I definitely like the Brad Keller pickup. Hope he carries over from the #Cubs. Looks like the pitch mix fix was sustainable if he keeps it up. Much more sinker-slider attack to righties than previous years, fastball-change to lefties. Think #Phillies will continue to get the best of Keller.

People usually say this figuratively, but Jordan Romano walking is literal, mathematical addition by subtraction in WAR. #Phillies

I’m not counting on anything from Toni Bilić, but whatever keeps that recruiting hotbed happy makes me happy. #Illini

Casty-Crawford-Garcia. Marshy as your 4th OF spelling all positions regularly, and almost-nightly defensive replacement for Casty late. Again it won’t happen so don’t bother telling me I’m wrong. But I’d be fine keeping Casty and playing him in LF if both he and #Phillies didn’t want to part ways.

I know I’m gonna sound crazy, but what a great move if #Phillies kept Casty and moved him to LF. People don’t understand just how hard it would be for Casty to truly hurt this team in LF as it was for him to kill us in RF. It won’t happen. That relationship is broken. But still.

I’ll walk that back to say, “I really like the move in a vacuum.” Most likely, it’s yet another case where I say, “I really like this move as long as it’s not THE move,” but if history is any predictor whatsoever, we’ll learn in a couple months that it was THE move. #Phillies

Screw it I like the Adolis Garcia signing. He will look like Roberto Clemente and Ichiro combined defensively in RF compared to Casty. If he just breaks even in bat value, the #Phillies will be a much better team.

It was nice to dream. #Colts

Me hoping for the Philip Rivers comeback drive right now. #Colts

If it weren’t close to a record it’d be ruled a half sack for Garrett with no debate. Good call, NFL. #Browns #Bears

Happy to get a win, hoping to build something. #Eagles

Good. Glad #Eagles got stuffed at GL. Shame on you going for it there, Nick Sirianni.

Happy to see this #Eagles team give us a break from weeks of torture. Gotta just take this as nothing more than a brief respite from the collapse for now considering the competition. But man, just gotta be glad we could be treated to a win today.

I’d go Henderson LT, Hansen RG at MC Bowl by the way.

Here’s my thing: If your frontcourt already doesn’t guard in space, but you’re also not protecting the rim, why not play Tomi and Z together? Your frontcourt still won’t guard in space like they already weren’t before, but your rim protection gets much better. That’s a net-gain. #Illini

Brad Underwood bringing in Cam Crocker because defense sucked reminds me of George Lucas bringing in the writers from “Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead” for Star Wars: Episode III because the dialogue sucked. Pure gimmick that might have made things worse despite a positive addition. #Illini

Great coaches scare me more than great teams. There is absolutely a distinction to be made. Great game though. #Illini

Wagler cheated too far inside and lost his man on the perimeter. I don’t blame him too much, I’ve seen that happen to a bunch of #Illini defenders this year.

Welp #Illini

I think Wagler is shooting 60% from three since the last time I said I want him to stop shooting so many threes. #Illini

There have been a ton of teams we’ve had where you could have called ballgame with like 8 min left in 1H. This is not one of those teams. #Illini

Welp, it all turned out fine. Now let’s win 2H. #Illini

Brad feels the opposite and it’s working out GREAT so far. #Illini

Man… Big Z made a huge career mistake transferring to Illinois to just be a bench dawg to his brother. I mean if he had any goals of basketball career advancement and upward mobility this season. If he just wanted to hang with his brother and stagnate til next year, I guess that’s fine.

Now JC Davis is out. Multiple guys will be in the backfield by the time Josh Kreutz snaps a Jacob deGrom shoetop slider to Luke Altmyer on every pass play, and we’ll hear it was Luke’s fault when someone tees off on him. #Illini

Peter Frampton would have been playing to a tough room.

Sebastian Maniscalco is not dispelling his Marcello Hernandez alter ego in the SNL sketch on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune tonight, and I’m actually very happy about that.

I wanna see Michigan test that $15M Cignetti buyout after they just saved ~$13M on Moore’s buyout firing for cause.

Mirk & Wagler. Sounds like a CBS buddy detective series where one is a hotshot son of the D.A., great detective when he applies himself but doesn't care enough. The other, an amazing blue-collar cop promoted to detective on merit but cares TOO much, and has feelings of impostor syndrome. #Illini

Huge win. I really didn’t have a bad feeling about winning this game once I saw we didn’t come out flat. Figured we’d outlast them. Lots of #Illini teams lose that game tonight, and we didn’t. That one felt good.

Wagler fell for the fake shot clock countdown from the Buckeye students and still drilled it. #Illini

I LOOOOVE Mirkovic trying to block a Buckeye practice jumper after a whistle. Love it. That’s a man waging psychological warfare out there. #Illini

I haven’t watched and don’t know what pace the Buckeyes usually play with, but their heads are spinning feeling the pressure to keep up with the pace of the #Illini. Hitting threes is nice, too!

Schwarbs became my favorite #Phillies player as the 2024 season began, when I instantly and publicly noticed radical innovation to his hitter archetype. If I MUST emotionally and intellectually divest—watching Phillies baseball SOLELY for mindless entertainment—I can do so in knowing Kyle is back.

Do ya get it yet, Philly? #Eagles

That major problem I was talking about after a September win that needed to be addressed to avoid a late-season collapse? It was not addressed. #Eagles

Man, I can’t defend Jalen tonight. But poor Vic Fangio trying to have his defense cover for Nick Sirianni/Kevin Patullo has to feel like that henchman with his head in the vice in Casino, begging Pesci to kill him. #Eagles

I didn’t need the animation for that entire end-of-half sequence to crack me up. 😂🤣 #Eagles

Oh, those silly #Eagles

Can’t defend Jalen’s performance tonight. Hope he snaps out of it. #Eagles

Hi. #Eagles

Hahaha hey it’s working kind of #Eagles

Putting our kid to bed, but wanna stay on the Monsters, Inc., broadcast to power my house with laughs instead of screams over the way the #Eagles have been playing.

Yesterday I watched a clear Gen X sideline reporter seriously ask a player about "getting that dub" postgame. My friend, *I'm* too old to say that as a millennial, and you’ve got about a decade on me.

It’s the only way. Your average football team will bring something like four times the revenue of your average basketball program. Football is king. And if you’re more a basketball fan of your school, you should still be rooting for football to do great and help fund your basketball efforts

You have to run the ball there. You have to line up, sack up, lean on your NFL best run game and just beat them there. #Bears

What a ROPE by Caleb. #Bears

I was getting into “let em score” territory for the #Bears on that play, so I’ll take that TD.

Illini center Tomislav Ivisic gives no fucks about your guitar trophy Nashville. Illinois just received the “trophy” for beating Tennessee.

Huge win. Just plain huge.