Not necessarily. Catholics believe the unbaptized don’t go straight to heaven, and protestants would say that its predetermined anyway

Well I had thought we were talking about our shitty reactions to fantasy football. I was not anticipating being compared to the gestapo tonight. You know what, I was gonna mention some stuff about family history but not the place. Maybe you can puzzle out what I mean here but needless to say the comparison is not well…

Careful wouldn’t want you to strain anything making that reach. I just mean that we have to actively fight to overcome what we’re conditioned to believe, not that we should keep on believing it. Overcoming what we’re conditioned to believe is a process not a single eureka moment, at least most of the time

You just run through all these nightmare scenarios in your head basically that you have to just get over for the most part. Just the other day my wife and I went to a wedding, and we had to wait with her family in the parking lot for a bit before everything started. My kid wanted to run around with her cousin so we…

It’s got to be that much harder with a game like Overwatch which, in addition to its popularity, is perpetually in development. As I recall from the other article you linked developers got a lot more comfortable talking to fans once the game was out for obvious reasons. What do you do if the game is out but never…

This guy is basically going to be a meat shield for him the same way his fans yell “HE’S JEWISH” whenever he goes off on some anti-semitic screed. But now the line will be “HOW CAN HE BE A RACIST HE’S MARRIED TO ONE OF THE BLACKS.” Well, the coach from Friday Night Lights that called Boobie Myles the n-word married a…

I’m hoping for at least seventeen but not crossing my fingers.

I always sit in cheap seats unless I’m given tickets to a game, but you can’t help but question the whole exercise when you read something like this. Like I said, it’s not exactly a rational thing.

Anyone who’s played a decent amount of soccer can see exactly what he’s doing wrong, he just can’t get out of his head and stop doing it.

If you can’t understand why a story like this would cause some (possibly irrational) hand wringing then I’m forced to guess you don’t have kids.

I dunno, I try not to beat myself up over it too much. Its social conditioning, you know? Not something we try to do. Even with something like Peterson’s kid, there’s a distance between us and that, this weird wall of celebrity, where it just seems fictional somehow, like it’s happening in another universe. Not that…

Oh, I do. Fond du Lac Dock Spiders, baby, $20 for two seats right behind the plate

I mean I kinda like it, but I pay attention and still wear a glove to the ballpark like I’m 12 or something, so I don’t think I’m in much danger. My wife and my kid on the other hand...

I know. Fuck’s sake. Sherman isn’t wrong about this, and we ALL do it. My first reaction too was “oh fuck there goes my #1 pick” but after a moment a normal human being should be able to step back and go “fuck im a monster”

Sure, but you try telling a toddler to pay attention when they see the pitch is coming in. My kid has a cannon for a left arm but she’s not there yet. At least you can reason with an adult.

I just decided I’d had enough this year. I was born in Chicago but grew up mostly in Wisconsin, even my family are Packer fans. Between that and playing fantasy I just don’t really root for teams anymore.

That’s probably what I’m gonna have to do. We have a wooden bat league college team that just came to our town and its great fun (and cheap) so I want to take her. Costs all of $20 for a couple of seats behind the netting.

Well, she’ll be nearly two and a half by the time the season starts again, and Miller Park is usually pretty good for having cheap seats that are out of the danger zone, so maybe that’ll be the time to do it. I remember going to a game for a company event while my wife was pregnant and we were in foul ball territory…

Yeah, we have a wooden bat college league team in my town and its great fun to go, but there’s no netting apart from directly behind the plate, and every seat is potentially in foul territory. I can’t imagine taking her to that. At least at a major league game I could get seats somewhere in the upper decks and be…

Jesus Christ. I have a kid about that age and all Summer I kept thinking “Is she old enough to take her to the ballpark?” We didn’t end up going, but I think I’m gonna wait a bit longer.