Okay, fine, but if you’re right, then you have to admit that the problem started in Empire. You’re talking about Empire like the evil-monster Vader was the last glimpse of him, but it’s not! When Luke was rescued, he and Vader have a “moment” where they Force-communicate with each other, and Vader’s softened approach…

FAKE

Quit victim-blaming.

Goose: Squeak!

The Top 4 is indeed stable. That is my point—it has been stable since 1992. Billy is saying that it is MORE stable now than it was two years ago.That is objectively untrue.

Everything you say is true, but it has nothing to do with what Billy Haisley wrote, nor my response to him. We are all agreed that EFC is not challenging for Top 4. But what Haisley wrote, and what I responded to, was the claim that Everton’s 5th place finish in 2014 was an aberration to the club’s normal cycle of…

Who?

Evertonians have to win internet battles, since we can’t win trophies.

“Uh” I didn’t say that it’s not stable! My point is that it’s not any “more” stable than it has ever been—look at the prior years. There is virtually no turnover, and what turnover does exist is minimal around the 4th spot and belongs to a select couple of teams (Spurs & Liverpool). To say that it’s “more stable” now…

Good takes, all of them. I love a lot of what Billy Haisley writes, and think he gets it right more often than not, but this is some of the worst analysis I’ve encountered from him.

“Everton are much closer to last season’s 11th place in the league than they are to the prior year’s overachievement of 5th. That season should be looked at like a fortuitous fluke in their natural cycle of upper-midtable finishes followed by 10th-15th place ones. The current top four are much more solidified now than…

No better way to make other countries take us seriously than to immediately worship their has-beens before they even play, right?

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…