It occurs to me that the most demonic thing @sports-reference.com can do to me is on April 1 publish a baseball grid where it's impossible to be immaculate. EG: Columns: 🇯🇵 - NYM - LAA Rows 50+HR 50+SB MVP

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With this Santander news, a lot of the Blue Jays' offseason moves come into focus. (Not that it would be a GREAT idea to rely too heavily on him this year, but it seemed curious that they weren't counting on him for anything at all.)

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A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name. So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.

Justin Verlander signs back with the Tigers. Beautiful! $13M, $11M deferred, with payments starting in 2030.

I am deeply amused that the Dodgers are projected to win the NL West by 20+ games AND the second-place team is projected to make the playoffs.

Man. Just wait until Megyn Kelly finds out who the Heisman winner is.

I think about this constantly. It wouldn't be hard to equip cars with a switch that limits them to, say, 65mph, or 40, or 25, negating the need for tracking systems, etc. And the best part is you could make them totally optional — but if you're clocked 4mph above the limit, you lose your license.

SALES DIRECTOR: Why no kitchen table? DESIGN LEAD: Because kitchen tables are for fucking Candyland. We’re selling a political mode of thinking: deduction as power. Think less “family night,” and more “I will find the hidden structure of your choices, and then I will destroy you.”

I'm not sure that "audiences now expect the Super Bowl halftime show to be a multilayered conceptual piece in addition to a showcase for a musical artist's songs" is sustainable, BUT the artists who've gone that route in recent years have knocked it out of the park.

Bad Bunny performs during the half-time show during Super Bowl 60 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. The Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29-13. #superbowl #badbunny

It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes

Alex Smith talks to Sam Darnold about his journey, Sam talks about how important his parents have been to him

Anyway, I think this is the best Super Bowl commercial I can recall. Probably cost like $1000 to produce, too.

Levels of ketamine never before ingested

Oh it was pedro- RONALD ACUÑA JR??????

alexa ai ad: we'll fucking kill you lmao

All of Chris Hemsworths concerns struck me as well founded and his objections to the Alexa were cogent

Good lord, that Alexa commercial. The message that AI may try to kill you is actually… The tech has a literal growing body count. Screw Amazon for making light of that.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

If I were making a pro-AI ad, I would not illustrate how the AI is unaccountable and could kill people.

Multiple people here started waving their hands when they heard strains of Gasolina lol

Holy shit the Redfin ad was... really good? (Fuck Rocket Mortgage always.)

Haven't watched the Olympic figure skating yet. Do they have a camera above the ice on wires or a drone? Send like that work be a good way to show the sheer power and speed the skaters demonstrate.

Ben Stiller didn't need to do an Instacart ad. Have some self-respect, dude.

Genuinely: Why? What does Emma Goddamn Stone have to gain by doing this? Is she in debt to bookies or something? (I know it's the unabashed pursuit of more money. Bring back like 3% of the shame of "selling out".)

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

if there's a single quote that exemplifies "AI slop" here it is why should anyone want to read any of these "books"? clearly you haven't

If any outdoorsy folks in SF for the Super Bowl are staying later in the week, consider the Crosstown Trail. Walking the whole thing is a serious effort and takes the bulk of a day, but every section has its charms. I particularly enjoy the walk from Glen Park to Forest Hills Station.

Aw man. I LOVE Cake so much, especially the Brown-era records. Do yourself a favor and listen to those albums.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

Uh, allegations of several DC sports figures in the Epstein files here. Some I'd read before, others I hadn't.

Next year’s halftime show

This thread shows how this person's scheme didn't even work, but if it had, I suspect nobody involved with publishing this in the NYT would've considered the dynamic if very few people are actually creating the genre of books in question and they're lauding the first enshittifiers.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Arsonists usually leave the scene once the rubble burns out.

This fucking guy...

Awful news this morning. Terrance Gore, one of the fastest men in baseball in the last 20 years, died last night, evidently from unexpected complications during a routine surgery. He was 34 years old.

Literally write a few words down on some scrap paper or napkin and take a picture of it and that will probably be a vastly more effective image for your post than any generic and fascism-coded piece of "A.i." slop.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Timothee Chalamet is a good actor, but too Muppet-ish to be a good Muppet Show guest host. Same with Benedict Cumberbatch and Kate McKinnon. (It makes sense to me.)

uhhhhh what in the entire actual hell?????

This is an incredibly bizarre rant. Like, aside from the meat, you could literally buy every element ready-to-go from most grocery stores. And even then, buying a roasted chicken and tearing it up is an option. And on top of that, "You also have to warm the shells in the oven" is out of this world.

...Reminding me that Jayce Tingler is an all-time great George Lucas-Ass Name.