What Really Grinds My Gears

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Gas that's so big and aggressive that it feels like it's gonna come bursting out of your crotch.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Gas that's so big and aggressive that it feels like it's gonna come bursting out of your crotch.

This is actually the official state sport of New Jersey.

[iortiz]

People at their cell phones when you are in a meeting. It's like talking to the wall.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

The fucking asshole in the apartment above me (the loud black folks got evicted) who is loudly playing his fucking guitar and attempting to sing at 1:30 in the morning.

He has 10 minutes to call it a night before I go up there, repeatedly smash his guitar over his graying redneck head, and then pour toilet bowl cleaner down his throat.

[Youk Of The Nation]

repeatedly smash his guitar over his graying redneck head, and then pour toilet bowl cleaner down his throat.

That's a really caustic wit you have there, but don't you think you're being a little high-strung?

[Northern Star]

Boomer Esiason ripped Daniel Murphy for taking the collectively-bargained three days paternity leave to be at his kid's birth. According to Boomer, he should have made his wife have a C-section (ie major surgery) before the season, because his job is the most important thing. This bitch serious??

[mvp 78]

Boomer Esiason ripped Daniel Murphy for taking the collectively-bargained three days paternity leave to be at his kid's birth. According to Boomer, he should have made his wife have a C-section (ie major surgery) before the season, because his job is the most important thing. This bitch serious??

Boomer is the ultimate vapid dipshit.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Boomer Esiason ripped Daniel Murphy for taking the collectively-bargained three days paternity leave to be at his kid's birth. According to Boomer, he should have made his wife have a C-section (ie major surgery) before the season, because his job is the most important thing. This bitch serious??

Holy shit, three days of paternity leave! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!

[a700hitter]

Boomer Esiason ripped Daniel Murphy for taking the collectively-bargained three days paternity leave to be at his kid's birth. According to Boomer, he should have made his wife have a C-section (ie major surgery) before the season, because his job is the most important thing. This bitch serious??

A C-Section is unnecessary surgery, but so is a 3 day vacation for the birth of a child when you only work 6 months for millions of dollars. Take the birthday and get back to your team. Pay the hospital and the doctor's bills and be a father to the kid. That's the important thing.

[Youk Of The Nation]

A C-Section is unnecessary surgery, but so is a 3 day vacation for the birth of a child when you only work 6 months for millions of dollars. Take the birthday and get back to your team. Pay the hospital and the doctor's bills and be a father to the kid. That's the important thing.

Perhaps some people would prefer to spend a couple days post-birth with their wife or girlfriend? Maybe helping her out with stuff, getting her food and drink, maybe thinking she deserves two days of care and attention from her loving husband or boyfriend after she just forced an entirely new human being out of her vagina? I don't think three days is excessively long to be out after your wife gives birth, and the amount of time someone works and how much money they make shouldn't be a factor in time off for things like the birth of a child or the death of a relative.

[Palodios]

A C-Section is unnecessary surgery, but so is a 3 day vacation for the birth of a child when you only work 6 months for millions of dollars. Take the birthday and get back to your team. Pay the hospital and the doctor's bills and be a father to the kid. That's the important thing.

3 days really isn't all that much -- especially considering the travel involved to get to and from whatever city the player started/ended at. During a West Coast road trip, three days would turn into one day.

Fun fact: Google gives 7 weeks of paternity leave.Crazy, eh?

[Spudboy]

Perhaps some people would prefer to spend a couple days post-birth with their wife or girlfriend? Maybe helping her out with stuff, getting her food and drink, maybe thinking she deserves two days of care and attention from her loving husband or boyfriend after she just forced an entirely new human being out of her vagina? I don't think three days is excessively long to be out after your wife gives birth, and the amount of time someone works and how much money they make shouldn't be a factor in time off for things like the birth of a child or the death of a relative.

Exactly.

The birth of one's child is much more important than baseball.

I took several days off for the birth of my two children and any decent man would do the same.

I have lost most of the respect that I had for Boomer. What a dip.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Exactly.

The birth of one's child is much more important than baseball.

I took several days off for the birth of my two children and any decent man would do the same.

I have lost most of the respect that I had for Boomer. What a dip.

I am concerned that you had any respect for him in the first place.

[mvp 78]

3 days really isn't all that much -- especially considering the travel involved to get to and from whatever city the player started/ended at. During a West Coast road trip, three days would turn into one day.

Fun fact: Google gives 7 weeks of paternity leave.Crazy, eh?

Well, CA law provides for 6 weeks of paid leave for paternity anyway. They're basically just adding an extra week to what is mandated by their home state.

NJ and RI also both have paternity leave laws.

[a700hitter]

Exactly.

The birth of one's child is much more important than baseball.

I took several days off for the birth of my two children and any decent man would do the same.

I have lost most of the respect that I had for Boomer. What a dip.

It meant something to you. The kids have no recollection. It meant nothing to them-- then or now. Just my opinion.

In my case, I took the day off for the blessed event and then by the middle of the next day I realized that I was just in the way with 2 grandmothers and cousin doting on my wife and the baby. I went back to work where I was needed.

For the father, having a baby is no biggie. The mother endures all the pain and suffering. The important part for the father is helping to raise the kid. Any jackass can plant his seed. Taking off from work or not taking of from work for the birth of your child is not an indicator of anything.