My kids’ hoop is 8’ tall, so I just confirmed that gravity has in fact been defeated.

Well I for one am REALLY excited about this guy who's been married for 9 months dishing out more advice!

Yeah. Make accepting the offer conditional on continued vacation accrual from prior company. I have done this every time, and it always works.

You can be my wing-man any time.

9 years old. Was out playing in a field near our house with a friend, when I felt the urge. Started walking home—about 1/3 mile or so—and realized I was in major trouble. I did the start-stop, herk-jerk thing for a while, trying to figure out if running would increase or decrease my ability to hold it in, and…

Yes. Option 3 in particular is problematic because it assumes information about timing, assumes information about magnitude, and also assumes (almost certainly incorrectly) that markets have not already long-since adjusted expectations. While the Fed didn’t increase rates in the recent session, the indication of…

Absolutely right. If God wanted Suarez to be a vegetarian, he wouldn't have made Dutch people and Serbian people and Italian people taste so good.

Yeah, I think from a soccer fan’s perspective it’s pretty straightforward: I like watching my club play. More games = more chances to watch them play. If this were the NBA or MLB, where teams already play several times a week, it might be different—the incremental benefit of one more game is smaller then. But going…

I love the away goals rule. SO MUCH STRATEGERY!

You don’t grasp how they do it? Or why they do it? The clubs that advance to later rounds in the UCL have very large squads—playing 2 matches a week isn’t really that big of a problem for clubs like Chelsea, Bayern, or Real Madrid.

Strong work.

Yes, baseball is a great example. Both have a relatively difficult offensive task—hitting a baseball vs scoring a goal. Both a good hitter and a skilled striker will, more often than not, "fail"—the shot goes over the net, is saved, is scuffed, hits the post in soccer, while the batter misses the ball, pops up, fouls…

Michael can probably speak for himself, but as an econometrician myself (and a soccer enthusiast!), I can say that you're correct in that—in theory—we'd love to be able to account for "this sort of information." However, desiring to account for a variable and being able to account for a variable aren't always the same…

Magary probably made him sign a contract promising to do so.

It’s nice that there is some Cosmic force in the universe that ensures any shot a player takes after executing such a move will go in.

I see he’s borrowed a shirt from Drew Magary’s closet, too!

1) Notts County Ladies are indeed in the top flight of women's football in England, and have been since the league's formation (though they were called Lincoln City Ladies, iirc, for the first 2-3 years).

I just want to say that Jay Mariotti has really, really skinny legs.

I get all the anal leakage I need from Oleo, thanks.

Sigh. Yeah. He'll probably revert to the exhausted-looking, offside-sitting, ghastly first-touch-footed Lukaku that we have seen all year by Sunday against Newcastle.