Even if Trump's not sleeping, this posture/body language is absurd for an Oval Office meeting. If I sat like this at an in-person work meeting, my boss would definitely be asking if I was ok.

Fans don't want MLB to 'fix' competitive balance. They want their own cheapskate owners to spend money. Teams like the Reds, Pirates, A's, Marlins that rake in revenue sharing $ and don't spend it. At the top end, we just want some basic rules around salary deferments.

It seems weird to say that no non-American has ever been the 'Face of the NBA' when there hasn't been an American-born player that finished in the top-3 in the MVP vote since Steph Curry back in 2021. The best players of this decade are all foreign born (Jokic, SGA, Giannis, Embiid, Doncic,& Wemby)

Now that I can view 2025 points in Sleeper, the numbers reinforce my initial reaction. Here's the breakdown by position of the top scorers last year in #SFB16 scoring T-25: 11 QB, 7 RB, 6 WR, 1 TE T-50: 19 QB, 8 RB, 17 WR, 6 TE T-75: 22 QB, 15 RB, 26 WR, 12 TE T-100: 26 QB, 23 RB, 35 WR, 16 TE

Getting to 82-0 is really hard. I had a lineup with peak MJ (90s Bulls) and peak LeBron (2010's Cavs), and it only won 57 games. Meanwhile this lineup won 62:

Really going to be interesting to see how #SFB16 strategies play out this year. I think people are going to overvalue the RBs that aren't elite. Really fun example I found of the impact of the video game scoring: Chase Brown vs Jameson Williams

Those international flights fly out of these cities because that's where most of the people routinely making those flights live, and because those airports are big enough to handle that volume of international flights. You can't just pass those flights off from O'Hare to like the airport in Indy

you don’t have to imagine boomer

Ian Happ on the Cubs current homestand: 1-for-14 with 1 BB and 9 strikeouts. In those 9 strikeouts, he's seen a total of 5 pitches called balls. In the 4 non-strikeout outs, 2 were first-pitch pop ups, and one was a first-pitch flyout.

As we learned during the 2024 election, people who are struggling to afford to live due to rising costs love it when you lecture them about how actually, the economy is great and they're not really struggling.

Ethan Hunt and the IMF aren't usually this sloppy with their mask work.

Do any of my Cubs' fan mutuals want to go to the Cubs-Brewers' game tonight? 6:40 PM start A buddy had to back out of going at the last minute due to a family emergency. Not looking for any money for the ticket, just don't want it to go to waste.

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

The TV ads write themselves. A whole bunch of red states are passing or pushing to pass laws that make sexual abuse of children punishable by death...and Trump and the GOPers in Congress want to give those abusers millions of taxpayer dollars.

Hopefully this series with the White Sox serves as a giant neon sign telling Jed to go get more pitching. This staff isn't good enough to sustain the start the Cubs are off to.

Today seems like a good time to remind people that Ike Barinholtz is like REALLY good at Jeopardy. He damn near made the finals in the Tournament of Champions against a bunch of super-champs from normal Jeopardy. I'll be rooting for Mina, but this is gonna be an uphill fight.

The Pistons seem as ready for their season to be over as I am. Just a pathetic effort down the stretch

There has to be a tipping point where the NFL pushes this shit too far, right? I'm already at the point where the NFL burned me out. I skip watching a lot of the island games now and largely just watch RedZone on Sundays. I can't be the only person who feels that way, right?

It seems like an awesome result here that Celtic's last-minute win means their final match against Hearts is for the league title. Who doesn't love that drama in the finale? And then you look it up and learn that no team other than Celtic or Rangers has won the Scottish Premiership since 1985...

Make a band out of two others: Baha Men Without Hats

Disappointing that they had to wait until Clayton Kershaw retired to do this

I don't think Grok has this one quite right.

