NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

you can totally get off Substack, it's a fucking terrible place that is detrimental to a healthy media environment, where all the most popular Substacks™ are pyramid schemes about how to write popular Substacks™. Now backed by Polymarket, because what was already bad can always get worse.

Wow the "dismissive of sexual abuse" coalition includes libertarians AND a French guy? There's no stopping this freight train

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

So this is 38

One of my favorite Instagram accounts is 22 Short Songs About Springfield, where they match song lyrics to Simpsons stills. The one they did today is a Tragically Hip song. Happy Birthday to me ☺️ www.instagram.com/p/DU8PiQ7DTO...

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

Artturi Lehkonen see how fun it is playing with fellow countrymen now imagine doing that with four of them every game. Isn’t that so much more fun than being in Colorado?

never, EVER let a mikko rantanen-led team trail 2-0 in the third period of a do-or-die game

DEEP IN THE HEART OF FINLAND

our close personal friend Miro Heiskanen of course

Some things are universal

Dallasin! tähdet! Dallasin! tähdet!

Answering the question you asked about the 80s Islanders. The NHL from the 60s through when Gretzky gets traded in ‘88 is really a story of these super teams that just kind of appear organically, and the growing super teams that take years to break through before THEY become THE super team

Sometimes I’ll watch Channel 5 news streaming from Dallas and they’ll show the commercials they show on the newscast. Texas political ads are an unique brand of frightening and unhinged

Found this in a box looking for my college diploma lol

You know, in the dark ages, at least there was some flicker of hope. The Wolf Pack was good, the free agents, hell THE IDEA of Jamie Lundmark and Pavel Brendl. This feels absolutely hopeless. Like the pre-Brunson Knicks in that everything feels broken and there’s literally nothing to look forward to

Kenny you are SUCH a Psyduck

It is the year 2043. The Jays trade Joey Loperfido to the Astros for a left handed outfielder. The US government releases 4 new epstein files in wingding font.

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

I appreciate Kenny Albert honoring Sam Rosen by reminding us that the Tkachuks and Hugheses are brothers

My feelings on Castellanos 1. It was the absolute right move to sign him at the time. 2. If he was even close to his career averages here he’d still be here 3. As frustrating as he was, they don’t get to the WS or NLCS without him. 4. It was time for both sides to move on All of this can be true

See as someone who doesn’t drink I can at least see the point in providing options for people who don’t drink alcohol whether by choice or by recovery to allow them to socially participate safely. But everything else on the lifestyle hygiene list just feels like targeted influencer ads

"oh haha it would be so funny if nobody scored a touchdown," you post into your bluesky machine, without realizing how much cash fanduel is going to save on first-TD and anytime-TD props in the event of a zero-TD game

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This feels like the last game Seattle played in Santa Clara last month: a 16-6 Week 18 reduction fest where they basically just sat on the ball offensively with their run game because they knew the 49ers offense wasn’t doing anything

Listen. At the end of the day I’m so glad Panarin is gone. The dude sexually assaulted someone. I don’t care how many goals he scored. That said. The trade is still atrocious and I can be mad at the return.

And here’s the thing. There are no quick fixes, there’s no Brassard for Zibanejad or Gomez for McDonagh trade coming. Free agency is just varying degrees of guys you already have too many of for the foreseeable future. You have no choice but to draft and develop your way out and through

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This is both a holy shit and a “this is so fucking State College” moment. Just fucking once I’d like someone publicly representing my school to not be a massive piece of shit but I guess that’s just way too much to ask

The lack of return here create even more pressure for a Trocheck trade, and Drury has got to cross fingers that something doesn't happen in Italy.

Now it’s officially 2018 all over again, complete with a rushed trade at a deadline that didn’t need to happen

My hockey team is going to suck for the next 10-15 years and the fact they probably won’t be good again or will probably never win anything in my lifetime is on me for hitching my wagon to a James Dolan entity

Notice how he doesn’t bring up the billions given to a literal secret police terrorizing anyone it deems as an enemy. Thats just a-ok for the national debt

Yes, it’s as bland and unimaginative a broadcast as you would expect a MLB-produced broadcast to be, and yes, you’ll have to buy yet another subscription for it. But at least you’ll have it.

For as long as I can remember, it’s been a dream of mine to live in Montreal or Toronto for a year. The last nine days of winter have cured me of that, I think

You can’t convince me at least two of those names aren’t from the Mark Donk/Buzz Flibbett School of Evgeni Malkin wingers

Dan periodically would dm me about Penn State and insane memoriabilia he would find. his dad's a big Nittany Lions guy. Ridiculous stuff like this

shout out to Dan McQuade, who took me up on an offer to see Hannibal Buress at the Troc, pulled out his phone to record the Bill Cosby joke, and through the butterfly effect of the internet sent Bill Cosby to prison and kickstarted the #MeToo movement. He was one of the kindest guys I’ve ever met.

Basically if a Philly thing (or a Philly Twitter thing broke contain) you knew the Dan piece explaining it in a way that made people outside and newcomers like me understand while still being true to born and raised Philadelphians was coming within 48 hours.

Scrolling through Twitter, finding the ancient texts, discovered a quintessential Dan tweet.

I am gutted about Dan McQuade. A great writer, a guy who knew more about what made Philly “Philly” than anybody else, a fellow HGP Firebird, and just a kind person. A terrible loss for all of us.

Never had a chance to meet or interact with Dan McQuade, but so much of what I learned about Philadelphia since I moved here was from reading him. Few others knew, taught, wrote and understood Philadelphian better than him. Pouring one out for a legend. RIP

Just saw the Dan McQuade news and am incredibly sad. Philadelphia has lost an institution, and journalism is much worse off without him. Fuck.

You don’t know how much I need a 11:45 pm eastern or later playoff kick in Honolulu

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

salary caps are inherently anti-labor hope this helps 🩷

You can get by in the regular season being PDO and special teams merchants but the trade off is when the crashes come, they’re hard and fast and feel like they’ll never end. I had absolutely no intention of making this seem like a sexual metaphor but here we are

Well, one is a mayor who in two weeks has already delivered some of his biggest campaign promises. And the other is a three decade Senator who constantly blocks out what his own constituents want to listen to an imaginary Long Island couple whose imaginary views magically completely mirror his own

Baseball ownership has truly become "you either sell as a competitor or own long enough to only care about profits and real estate deals." John Middleton's entering the latter.