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This is unfortunate. Best American Sports Writing 2022, Duke ’17, other things in-between, before, and after.

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Same answer as when I was asked what I would use as my song for Olympic figure skating:

02.08.2025 19:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sorry the Pirates did what

02.08.2025 04:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It’s Cragel time baby

02.08.2025 03:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s my apology to him for being insufferable this week

01.08.2025 04:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can I second my own post? If so, seconded

01.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com ahem

01.08.2025 04:01 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

What underwhelming deadlines for the Dodgers and Tigers. Yikes.

31.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pine Twalmer

31.07.2025 03:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

well, we’re pitching this to studios immediately

30.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Boys (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic Boys (Remastered 2009)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr8O...

30.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this means that players on the Tigers have said, about Riley Greene's mustache "it gets the boys going" and about a salsa-related injury "the boys were hungry."

we have to consider that the Tigers are the boysiest team in baseball

30.07.2025 19:50 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

NBA players who I’m sure have eaten Ortolan before:

- Kobe
- Steph
- KD
- Tony Parker
- Gilbert Arenas
- Kyle Kuzma

30.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👋 rocket scientist/astrophysicist here, let me explain what went wrong

Basically the engineers forgot that Australia is on the bottom of the world (the “butt” in astrophysics terms) and made the rocket go down instead of up

30.07.2025 17:42 — 👍 346    🔁 45    💬 12    📌 2

got his ass

30.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Daryl my guy, build a team that can get out of the second round then talk

30.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Man who has never ever won anything has thoughts on a team that has

30.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.

30.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 413    🔁 158    💬 0    📌 3

Thinking about how I spent one bitcoin on a fake ID my junior year of college, and how now one bitcoin is worth $117,000. I definitely didn’t get my money’s worth out of that ID.

29.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How Bear Bryant's Alabama dynasty could've been at four other schools
YouTube video by Split Zone Duo College Football How Bear Bryant's Alabama dynasty could've been at four other schools

At @splitzoneduo.com we make at least one really good college football history short per year. Here we go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LJ...

28.07.2025 14:54 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 3

I’m repulsed by the genocide in Gaza, and even more repulsed by the people who pretend to justify it under the banner of defeating anti-semitism. This will not stop anti-semitism. In fact it will only exacerbate it, and at great speed. All while millions of Gazans starve and die for no good reason.

27.07.2025 19:55 — 👍 680    🔁 51    💬 1    📌 0
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Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid The internal U.S. government analysis challenges the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

“An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.”

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

25.07.2025 10:06 — 👍 139    🔁 115    💬 7    📌 9
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Went tubing and ate it so hard

25.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We were … inverted

25.07.2025 01:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ain't no rule says a pug can't play baseball.

25.07.2025 01:15 — 👍 67    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Shohei Ohtani homered in his fourth consecutive game, a feat last accomplished by Tungsten Arm O’Doyle. The Dodgers lost 10-7.

23.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bruv

19.07.2025 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sending your keeper out as your fifth penalty taker is such a power move oh my god

19.07.2025 21:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a fun little bop!

18.07.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

FORGOTTEN BANGER: “Suddenly I See” by KT Tunstall

18.07.2025 00:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

I can't remember the last time something unambiguously good happened. This Dame news is delightful.

17.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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