In n Out burger has a litany of secret menu options and ordering rules and the only people who know them are the ones on the inside – the menu is a weapons-grade-guarded secret and you can only glean info by eavesdropping or by someone at InO management pulling you into the fold.

Kinda like Scientology. Can I order my Thetan Burger double-double-animal style?

Funny, I thought the final season of Entourage was back in 2007 when I stopped watching the show like 90% of everyone else.

When did we reach the point where everyone says ‘literally’ 5 times in every 8 minute conversation? Please stop. Half of you aren’t using it correctly and the other half use it too often. Just knock it off.

Is it just me or is that Harry Potter kid nerdier now than he was 8 movies ago?

Why is it that some people can’t just accept a goal in the 122nd minute as a great moment? Do we need to immediately rank it? Are we required to compare it to every other great sports moment? It should be sufficient to say it was great and leave it be.

Was it the best moment ever? No. First, it’s in a quarterfinal game. The best moments almost always are in the last game.
Also against it – it didn’t win the game. It’s difficult to see anything that doesn’t win or lose the game as the best moment. You can really help yourself if the final shot/kick/catch/throw/run wins the game. Note to soccerheads – bring back the golden goal, will ya?
There’s always a rush to take the most recent action and rate it 10 times higher than it should be considered so check back with me in a month and see if anyone can give the names of anyone involved.

For anyone who is a fan of the Bill Simmons podcast, his guest this week Chris Connelly stole the Psi Phi Audio Segment titled “Hypothetical Movie Reviews”. Maybe didn’t steal so much as mention the same idea. Anyway, good to see our idea was good enough for someone as smart as CC to copy/use/do. You need to get deep into the podcast to hear it, but it is there.

http://www.grantland.com/podcasts

http://search.espn.go.com/uni-watch/

I love that ESPN actually features a page about changes, great and small, to uniforms in sports.

Competitive eaters, people who endorse competitive eating, people who coined the phrase competitive eating, people who think competitive eating is a real thing to be talked about, people who cover competitive eating as if it were a sporting event.

In general I like what ESPN does, but not without fail. This gar-bage is a tragic, epic fail. Not a sport, not interesting, not smart and not something we should encourage in human behavior. Give them all a beating please.

Now that our national crisis has concluded and the NBA Finals are over and ‘the Association’ has released its short-hair grip on our world, we have the unique opportunity to sit back, exhale and survey our surroundings.

What have we seen? Miami didn’t win the title and that made many people very happy. LeBron James acted like a spoiled brat in post-series interviews so that made many people very happy too. And now the season is over and a pending labor dispute may prevent another season from muddling the tv waters in 3 months so that’s a happy thought as well.

What have we learned? Don’t declare you’ll win 7 championships if you haven’t won 1 yet. Don’t act like you feel sorry for leaving the city you clearly were happy to leave. Don’t forget to show up and play in the fourth quarter. (LBJ – I know the Stanley Cup Finals were going on, but THEY play 3 periods and you play 4, try to remember)

Dallas had never won before, so good on them.

Baseball is considering some changes in the teams, schedule and divisions for the future.

For those who like interleague play – the new plan would make interleague games every day.
For those who hate interleague play – at least the distribution of games and opponents will be improved and fair.

For those who like rivalries – Houston might join the AL and rival Texas or Florida can switch and face Tampa.
For those who hate rivalries – who thinks the Marlins and Rays will be rivals anyway?

For those who like playoff games – the new system would probably add two playoff teams to the postseason.
For those who dislike playoff games – the two added teams will be, by definition, bad teams.

The plan? Baseball is considering two 15-team leagues. Honestly, if you want IL games every day just abolish the leagues (abolish the DH and add one roster spot to all teams) and just ignore the league distinction completely. Having divisions that don’t have the same number of teams is idiotic. The unbalanced schedule that helps the Angels and hurts the Reds – would anyone want 7 teams in the NFC East and only 3 teams in the other divisions in pro football? Hell no.

Baseball doesn’t need to make the leagues have 15 teams each- they should make it have 14 teams each. Abolish the Marlins, move the Rays to Las Vegas and find another team to exclude, like maybe the previously mentioned Astros – Or remove both Florida teams.
MLB’s new playoff plan would be a round of playoffs where the 4v5 series winner faces the #1 seed – bad teams getting a chance to advance into the playoffs serves only to devalue the regular season. If I wanted the regular season devalued, I’d ask you to go back to 154 games or even 140.

Yet another group of baseball folks making bad ideas come to life, only now they toss out a new tactic – instead of pitching one bad idea at a time (so that we can shoot the stupidity down head-on) MLB wants to throw a half-dozen bad ideas at us at once and hope one sticks to the dartboard unscathed. Morons.