ESPN + keeps running this commercial on the UCF game for an oven advertising an “air sous vide” setting. This is nonsensical. Sous vide literally means “in a vacuum” and therefore there is no air involved. Thanks for coming to my ted talk
And there’s no voting for AL 2nd baseman? They’re just gonna give it to the guy who’s 5th on his own team in RBI’s? His own team with a losing record, I might add
Would be pretty funny if they had to supplemental and no one drafted him. Why would any team want a guy who bet on his own team to lose in the locker room?
Brendan Sorsby's attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, tells ESPN of the NFL's decision to not hold a supplemental draft: "It is a violation of the CBA and the law. We will pursue this immediately with the NFLPA."
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.
@AlexDevMLB@BaseballWRLD_ If memory serves, there was a Mike Trout for Jeremy Hellickson offer on the table before Trouts debut after Hellickson won ROTY
🚨 Hey: UCF has set up a scholarship in honor of my late dad, James Clark, for students passionate about history at the school. This is close to our family's heart so I'd like to promote it here. The link to donate is below, anything helps, DMs are open.
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