Osweiler certainly has what it takes to be a QB on an NFL roster. He’s so tall that even if he knelt for the National Anthem, most fans would think he was still standing up.

Fuck the beach. The beach is the fucking worst. You know who goes to the beach? Miserable fucking people go to the beach, to pretend that they’re not miserable fucking people.

Good Kinja. The concept of incremental progress towards a finishing blow is a crucial one. You’re also right that it translates basically, if not perfectly, between tennis and other games.

Boxing is the more apt comparison- not every shot needs to be a “knockout punch”. Sometimes you’re just trying to get them slightly out of position to open up your next shot. Or buy yourself some time to get back into position.

I’ve gone to the Cincinnati ATP tournament several times. As a casual fan, I find the sport far more impressive in person. If you can get a seat fairly low in the stadium, you can really appreciate how fucking fast that ball is moving and how ludicrously quickly it drops after just barely clearing the net. To that…

Lots of good stuff here, though (unless I missed it) it didn’t directly take on the question I get asked the most often when watching high-level tennis (such as the US Open) with a newbie, which is “Why do they just keep hitting the ball back to other person?”

The newbie wants to know why every shot isn’t a winner, or…

Go to Indian Wells! I went for the first time this year and had a nice time doing blogs there.

I don’t know why I love this so much, but I do. I love this so much.

this guy is now my favorite baseball player ever.

DISRESPECTING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!?!?! HOW DARE HE oh wait, just saw what he looks like, never mind.

THAS DISRESPECCINT HE TREWPZ

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Strawberry pretzel salad is the best jello salad! In recent years, I’ve tried to class up my grandma’s recipe with whipped cream instead of whipped topping. I’ve had the best results whipping the liquid cream and softened cream cheese together, rather than trying to fold the cream cheese into already-whipped cream.

I believe the strawberry pretzel dish is NOT a salad, but a dessert. So eat as much as you want. I’m right there with you.

Jell-O salad falls in the category of things I have a fond memory of and have absolutely no desire to ever make or eat again. Unless strawberry pretzel salad counts as Jell-O salad in which case I’ll eat it until I’m sick.

I had a blast with this season of GoT, but I can admit there were quite a few winks to the audience. Davos’ “I thought you’d still be rowing” to Gendry was the most blatant. That said, I still loved it.

Game of Thrones has huge cultural attention and goodwill, but the anti-GoT murmuring has gotten loud enough that it’s a Thing, too. If the reception for the current season had been overwhelmingly positive, instead of mostly positive with some loud dissenters in the online spaces where people argue about this sort of…

Nerds?

Adult Swim has been doing bumpers unconnected to the shows they air for many, many years. Why are so many places all of the sudden going, “Rick and Morty’s creators totally destroyed GoT!”