if you have ever wondered who the Least Valuable Player was in a given year for MLB (AL/NL by bWAR), the NBA/BAA (by winshares), the WNBA (also winshares), the NHL (by pointshares), or the NFL (by AV from 1960-pres), then boy howdy do we have a spreadsheet for you

good morning monday morning, and folks have we got an episode for you hot off the podcast presses this week we're lucky to be joined by the one and only @dennycarter.bsky.social as we talk about maintaining positivity in the face of authoritarianism and also the miami dolphins of the late 1990s!

demar derozan, since being traded to san antonio prior to the 2018/19 season, has played in 526 games and averaged 23.3ppg/5.4apg/4.8rpg the only other player during that stretch with 500+ games, and at least 20/5/4 averages? nikola jokic

part 1 of ELITE became our most downloaded episode ever about a month ago and apparently just yesterday crossed the 300 threshold and, scientifically speaking, i think that is pretty cool

almost every new name is absolutely a Guy and that is probably terrible news for their chances at That Other Hall

Had the pleasure of chatting with the folks at @rememberthatguy.bsky.social about nostalgia, the fun sports kind and the weaponized political kind. redcircle.com/shows/rememb...

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

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good morning monday morning, and folks have we got an episode for you hot off the podcast presses this week we're lucky to be joined by the one and only @dennycarter.bsky.social as we talk about maintaining positivity in the face of authoritarianism and also the miami dolphins of the late 1990s!

Warner's Chocolate Bar (2000-2000): Then-Rams QB Kurt Warner received his own candy bar, a milk chocolate bar loaded with his cereal, Warner's Crunch Time (frosted corn flakes)

Double Play Bubblegum Cooler (1986-1986): Bars of vanilla ice milk, covered in a pink, bubblegum-flavored coating. Each box came with 2 baseball cards, featuring players like George Brett, Don Mattingly, and Pete Rose. Released by Meadow Gold to celebrate the start of baseball season

USA Olympic Crunch (1997-1998): Whole grain, star-shaped cereal pieces, along with Olympic-themed marshmallows such as ice skates, hockey sticks, torches, and gold medals. Released to promote the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano.

hooray for me the one person who was dying for a ravens/spurs/canucks trifecta of wins today

go birds

the afc north is an absolutely idiotic division i hate how much i absolutely love it

If you haven’t picked a team yet, you’ve got a choice between Saskatchewan and Montreal. Go look at their rosters and remember some guys.

if you have ever wondered who the Least Valuable Player was in a given year for MLB (AL/NL by bWAR), the NBA/BAA (by winshares), the WNBA (also winshares), the NHL (by pointshares), or the NFL (by AV from 1960-pres), then boy howdy do we have a spreadsheet for you

World Cup USA 94 Source: EGM² 1 (July 1994) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogames #retrogaming

the boston celtics are the only team that is currently 6-7

nice

hated the Alabama kicker ripping the long snapper after the missed kick. Guys With One Job gotta stick together

we're all listening to the album that magic johnson put out yesterday in collar with cigna healthcare, right?

this graph is a plot of all of the seasons of NL/AL baseball since 1876 and how many below average hitters/fielders by bWAR there are that year divided by the number of teams to account for expansion so basically - on average, how many below-replacement non-pitchers did each team employ every year

purple friday go birds let's be .500

baldy cotton

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

it's pretty good

This is my personal favorite history of team names en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_Tro...

names this filipino team has had: purefoods hotdogs purefoods tender juicy hotdogs coney island ice cream stars purefoods corned beef cowboys purefoods carne norte beefies purefoods chunkee giants purefoods tender juicy giants san mig super coffee mixers magnolia pambansang manok hotshots

Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:

if i had a nickel for every time west virginia university had a player drafted first overall in the nba draft go on to post the least productive season by winshares in the nba/baa during their rookie year i would have two nickels (mark workman '52, hot rod hundley '57, the only two wvu #1 picks)

kobe bryant's uncle's name on sports reference sites is chubby cox

a day late but charlotte is joe flacco @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

what's more unhinged, deciding michael conforto is your personal nemesis, or chronicling someone else deciding that?

official old baseball player of bluesky?

honus wagner's brother was called butts

Geno Auriemma compares Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, in the most Geno way possible

fun fact: I-70, which has its eastern-most terminus in baltimore, is the 5th longest interstate highway

it would be kind of funny if we forgot to post about our new episode yesterday and so put up something talking about with language about honoring a new class of Guys and then realized it was still veterans day anyway new class of Guys in the Hall!

I was aware of this case and it was indeed a very dumb one to criminally prosecute, but I still wonder if Trump thinks he has the power to grant him the FKT (fastest known time), the claim that was rejected as the result of this debacle? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Got a blog coming out shortly about the MLB betting scandal. I found ways to mention Paul Lo Duca, Ike Davis, Andre "The Hawk" Dawson, Brendan Ryan, and Pedro Pagés in this thing. No Immaculate Grid player will ever get to feel what I'm feeling right now

i will never get tired of videos with an entire team shouting at a Guy doing one mindblowing deadlift

CFL announced all it's players are eligible to play at the 2028 Olympics, which is important since each team is required to carry at least 1 non-canadian and non-US player on their roster, so most of the best football players from around the world that would play on other teams are in the CFL

1986 topps cards

it appears to be on a 15 minute cycle and i'm worried i'm going to become irrationally attached to these headlines by the time it gets sorted

something's up with pro football rumors and as a result i have seen the names alex singleton, nolan smith, juan thornhill, zay jones, dan quinn, brian schoenn, and joe brady probably a few dozen times this morning, it's starting to feel less like names and more like some arcane incantation