It drives me nuts but FIOS has a fix. They have a program in their menu that automatically tunes the channel to the HD version. So if your wife pushes “5” it’ll auto-tune to 505. Ain’t gonna let my wife continue to watch property brothers in SD.

In the time it took me to read this there's been three Fan Duel and two Draft Kings ads on tv. I'm about to enter promocode: BOHICA

I’d never argue that there was no gambling before fantasy. Hey, I grew up a Steelers fan and it’s well known the Rooney family made their money in gambling. There’s an entire discussion to be had on how the NFL plays down how much of its history is intertwined with gambling, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog post.

This is when Deadspin and GM are at their best. Top shelf work, Diana.

Oh, I completely agree with you. Football is easily the most fantasy friendly sport, and it’s probably not a coincidence that it’s surge in popularity coincided with the rise of fantasy.

Stop trying to make yacht rock a thing.

I firmly believe fantasy football is what is driving the NFL’s surge in popularity. Unlike sports that play a lot of games (like basketball, baseball and hockey) you only have to set your roster once per week, and the stats are clear enough that it’s relatively easy to know who to pick (unlike say, soccer). There’s a…

The entire sport is on fucking performance enhancers.

I’m sure this has been mentioned by others previously, but damn if the term “daily fantasy” isn’t skeezy as hell. It sounds like the title of a yacht-rock album from 1979 with a lot of medallions on hairy chests in the band photo, which of course was taken at sunset on a beach somewhere between Santa Barbara and Palos…

Oh for fucks sakes, the NFL is the only professional sport with an official mandatory injury report.

Agreed. Honestly, I like Sorkin’s dialogue. Yes, there’s an air of “This is what I should have said, now that I’m thinking about it 15 minutes after the fact” to the one-liners and rejoinders, but I think they make movies more interesting. I don’t need to see a movie filled with “Um”s and people not making consistent…

Well it is not how I would want to run a business, but it IS unsustainable. You make products in the US for US wages and US requirments, and every other product (ex. Samsung) will crush you unless every company in every country is forced to do the same. Add that to the fact that not everyone sees the world as you or I…

I don’t really mind Sorkin’s dialogue clichés. People didn’t talk like Cary Grant talks in South by Southwest or Charade. We just have to be happy when actors can do Sorkin-patter well. A 20 year old Zuckerberg never would be so interesting without Eisenberg spitting out “I had to swear an oath before we began this…

Notably, we never see the actual presentations: Steve Jobs wants to give us a glimpse of the fireworks that happened before Jobs stepped out on that stage.

First time i have ever seen polemics & panoplies used in real life. That AP English vocab yo

Would be interesting to see. Although, unless you use no tech of any form, and walk around naked 24/7, you likely benefit from it every day.

I do, it’s kept me from smoking cigarettes for the last three years. And I can reduce the amount of nicotine any time I like. I also find that I can go without for longer periods of time then when I was using tobacco. So for me it is a godsend because I was very much hooked on tobacco.

southerngothick vapes!

If this gets them to stop their terrible advertising on my favorite podcasts, I am all for it.

Grantland: “Grantland has an enormous budget, and many in its staff of over 50 writers, editors, and contributors have comically lucrative salaries relative to industry norms, all without Grantland making a profit or boasting a very large readership. [emphasis not sic]”