I don’t think it’s necessarily out of bounds to say that those issues exist before a kid steps on a football field or steps on the bus to go to basic training.

I dunno. Half the guys in the league do this, and half of those guys do it when they aren’t even shooting. Nobody rebounds on the offensive glass anymore.

Came to say the same thing - wouldn’t have come out nearly as well.

Came to say the same thing - wouldn’t have come out nearly as well.

That’s beside the point. The point is that they didn’t have all of this information, so rather than reacting to some stranger inconveniencing them for a few minutes, they should have just shut up and played their damn Candy Crush and let the situation play out. Their sarcastic clapping didn’t help anybody.

Amen. It doesn’t matter how he handled this press conference. It’s how he handled losing. Of course he is going to be upset. But he spent so much of the early part of his career sulking about the fact that people were calling him out for his sulking.

I want to complain about how it creates an unfair competitive balance between the two leagues, but the NL has had no trouble winning championships over the last (insert sample size) years, so lazy analysis says that this position doesn’t hold much water.

I will entertain just about any theory involving ancient history. Our knowledge of history is based on collected writings and discovered artifacts. Which means we don’t know anything we haven’t read about or found evidence of. This sounds simple, but with the burning of the library at Alexandria and the general lack…

Yeah, that’s fucking bullshit. It completely ignores the advantages and conveniences gained through technology. Roy Hobbs is correct - this isn’t about eating one pretzel out of the bag. This is about going to a vending machine for a soda instead of paying for a whole case.

I’m with you, Larry. I have gone six total years in the relationship without having to address either of my in-laws directly by name more than a half dozen times.

Yeah, I’m with you. He made some entertaining television, but it’s not like he was fired without cause. He brought it on himself by being, as you so eloquently put it, a raging cunt.

My house is a no-shoe house because I’m a dirty hippy that finds all shoes to be uncomfortable. I don’t even like to wear socks when I don’t have to. My feet need to be free.

A rec for the ska-ness of this post. Even if I never have any intention or means of trying this beer...

I wrestle with that when I contemplate my mediocrity relative to my more successful peers. I am incapable of maintaining my focus on just one thing, leading me firmly into “jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none” territory.

Not for nothing, but I’d take the latter any day of the week. Especially since that pretty much sums up my evening, too.

I won’t condone what he did, because it simply isn’t a good idea. But I’ve driven that bridge a lot, and at that time of night, it is wide (to accommodate Jersey commuter traffic) and straight (because it’s a goddamn bridge) and deserted (because it’s Jersey).

No euphemism. I took it to mean that he licked a surface that was a collection point for all the random grossness that exists out in public. Like asking someone to lick the handrail at a subway stop. He got sick, like you do, and the $50 was little solace.

I can’t say I’d agree with “perfect”, but I would settle for “considerate”. And as for dickwad, well, that appears to be a matter of opinion on which all parties agree to disagree.

“I have never felt more justified making my mom cry when I ripped into her for sending some stupid meme of a kid taking a piss.”

Super Mario Bond! I hated that scene, and it really affected my enjoyment of the movie overall for a very long time.

As I was reading, I was basically putting my thoughts together to say exactly what you did with point number 6. Bond is bigger than Mendes and Craig. It had to return to the camp. And as a fan of Bond, I’m okay with that.