Say a prayer for your friendly neighborhood Mavs fan.

NBA talking heads and NBA twitter spends most of their time and energy hating on everything about the modern game. You can't breathe without someone saying how [x] player/team would be destroyed in the 90's and how everything sucks. Then they wonder why viewership is down.

I think the dumbest person today asked me why if I'm an LA Sports fan, am I not a fan of an LA College Football team? ...perhaps because I didn't *go* to USC or UCLA? I feel like college sports fandom should probably follow your actual college attendance rather than any geographical ties.

Every year during the world series, you have to contend with a lot of bandwagon fans of those teams. A lot of them are great. Some of them are just insufferable because they don't know jack shit, but pretend they're experts because they're too ashamed to admit they're bandwagon fans.

One underrated thing about why the rest of the world isn't taking up the US's position as the dominant power in the world is that many of the other powers are also incredibly racist and xenophobic.

The owner of the Dodgers is now in control of the Lakers, so if the NBA doesn't want Mark Walters to do with the Lakers what he's doing with the Dodgers, they better drop the god damn hammer on the Clippers. Because Luka's league minimum contract with a $700M endorsement deal is gonna be funny.

Honestly, I think the plan was to hope that there weren't going to be enough votes. Once it looked like there were, everyone went into self preservation mode (except for Higgins) and then the hope was that the Senate would bail them out. Now I guess the hope is that the DoJ seals the files again?

I wish MTG all the luck and success in her efforts to burn the MAGA coalition to the ground, but under no circumstance will I invite her to the cookout. We can cheer her on in her destructive efforts against Republicans without thinking she's actually in our side.

This gets particularly funny in certain leftist circles in LA (Left NIMBYs) where they'll say shit like this...and then offer up US Hukou on steroids as their solution to the housing crisis.

She’s an idiot paranoiac conspiracy maniac and that means if you’re part of an actual conspiracy she’s your worst enemy

This. Zohran won because he had beliefs and was sincere in them. You can *win* as a centrist. But you have to again actually *hold* those beliefs and be genuine in your belief that your policies will help people. Sincerity can exist with centrism, but it doesn't exist in Mothership consulting.

I fear progressives are going to learn the wrong things from Mamdani's campaign, and it's going to fester into a lot of angry people in 2026/2028 when the most unlikeable dipshits (but leftishly) try to run for office only to get BTFO because they see talking to the electorate as beneath them.

IANAL but I feel that hucking a sandwich at someone is a textbook case of assault and battery, but the guy got off because of gross prosecutorial incompetence, overcharging, and a bit of jury nullification.

Look, people are reading way too hard into why this World Series between a large market Goliath and Canada's loveable underdogs that went 7 very entertaining games where Goliath appeared to be losing did better than last year's NBA finals between 2 tiny markets where 1 team's star played injured.

I guarantee that the people sending threats to IKF/Hoffman etc are sports bettors, and I will *never* find it not funny watching videos of sports bettors crashing out when they lose big.

All the jokes aside, I think Bronny James is fine for what he is, pick 55 in the drafted taken mostly for commercial purposes, but is a hustle D guy with potential shooting upside if he can gain confidence. Like, I don't know what else you'd expect out of the 55th pick.

Normie Libs and Wine Moms want blood.

The sound guy on the networks when Kiké is handed the mic

Winning Pitchers for the Dodgers in the World Series: Yoshinobu Yamamoto Yoshinobu Yamamoto Yoshinobu Yamamoto Will Klein The silliness makes me giggle.

In the end, Japan prevails over Canada.

Now Canada too knows what it feels like to get bodied by a Yamamoto.

Yamamoto *has* to be MVP right?

Of course we get bonus baseball in this game. Why should we have expected that we wouldn't be getting bonus baseball in this game?

BTW, we do not feel sorry for Usha Vance. She does not get to play victim after being full throated in her support of the leopards.

Fundamentally, this stance comes from a place of extreme privilege (or stupidity). You can whine about that all you want, but ultimately, in an electoral government, *somebody* has to win. So unless you *truly* believe that both options would lead to identical outcomes...

