Curtis Luke

I'll bet you twenty bucks I can get you gambling before the end of the day!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Curtis Luke @lukewarm35]

@paulyhoward 70. But I’d settle for anything less than that if I could get the wife/kids on board.

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@h8rproof82 Got one!!

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@TopTierStateX Ahmad Hardy returning as a Consensus All American & Doak Walker finalist from last year, isn’t good enough to make the list?

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@ArrowheadPride CEH

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@KCSportsNetwork 6 for 66

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@mickshaffer I’m not sure that the Bills didn’t do it on purpose.

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@h8rproof82 I’m holding on to Breece in fantasy football just for that reason. He needs rescued from the Jets.

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@geoffschwartz The defender wouldn’t even argue that he is being held here.

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@TomPelissero He didn’t get to play, but he still got paid. So not like a typical suspension.

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@tigerkickoff @Dave_Matter @LauraRutledge I’d root for Cancer before I’d root for kansas.

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They did it.

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Don’t do it Chiefs.

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Don’t do it Chiefs.

[Nick Underhill @nick_underhill]

The Saints plan to terminate the contract of Clyde Edwards-Helaire, per source

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@xRazuu @HartzheimTyler @getnickwright @ProFootballTalk @PabloTorre @FTFonFS1 He’s pointing out the weak teams for his argument sake and completely ignoring the good teams.

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@ChiefJustinO @HartzheimTyler @getnickwright @ProFootballTalk @PabloTorre @FTFonFS1 And Lions

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@HartzheimTyler @xRazuu @getnickwright @ProFootballTalk @PabloTorre @FTFonFS1 The Chiefs literally play the Lions between Jags and Raiders. Way to just overlook that.

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@h8rproof82 KC has three starters with sub 3 ERA’s going this weekend against LA. Only one of them has a winning record. They are completely wasting a pitching staff that they have dreamed of for years.

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@owndodgerhaters @nut_history I’d argue 2009 with the Royals was better. KC as a whole was a way worse team and he still dominated every time he took the mound. Winning the Cy Young on a team that finished 65-97 is nuts.

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@h8rproof82 Why do they run India out at 3rd and Garcia at 2nd instead of just switching them and having them both at their natural position?

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@h8rproof82 And that’s strictly based on his bat forcing the issue of moving him to the OF.