I was stupid enough to think this would break through with the flag humpers. Another lesson learned!

This Union-Inter Miami match is wildly entertaining

“He’s highly regarded around the league and if the Phillies fired him some other organization would hire him instantly.” Okay sounds like a plan.

“kevin long is a good coach” ok what proof do you have for that at this point? because it sure seems like the entire lineup forgets how to hit at the same time year after year

Jimmy Rollins makes it safe if he’s the one running that out

Here’s a take I suspect I’m outre on. I would be in favor of a European Super Bowl if it meant they would move up the kickoff time to 2:30-3:30 to accommodate local audiences. Give everybody the whole afternoon to drink, and still have a few hours at the end of the night to get our shit together

Terrible

Neither of them were in a locker room

Giants are going to be such a disaster (again)

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Me if I was in charge: “Donnie, you’re as disposable as Topper was”

Trea Turner is going to drive me insane

Adolis is almost at the Mendoza line and he’s still far more valuable than Castellanos

Would’ve kept Sanchez in there

If you think what’s happening now is Trump is getting Bidened, the answer is obviously yes

In the HBO tv series “Succession”, Logan Roy blows off his son’s wedding in favor of a business meeting. What happened next will blow your mind

One thing I disagree with a lot about college football is when people say “it was better when every game meant something”, regarding the 4 team playoff win or BCS system. Every game didn’t mean something. Most teams had no stakes as soon as they had 1 loss.

He has a .185 batting average and .704 OPS

The people complaining about fewer Sunday games diluting the NFL are overstating their case in my opinion. All of this would be solvable if the NFL either lowered the price of Sunday Ticket or made more games viewable outside of their regional market by some other means.

There's a genre of joke that only becomes more hilarious to me with repetition: The Founding Fathers would find modern politics completely inscrutable, except for Benjamin Franklin, who would immediately understand everything perfectly and take up whatever positions would get him laid

Seeing who else fills out the rest of the top 10 (let alone the mid and bad GMs) reinforces that Howie is a uniquely special GM

On one hand, I’m thrilled to be picturing a form of politics where Donald Trump is no longer important. On the other, I don’t think what comes after him is going to be all that great either.

any realistic discussion has to start from the ground truth that america is a *very* low-tax society compared to similar nations we collect about 25% of GDP as tax revenue. germany? 38%. denmark? 45%. we are already a turbo low tax society!

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

The replies are interesting because it’s a dozen journalists united around “SLAY QUEEN GET HIS ASS” and then a hundred normal people going “what the fuck is this, get over yourself”

I missed the addition of another Week 18 Saturday game until @denizselman33.bsky.social mentioned it. I'm not a fan of the way the NFL is handling streaming, but one advantage should be not needing a predetermined kickoff time. It's wild they're specifying it's at 1 sports.yahoo.com/articles/net...

Simple from here: 1.) massive economic crisis 2.) Dem sweep in 2028 3.) Public forgets everything and gives the GOP a congressional majority in two years

The Phillies are 6th in World Series odds, per DraftKings

About one in 100 home runs looks less like a homer off the bat than the one Bryson Stott just hit. I was certain he'd gotten under that and it was going to die 20 feet short of the track

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I enjoyed this part of today’s Broad Street Bulletin where @richhofmann.bsky.social speaks to my main criticism of Moneyball

James Harden being in his classic Game 7 form makes the Cavs being up by 20 especially impressive

This cycle’s Bloomberg

Zack Wheeler has a 1.99 ERA in his first five starts back from a blood clot/thoracic outlet decompression surgery, which is remarkable.

All big 4 professional leagues have distortions in their rookie wage scales, but the NBA’s is the most extreme. The total absence of that in all of this “draft lottery reform” talk is nuts to me.

If you thought the big problem in your party was voters thinking (in this case, wrongly!) that its leaders endorsed and ran on unpopular ideological positions, why would you spend millions of $ highlighting fringe pols and their positions? RNC doesn’t run ads highlighting fringe Republicans!

I’m surprised the fact that both New York football teams are embarrassing clownshows hasn’t come up more in the “Knicks fans coming to Philly” discourse

Governor Reddit to commute the sentence of the Joker, tells reporters "instead of getting mad, just read some libertarian theory and it'll make sense"

The Pirates should intentionally walk both Schwarber and Harper, and then pitch to Bohm

He couldn’t even make it to the RAV-4th inning this time

This really is the “mask off” tell

Might be Jalen’s best take ever

Think it’s fine and actually advantageous of the Eagles to get the 49ers in Week 17. Shanahan’s going to get his players hurt by then.

I got married at the right time

The guy from the Epstein files, a liar?

The entire city of Philadelphia collectively laughs so hard that they pee their pants

This is the reason most American professional sports stadiums are eventually going to either be a dome or have a retractable roof

My free money idea for Roger is to turn part of the NFL schedule process into a draft. Let teams pick the day and time of some games to their advantage.

NFL really needs to offer 2 bye weeks already