I was a little league ump back in the early and mid 80s and it wasn’t any different.  Our league did give umps the discretion to call the game or banish parents to the centerfield parking lot that was another 20 yards past the fence.  We also had the authority to call a game for one team or another or just cancel the…

No kidding.  I live in Missouri and work in healthcare and Medicaid expansion would have been a boon to the sector, but the rubes in our state legislature equate Medicaid with brown people in the urban centers while it is the small hospitals out in the sticks that are closing down and they can’t figure out why.

My wife always asks ‘What’s good?’.  Drives me nuts.

My neighbor’s kid just got a welding job after attending a technical high school and a three year apprenticeship. The little bastard is making what I am.  I think I would be much happier in a trade these days.

Should have gone with New Hampshire.  Burlington has some good damn mexican joints.

If it is ineptly done, it will definitely turn out to be Jacob Wohl.

I started using garlic powder more because of sous vide.  Nothing more unappealing than your garlic turning blue-green or creating botulism spores.  I don’t usually cook at that low a temperature, but I don’t bother to risk it.

You are correct in equating colors and flavors and not attributing any actual fruits to them.  I was at a snack bar last weekend and they asked what flavor Gatorade I wanted and I answered that it doesn’t matter.  They are all nebulous manufactured flavors that have no basis in actual plant matter.

The worst for me is ‘apple’ flavoring where ‘apples’ are supposed to taste like Apple Jolly Ranchers.  To me, that is the worst fake fruit flavor ever.

This is lame as fuck.  If they asked you to text ‘Babyfingers’, he would lose his shit.

I dread  jury duty, not because of the boredom and no/low pay.  I dread hanging out with a room of folks that was 80% dipshits.  I was voted jury foreman once because I ‘sounded smart’.  Thank god that one settled during a recess about a half hour into it.  The stupid shit that people say to get out of jury duty is…

It was, then it was corrected.  Keep up.

That’s the salty taste.

What the municipalities need to do is cut back on services to sectors that cater to him.  Isn’t that what he does to anyone who gives him the slightest shade?  If the local VFW, Chamber, churches support his visits, then take the cost out of fixing pot holes or other maintenance on or adjacent to their properties. …

To anyone who watched past the middle of season 1 - Does it change, tonally?  We had trouble deciding whether it was supposed to be funny, sad, uncomfortable, or a combination of all of the above.  Whichever it was, up to that point it didn’t seem to handle the changes deftly.  We wanted to like it.

St. Louis and KC aren’t the problem with Missouri.

But Trump and the GOP will give them cash to buy their votes and they’ll happily take it while bemoaning the welfare state and socialism that doesn’t benefit them.  The rubes are all in for him.

Her ‘Joy’ was in being an asshole.

Oh, you’re talking about MLB/Hernandez, not GOP/Trump?