I hate that the Liberty let Sandy Brondello go, but I get it, and I talked about it above the paywall in my latest for @herhoopstats.com Beyond the wall, notes from last night’s #WNBA semifinal Game 2s herhoopstats.substack.com/p/tulins-tre...

Anyway, here is a full minute of Meghan McCain saying “my father.”

With the advent of LLMs, Journalism may be dead but Robert Redford, apparently, is not.

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

This is normally when I’d pull screenshots, but this one feels like it’s meant to be read all at once. So go do that. Or don’t, it’s your life.

I hate that the Liberty let Sandy Brondello go, but I get it, and I talked about it above the paywall in my latest for @herhoopstats.com Beyond the wall, notes from last night’s #WNBA semifinal Game 2s herhoopstats.substack.com/p/tulins-tre...

I’m fine with the guy missing a game, I just think he should have to answer for which of his friend’s views he agrees with. Everyone on the left has to disavow “globalize the intifada,” why shouldn’t he have to answer for “black women lack the brain processing power to be taken seriously?”

I see the Sparks have figured out that they can just announce something they’ve already announced and get a positive news cycle out of it because everyone’s brains are completely fried…. www.silverscreenandroll.com/2024/11/21/2...

Pretty bold of the the radical left to go for forced transitions for minors AND essentially transitions for everybody, if you ask me

Well this fucking sucks

This is the year Zion Williamson *truly* became President

These thoughts ended up being 1,100+ words and I’m still pretty much where I started 15 hours ago when the news broke. I hate it, but I understand it.

I need to believe the replies to that GenX fool are saying what the fuck are you talking about, foreign films definitely fuck

The Liberty had a communicable disease making them brain dead offense. They passed it on to the Mercury when they played in Phoenix late in the regular season, but the Mercury survived because the Liberty were afflicted worse. It was passed on to the Lynx halfway through tonight’s third quarter.

And the only one which wasn’t tied came down to a missed buzzer-beater in a one-point game in Game 2

Five of the six series in these #WNBA playoffs have been tied after two games. It’s a parity party!

I know where you could’ve heard the Aces are unbeaten when A’ja has 25+ points in a playoff game before tonight’s broadcast 😜

Kelsey Mitchell will be held under 17 points for the first time in seven career #WNBA playoff games. She was one game shy of tying Cynthia Cooper for the second-longest such streak to start a career.

Barring a huge 4th quarter collapse by the Aces, Becky Hammon and the 2008 San Antonio Silver Stars will remain the only team in #WNBA history to lose the first two games of a best-of-5 series at home

Lolllllllllllll he definitely did this because he didn’t like that Carr walked back the threat and people said he chickened out again. Gotta make sure everyone knows it was definitely a threat now

Malika sure does love to throw an unexpected follow up on the end of an analyst comment and catch them completely off guard

That’s gotta be the first time someone described half-and-half in coffee as delightful

19 best-of-5 #WNBA playoff series were tied after two games before these semifinals Teams that won Game 3 have a 12-7 (.632) series record Home teams are 9-9 in Game 3 (plus one in the Wubble) Home/road Game 3 winners both have 6-3 series records Sun won semis gm 3, lost to Aces in the Wubble

Has a hooper ever done an in-game interview without uttering the phrase “a game of runs,” and if they did, are they a true hooper? 🤔

Reminder: the Mercury are doing this against the best second-half team in #WNBA history

I wanna meet the enlightened soul who decided pink pony club needed a club remix and that it should be on the Lynx in-house playlist and give them a giant hug

A 5-second violation out of a timeout in crunch team by a Cheryl Reeve team????? I think I may have now literally seen it all

I’m not sure Lynx fans are ready to hear this commentary team talking about Finals officiating errors while they’re letting a lead slip away, RYAN

Lynx learning the hard way what happens when you give the Mercury free possessions

I’m down so bad about the Libs I saw Sami hit a one-legged jumper and immediately said how dare you mock MJ like that 🙃🙃🙃

Somewhere in Sin City, Coach Leche smiles as DB misses another jumper

I’m not the biggest fan of +/- as a stat, but it does feel meaningful that Mack is a -17 in 19 minutes and Westbeld is +11 in 9

The Mercury have looked exactly this out of sorts for the whole postseason and for the last few games of the regular season, for the record. The thing that has changed is they’re not playing the Liberty, who were orders of magnitude more out of sorts.

Fleshing out the halftime note that no one has come back from a 2-0 deficit in a #WNBA playoff series 👇🏻

The thing about Phoenix not having its big 3 healthy when it played Minnesota (all before the all-star break) is that Phoenix was better when it was wasn’t healthy before the all-star break for whatever reason. Played Minnesota better, too.

Kayla McBride is on *another* heater, Rebecca

Things aren’t going much better for the Mercury on offense so far tonight

Motion to change the name to the Indiana Healthy next year, for science

Wait, she hates ravioli? Well this is an unexpected milkshake duck scenario if ever there was one, but I guess if this no longer a Veronica Valkyrie fan account 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kyle Schwarber I fuckin love you and I needed that jolt of energy

Less than an hour till the #WNBA semifinal Game 2 doubleheader tips off. Previews for both games at the link (Mercury-Lynx portion is paywalled) and excerpts from them down the quote skeet rabbit hole herhoopstats.substack.com/p/tulins-tre...

i would pay a significant amount of american dollars to watch greg olsen stuff that loser in a locker

Hell yeah

That’s what happens when you let Ratsputin become too influential over your regime

The Aces have not been very good at either end of the floor over the three games since their 17-game win streak ended. Reality is, they are a below-average defensive team, so that end isn’t surprising. The offense going in the tank is just not something this team can survive, though. #WNBA

I’ve made no bones of my belief that A’ja Wilson is the best hooper in the history of the #WNBA, but even the GOAT has a rare off night from time to time, like she did in Game 1. It’s probably not fair that the Aces need her to be the literal GOAT to win, but it’s definitely not new.

They’re not facing each other (yet?), but Kelsey Mitchell and Kayla McBride share more than just initials. They also have scored at least 17 points in 6 straight #WNBA playoff games, tied for the longest active streaks. That’s Mitchell’s whole playoff career, which is historic. KMac’s been 🤌🏻 too.

It's wonderful when two sociopaths with the mindset of serial killers find each other.

Remember when you hear Trump ranting about "globalists."

All the news sucks today (sports edition)