You have no idea, do you, sunshine?
Why does anyone besides Mrs. Cashman care who Brian Cashman is fucking? Why should they? For all of the really interesting and good stuff AJ has done for Deadspin, this story is puerile, petty, and pathetic.
I can't wait for hard-hitting follow-up scoops such as "Garth Snow watches shemale porn" or "Jerry Reese likes to wear lace panties." Who the fuck cares?
This didn't seem so "scathing" and "excoriating" of ESPN so much as Simmons demonstrating the extremely low regard in which he holds women. No wonder ESPN was so intrigued.
Another common failure: telling your kids exactly how to piss you off. Saying, "I really need you guys to be on your best behavior while we do ___" guarantees that they'll start breaking stuff and beating the crap out of each other at the first opportunity.
Mike Martz: the Jeff George of coaches.
You can think your team will win a big game, or you can worry that it's going to lose—but it's close to impossible to keep your expectations anywhere in between.
Unless you're Donovan McNabb.
Exactly. #34 is just slow, uncoordinated and happens to be a lot bigger than the guys he's contacting.
I try to look at it this way: as Cards fans, we got to see the BEST 10 years of his career. Angels fans can only hope they get a reasonable facsimile for 4-5 years at best. I will never, ever, hate on an athlete for taking the payday over "loyalty"--I would do it too.
There is only one kind of loyalty in sports, and that's fans for a team. Expecting loyalty from anyone else involved--a franchise, an owner, a player--is to ultimately be disappointed. So, in that sense, I personally am not fazed that he's, to put it in your terms, pissing on the team or the fans or whatever. Could he have been classier, sure, but when you look beyond his on-field performance, no one has ever accused Albert Pujols of being classy.
I think it's all rationalization on the Pujols' part. They want to believe that it "wasn't about the money" even though it clearly was, so they have built up this whole fake "the Cardinals didn't love us and insulted us" mythology in their heads. It's pathetic, but not worthy of hatred.
12- to 14-year-olds barely qualify as human beings, boys especially.
A common affliction among hockey fans as well, alas. It's sports hipsterism.
Kids just amplify everything in your marriage. The good parts are better; the bad parts get much worse.
Unless sex was one of the good parts. Don't ever expect things to go back to "normal;" there will be a new "normal" that develops over time.
Unless sex was one of the good parts. Don't ever expect things to go back to "normal;" there will be a new "normal" that develops over time.
How long before we have a designated Gay Panic Question of the Week?
THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS.
Grey sweatpants, it would appear, are the skinny jeans of Iowa.
This is, to me, the overarching theme of the show: the relationship between Rick (the traditional, nice guy hero, still delusionally trying to cling to the trappings of a society that no longer exists) and Shane (who recognizes the need to escape those trappings, but can't quite bring himself to do it), and who are also best friends.
I haven't read the graphic novels. But, based on this being a Hollywood product, I don't have any illusions about which one I'm *supposed* to root for.
I haven't read the graphic novels. But, based on this being a Hollywood product, I don't have any illusions about which one I'm *supposed* to root for.
I think the character acted rationally. This is really an ethical debate, whether you think selflessness and what is generally considered to be "socially appropriate" behavior is a good unto itself, or whether it is a means to maximize the overall efficiency and benefits of society for the largest number of its members. If the latter, in the absence of a society, there is no need for "socially acceptable" behavior. It might, in fact, be counterproductive. In such a world, what is good? What is evil? There is alive, and there is walkerfood. Shane recognizes this, even while he is conflicted by his past social ties to Rick and Lori and Carl.
His obsession with Lori aside, Shane is the sanest and clearest-thinking member of the group. Sociopathy has little meaning when society no longer exists.
Walking Dead Character Likability Index (CLI) (Main Group Only):
1. Darryl
2. Glenn
3. Shane
4. Rick
5. Carl
6. Carol
7. Andrea
8. Dale
9-300 million. Walkers
300,000,001. Lori
Seriously, in Rick's shoes I would take Lori for a nice long walk, and then come back and tell Carl, "Geez, kid, sorry, your mom had an accident. Tough breaks. Maybe Carol could be your new mom? I mean, she's old, and has a terrible haircut, and cries all the time, but at least she's not all nagnagnagwhinewhinewhine all the fucking time. I mean, I miss her, too."
1. Darryl
2. Glenn
3. Shane
4. Rick
5. Carl
6. Carol
7. Andrea
8. Dale
9-300 million. Walkers
300,000,001. Lori
Seriously, in Rick's shoes I would take Lori for a nice long walk, and then come back and tell Carl, "Geez, kid, sorry, your mom had an accident. Tough breaks. Maybe Carol could be your new mom? I mean, she's old, and has a terrible haircut, and cries all the time, but at least she's not all nagnagnagwhinewhinewhine all the fucking time. I mean, I miss her, too."
I always overexplain shit like swastikas to my kids. That would have turned into a 45-minute lecture on the history of the swastika starting with its use as a symbol in ancient India, concluding with my finely-honed 7-minute precis of WWII.
That's a terrific book, by the way.
That's a terrific book, by the way.
