Move today to the first in our recent sequence and while the aggregate results are the same it’s all smiles. We were four minutes from perfection for this stretch and just couldn’t finish it out. The last event is the most disappointing so that’s what we each feel acutely. But: it’s all good.

That’s seven games in 22 days. 6 wins and one disappointing draw (that was nearly a win). I don’t get the lack of fresh legs for the last 10 today but it’s inarguably a fantastic stretch and, with health from the guys who have been out, we will start the belly of the season with a killer squad.

With a lead going into stoppage time and four subs and the players beyond exhausted there are some questions to be answered. We need the break and we need players to heal and we need what is our actually designed team to be available. And we need those dickheads to draw tomorrow.

That’s just bad by us.

quite nauseated right now

Tuned in in time to see Eze kick it right at the keeper and a Zubi crossbar. Goddamit.

Reads like a fun watch here.

Can’t watch the match today. Will catch replay later. Hoping it goes well.

Isn’t there a similar saying about grandmothers or aunts having wheels being bicycles, or something?

This game is a deep manifestation of “shit football makes for entertainment”. Most of the pundits prefer shit football, basically.

Bwwwwwaahahahahahaaha

Thomas Frank has the permanent look of someone who showed up to the airport rental car place at 2am after a delayed flight and nobody is there to get him his car.

This would be a good result if it can stick. Sp*rs laughably bad but somehow gain false hope. United uninspiring (but competent) but any “they are back” narratives die a proper death with a late capitulation to this dire side.

This officiating crew is a total disgrace, generally speaking.

The second worst part of that being off was that Russo’s work was for naught. Incredible play.

I think she’s off. That stinks.

YES!!!

That’s awful from Pelova. This ref is terrible.

Chalking off a goal based on what appears to be one exceedingly inconclusive replay just doesn’t wash.

“some observers” being Van Jones in a linked Fox News piece. The Times is ridiculous. Gonna be a fun few years with these bozo writers.

Low-key micro-event big impact disruptor: Rush hour one leaf of the pair subway door failure.

Good advice.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Hey Times editors, get the AI bot off captioning duty.

The Times planning on revving up the mayoralty sabotage machine they have in the garage, now that the mayoral election sabotage machine pooped out.

Just remember that LFC supporters booing Trent undoes the myth of them being special. In the end they are no different than any other fan base that feels aggrieved when someone rejects them. They aren’t better at this than anyone. They are just as petty and hypersensitive as the rest of us!

This cup game has to be treated as disposable. That will rankle some traditionalists who want every cup and cannot imagine throwing anything away, but we’ve gotten use out of making it this far but the utility is lessening. Take advantage of this as a free hit, play the kids, and see what happens.

Six injuries to the attack is...insane. Sure, Jesus was a known quantity and I realize Odegaard is a midfielder but still...this is just crazy. We need half-normal fitness, and soon. We aren't even at half-normal.

Do I dare read another article bemoaning something that is ruining football?* Also, interesting choice of headline picture. *I probably will, and be back here to make fun of it.

I have the pizza yips. Three years, no issues sliding the dough off the peel. Any type. Never a problem. The last four times straight now I’m forced into an improvisational calzone because the thing is sticking. Cannot figure it out. Have tried multiple fixes. Nothing works. This might be it.

The Times, fingers on the ledge, holding on for dear life until the very end.* *and what does that Cuomo headline even mean?

And then there’s just bad defending and goaltending.

When are the teevee programs going to do a “PL table if you don’t count Haaland’s goals”?

Haaland is incredible but that’s truly naive defending.

City are just a bunch of entitled bullies.

What on Earth is Donnarumma complaining about?

Does Jeff Gilooly know anyone up in Manchester? Asking for a friend.

How does Mead not score that. That’s a big missed chance.

I presume in keeping with the pattern the West Ham supporters will leave the sit-in halfway through?

RUSSOOOO

This game is why baseball gets some of the best sportswriting. So many stories, moments of inexplicable drama, tragedy, and humor across micro-events, within single contests, and across entire series’.

This is insanity.

Dale Johnson just jizzed in his pants and he doesn’t even understand baseball.

I dislike the Dodgers but that’s some pantomime tough guy bullshit from the Jays. First their player basically sticks his hand over the plate trying to buy an HBP, then gets all macho when he takes one off the inside corner. Boo hoo. Go to first.

A couple of fortunate results are the only things keeping the pitchforks at bay. They’ll be out soon.

Even when he wins does Unai Emery ever not disappoint? He’s such an underwhelming figure.

“Take nothing away from the finish, it’s a brilliant finish” Salah just had a gaping empty net. Ok.

Emi Martinez you are a gigantic penis

So the linesman doesn’t call that Ekitike goal off (it was off by multiple feet) yet the guy earlier today quickly blows the play dead on Saka (who was feet on). I realize it’s hard, but those plays were both handled completely wrong.

A mile off