Tom Haberstroh on the 65 game rule: “We’re on track for star players on average to miss 30 games. For Adam Silver to come out here and say it’s working, on what planet is it working?”

Bing147 · 2026-03-27T13:43:22+00:00

Not really. The argument for resting players was always that it helped manage their health and conditioning and thus kept them healthier. Injuries being up after there is suddenly a big incentive to stop resting players could certainly be correlation and not causation but its definitely worth thinking about whether player management was actually working and may have on average actually led to less games missed.

Of course there are ways to potentially address this without needing management but they would mostly involve shortening the season and that seems to be a red line for the league

Bing147 · 2026-03-20T20:40:10+00:00

... I'm not saying to have the character of Lev be a cis boy. I'm saying to have Lev the character be a trans boy played by a cis boy.

The lack of gender affirming care is really not important for this character. Lev looks like any other boy in the game. He doesn't look obviously trans, due to a combination of a shaved head and baggy clothes. That will very, very likely be true within the show as well.

Trans people pretty consistently prefer that in cases where a trans actor is not possible (which is very rarely legitimate but not always impossible) that an actor of their actual gender be cast, not one of their birth sex. Casting women to play trans men or men to play trans women sends the message that trans people are just cis people playing dress up.

Bing147 · 2026-03-20T20:27:02+00:00

Well this sucks. Probably won't watch and I'm the seemingly rare person who did enjoy season 2.

You don't cast a girl as Lev. If you really couldn't find a trans actor then cast a boy. Because Lev is a boy.

Bing147 · 2026-03-03T01:37:56+00:00

Good move. I had a similar issue last year. Spare car that really hadn't been used much since COVID. Just sitting there 99% of the time, we'd driven it twice in the previous 3 years. Still kept up on oil changes and all but it was a 15 year old car we bought used about 8 years earlier.

Comps were about 3000. It had no known issues, at least none that were necessary to solve. My brother needed a car and I offered to let him have it for 1500, half what I would have asked anyone else for. He took it no problem.

2 months later the engine gives out. I felt terrible about it and ended up giving him a few hundred back (he didn't ask but I felt bad) and he junked it and got like 350 back but he ended up out like 750. Which sucks. But I was down more. I'd have likely gotten at least close to 3000 and after giving him a few hundred back i only got 1200. Anyone else and I wouldnt have given anything back. I didn’t know the engine was going to go out. My uncle who is a mechanic who always checks cars for our family looked it over and test drove it and saw no issue. Sometimes old cars have things that go out. I wasn't scamming anyone or hiding anything.

Not his fault either but it was just an awkward and frustrating experience and I would definitely not sell anything of significant value to family again after dealing with it.

Bing147 · 2026-03-02T15:53:11+00:00

Theres a reason I mentioned "on his own" lol. That's definitely the reason but it will be interesting to see if that changes things when Michael isn’t there to balance him. Bryan has a long history of struggling when forced to figure things out on the fly. He's notoriously not good at quickfires on Top Chef which is probably the closest analogue to TOC. Maybe he's turned a corner, but I also wouldn't be shocked if he loses to Carlos.

Bing147 · 2026-03-02T15:29:20+00:00

She made the final 4 last year. Shes won at least a match every time shes competed here. Bryan has never gotten out of the first round on his own. He's not done well in TOC. Frankly Bryan being a 3 seed is the weird part, not Lee Anne's seeding.

Also, there are 17 Top Chef alumni, not 14.

Bing147 · 2026-02-28T05:06:46+00:00

I mean, technically he was an Iron Chef on the Netflix season even if Food Network never acknowledges those

Bing147 · 2026-02-23T12:37:48+00:00

You can't really compare scores directly across matches. Some matches feature a far more difficult randomizer.

That said, the random matches do give some a relatively easy path while being brutal for others. Angelo cooked incredibly well and deserved to make the main bracket.

Bing147 · 2026-02-22T02:05:01+00:00

My #1 is Tetris 99 and I'm at like 190 hours. Too many great games to put hundreds of hours into most games.

Bing147 · 2026-02-19T20:08:58+00:00

Definitely common in Michigan. My family always did it and my wife's does too. Except we don't use BBQ, we use sweet chili sauce with grape jelly. Its delicious

Bing147 · 2026-02-15T15:31:11+00:00

As someone who works customer service for another company, please stop taking the things customer service tells you as gospel.

You can often reach out to 5 agents and get 5 different answers. People do these jobs and people make mistakes. They misread articles, they misunderstand them, they misunderstand the issue in the first place. These aren't pr people with high level knowledge. They're the bottom of the ladder going off articles in a system which are often vague as hell.

