I remember Armando Benitez. Underrated.

Ryan Vogelsong was a good Giant.

Dude, you were so, so close on this! Yes, you load up your plate, no you do not eat the shit. You casually dump it when no one is looking. Rinse and repeat.

Another conflict in which the only justifiable rooting interest is for a meteor to vaporize all involved parties.

Some of my extended family live in a partially flooded area of Houston. An area where it only got about 1'-0" of water and then receded. They went back home yesterday to find there house had been robbed of TVs, appliances, and a dirt bike.

I just... don’t understand. Is looting seriously okay? I’m truly fucking mind blown here. What is happening? Its like that white/blue/black/gold dress all over again. Is there a joke I’m missing here? What the fuck?

It’s very weird. Generally most people support the normal workers in most industries and not the out-of-touch rich owner. In sports, however, people go out of their way to defend the owners. It doesn’t happen on deadspin but your general sports fan often supports owners over players and it makes no sense.

I have always said that in order to get control of our debt and get essential services like free healthcare is tax raising and program cutting. But in order to do that, you have to make it to the show aka Congress. And the majority of our citizens cant comprehend that.

And understanding that sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. For instance, creating a fiscally responsible budget may require both raising taxes (making money) AND cutting programs (controlling expenses). It continually amazes me that our politicians fail to grasp this. And, yeah, I know that governing a…

I think saying that centrists/moderates/whatever are okay with the status quo is a little disingenuous. You can be moderate and still want progress. It’s just a matter of how that progress moves that is viewed differently. I feel like progress is necessarily an incremental thing, something that happens in baby steps…

This. I can be for pro choice solutions and want lower taxes. I can be for more defense and universal healthcare. I can be for gay rights and against affirmative action. These things are possible. But people think this is centralists due to some magic formula. No, that means setting priorities for some things and…

Centrist isn’t a belief system. But to get shit done in a democracy like ours you have to get support from left and right. You have to build colalitions. Which necessitates compromises. There are people interested in being right and there are people who believe in governing. We see this in the Republican Party which…

I’m a centrist in that I believe to have a functional, efficient government, we need a balance, or at least a mix, of both liberal and conservative principles (not ideologies). Government works best when our politicians are open to compromise, which is unfortunately a dirty word in Washington of late, which is such a…

See, I have a different perspective on centrists: they start from a point of centrism. Later, after having researched a given position, and looking at something from all angles, they determine what their viewpoint is.

Man, Chicago Bears football is everywhere!

And maybe congress could grow a collective spine and re-insert their control over war appropriations approval, as it says in the goddamned constitution.

My entire extended family is on Guam. They’re holding up remarkably well given the threat of nuclear annihilation is literally around the corner.

Sounds like a typical scientist/engineer. They look at the data (can he function without her) and make a decision based on the data (yes, he can) and people’s feelings don’t matter.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Neil deMause is one of the best-respected writers in the U.S. on the subject of franchise economics and stadium finance. He’s been covering this subject for decades, in greater detail than just about anyone. His book, Field of Schemes, was on the leading edge of covering the…

Jordan Howard is a BEAST. I look forward to him falling into a statistical canyon the second Fox makes the switch from Glennon to Mitch Cumstein.

I bet they won’t give any advance notice to me, either.