS builds into their phones. I swear I’d switch to Android if not for POStunes.

Why is there a current fascination with “launch angle” and “exit velocity”?

Yeah she was grasping toward a point with “...a wall in education that keeps too many students from learning. It separates wealthy, powerful, or well-connected students from those who aren’t wealthy, powerful, or well-connected.”

I was such a dumb kid, I actually thought it was a Cardinals hat.

I bought an O’s hat once for the exact same reason.

Even that is too much seriousness, and it’s still an overreaction.

110% this, with a little extra garlic and salt to taste.

I’m struggling to figure out how such a generational talent hasn’t elevated the team despite a (reputedly) subpar effort from the front office to surround him with a capable team.

Dear God, those “Jets QB” mentor excerpts are solid gold. Joe Flacco gets tons of credit for that honest answer.

It’s like a Chuck Tingle book where the concept of cognitive dissonance gains a sentient form in order to fuck over the personified body of America.

So all those donations would be going to benefit a private party with a structure entirely on private property.

After going through the Twitter thread of someone defending him, seems his “intended” joke was that the Royal family is a circus. Nothing racist intended at all!

Hes’s quadrupling down in the replies. It’s fucking astounding.