Don’t tell me you can’t afford big name players when your team agreed to sign a contract that’ll give a 38 year-old catcher $20 mil.

...usually it’s a piece of truly fucked up junk food from a stadium.

That’s for the clarification and honesty. Reading your other comments, I believe you are coming from a good place. I hope you understand how inflammatory it came across, however.

Which is 100% true. And if it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t suggesting you were derailing.

Black people are immediately pressured to forgive. Fixed it for you.

I know that it has been suggested elsewhere, but Ms. Fulton does not come close to insinuating that. Why bring it up? Well, I know why. “I’ll take derailing conversations for $1,000, Alex.”

They were responding to your post that asked that question. I want to know why you would have responded with that question to this article. It was not brought up by Ms. Fulton.

I don’t follow. Where was it suggested that it was the fault of the government that Zimmerman wasn’t convicted?

MLB’s Universal Ground Rules state that a catch can be made on the field tarp. Additionally, there appear to be no ground rules (universal or Wrigley specific) that relate to the infield walls.

Yeah, no. You don’t get to police someone’s reaction to an incredibly offensive comment. You want to let it go? Great. You do you. But you don’t get to say to a women who is so upset that she’s in tears, “just let it go.”

Consent is an affirmative action. If she has said nothing, then she hasn’t give consent.

This is why I love you.

I was a young mom and not working in a job that provided health insurance (pre-Obamacare). Medicaid allowed me to finish college and still have health insurance for my daughter while I finished college. Without it, I would not have gone back to school.

This reminds me of two similar incidents that happened to me.

I worked at many pizza places where I would get burns that looked like lines on my forearms. I'd grab a pickle and slap it on my arm. Usually stuck ok for long enough to get rid of some of the pain.

In all the places I worked, it was a pickle, not mustard.

As someone from WI, this actually kind of tame for Grothman. Not even close to the most ridiculous thing he's ever said.

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