it's almost like the Phillies not getting better every offseason and just running it back with the same aging core isn't working

It’s been a clinic as far as inviting more coverage of this story based on earlier statements and choices. When you have no good PR options, history always suggests to get ahead of it with full transparency. It’s going to be a very loud day for the Boston sports media market.

“Trump has managed to pull a large chunk of the country and all the dizzying powers of the federal government down into his own mania…What Trump and his allies have created over the years is a self-sustaining and self-reinforcing base of electoral nihilists.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-fo...

There is carrying water for the team you cover and then there is the Pittsburgh media ASKING FOR A WORD WITH THE SERIES SUPERVISOR OF OFFICIALS because Sidney Crosby got an embellishment penalty — after he got grazed by a stick and fell like Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Hey I found my way into a hockey game and wrote stuff: Bowen: It looked like a pretty ordinary hockey scrum, but the Flyers used it to bury the Penguins - PHLY Sports allphly.com/bowen-flyers...

This is pretty much literally true

Philadelphia welcomed itself back to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the only way it would ever want to: By kicking the damn door in. The Flyers are up 3-0, and they're not going anyhwere. On a Game 3 that screamed it at the world: www.phillyvoice.com/flyers-pengu...

News story: Mike Vrabel won't be with Patriots for Day 3 of draft, as he seeks counseling. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Why yes, I would say it is

We seem to have reached the “now everything is a penalty” phase of the evening.

That was a penalty Michkov didn’t need to take with a 2-goal lead. Now it’s a one-goal lead.

An “ignite the orange” T-shirt on every seat.

Pretty sure I am the only person left in my neighborhood who cuts his own grass. Without a team of dudes wearing ear protection so that the giant leaf blowers they wield don’t damage THEIR hearing, or a bunch of huge machines that can barely turn around on a 30-foot front lawn.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Victor Wembanyama has entered concussion protocol after hitting his head on the court during Game 2 of Spurs-Blazers.

Les tunes into the Phillies after the Sixers’ stirring victory, hey maybe it’s just that kind of ni … never mind.

I would like to have Jaylen Brown’s beard. Lush, but not oppressive

Yeah my bad, yell to Realmuto to challenge then. Either way if seemed to be on the line.

Really good time to challenge with a sentient manager

I guess I hafta watch a little Sixers here? I mean, better than watching the Phillies.

Help

It’s one a them things you didn’t wanna get stuck in, back in WWI, right?

Starting to think I will never drive a stolen motorbike at high speed through a fish market, wildly gesturing and yelling "Get out of the way!" while being chased by dirty cops.

That’s right

Wife always says he looks like

Please, for the love of God, someone scrape that thing off Hartnell’s head and give it a decent burial

Where are the Flyers without this moment?

A 2-0 series lead for the Flyers. Impressive

Stuart Skinner getting some good cardio

I know you don’t wanna clear it up the middle but the Pens are so good at keeping it in the point, I’d have to think about it.

Broadcast mentioned Eric Lindros’ playoff penalty shot goal. I think that would be the goal when Eric lost the puck coming across but his move fooled the Buffalo goalie so badly that the puck slid into the net anyway.

Yikes the Flyers have had two amazing chances to make it 3-0, including that penalty shot. 😬

It’s great that the Phils have this one really good player. They should try to draft more of them.

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We are not being asked to sit in a trench. We are not being asked to sign a document that will get us hanged. We are being asked to stay engaged. That's it. After 250 years of Americans dying for this idea, that's all we owe. I wrote about it here. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Wrote about the spiritual end of Pro Football Focus. Move over Brick, a new failson has emerged. defector.com/the-decline-...

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'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

I think a lot of Eagles fans would like to know how much contact there has been between Mike Vrabel and AJ Brown during this process, through media operatives or otherwise. Kinda surprised the Eagles organization doesn’t want to know.

Oh. He marveled. "Some of the president’s advisers were caught off guard that tanker traffic would grind to a halt so quickly after the bombing began... "Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed..." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

I’ll credit Cincinnati for trying I guess. But this trade does nothing to push them closer to anything of note and claiming otherwise is a big stretch

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

Holding the Penguins to 17 shots on net 🤯

Indeed.