Slightly Increase a Band All-American Waitlisted

Genuinely curious if anyone has any insight on this - why the fixation on the population needing to stay the same size or grow here? Is it about the economy? - A need to keep supplying workers/consumers to prevent recession

I'm sure there was other music I had before this, but the first album I remember where we used to just wear out the tape (both a cassette tape and a VHS tape) was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 'Coming Out of Their Shells' album. The 2nd one I remember is Get a Grip by Aerosmith

Obviously the games still have to be played, but it's a little jarring that Joe Lunardi's initial bracket projection for the new expanded 2027 NCAA Tournament includes just 1 at-large berth for a team not in the P5 conferences (Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, or Big East) www.espn.com/espn/feature...

Craig Counsell has been pushing all the right bullpen buttons during this Cubs hot streak, but handing the ball to Corbin Martin for the 9th tonight was a blunder. Martin was bad each of his last 2 outings prior to tonight. If Milner was available, probably should've gone to him first.

I'm trying to come up with the minimum number of people in the marketing and merchandising departments at IndyCar who had to see this shirt design before it became a real piece of merch that people can order. Because I don't know how anyone could look at it and not see the obvious problem.

It feels like Marc Andreessen is stuck in the movie 'Bedazzled' and is trying to phrase his wish just right so that Elizabeth Hurley can't find a loophole to ruin it.

This was sort of clear last week when the Steelers used the UFA tender on Rodgers. You don't invoke some rarely used rule to protect against Rodgers flaking on you and playing for another team unless some part of you thinks he might actually do it. Steelers put too many eggs in the Rodgers basket.

I wonder how much it hurt Mosley that the Magic seemingly chose to play Detroit rather than Boston in the first round (they no-showed in the 7/8 play-in game vs Philly, then dismantled Charlotte for the 8-seed), and then lost to Detroit while Boston got eliminated in the 1st round.

DEEEEE-TROIT BASKETBALL!!

Cubs fans, it might be time to have a conversation about Ben Brown [complimentary]

My current passport expires in January of 2028. I really don't want to renew it until I'm sure that it won't have Trump's ugly mug on it.

Seems like Aaron Glenn & the Jets have a type - winners. All 4 of their picks have played in the CFP. 3 of them did so more than once. 2 of them are from the reigning champs. They want players who know what a winning culture looks like.

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

It's wild that Harris' campaign org shared this clip when about 70 seconds after the video cuts off, Tucker's guest refers to her as "cackling cameltoe" with zero pushback from Tucker. A real Dril "you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them'" situation here.

I can't believe the Mets pitched to Nico Hoerner in that spot. They deserve to have their losing streak extended with decision-making like that.

The Mets had 9 outs left to erase a 4-run deficit, and they sacrificed one of them to move up one runner.

Nico Hoerner just hit his 3rd homer of the season. He didn't hit his first one last year until June 24th.

It's time to start asking if the Cubs bullpen sits on top of an electrical substation like the 49ers practice facility.

Here are some examples of Dianna Russini allowing her personal relationship with Mike Vrabel to impact her coverage of him... Oh wait, no, these are examples of Adam Schefter engaging in similarly unethical behavior - providing biased coverage to players/teams/coaches/execs in exchange for access

People are looking at the wrong double standard in this whole Russini-Vrabel situation. We shouldn't be comparing Russini's professional consequences to Vrabel's. They don't have the same job. What we should be asking is why male insiders like Schefter and Rapoport aren't scrutinized for ethics

I'd say you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one, but who am I kidding? His supporters have the memory of goldfish and they look for every opportunity they can find to excuse away his worst behaviors.

I knew all season that this was the best Michigan team of my lifetime. Saw them win in person 4 times this season. And I'm still pinching myself to make sure this Natty is real. Go Blue! HAIL!

VICTORS VALIANT CONQUERING HEROES LEADERS AND BEST

Interesting to see UNC go the route of hiring a decorated professional coach with zero college coaching experience considering how that same approach has worked out for the football program so far.