I have to wonder if the front office found out that Cora let Crotchet back out to the mound after learning his shoulder was hurting and decided that was the last straw. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Joe Biden will forever be the guy who saw the Supreme Court threatening to destroy democracy and chose to do nothing about it.

The Supreme Court's Republicans just gutted the Voting Rights Act, severely weakening democracy. By 2028, Republicans could erase many VRA congressional seats and entrench state legislative supermajorities across the South—and oust Black, Latino, & Native officials from local governments nationwide

There are a lot of problems with the NBA's proposed new lottery system. But zooming out, the BIGGEST problem is that it makes it harder to be a fan. Each new reform the NBA has put in place recently has made it harder, and this one is in the same vein. It's what happens when a lawyer is in charge.

Shot charts for Brown, Tatum, and White in the 4th quarter. Not going to win a single game with your three-highest paid players shooting like that. The fourth-highest paid player, Vooch, didn't take a shot in the 4th. Total collapse.

Philly won Game 2. Boston collapsed in Game 5. The refs weren't great, but at the end of the game, Philly only took 4 more free throws. Mazzulla was awful. JB was awful. Vooch was awful. No one else was good enough to rescue the game.

One of Jaylen’s worst performances

Grimes fouled JB at least three times on that play.

Why the fuck is Vooch playing?

C's got that 11-point lead and decided the game was over. This should be much worse right now.

Edgecombe was waiting for JB to push off so he could flop, like his mentor Kyle Lowry has taught him. When JB didn't oblige, he was dead in the water.

“You don’t want to be in the bottom three unless it’s a season where you actually wouldn’t mind because the top of the draft is bad anyway” does not incentivize winning in a meaningful way and also the whole system is just a stupid clusterfuck

Red Sox front office and ownership are having a banner week. The public doesn't trust them, the players don't trust them. I'd sympathize but they've done this to themselves.

Brad winning exec of the year for acquiring Jrue and Porzingis in ‘24 and then again for salary dumping them 2 years later is very funny.

It'll really be amazing if the end-of-bench Celtics winning the final game of the season is why the Pistons and Knicks lose in the first round.

Jalen Suggs' shot decision-making and mechanics are SO BAD that I'm starting to wonder if he's got money on Detroit. Absolutely no idea what he's doing out there.

Chris Finch on Tatum's comments in support of Donte DiVincenzo: "I think Jayson Tatum’s comments were super classy, kind and compassionate. Mean a lot. I know Donte’s heard them and he’s been such a great example of what’s possible."

Mayer will lead off T6. Didn’t get to bat T5. I’ll have to see why.

The most perplexing thing about Breslow riding with Story until the decision gets him fired is that he didn't even sign him. It was Chaim's signing. He can salary dump or waive him and blame Chaim, and say "we're turning the page." Instead, he's riding with him and torpedoing Mayer's future. Sad.

You laugh but handing out these hats is the Democrats’ entire healthcare plan.

Hat tip to the presumably Memphis writer who did Cedric Coward a solid by tossing him a 3rd-place vote for Rookie of the Year. Whoever it was, they shouldn't have a vote next season.

Jaylen Brown is also at 25, and is two wins away from being at 26. Jayson Tatum is at 23, and two wins away from being at 24.

the only solution - the ONE AND ONLY SOLUTION - that eliminates tanking, is to eliminate the Draft. because then teams would have to market themselves. the owners hate this idea, because like Homer Simpson, no one really understands marketing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_b...

SECOND IN ASSISTS. he's 6'10".

pretty sure "desktop research" is code for "my boss won't stop yelling at me about the bad PR this guy is giving, go buy him off!" sadly they don't know who they're playing with. go Joon!

The Red Sox didn’t lose their way overnight. Their incentives shifted. When private equity enters sports, the questions change — and so do the answers. Inside the organization, some describe the culture as “toxic positivity.” The story behind it: open.substack.com/pub/joonlee/...

A big, big, big thanks to Joel Embiid for coming back. Philly had been playing lights out defense on the C's, and that immediately went out the window tonight.

The Celtics are now 37-1 when shooting 38% from three or better this season. When they hit from outside, you're just not beating them.

It's so weird when the opposing fans get mad at one of my team's guys. That's the good guy. Grow up.

The Sixers spent the last 8:30 of that quarter in the bonus, and yet somehow VJ Edgecombe didn't realize he shouldn't foul Pritchard. Maybe his coach didn't tell him. Or maybe he was really desperate to stop being embarrassed by him. And yet, he was. I love Payton Pritchard.

Only 2 time outs left. Wasted their challenge in the second quarter on a play that wasn't going to get them points. Not doing a good job of reminding Embiid that their best player is Maxey. Not a great showing for Nurse so far.

100%, but I was glad Mazzulla stuck with him there. He needed the coach's trust there, and he responded well, with a couple good rebounds and clean challenge on Maxey.

Embiid grabs Tatum by the neck. No call. Embiid jumps into Garza standing straight up. Foul and two free throws.

I'd be mad too if the manager who didn't move me off my position in favor of the better young player was fired.

Not surprising. The Red Sox under John Henry have rarely operated with any kind of emotional intelligence, compassion, or respect.

I think it's pretty easy to judge. The Devers trade was obviously a salary dump, but look at the assorted ways he screwed that up (Tibbs for May, Harrison for Durbin, losing Bregman). Most of his bad moves weren't because of constraints.

The fired Boston Red Sox coaches in front of their plane back home. That’s Jason Varitek giving a thumbs down on the left. Alex Cora has been texting reporters he’s happy to be free. This is from his IG stories. Fucking incredible.

I thought Breslow had an excellent offseason before 2025. Signed Bregman and Chapman, pivoted to Crochet when Fried went to NY, added a surprisingly effective catcher in Narvaez (jury is still out that deal). Since? Disaster after blunder after mistake.

Jaden McDaniels did nothing wrong. He thought the Nuggets were still playing defense. He couldn't tell the difference.

Nuggets have been held to under 100 points in B2B playoff games for the first time since May 2024 in the second round against Minnesota.

If Jokić didn't want him to take that lay up, he should have run his fat ass down the court and played some defense.

That's some bullshit from Jokic, you got your ass kicked and you are going to be upset with a bucket at the end, how about all the ones that came before that. So lame.

Jokìć in the 4th: - 0-for-6 FGs - 2 turnovers - Stood in the paint line a statue while Dosunmu and McDaniels hit easy floaters over him - Started a fight like a petulant child That's your "best player in the world?" In a game where his team is down 2-1 and the opponent is missing their star? Sure.

Sucks. Just sucks.

Second straight game Finch made a low-percentage, emotional challenge in the first half that he lost. Didn't end up mastering in Gm 3. It might tonight.

As long as the next guy stops platooning Marcelo Mayer with waiver bait, I’m fine with this.

Same. But GMs rarely fire themselves.

Congrats to the Red Sox for finally firing their manager. The team wanted to develop younger players, and he had absolutely zero interest in doing so.

Captain of a 2-10 juggernaut, I'm sure he'll be great!