Miller Genuine Draft is beer-flavored soda pop. Horrifying. Read more

Again, it's not about LeBron (although that was a bizarre call). And it's not about the inherent difficulty of calling a faster, bigger game. It's about Crawford and his team going out of their way to call irrelevant stuff, breaking up the flow for no good reason, while they missed things right in front of them. Read more

Yes, that Wade no-call was yet another of the obvious calls they blew, while they were busy calling ticky-tacky nothing stuff off the ball. This is not about whether one fan base can whine louder than the other, or about who _deserved_ to win. I didn't care which team won, and I still wanted someone to beat Joey… Read more

The thing was, in real time, it looked pretty straightforward and obvious: Wait, LeBron's back ... That's probably not a smart shot with LeBron back like that ... Yup, that's why it was a bad idea. Read more

He's getting $10 million because he signed a four-year extension in early 2009, coming off 51 doubles and a 118 OPS+. That contract expires after this year, so uh yeah, "his days are numbered," good observation. If it pains you that much to see a moderately expensive contract for a formerly valuable contributor in the… Read more

Chicken & Waffles tasted like eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch and then licking an empty flavor packet from ramen. Sriracha tasted like ... spicy BBQ potato chips. Read more

I direct you to my [...] reply when that [...] [...] from [...] [...] asked that [...] misguided [...] question. Read more

Both of them were precisely at room temperature, and appeared to be controlled by incredibly sophisticated thermostat systems. A little unnerving to see face to face so early in the morning. Read more

Also, thanks. Glad you enjoyed the book. Read more

The most fucked-up thing I saw there was the row of ultra-luxury car dealerships on Jinbao Jie downtown. When there's a Maserati showroom around, nobody's even pretending there's any ideology but kleptocracy in charge. Read more

Wrong! No apostrophes for ordinary adjectival use. Thanks for trying, though. Read more

Congratulations on your awesome life and your full scrotum. Where was I writing about nausea or vertigo or histrionics? I hope you picked your targets better with your weapons systems than you did here. Read more

Uh, yeah, actually: seeing an Asian-American person do well at something and responding with a joke about eating dogs—that's not baiting "dumb people," It's being racist. Save your snottiness about "faux outrage" for something that's faux outrageous, not genuinely outrageous. Read more