Love Island is a social experiment conducted in order to demonstrate that you can acknowledge other people's feelings as valid and still hurt them very badly

nothing makes you grateful to be middle aged like spending a lot of time with teenagers

pretty sick, right? www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/h...

what can I say that this podcast title doesn't? thank you to @mindthetagspod.bsky.social for having me on! www.podbean.com/media/share/...

hard to overstate what a huge deal this is for SELAH, an organization that is not so much "close to my heart" as "basically one of my ventricles" at this point

what a cool & necessary project. I got to write about BEATING HEART BABY for the LA Times when it came out-- it's so fucking good, so I'm thrilled to see @alexanderchee.bsky.social writing about it here

I talked about money on @keris.bsky.social's The Ladybird Purse theladybirdpurse.substack.com/p/i-always-f...!

This is a brilliant write-up and I agree @catiealert.bsky.social is excellent at writing both basketball and the queer horniness it may invoke!

thrilled that I get to read this!!

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on: - The Super Bowl champ Seahawks for sale - MLBPA drama - Lindsey Vonn 😭 - Quad God brutally skatemogged - Alysa Liu wins her way - @samaha.bsky.social on college hoops betting scandal, FBI investigates Jim Irsay’s death, & rip WaPo sports

outed myself as someone whose life path was altered by MTV’s Teen Wolf in Vogue today www.vogue.com/article/the-...

work has required me to spend a ton of time with teenagers recently. we are failing them in many ways but chiefly, not one of them has heard of the x-files

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on the Super Bowl; Bill Belichick’s Hall of Fame scandal; the 49ers injury conspiracy theory; Trinity Rodman gets paid; PWHL transphobe reveals herself; and basketball players speak out against ICE. 🔶 Apple bit.ly/3O2uL9d 🔶 Spotify bit.ly/4r2sGIZ

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on the NFL’s Divisional Round; athlete charity scams; Fandom culture continues to crash into hockey culture, with mixed results; & in female millennial excellence is coming for the Olympic Games 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/49DkatR 🔶Spotify: bit.ly/45tedNx

I would be excited about this no matter what but given that it includes a @nzle.bsky.social I'm particularly stoked

tried to write about the best stuff that happened this year, ended up talking about the crying, too buttondown.com/zanopticon/a...

if you're looking for some between holidays listening, I was on Content People talking about writing for a living podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...

mostly what I am learning from Heated Rivalry is how much of Letterkenny's style (read: tendency to be 50% music video) I should have been attributing to Jacob Tierney

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on the NASCAR settlement; Phillip Rivers’ Millennial Excellence; World Cup ticket$; the most hated PNWL player looks to beat the transphobe allegations; & Lando Norris wins F1, experiences feelings 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/4qaUgD0 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/4j1KHUA

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on FIFA's peace prize; Trinity Rodman and NWSL’s self-own; Michael Jordan and the NASCAR trial; George Pickens goes off; Lane Kiffin quits; & an LPGA golfer cures her anxiety with fantasy novels. 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/3KIsBdK 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/4pxAO3j

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on Brosmer woes; Jauan Jennings is the drama; bald man solves hair care crisis; women's hockey & women’s baseball; right-wing incentives driving anti-trans athlete narratives; & a principled cyclist 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/4rFLRcd 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/48SH2ox

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on MLB’s MVPs; sports bros with podcasts; the NBA’s mob ties; Nico is out in Dallas; YouTube TV and ESPN make up; and Wide Left's @arif.bsky.social on JJ “Nine” McCarthy's future with the Vikings. 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/4rikvJh 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/4rg6ZpA

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on LAPD vs sports joy; pitcher indictments; Cooper Flagg: new loser; Ovechkin's stolen puck; and Baseball Bar-B-Cast's @jordanshusterman.bsky.social on covering the Mariners this postseason! 🔶Apple: bit.ly/47FBBJb 🔶Spotify: bit.ly/4nSVMYY

I've been volunteering with SELAH for a little over a year now. We nearly set a new record for participants at yesterday's program-- including very young children. This is week one without benefits.

