My rant. I was a dopey kid who, in the 80s, thought the Sox were the scrappy underdogs who battled the evil Yankees (just like the scrappy Celtics battled showtime and now the scrappy Pats battle everyone). I was Bob Stanley at a Halloween party watching Game 6!

Legit question: How are WNBA refs ranked on the pecking order of basketball refs? Above DI college? Europe league refs? How do the stepping stones go?

That oil cap is not original spec. So, garbage repair.

I grew up with Oakland being the bomb because its players were out of control, but then went on the field and won. They were called criminals, although I mostly remember their cameos in cheese movies and television shows in retirement. Bubba Smith in Police Academy! Howie Long on Fox!

I find most NPR shows have to start out as situational, often as background noise.

I wonder about the discussion on concussions. As a teacher, I also see a few soccer concussions each year (especially among girls who play elite travel teams) and few football ones.

1. They are children. Even where they are legal for adults, these children are not old enough to make choices about drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Even where they are legal, their parents are not allowed to let them do or give them drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. It doesn’t matter what the kids or the adults want…

Am I the only one that thinks a wedding is two people marrying each other and not giving a shit about everything else?

Keep politics out of sports.

I remember people complaining about Hollywood trying to make Chris Pine “happen.”

I think I get it, especially the part where kindness just makes you a sucker.

Why not both?

Miami is one those stadiums you watch on television and it just never feels right.

I know his scene is perhaps 30 seconds, but I keep replaying him as the head of the DNC in the final season of The West Wing. He just complains to Bartlet about everyone acting like children. I came to this interview for that.

Can KC just hire Wade Phillips for a year as the defensive coordinator?

My 13 year old son is learning gaming programming on GameMaker (humblebrag) but hit the Insert key by accident. It was an old keyboard (many newer USB no longer seem to include it) and he freaked when every stroke erased his work.

Culinary: Apples. For a while, anyone who wanted to be daring put apples in something it had no business being in. Apples do not belong in a stirfry.

Black people can absolutely be prejudiced, as evidenced by my aversion to Kentucky Fried Chicken and ugly feet. But what we don’t have the power to be, is racist.

Male here: Women who wear nail polish. Gives me the heebie-jeebies. Long nails, etc. I can’t get past it.

I do this (and was recently diagnosed with OCD, so your obsessive theory holds true! (but I’m not a controlling asshole; my wife confirms it!)).