Yep. I’m going to the distro tomorrow night and buying multiple cases. Work already knows I’m not coming in Monday.

I’d say, “both.”

I kind of feel like this is a guy thing maybe (although I do know women who like to be at bars by themselves to just chill without being social, but rarely). For me going to a bar by myself is an invitation for creepy dudes to hit on me. I used to hate the 10 minutes my boyfriend would be outside to smoke, because it…

That’s fine, you don’t have to, but I do it all the time. No roommates,and there’s something comfortable about the din of people and casual, meaningless conversation (facilitated by sports/TV). You/the author may find TVs inconvenient, but hanging out on your own at a bar without a TV is basically impossible. Saying…

Too solitary. From a social context no different than looking at your phone. At least with a TV, everyone there is looking at the same thing.

Yeah. It’s possible he could be ready to pass a physical by that point, but if I were him, I’d certainly do my best to make sure I couldn’t.

I think that would depend on whether he can pass a physical by March 14, but you’re probably right.

Another note from Barnwell’s article on the trade: Bortles is having wrist surgery, which should mean his contract is guaranteed and Jacksonville is out of the running for Cousins.

This is the truth. My local bar isn’t a sports bar by design. They have enough TVs to cover all the games of a given sport, good food, and the bartenders/servers and clientele are all pretty solid people. Except that one asshole who only orders water and tries to drag people into coversations. He can fuck right off.

Or that play sports all the time because it’s the only thing appropriate to have on a TV when you play music all the time and never have the sound on.

Yup. I object to this line:

This is the type of customer that keeps your standard local bar afloat. If you aren’t a nice restaurant, or have expensive enough cocktails to cover your expenses, then you need to bring people in Sunday through Thursday, and this is going to be more than half of your clientele.

Or you sortof want to talk to people, but only in a completely banal way, such as how one talks to a stranger about sports.

Same. I don’t always want to talk and sometimes my friends are talking about stuff I don’t care about or can’t relate to (many of my friends are women so tuning out when they talk about their lady business is a life saver). Being able to look up at a non-close captioned airing of Blade Runner or The Warriors lets me…

Thank you for concisely and correctly stating the counter-point. No sports bar has good food, and they are terrible places to watch sports.

Suburbanite, commuter and frequent downtown establishment patron checking in.

Counterpoint: Sports bars are actually awful places to watch sports, and I routinely go to non-sports bars to watch sports in peace and quiet whilst eating food and drinking beer.

Hello, local North Side Chicago resident here.

Yeah, that happens all the time. Kind of the point of a warranty.

I actually have done that…twice