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on the most-watched World Series in nearly a decade; the Skaggs trial & what it would take to oust an MLB owner; & are shirtless men at college football games curing the male loneliness epidemic? 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/4hP1868 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/47sRumi

In this you can hear me live react to the first inning of what would eventually become an 18 inning baseball game. I sound very young and alive with possibility.

the romance of romance writing: taking a scene that I originally wrote in the present tense and then changed to past and putting it back into the present

New On the Bleachers! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on playoff baseball; players taking on WNBA; downright erotic sports coverage; James Dolan is watching you; & @awalkerinla.bsky.social tells us about covering LA's upcoming mass sporting events! 🔶 Apple bit.ly/3KAPzTJ 🔶 Spotify bit.ly/471NW91

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

very few people I trust on Taylor but Stephanie is one of them

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on MLB postseason narratives; the Lynx will not go quietly; Bad Bunny halftime show; how we’re listening to the new Taylor album; & an interview with LA Times' sports reporting legend, Steve Henson 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/4mM22Bi 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/3WkKrFH

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

I had another 15 minutes on Kershaw locked and loaded but dinner plans intervened / I'm sorry or you're welcome, depending

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on Taylor’s Arrowhead arrival; Narrative Fantasy Football update; the WNBA playoffs; FIFA corruption; and why ballplayers are drinking less. 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/48rrkB5 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/4mA6Olq

New On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on engagement leaks; men being OK on group chat; the Micah trade; and @minakimes.bsky.social and @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social join for the First Ever Narrative Fantasy Football Draft! 🔶 Apple: bit.ly/47WUeZt 🔶 Spotify: bit.ly/4paerS4

in which I admit that I have thought about the details of Taylor Swift's wedding far more than my own

New On the Bleachers❗ @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on Taylor’s new album & New Heights; conservative athletes back off toxic Trump; UFC streaming; more NFLPA saga; & @sarahspain.com, host of Good Game with Sarah Spain and co-author of Runs in the Family 🔶 Apple bit.ly/41e39Sr 🔶Spotify bit.ly/3HkYqYr

On the Bleachers: @zanopticon.bsky.social & I on Taylor’s teaser; crypto memelords and dildos on WNBA courts; ESPN+NFL; Savannah Bananas; & @theathletic.com's @mikedugar.bsky.social on his book, The Franchise: A Curated History of the Legion of Boom! 🔶Apple: bit.ly/46X8aCA 🔶Spotify: bit.ly/3H8IacY

all of Sarah's dispatches from her summer of baseball are very good, but this one is extra-very good, in my opinion

On the Bleachers is back! @zanopticon.bsky.social & I share what we did on our summer vacations; Bryce Harper, man of the people; NFLPA scandal explained; the W All Star hard launch; & @dirtbagqueer.rocks on her new book, ONE OF THE BOYS! 🔶Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/4mwGKrF 🔶Spotify: bit.ly/3UMuQxR

I feel like I just have to say publicly on this, the fifteenth anniversary of One Direction's founding, that I love and miss my stupidest friends very much

MLB's all star break coinciding with the end of Love Island does feel like a targeted attack against me personally. just a barrage of empty hours all arriving at once

Congratulations Zan!! 💓 (New Yorkers, come to Zan's event at McNally Jackson Seaport on Thursday evening! Looking longingly at the ~70 degree weather later in the week...)

my new book is out today! SQUARE WAVES is, by @effectivelywild.bsky.social's metrics, a baseball book & it is a romance by anyone's measure bookshop.org/p/books/just...

very horny day from yours truly, in which I release this podcast ep & also a romance novel

LA Podcast & @lataco.bsky.social have both been essential resources these last few weeks / always, really

feels very good to know we’re making life hard for these guys!

I made a lil cameo in Sarah’s excellent Substack

read this book and immediately started watching the French Open after a lifetime of deep indifference to tennis; that’s both a recommendation and a warning