Nato Coles

Guy won’t stop talking

Also, other profession

Guy won’t stop yelling

(Guy is gender neutral here)

Guy won’t stop talking

that’s nfl players for you. week after week, making it all happen. they can really put on a show

My main rooting interests are in the NL and AL Central so I can attest to this thesis

Guardians 9, Rangers 8: With Detroit losing nearly an hour earlier the Guardians had already clinched the AL Central. But winning this game like they did – with a four-run tenth inning rally capped off by a walkoff three-run homer from Brayan Rocchio – bolstered a theory of mine: that the Guardians are possessed of more Devil Magic that any team since the La Russa-era Cardinals. They had a massive comeback here. They clinched their playoff spot on Saturday night on a walkoff hit-by-pitch. They beat Detroit with 57 dinks-and-doinks last week, with the rally being kicked off by their own dude getting hit in the damn face with a hundred mile-per-hour heater. And, of course, they came back and won the AL Central from 15.5 games down despite ending the season with a negative run differential. There is nothing natural about any of this. And they don't friggin' care, man. That's the most unsettling part. The Cleveland Guardians can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. I don't actually think that means they're World Series favorites or anything, but it does mean that we toy with them at our peril. If they eventually get knocked out of the playoffs it's probably because they just get beat, but it's also possible it will be because they accidentally ran their car over the entire opposing team and were deemed to have forfeited. And now they get the Tigers again after playing them six times in the last two weeks, winning five of those contests in no small part because Detroit seemed utterly spooked and intimidated. It's almost cruel.

Draft of the recap for the Guardians game in tomorrow's newsletter.

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If Nick Castellanos homers this weekend he is absolutely dead or in a coma

They'll never admit it, but I bet the Conclave's final vote wasn't even close. Probably 25 or 6 to 4

"Ok, tell me, my friendtz: who'd win da game. Coach Ditka, or... POPE Ditka? Ah ah ah but dere's a catch: Ditka gets da 85-86 Bears, and Pope Ditka gets a team of football playing angels!"

"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.

Last night the national anthems of both the United States and Japan were performed on a piano that was wheeled out onto the field. I’ve been to thousands (?) of sporting events in my life and have never seen an anthem done this before. It was so moving, simple, and spectacular.

Aarglth.

coffee

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

If you see Merrick Garland walking along the sidewalk today help him onto a patch of ice.

Nato Coles and the Blue Diamond Band at Subterranean as part of Windy City Sound Clash II in Chicago, IL. 05/29/2010. flic.kr/p/86XKTm

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Last weekend: *all the horses run away*
Schumer today: we are joining together to push legislation which will prevent all our horses from escaping the barn...we call it the "close the barn door" bill

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

dril tweet: "CHIEF: dracula is in our sights. Take the shot! SNIPER: I can't, Sir. I'm Woke! ME (watching through binoculars): He's woke. He won't do it.!"

the discourse

“No cheating, your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.”

Oh no. Oh, no no no…

One concrete action you can take to support trans rights if you are a person of public interest like, say, an author, an actor, an athlete, or a musician, is to simply tell the New York Times you won’t talk to them due to their reprehensible and consistent platforming of modern Nazis.

The album is great - one or two clunkers can’t sink the hits, let alone personal favorites like “No Feelings.” But the band as a BAND - as opposed to a McLaren scheme - was doomed when Sid replaced Glen. Oh, there’d be drama and entertainment for awhile, but… well, you know.

Scrotus from the movie Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga looks like a post-apocalyptic dril, or
wint, whichever one prefers @dril.bsky.social

MLB fans mad about the Dodgers: A salary cap will provide parity amongst teams in baseball!

NFL fans: (a few seconds of silence, then) …you don’t get to watch the super bowl at my house this year

I’m sure it was a perfectly cromulent usage. Come on down off your embiggened high horse…

It’s absolutely nutballs.

Holy shit. TOUSSAINT???

I probably should watch the FEAR-SNL thing every Monday, honestly. It's amazing!

Going down internet rabbit holes about Robert Palmer and, alternately, The Roches. Robert Palmer covered "New Day Rising" and "Girl U Want." Suzzy Roche is married to Loudon Wainwright III. Also, Robert Fripp of King Crimson produced the first Roches album. How's your Monday going?

For everyone calling for a cap in Major League Baseball, this will be the fifth time in six years that the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl.