You’ve daddied your last cherry pop. (Or soda, depending on what part of the country you’re from.)

It is, once again, time for The Darts on ESPN+

Stumbled on to threads discourse about Caitlin Clark and boy howdy do I get the feeling that they aren’t actually talking about her. It’s almost like she’s a proxy for a much larger argument!

My brother in arms for @obscuresportusa.bsky.social, Brad, is at the darts in the same exact seats he’s had every year.

You gotta save that shit for the group chat, dude.

It is definitely exciting to see darts on ESPN2, but it is genuinely thrilling to not have to listen to the dude they had do the Premier League announcing introducing the players.

Municipal ownership of sports teams

Little known fact: this is a song that is actually about the importance of wearing eye protection when working with hazardous materials.

The most important thing to note about this is that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT IN THE SPORT. You just have to have some kind of idea of the rules (in case we need to explain it to the listeners) and an understanding of why YOU like it. *That* is what I am interested in talking about.

So, I know I have a couple of followers on here -- and friends of followers -- who are into obscure sports. I am starting up an obscure sports podcast in the relatively new future and we are looking to have weekly interviews with folks who have an interest in them, so if that sounds like you, DM me.

I normally try to avoid respamming myself, but this's week edition is actually a lot of Brad and I both, so I feel slightly more comfortable suggesting that if you like japes about obscure sports and other such related humor, you may enjoy Brad and I's wonderful weekly newsletter.

Given that Peacock was hosting these until *literally* today and own Sky Sports (so they are, at best, paying a nominal fee to "license" the broadcasts that sky produces,) I wonder what exactly this says about their viewership numbers for darts for better or worse.

Looking for discussions about MSG's seating capacity and where Sooryavanshi will be changing for his debut against England? Maybe with a Magnum PI reference for desert? Boy howdy do I have a newsletter for you.

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I don’t know if I’ve ever hated something more than these Gronk-Jameis podcast commercials.

ohnodisaster

Messi is the best I've ever seen, but Mbappé is my absolute favorite player ever to watch.

what a freak

Just shouted JES-US CHRIST! in my living room when I saw Messi make the cut towards that ball. A beautiful magical soccer gremlin, that man.

The crisis facing the nation is that we have two major parties and one of them cracked up completely about a decade ago. But, since we can't talk about that, we allude to it by treating Democrats like politicians and Republicans like a natural disaster it's the Democrats job to protect us from.

This guy seems like a tool.

We are less than 3 hours from the opening game of Major League Cricket's 2026 season at Grand Prairie Stadium just outside Dallas. The Seattle Orcas, an all-around normal sports team, will take on the Texas Super Kings, an off-season content farm for an IPL team that uses LinkedIn as social media.

Hey, so, I know a couple of data nerds follow me on here and I have a question for you: has data scraping/gathering become more difficult for you in the past few years?

"A real man wants his friends to physically abuse and/or kidnap him". My brother in Christ, that place is a prison and those people aren't your friends.

This is what they are trying to take away from us and I, for one, will spend the rest of my life making them pay for that.

america is an ideal worth fighting for

hellig dritt!

Love to see when someone posts, like "hey, maybe people should be less weird and angry online" in a somewhat nuanced way and the response is DIE IN A FIRE NAZI. It's really healthy and definitely not at all making your untreated mental illness everyone else's problem.

What works for me with the dynamic is that what Alexi says isn't even *that* bad -- it's mostly just kind of dumb, but relatively "inoffensive" nonsense -- but Zlatan just hates him so GD much that he basically does this every time he opens his mouth:

He’s just so fucking good.

Normally, I don't publicly admit I read this fairly terrible website, but I saw this article and as a math nerd, I was like "Oh, I wonder what the catch is" and then I saw how many comments there were on this article and, buddy, these people are not well.

This seems to be a World Cup special, tbh, as the T20 World Cup crowd shots were basically a running advertisement for creeper tourism in Sri Lanka and India.

there isn't a bigger anti-Celtics writer in the english language than this guy

It seems like the easiest way to handle this would be to allow for equity in the team or a sovereign league fund for a set number of players on each team or have it so certain qualifying players (similar to Bird rights or the D-Rose rule) who don't count against a softer cap (close to baseball).

Still doing this, and have started tagging genres. I pull them from the description on Wikipedia and in writing out each combined genre for each movie (I have them short-handed for data entry/calc purposes), I came across "animated spy," which I had forgotten was for Cars 2. What a weird franchise.

They call it a Dick Stuart.

THE TIME HAS COME. The script is complete, the cast is recorded, and now we need you. Give us your hopes, your predictions, your expectations for our Phase 1 finale, WAR OF THE WORLDS. You have 24 hours.

I will be over at @obscuresportusa.bsky.social doing what it says below. If you would like to join us (me) there, follow to see what happens next.

Our long national nightmare is over: the Viking Cup is available for streaming on ICC.tv

THE WORLD CUP IS UNDERWAY World Cup of Darts that is.

I was explaining to a friend that this, sadly, was one of the only "socially acceptable" forms of bids for an emotional connection that a dude could make to another dude for *generations*. Thankfully that's not the case as much anymore, but it was a load-bearing icebreaker for decades (centuries?)

Got this in just under the wire for the start of the first of three (3!) World Cups this weekend. And while we strongly suggest you follow @rodger.bsky.social SPORTS! newsletter for your FIFA World Cup coverage, may we suggest our humble newsletter for all your T20 World Cup news and notes.