Mark Deeks

"Defense wins championships" yeah maybe but it's also really boring

I lost a burrito the other day that I was in the middle of actively eating. It's been four days & I haven't found it. I don't even really want it at this point, but I'd like to know what happened to it, where I absent-mindedly left it, etc. Any technology that can help with this is most appreciated.

The real winner of the Super Bowl will of course be the well-trimmed ginger moustache, which is having its best season since 1978.

SUPERBOWL UPDATE: They're just all sort of falling over a lot then cutting to an advert for something.

They stopped for a song at one point which perked things up a bit but now there's just lots of whistle-blowing and walking around.

Apparently the idea that several cultures could come together in American successfully confused BlueSky's automated filter enough that it thinks you're speaking Japanese.

It can't be THAT hard to move a ball up ten yards, can it?

Wouldn't be against replacing all the music and dancing and whatnot with someone doing ten tight minutes of observational comedy tbh

(Accidental Extremely English Typo will stand)

ALF TIME SCORE:

Seattle Seahawks: 9
New England Patriots: 0
Puerto Rican women: 10/10

Turns out I was thinking of Bhad Bhabie.

Watching my one NFL game of the season and wondering it if is always this boring.

Kind of amazing how the Mavericks were able to get more for Anthony Davis than for Luka.

At last, we can all stop talking about Jonathan Kuminga.

I don't think the other races know quite how tough it is being white. We can't get all the C-Suite level jobs that we want, they'll never understand how that feels.

Five years ago on Friday, the Lakers gave away Ivica Zubac for a three-month rental of Mike Muscala #neverforget

No, really, that was it. All of it.

Shout-out to everyone who remembers the 2007 Trade Deadline in which Fred Jones was traded straight up for Juan Dixon and that was literally it.

Vanja Marinkovic is a decent but not elite shooting specialist currently averaging 7.0 points per game in the EuroLeague at age 29. You won't be hearing of him again.

Having acquired both Trae Young and Anthony Davis, the Washington Wizards are the biggest winners at the 2019 Trade Deadline.

After the trade of Anthony Davis to the Wizards, it is really starting to look as though the Dallas Mavericks got the worst end of the Luka Doncic deal.

They weren't all bad moves in isolation, but the fact that the Bulls turned Coby White, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Lonzo Ball, DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso into just one first-rounder is emblematic of the problem here.

The Thunder gave up three first round picks for Ousmane Dieng only for it to not hold them back whatsoever.

Hard to open a title window when you're 13-36 but dress for the job you want etc

Harden, who the Cavaliers acquired at the February 2026 trade deadline, is said to have requested a trade.

(don't mind me, just getting the inevitable tweet in there there early)

Imagine taking a year to salary-dump Luka Doncic

February 2025: Anthony Davis involved in the worst trade you ever saw.

February 2026: Anthony Davis involved in one of the weirdest trades you ever saw.

Three years ago, I was right about Neemias Queta. Best to assume I'm just always right and don't go looking for any contradictory evidence.

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Cooper Flagg out here playing defense tonight like he's V.J. Edgecombe or something

Oh hell yes. The value of money still never makes. What's the full MLE worth these days, it's like 4 years and $24 million right?