And more broadly, who’d guess that the team that sacrificed depth for star power *and* fired it’s medical team in the offseason would suffer more injuries?

Working your subject’s order into an interview is a long-standing hack move. I remember Kevin Bacon talking about it with Jay Leno, saying that he was always tempted to order a hot dog with chocolate sauce just to see how the interviewer would react.

My grocery store actually lists the discount that they give if you buy 12+ bottles of a given liquor; it’s about 10%.  That’s not nothing, but it explains why bars charge so much I always prefer to drink elsewhere.

Well, and the complication is that the breakdown on the 2/3rds of the pizza that is “Profit” vs “Rent/utilities/facility” is something you can only do in retrospect. Functionally, there is *no* profit until enough pizzas have sold to cover the current month’s rent/utilities/facility, then it’s *all* profit till the…

Sorry. I knew I missed one Lego out there.

Did you see Rock of Ages?  While it is somewhat possible to translate amazing personal charisma into singing, Tom *definitely* proved the limits of this approach in that movie.

“I don’t know why cohabiting is the norm. If my rent hadn’t gone up 150% over 4 years...”

When blowing your nose causes your face to inflate because your sinuses aren’t functioning right...it might be time to stop getting punched in the face.

This is both a good joke, and a fairly literal description of what happened.

So in a story of people migrating from a quasi-socialist country, *any* mention of why they are leaving is anti-communist propaganda. Got it.

Wait, I thought that blown calls are just the price of following a sport and keeping it untainted by the evil of video review? Are you saying you don’t feel the pure essence of sports fandom flow through you when refs blow calls, Barry?

...they’d fallen much of the way off the map before he died, though. (Moreso in the US than elsewhere, according to Wikipedia.)

If a pitcher had an unmistakeably unique delivery, and a game had *that specific delivery* available as a standalone download for $2...wouldn’t it make sense to give some of that money to the person who made it possible?

Wait, I haven’t followed the books for a while...Mama Berenstain is a *what* now?

Love the comic, *no* interest in the accompanying game. I loathe playing RPGs that put party members in direct opposition to each other; not only is the Die game built around intra-party conflict, it’s built around *surprising* the party with it. Spending an evening at my friends’ throats is not my idea of a good time.

I think being a position player who pitched a 1-2-3 inning goes a long way to defusing that.  Most managers would be OK with a reliever flashdancing between pitches if it got them a goose egg for inning.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are lots of people who watch The Ranch and have little to no online presence.  Hell, Netflix is getting great viewership from their contracted Adam Sandler movies - how much have you seen about those online?

I find it weird that the closest we get to #metoo with Lorne is him not *not* telling a male subordinate to sleep with a director.

“Jeopardy! producers, on the other hand, have stated in the past that they would prefer players go in a more viewer-friendly top-to-bottom order.”

Am I the only one who thought the social commentary was undercut by the, well, *impossibility* of the scenario? The movie worked great as horror, but it required the logic of a nightmare to function. Which makes for great horror, but lessens real-world applicability for me.  FWIW, I felt the same way about Snowpiercer.