In the great Canadian-Japanese war, a fatal blow is struck against the Great White North by one of their own fighting for the Rising Sun.

Hot take: Shohei Ohtani is good at baseball.

Honestly, one of the more underrated bad things about Trump II is how much of a disappointment Bernie has become because he took his mask off on the tired white working class anti-immigration bullshit. Xenophobia is still xenophobia, and it's bullshit even if said by the working poor or a union.

The left cannot survive if it doesn't learn how to tell the populist elements of the labor movement that "got mine, fuck you" is not a valid political position. Political opinions are not automatically sacrosanct just because a member of the working class holds them.

By the way, all the ridiculous defense of a white guy with a concerning history and a Nazi tattoo does not help the allegation that there is a lot of latent misogyny, homophobia and transphobia on the left. Because we're just doing "it's just locker room talk" but leftishly right now.

Look, I know 2 guys who can identify every Nazi symbol out there by sight. One has a PhD in history. The other is a tattoo artist. You don't accidentally get a Totenkopf tattooed onto you.

Look, if "Nobody is free until everyone is free" goes out the window because one aesthetically working class dude appears to have some problematic views on women and minorities and may have a Nazi tattoo... then don't get mad when people call you both a LARPer and a class reductionist.

If Dems take the house in 2026, the Mike Johnson should be unseated for the same number of days that Grijalva is unseated currently.

So...Shohei Ohtani is pretty good at this baseball thing.

Hey, sports influencers, it rings *really fucking hollow* when you make sad-scold PSAs about how this shit isn't okay when you then turn around and take money from sports betting websites and push your signup codes onto your audiences. You are part of the problem.

Look, you have to call out socialists when they also do shitty ass things like rig elections and threaten neighbors over resources. Otherwise you get the right wing opposition winning a Nobel peace prize and you're just left "but ackshually"-ing about how Trumpism is fine if you do it leftishly.

The Historic Abandoned Warehouse society in California in shambles today.fn76lun6

It was always going to be silly labeling Roki Sasaki as a bust 2 months into his MLB career given that he's a 23 year old with absurd upside on a rookie contract. But man, the kid has been collecting swords and popups since coming back, and the "he's a bust" people look *even sillier*

Between Blake Treinen and Harrison Butker, maybe it's time we consider that God is displeased with MAGA athletes invoking His name for their bullshit.

Blake Treinen put Charlie Kirk's name on his hat with a cross. He's been a dumpster fire since then.

I'm gonna say this, the trope of [big city team] has no real fans is just erasure of the working class people in that city. LA and NY are not mostly suburban professionals who moved in and will leave in retirement.

If you have the political clout to force misconduct payouts to come from police pensions, you have the political clout to make real, meaningful changes to policing Also taxpayers who continually vote for pro-allow-cops-to-get-away-with-everything laws and pols *should* get financially squeezed.

This bullpen lol.

Look, if the "farmers who feed America" are in apocalyptic financial collapse because they can no longer export their shit to foreign countries, they they weren't fucking feeding America now were they? Let them all wither away.

I'll posit one more thing... people, particularly leftists, from the US are *not* prepared for how much *more racist* the rest of the world is. "Fuck you, got mine" is not uniquely American.

I'm going to also put this out there... this is a mayoral race for a city in a state that's on the other side of the country from where she lives. Her endorsement isn't really relevant. But this should be the message to national Dems FROM NY. He's the Dem nominee. Vote blue no matter who. Bitch.

Congressional Dem leadership with apocalyptic approval ratings have watched Governor after Celebrity after Local Candidate gain national fame, popularity and prominence basically telling Trump "fuck you, bitch" and has decided that the actual way to go about things is to... write more stern letters.

No no, you see, RFK didn't say, without any credible scientific evidence, that Tylenol causes autism. He said, without any credible scientific evidence, that pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism. So it's just a different kind of stupid.

The Great Khan breaking out Andor Quotes.

As someone whose culture has a lot of nonsensical bullshit that gets treated as sacrosanct because, well, "it's part of [my] culture and history," we really should *stop* treating "culture and history" as positive and beyond reproach by right simply because it is a practice done by non-white people.