The really ludicrious part about this? Ohio State’s existing training facility is far better than anything the Browns would build for $5 million.

I don’t see anything in his description of her that would necessarily make me think she’d care though. In fact, given that one of her excuses is payback for people hurting her, it seems pretty likely that one of her past boyfriends already did cheat on her first.

Not even close to a relevant comparison. A better comparison would be if he’s selling his Porsche 959 and you offered him $10,000 saying “well, it’s just a car” and ignoring the fact that it’s basically unique.

Not only does Amazon not make profit a priority in their business model, they often make decisions which go the exact opposite way.

The last paragraph’s assessment of Blatt is entirely correct IMO. He was a first-time NBA’er thrust into a situation where the goal is basically “title or bust”. LeBron has a crazy amount of minutes for an early 30's player (he’ll be right around #40 all-time before end of the playoffs), plus all his work for Team…

#3 isn’t really a failing, per se: The architect of the strategy basically bought himself literally YEARS of job security! “Hey man, you can’t cut off the Process NOW! We’ve already blown three years and it’s only another two more years of shittiness. Are you really willing to fire me and start over? Have you seen how…

The IOC requires that you custom build a lot of the infrastructure. And disastrous cost overruns aren’t anything new - most notably, Montreal took thirty (!) years to pay off the debt from the 1976 Olympics.

They did. In retrospect, that trade was a disaster for literally everybody involved. Colts got Richardson, who sucked. Browns used the pick to trade up for Manziel, got everyone fired. The pick the Browns got from the Colts and traded to the Eagles became Marcus Smith, who has a grand total of 7 tackles since being…

There’s zero chance Dream of Spring comes out before the show finishes it’s run. Since Storm of Swords came out, Martin has consistently put out one novel every 5-7 years (5 years for Crows, 6 years for Dance, 5 years for Winter). Even on the short end, that puts Dream of Spring out in 2020 IF Winds of Winter was…

LeBron. Plays. Basketball. Why are you disappointed that a guy wants to do his job? He’s not a hero. He’s an entertainer, no more, no less.

All the college jobs are filled, unless some pro team hires away Brian Kelly. Most likely, he takes a year off as an announcer at ESPN or whatever, then lands at a place like Texas or LSU.

The linked Twitter post about Stauskus is fantastic. “He shoots like Steph and big like Klay”. Then the first reply, also dated July 2014, is “This post is going to be hilarious in a year”.

The lowest I’ll take is what I listed it for. But if it makes you feel better, I certainly won’t stop you if you’d like to give me more than the listed price.

Excellent point. Whenever a project is being sold to the public, the supporters always, without fail, claim that there’s no tax increase by either (a) redirecting existing tax money or (b) increasing only taxes which don’t directly send a bill to the average man* (e.g., sin taxes or business only taxes). However, as…

If you’re talking beating the ‘96 Bulls, besides injuries, there’s also the concept of schedule losses to keep in mind. When a team is playing their fourth-game-in-five-nights against a rested opponent, that’s where you get all sorts of “what the hell?” randomness.

How long is it going to take before the Philadelphia media and bloggers rush in to defend this as “no big deal”, “the national media continuing to rip on the Process”, or, best of all, “yet another step to bring in potential talent who was available just like how we bought low on Noel, Embiid, and Saric”? Two hours?…

Economics would have already made the decision to use transit, uber, taxis if people were interested in saving money. The fact of the matter is people really like owning their cars.

So this was a lot more pure terror of getting in trouble than actual trouble, but...

I’ll own up to claiming an allergy that I don’t have. And here’s why: It’s much, much easier than explaining the truth. The truth is that I hate the taste of nuts. Like, flat out hate them. Not sure if it’s the taste or texture or what, but in virtually every dish with nuts that I’ve ever had, the nuts absolutely…