Scientists stunned as man able to insert head farther into his own ass than ever thought possible: 'Truly awe-inspiring in his determination'

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods"

Leody Taveras appears to have a strong arm, solid fielding metrics, and good speed. If he can hit like it is the 2023 regular season (14 HRs, .266 avg, 101 wRC+), that would be ok. Otherwise, woof, not a great indication of a big offseason in the marketplace coming from Orioles and Mike Elias.

Stephen A. Smith talking about politics the same way he talks about a lot of sports: From the point of view of an over-extended talking head repeating misinterpreted talking points to support a conclusion he derived from his predetermined narrative.

Let’s make it happen, New York City!

Seahawks defensive tackle Brandon Pili just forced a fumble.... on kickoff return????

Feels like both managers did their best to try and lose the World Series - along with incredible accomplices in every terrible at-bat with RISP - but damn, was Yoshinobu Yamamoto just outrageous.

And the 80 mph curveball Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw for strike two… what the hell, man.

Not scoring in the top half of extras is such a killer because you're constantly going back to needing six more outs when every ball, every 2-1 count feels terrifying.

Anybody else just feeling the blood vibrating through their veins?????

Would be a good time for all of Liverpool's out of form players (which is all of them) to decide they're no longer out of form.

It is always so weird how often Ryan Day gets soooo worried about game management and gets super conservative. And then randomly remembers that Ohio State's WRs exist, like, "oh, we can just throw deep." And it works like every time.

Will Smith doing the Dodgers’ traditional post-win haka.

Home plate umpire Adam Hamari has blown two strike calls in three at-bats, both on Roki Sasaki splitters. Dodgers fans woulda crashed out if Blue Jays scored from that.

Terrible at-bat from Teoscar Hernández, granted the 1-1 fastball ate him alive, but out himself in a whole being far too aggressive first pitch.

Joe Davis calling runs in 3-1 “insurance” is the most grating part of a bad Fox broadcast of the World Series. They’re not “insurance” their tack-on runs.

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah > Monster Mash "This whole premise is sweaty."

Me saying, "Ah, another perfect Fullcast" after hearing the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social that just happened only in my head after reading this:

The Nationals' new manager is 70 days older than Bryce Harper .... and 151 days younger than me. (Gulp.)

Fun thought for tonight's Game 4: At what inning/situation do the Blue Jays decide to walk Shohei Ohtani with the bases loaded to force in a run? If it is the bottom 7th with 2 outs and Toronto up by one, do you just concede the tie score over the possibility of being down?

These throws to third tonight!!! I don’t know… third base!

Liverpool look an absolute mess right now and have for the last month. Just vibes totally off. Nothing right. Rough one.

I think sports would be a little bit better if most fans did not have the ability to watch every single game. This is a backwards way of saying: Maybe our sports culture was better when we didn't see all of it?

Russia "fought with us in WWII, and everybody hates [them]. And Germany and Japan, they're fine [now]?" - June 12, 2025 “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - June 12, 1987 What I wrote in June still relevant: Why with history it is important to know stuff benkrimmel.substack.com/p/its-import...

Jeff Passan is asking the question here, and I think that shows how baseball media is better than other sports media, as even the national 'information merchants' – who become the face of that sport's media – are still writers who want to be in the clubhouse doing the grunt work of being a writer.

In one of my notebooks of the many essays I never found the time to write is one from 2021 (or so) that starts off with this line: "It is a golden age for the unscrupulous."

Man, what the fuck?

This is Liverpool's 13th competitive fixture (including Community Shield) and eighth with Alexander Isak, and it still feels like there are long stretches of uncertainty around how they are supposed to play together and lack of getting sum of parts to gel. Concerning.

Do you know the fella with the Nazi tattoo still has the Nazi tattoo right now? Let's take the most generous reading: Nazi tattoo fella didn't know what he did. But you want me to believe you went 'I'll get around to removing my accidental Nazi tatoo, no big deal' for 20 years? Unless.... oh, boy.

This was an interesting way to learn that this dude attended George Washington University at the same time I did. Another banner day for the GW Hippos....

In honor of the NBA on NBC and basketball's return tonight, the cost for fans to watch every game across all the various channels and streaming platforms is again a topic. Here's @bomani-jones.bsky.social's take: "Not sure why ppl think seeing EVERY nba game is a birthright."

This is pretty funny.

Jets owner Woody Johnson with support for head coach Aaron Glenn, less so for QB Justin Fields: "It looks like [Glenn is] turning around parts of it. It's hard when you have a quarterback with a rating that he's got. He has the ability, but something is just not jiving." sny.tv/articles/jet...

When you transcribe what Brian Windhorst just said about the Knicks and Giannis Antetokounmpo, you see how this just doesn't really say anything. Meaning is sooo muddled.

I'm not saying this offseason is the most important in the history of the franchise since they arrived in Baltimore, but if Mike Elias' putzes around and the Orioles are meh, everybody should get fired by the All-Star break.

Shades of Buck Showalter leaving Zack Britton with a 0.54 ERA and 0.836 WHIP sit in the bullpen during the 2016 AL Wild Card game which led me to writing this wild piece about Orioles fans and being banished to the "baseball Land of Nod, to the east of Eden." web.archive.org/web/20170915...

Why did Eugenio Suárez go crazy about a called third strike that clipped the zone? Becasue Pitch 2 was called a ball and Pitch 7 was called a strike. Makes no sense if consistency isn't there.

Stephen A. Smith, if he believes Kyrie Irving was right about the vaccine (he wasn't) and deserves praise for foresight (he doesn't), should explain what exactly he means when he says "all the conspiracy theories that came out." Shocker that Stephen A. political commentator is off to bad start.

Another part in a long-standing series called: ‘Well, that’s a concerning thing to hear as an American Jew.’

The Giants offense “gained” 20 yards on that touchdown drive: 19 yard pass on 4th down and the one yard touchdown run by Jaxson Dart. They lost 4 on a sack and lost 5 on a delay. But they gained 54 yards on three Broncos penalties

We made it 22 seconds of game time until they called the first "disaster" for UNC and Bill Belichick.

Shohei Ohtani.... goodness gracious. What the hell, man?

@kentremendous.bsky.social from today in Jon Heyman's latest piece. Incredible insight. nypost.com/2025/10/17/s...

The NBA is back on NBC, and Tyler Kolek is out here with that '90s network TV show haircut.

It is an absolute treat to watch Alejandro Kirk run the bases, hustling out a double in the right-center gap.

"These are tough decisions that are only gonna work out if the manager is right." - John Smoltz, in addition to being boring and giving bad analysis, is bad at talking. Words don't come out of his mouth good.

This is the second time this postseason I've seen a team walk a guy with first base open and nobody out in an inning, and I just don't get it. Feels like a total -EV move.

College football is a game that is defined on tradition. Unfortunately for those who love college football, the sports No. 1 tradition is: Get dat money. Don't matter whose money or where that money came from, go get it.

Maybe this is the start of the pendulum swinging back to starters going deeper into games as everyone just now hates every reliever.

This guy is responsible for the most overreacting in all of Entourage, and that's saying something.