The Flyers have won 8 of their last 9 games. The Penguins have lost 5 straight. Just sayin'.

I see we're arguing about air travel again, which is better than most of the alternatives. But look, there's no way I'm gonna argue someone out of being a giant stress ball of neuroses. Just like they aren't gonna talk me out of borderline alcoholism.

As the entire idea of the Charity Bowl is to weaponize spite to help people, one could make the case that Gary is actually helping. Because there's nothing CFBSky loves more than scoreboarding some poor motherfucker.

The beginning of the end for Cholly Mac is the new start for the LSU History Class therealposeur.substack.com/p/return-of-...

Online discourse seems powered less by the exchange of ideas than the constant hunt for conceptual objects that the listener can have and express strong feelings about. Indignation Objects, Rage Objects, and Self-Righteousness Objects seem especially highly valued

Man, this is basically what happened with baseball and STATS, Inc. and later Baseball Prospectus. These public debates and formulas eventually get privatized.

Just a bunch of grown-ass adults about to raise a million dollars for folks in need

No. Next… #lufc

I spent the weekend observing the nearly official death of SB Nation by reading game stories of 1970s LSU football games so I could re-start the LSU History Class series.

... and this is how Sam Bowie got taken ahead of Michael Jordan. Not to pick on the TrailBlazers, this was by far the consensus opinion at the time.

Trust me, if D'Souza says it's a fact, it is quite the opposite.

This is either gonna be the greatest Sabres in 20 years or the cruelest.

The right wing press isn't going to say anything good about a Democrat for obvious reasons The leftist press also needs to press its both sides narrative. And the centrist press has essentially collapsed. Who's left?

This is where I proudly state I have no idea who the Wesleyan freshman is and please don't tell me. Glad Maryland is doing work. Get them some more Old Bay

Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe by Whale

I find bloops like this to be the entire justification for social media

God, that went south so quickly. Glad he's okay.

Had a "remembering a guy" moment about Greg Maddux, and one of my top three baseball quotes:

Did I buy too many records at Record Store Day? Define "too many"

To buy myself time to do re-write the 70s, look back on my rewrite of the 1908 title. It's got affidavits! therealposeur.substack.com/p/lsu-histor...

Started the re-writes of the LSU history class, starting in 1975 because that's when I was born, so obviously that's when the Modern Era begins. Holy shit, was 1975-77 depressing. The first losing season in 20 years is nowhere near the worst thing that happened.

Never get mad at a person for a pronouncing a word wrong. It means they learned it by reading. My name's just a word and its fine to mess it up. Even if "Stephanie" is a careless reading

I was terrified of this fixture right up until the FUCKING BICYCLE KICK GOAL. Now, I'm drinking mimosas. Anyone want some?

SHERLOCK JR. (1924) Directed by Buster Keaton, it's a wonderfully imaginative film, full of extraordinary tricks so immaculately executed that they look simple. It's a piece of native American surrealism.

This is weapons grade trolling

For all of the talk the Stars-Wild has gotten as an indictment of the NHL playoff system and the best teams playing early... I'm pretty sure the Lightning-Habs is even worse, as I'd have them as the two East favorites if they weren't playing each other.

Ummmm.... yes?

Promotion/relegation is basically a way to give even more systemic advantages to power programs, so I'm against it in principle... But I LOVE the idea of decoupling football from the rest of the athletic department, which have largely grown off of football like a barnacle.

The rent Tom Wilson collects from the space he owns in the NY Rangers' heads could pay off the national debt

Neighborhoods change over time. Gentrification is just a word to fight inevitable change.

Exactly one year ago today:

OK, do I re-start from the beginning or pick up from the modern, post-Cholly Mack era where the series stopped?

I hate to be the one to point out that the only viable path to beating Trump and getting the GOP out of office is to attract former Trump voters. You may not like it, but we do need them. Or the math doesn't work.

Yes, people projected all sort of things on to Trump which were not just untrue, but OBVIOSULY untrue. Trump's never been subtle. Still, you welcome to these voters back into the anti-Trump fold with open arms because winning is the most important thing. We need Trump to lose and lose big.

Actually, I should ask y'all about that: would anyone be interested in me restarting the LSU History Class and Greatest Games Ever Played series? They're a lot of work, even to update, so I want to make sure there's interest before diving in.

The SB Nation news is a reminder I need to create an archive of all the History Class stuff from ATVS and repost it to my substack so it will live on after the axe falls. I've been promising myself a rewrite for two years now

It's been dead for a long time, but its still a sad moment. It was fun while it lasted.

What's so cool about this isn't that he's taxing the richest of the rich, its that he makes the case on the grounds that they aren't really New Yorkers.

There are 47 players in the NBA who have averaged 20.0 PPG or more this season. Only one has played 82 games. Only 18 have played 70+ games. This sucks.

I miss Evel Knievel. He would just jump over some shit and fix all this.

I find that we keep having the same political arguments with each other with only slightly different details and its just so exhausting.

The Republican Party is too transphobic for Dave Chappelle is a hell of a headline

Miranda Lambert auto re-tweet.

Be right back, have to go argue with Popehat that you can't shout fire in a crowded theater because it's RICO.

I love all of my meats equally.

Leeds are now 6 points up on the last relegation spot with 6 to play. Basically, a lead that's virtually impossible to blow... We are so doomed.

Cool map, though a bit weird not to orient the clubs slightly more east so they would run up and down the I-35 corridor and hit the major cities. Leeds is Dallas!

It won't move the needle at all, but I love that they are dishing the dirt on the vast right wing conspiracy, which is turning out to be real.

The cockroach Caps finally get squished