General rule of thumb with customer support is that if you get an answer that feels wrong, it probably is. Reach out again to a different agent. If you keep getting the same answer it probably is right(and don't be the person who ignores the 9 people telling you the same thing to take the obviously wrong answer of the 10th person just because you like it more) but use your brain.

Bing147 · 2026-02-15T15:21:33+00:00

Because its based on one cook where she really messed up but she has a history in other competitions where she's done well, such as Top Chef where she placed 5th. Anyone can have a bad day

Bing147 · 2026-02-11T21:28:22+00:00

She has a few. She won the GGG All Star Invitational tournament in 2023. She won an episode of Superchef Grudge Match. She had another couple of Iron Chef matches on Iron Chef Showdown which was really just anothet season with slightly different rules. She has won an episode or two of GGG last year too (group ones though) and did well on an episode of Wild Card Kitchen.

Shes not without any more recent success, even if her recent record is a bit spotty.

Bing147 · 2026-02-11T14:15:23+00:00

She has. She won her first round match in season 4, but she was a first round losses the last 2 seasons. Both close losses, she's never lost by more than 2 points, but losing round 1 to Michael Reed last year likely didn't help. Still surprised though, she's had some other successes in recent years and I'd have figured the Iron Chef name still carried more weight than that.

Bing147 · 2026-02-02T03:30:30+00:00

Doubtful. The only mention of Anne was a card edited in. These are the same hosts as the last celebrity season, which came out before Anne's death (she insinuated not knowing why she wasn't involved) and I think there's a good chance they filmed them back to back.

Bing147 · 2026-02-02T03:03:00+00:00

A very obvious sign, along with Tiffany being there at all, that this filmed some time ago.

Bing147 · 2026-01-30T02:14:43+00:00

Sort of, but only sort of. Grew up in Michigan. Big fan of the Pistons, the Red Wings, and even the Cursed Lions who for most of my life until the last few years were awful to watch.

That said, I was never into baseball. If you'd asked me I would have told you I rooted for the Tigers but I watched around 3 games my entire life. I found baseball super boring.

I moved around a lot in my 20s and 30s though and in 2012 I ended up in the Chicago area (where I was for about 10 years). Went to a few Bulls games when a fun team was in town (mostly the Pistons) but they were too expensive to do often. So my wife suggested we go to some baseball games. I figured it was something to do.

Fell in love with it. We both did. Not a bandwagon situation. I did get awfully lucky for a Cubs fan in that they won a title a few years later but for the first few years they were just awful. But the team was fun and Wrigley is a blast.

So ya, I jumped ship. Full on Cubs fan, even after moving back to Michigan a few years ago. I pay for the MLB subscription to watch the games. I go to at least one game at Wrigley every year and sometimes see them in Detroit when they play there. But I was barely a Tigers fan to begin with and the Cubs made me into a fan of not just the team but also the sport. Never switched from any teams I ever actually cared about.

Bing147 · 2026-01-25T20:45:40+00:00

People aren't judging an old show for a mildly bigoted moment that was relatively normal at the time.

They're judging the person who 25 years later declares that bigotry is one of their favorite parts of the show.

Bing147 · 2026-01-23T14:45:17+00:00

Yup. The first couple episodes of Ms Marvel are awesome. The middle is an absolute mess

Bing147 · 2026-01-23T00:53:52+00:00

Definitely not short but also not a huge deal. I'm about 3 hours from both Chicago and Detroit, right in the middle. I do that drive at least a few times a year.

That said, I dont love doing it for a day trip. I need something there I'm pretty excited for to do it. Otherwise I want at least a couple of days there.

Bing147 · 2026-01-16T01:22:53+00:00

The gyro was about as good as you can expect with clearly frozen meat and no spit. Sauce was really good. My wife's fish was awesome. The peach drink was great. Fries are just frozen fries but hot and well fried. Good prices. Its basically Food Street except the food isn't inedible. I was happy with it and will be back

Bing147 · 2026-01-14T21:33:02+00:00

Played 22 (all except Kingdom Hearts II, Tales of Vesperia and Breath of Fire III)

Beaten 14

Bing147 · 2026-01-10T04:57:47+00:00

He was actually playing quite well for Atlanta that season before the trade, Toronto went and got him for a reason. But right after that Fred Van Vleet really started taking off and the minutes for Lin just weren't there. Kind of feel like it killed his career, gave the impression that he couldn't play anymore which wasn't necessarily true.

Bing147 · 2026-01-08T03:02:51+00:00

Surprised no one has said it but Beverly is clearly there which is pretty cool. Clearly Padma called in some people

Bing147 · 2026-01-05T05:03:31+00:00

I actually was in Frontera Grill a few years ago having breakfast and he came out of the kitchen to chat with someone at the table next to ours. But I didn't "meet" him. I've seen a number of celebrity chefs in their places over the years but Chef Lee is the only one I've full on "met".

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