the greater Pittsburgh area only has like a couple of Popeye’s?

It’s almost like treating the people you’re supposed to protect and serve as wartime enemies and constantly harassing them for victimless “crimes” results in resentment, weird.

“Experiences of discrimination can flood the body with stress hormones such as cortisol — a chemical that readies the body to fight or flee. Studies have show that even the anticipation of discrimination can trigger the stress response.”

Agreed with everything you said except: Trump didn’t unleash The Delusion of White Supremacy™. Since this country’s inception, whites have deluded themselves about the evil they do and the other whites have bought into The Lie Agreed Upon’™.

A few years ago I visited a plantation that I had been to on a school field trip when I lived in the area. I was already acquainted with it’s history and mostly wanted to check out some architectural features that child-me wouldn’t have appreciated.

Somebody mad about the truth about American history?

Giolito is a California kid who’s parents are actors and his wife is in veterinary school. These things don’t guarantee that he will be more liberal than the average baseball player, but they do suggest a stereotype different than most ballplayers live up to.

Exactly, two of three seemed like they were good human beings. The Swarzak’s seem like a reprehensible twosome who are more in line with most MLB couples

This new curve ball of “Hey mannnn, nationalism is cool mannn. it just means I like the stars and stripes and George Washington mannn. Maybe it’s YOU that’s the racist one” is so mind numbingly dumb and scary and dangerous and fucking evil.

Gotta admit, in a story involving three baseball players and their wives, I did not think an overwhelming majority would have reasonable opinions. 

If they can co-opt the “ok,” sign. We can use Betty.

Would be more accurate if there was an actress named Hope E. White.

“Betty White”

This is fucking hilarious and thanks for explaining it, because I was still at the figuring-out stage of saying her name out loud and trying to come up with anagrams.

So what if he tried to hit Hyde?  He’d have like an 81.7% chance of missing anyway.

These owners really need to stick to sports.

Hell, I can get you a bachelor’s degree by 3 o’clock this afternoon... with honors. These fucking profiting-off-amateurs.

What In The Hell Is Happening In The NL?

It’s the slight smirk (which is phenomenal). To often these things are emotionless (Ray Lewis) or they get the smile wrong (Sanders). This is actually how Reed may have looked after owning your ass. It's magnificent.