20th round pickup in my fantasy league. He's probably still available in yours. Top 50 over the last week and top 250 so far this season. He's only trending up. 8/17, 4 runs, 1 hr, 4rbi, .609 obp over the last week

Have we tried turning it off and on again

Wait until he learns about St. Brigid.

All these candidates phone bankers are calling me but no one is bringing me snacks and listen I get that’s illegal but if your message was on a brownie I’d definitely spend more time with it than the 50 mailers I’m getting a week.

I have not seen one feel-good story come out of Team USA in the WBC. Stack that on top of MLB mishandling PR around insurance across teams, and the games being on premium cable... quite an incredible masterclass in throwing away your shot.

Shall we play a game?

I'm seeing this NY Time article make the rounds about seeing if you can tell if something is AI or not. It is intentionally designed to have you choose the AI responses over the human written responses.

Now [THIS] is podracing.

I have so many deep cut philosophy jokes to make about the blindly AI obsessed but they'd just be another shadow on the wall.

Seeking fantasy baseball team for this upcoming season

An AI Chat Bot but it's a sock puppet dressed as a Canadian pirate so that you can put words directly in its mouth to hype you up, cutting out the middleman and using way less water.

New game. If your canvassers litter fliers in my front yard or leave them on my stoop, I’m putting you on blast. These things end up strewn all over the block. Congrats to @jamesforillinois.bsky.social (2) @sunjayforillinois.com (2) You’ve started the leaderboard.

I’m so glad the candidates in my district understand that my primary vote is going to whoever sends me the most mailers.

Rabbit Rabbit

People complaining about going into an office but choosing to go to a cafe to sit on their computer and take video calls is wild to me.

some proper (WIP) gameplay footage from a recent #BrigadorKillers build, enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDeM... #Brigador #gamedev

We really shouldn't be seeing 3" of rain and 55 degrees on January 8th in Chicago.

Enough is enough. I just saw this clanker run a train crossing and narrowly avoid a collision with a Metra train. Who knows what would’ve happened.

I get and support why they are not, but I really wish one of Chicagos pinball arcades were open this afternoon.

Chicagoans, I need your help! An age ago I met @colinyoung.com at a tweet up (remember those?) A few months later I met my wife at his July 4th party. Today, he's moving to California.

The chair of the College Football Playoff? SEC’s Hunter Yurachek He’s also Arkansas’ AD Hunter Yurachek ND beat Arkansas 56-13. “Yesterday was a really tough day for me personally” he said following the loss. He was so upset he fired his 6th year head coach Sam Pittman the next day.

A College Football Premier League would fix much of what is broken with the sport. 2025 CFB Premier Playoff: 16 Michigan @ 1 Indiana 15 Utah @ 2 Ohio State 14 USC @ 3 Georgia 13 Texas @ 4 Texas Tech 12 Miami @ 5 Oregon 11 BYU @ 6 Ole Miss 10 Notre Dame @ 7 Texas A&M 9 Alabama @ 8 Oklahoma

They actually did it. Wow.

Notre Dame @ Oklahoma

Notre Dame would beat Ohio State this year and you better believe nobody wants the Irish out more than Columbus.

LSU signing Brian Kelly and Lane Kiffin back to back shows they’re the number one program for guys you don’t want to show up at your barbecue.

I can’t see carrying a lot of water in the AI buckets being sold by the NFT/BoredApe crowd. They’re giving honest con men like Professor Harold Hill a bad name.

JORDAN. FAISON.

Recommended halftime performance: BIIRD youtu.be/9kCcrnY37EM?...

Notre Dame Football on Pac12 after dark calls for cocktails. Cuppa Tea Old Fashioned 6g tea per 1c water. Boil water, add tea. 5-8m steep. Strain tea 1c sugar per 1c water. Low heat (no boil) til dissolved. Once cooled… 2oz Whiskey 1/2 oz Tea Syrup 2 dashes Angostura 1 dash Orange Bitters

The best card game to play while drinking a beer, Cribbage. The best card game with weird jack rules, Cribbage. The best card game with a board, Cribbage. We'll have boards and cards, and I'll be teaching the game to anyone who wants to learn.

The Chicago Sky say they are committed accountability in their program. They're going to love how committed Chicagoans are to sticking it to people in power who overreach their authority, especially those who retaliate against the workers.

Here come the Irish!

CUBES

Josh Naylor going to the place where it rains Hot Dogs from Heaven just makes sense. Take care of this gem of a Guardians alum, Seattle Mariners.

Avondale? The better hot dog is across the street inside the Home Depot. River North? Mr. Beef from The Bear fame is a short hop west. Line? Al's #1 is even closer. South Loop? Shake it up and go to Manny's instead. Portillo's is the Budweiser of Chicago street food.

Eat your Maypo and lace your pf flyers, baseball is back.

Gotta LiDAR map 'em all!

A team that designs and ships this wrapper isn’t one I’d want to be a part of. There’s no share of the bar for the team that researched and built the slides.

If you step in dog poop you don't hold it up to your nose and your friends nose to tell them about the dog poop you stepped in. You wipe your feet and clean your shoes before you come into the house. Same goes for propaganda and terrible commentary. Don't replatform it. Don't quote tweet it.

Today I’m pondering the correlation between cutting arts funding and the rise of generative AI.

So Riley got concussed on that first drive right? That’s why he threw up on the sideline?

So we’re just not throwing flags

This small line getting pushed around.

Had to go to 4 grocery stores to find superfine sugar which tells me Chicagoans are all making Irish shortbread for tonight's game. Everywhere was either sold out or down to the bottles of Guinness.

Go Irish ☘️

anyway cheers if you like me are unhappy with the current on field product in MLB, highly recommend watching less of it! it was so easy and honestly a life improvement to watch more basketball and read more instead. 162 games is a silly time commitment when there isn’t much competitive balance.

Huge shoutout to the Yankees fans who for the first time in decades can remove the devil horns and put them back in the drawer as the Dodgers gleefully pick up the mantle.

Notre Dame is the first college football team to win 2 top-tier bowl games in the same week.

“I want to be in an environment where I have the resources to win a national championship,” Brian Kelly said in April 2022 after leaving Notre Dame for LSU. Notre Dame will play for a national championship in 11 days. LSU has not made the CFP since Kelly took over.