I remember catching a Six Nations rugby game a few years ago and finding out the Italians had a rousing, jaunty national anthem, and not one dude going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Please rise if you are able for the Italian national anthem, sung in tune for the first time ever at an international sporting event

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In case you missed it yesterday, here's Baumann on Skubal's arb case

Italian sports fans being famously restrained and obedient

Trying to imagine what a Blue Jays game would be like without Buck in the booth and getting nothing but static

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Panic! At the Discobergruppenführer

Maybe the dumbest niche sports thing I love is when players wear a different number for their national team than their club team, so WBC Roster Day has been fun

If he's any good he's gonna become the most popular Philadelphia athlete since Brian Dawkins

I wrote about the first interesting salary arbitration case in baseball history

Making sure everyone's aware of a white-hot of trivia from @jasonbeck.bsky.social's writeup of the Skubal hearing: This is Detroit's first loss in an arbitration case since 2000

Tired: When pigs fly Wired: When hogs fly

New Wheelysports: New safety tech is all over the cycling news. I wrote about what to expect and what we can learn from the device that could've saved Dale Earnhardt's life

Fuckin jumpscare over here

curling baby did you see your mom miss the hell out of that final shot of the end to give USA an easy open draw for 2. did you see it. how did it make you feel, curling baby.

me yesterday: ❤️🥌😍curling baby ❤️🥌😍 me during the 6th end of USA-Switzerland curling: the curling baby must be defeated

Not a lot to be patriotic about these days but America continues to be the world's undisputed leader in C(K)orey technology

[sweaty, 90 minutes into a speech talking about how Big And Strong Raul Mondesi was] we like to say SASAKI, right? SASASKI, where is-SASASKI-where is he? [pointing at Yamamoto] there he- [pretends to throw fastball] lot of speed with regard to fast

I tried to make this vowel sound and bruised my soft palate

Oh God we're all gonna die

the Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing

I haven't made any new friends since 2003, so "talking to my friends" is mostly continuing one long argument that started in high school marching band practice. Today someone dropped "condiments don't go bad, food spoilage is a capitalist plot" in the chat and it took hours to pick up the pieces

I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work. But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.

What happens after a season-ending error? Orion Kerkering did not run from it this offseason. "It's going to affect me for the rest of my life," he said. "No matter where I go." He knows the challenge that awaits him: www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

MLB dot com will staff every beat, though use a (well-qualified) stringer for roughly 40% of road games. A look at teams with *zero* or one non-MLB beat outlet: WAS MIA MIL ARI COL TB CLE KC SEA SAC/LV. Many others come close to qualifying.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

I offered to rewrite the display copy

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

Heartbroken and angry about the Washington Post.

THEY PUT THE 13 MEN ON THE FIELD PENALTY IN THE AD!!!!

Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him

Santana is the Tuvix of Josh Naylor and Christian Walker

I say this every NBA trade deadline, but if I ever have to learn what a trade exception is or how to calculate it for my job, I swear to God I am going to hunt down everyone who rooted for a salary cap in MLB and fill the air vents in their cars with bees

I'll always think of Beltrán as a Royal, and remember his postseason heroics as an Astro and Cardinal, but the most memorable moment of his career (striking out while getting photobombed by Donald Trump) came as a Met, so fair enough.

Nick Sirianni, on the phone to Margot Tenenbaum: "Why would a review make the point of saying someone's not a genius? Do you think I'm especially *not* a genius?...You didn't even have to think about it, did you?"

I wrote about a guy who was really good under the radar last year. Probably the last good player South Carolina produced before they shut down the baseball program

I'm not saying the American progressive movement needs religion but we could save a lot of time and aggravation by importing the concept of "pharisaical" instead of having to wait for secular spaces to invent it on their own

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

It is hard not to feel like lot of people’s central political commitment is saying “you’re doing it wrong” on the internet

@tgk.bsky.social hey bro I'm getting your mail by mistake again

The Eagles almost hired him for a coordinator job based on name alone

As people my age have gotten old enough to occupy positions of political power and influence I've started recognizing character traits in certain of them that I disliked in people I knew in school.

How can the Mets be expected to thrive under these conditions?

Definitely the prospect who makes me go "on the one hand...but on the other hand..." the most

Today's inscrutable take: The St. Louis Cardinals are the Seattle Mariners' innie

I'm glad I filed my article early because now that I'm thinking about how much Florence + the Machine would blow the doors off a Super Bowl halftime show it's gonna be hard to concentrate on anything else

who is this diva

this is something we actually talked about on tailgate recently. the use of anonymity in sports reporting is sort of ridiculous. i understand that it's better when reporters can pass along information to fans, but there's got to be some quality control here, man.