Oh hell yeah Christmas in November

I'm not sure how many writers there are in the world who communicate clearly or more directly than Albert, but it can't be that many.

forbidden funbag question: if still wrapped, would you eat the (allegedly) partially exploded sandwich?

Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...

it's so funny that the highest-leverage play of the season came down to spinning around and trying to step in the right place. beautiful, goofy sport.

"happy halloween" -- the fellas

come bake—and I cannot stress this enough—with us: defector.com/help-secure-...

lots of people who Do Data Online are principally interested in telling you how smart they are. nick is the opposite of that: genuinely invested in advancing public knowledge and helping people learn. we are richer for his work; i'll miss so much of it happening in public.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

If you went to bed before the conclusion of that 18-inning marathon World Series game, Ray Ratto has a message for you:

this whole thing smacks of daniel mccutchen's heroic relief appearance against the braves in 2011,

if you haven't yet read that big feature on gooning this has been a good primer

shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him

"There's not even a hint, in any mainstream sports-media conversation about this scandal, that legalized sports gambling may have been a bad idea." - @redford.bsky.social defector.com/the-nba-medi...

supremely grateful to be sufficiently healthy for a favorite fall tradition: getting cooked by a middle schooler in the neighborhood 5k 🥲

What can't the president do? defector.com/what-cant-th...

what da hell

my favorite thing about the NBA is the product

"All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in exchange for a chance at making things less unbearable. But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."

I counted six links ending with “?utm_source=chatgpt.com” americanmind.org/salvo/rfk-sh...

:-) on.soundcloud.com/tlQCiXqe7fMy...

great turnout in our neighborhood, delightful pops when the fire truck and COTA buses hit their horns on the way through

Shohei Ohtani plays the greatest baseball game of all time: defector.com/shohei-ohtan...

as expected @izdaramola.bsky.social's tribute to D'Angelo knocked my socks off defector.com/waiting-on-d...

i urge you to read billy and giri's sections in here.

excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe! defector.com/products

orlando magic preseason notes: -- paolo, franz, and bane have not shot it well (combined 2/15 on 3s). -- OTOH, wendell carter looks comfortable taking shots in the flow of the offense, including the elbow jumpers that drop defenses give him. getting back to 36-37% from 3 would be so, so valuable.

that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com. The paywall is also down:

the phrase "jaguars junction" is one of the last remaining reliable sources of reward neurotransmitters

Kelsey wrote about what I think is the single most evil blog I've ever read. Her post is good, The Free Press one is not. defector.com/the-free-pre...

this is what porter ricks's "biokinetics 2" would sound like if you were to retrieve it from the seafloor: kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/track/d2-pau...

Ever since reading this @albertburneko.bsky.social paragraph a while back, I find myself thinking about it, encountering unwelcome exemplars of it, far more often than I wish.

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

can't get enough of this sound

albert burneko named and nailed this a couple months ago (🎁) defector.com/toward-a-the...

In this story I unpack some complicated feelings on the Buffalo Bills Hallmark movie, and Hallmark movies in general. Also yes that's Joe Pantoliano. He's in the Bills Hallmark movie. defector.com/the-hallmark...

sunstein's error was in not playing offense vs. chotiner. with FVV down you can draw him out with questions about who's gonna initiate for his rockets and then get him backpedaling on "well how does amen beat a defense going under his PNRs" and "do you really think reed will hold up on a switch"

KNIFEPLAY was the band in question here. they exceeded my high expectations, totally ripped the back half of this one: knifeplayforever.bandcamp.com/track/agoniz... catching 'em on their brief tour the rest of this week (detroit, milwaukee, chicago, pittsburgh, philly) is my Stone Cold Lock for you

opener poses a dangerous thought experiment: what if archy marshall was from central ohio

⚠️ warning: ohio posting ⚠️ i'm seeing a cool zoomer shoegaze band in the basement of a donatos rn

"An astonishing 95 percent of the 7,130 eligible MLB players were remembered at least once. Judging by bWAR accumulated in the 2000s, the most productive MLB player who went unremembered was Reese Olson, who has 4.4 bWAR at time of writing."

as good as it gets: wipers.bandcamp.com/track/doom-t...

The official charity of the Savannah Bananas has a hard time explaining how its money is spent: defector.com/the-official...

classic kelsey blog: defector.com/only-you-can...