Craig Meyer

the whole worst song debate's a good reminder that it seems like a widely panned musical genre pops up once every 15 years or so. disco in the 70s. nu-metal and butt rock in the late 90s and early 2000s. "Hey Ho" music in the early 2010s

YouTube video by Drexl1 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Birds of War

I always make it a point to call that Mumford & Sons/Lumineers genre "Hey Ho" music because "Stomp Clap" music should be reserved exclusively for the Birds of War's entrance song in It's Always Sunny

there's rightly been a lot of blowback to this -- so I'm not going to act like it doesn't exist -- but holy hell, could you imagine if a Democratic president were doing this to Liberty or Hillsdale?

I take this back. the discussion about the uproar over the Sydney Sweeney ad has far surpassed the initial uproar over it. Fox News is on like Day 9 of Sweeney talk

eagerly awaiting to see the Kroenkes do absolutely nothing with that $8 million. pids' offense looked totally constipated and unimaginative without him last night

Jelly Roll seems like a nice dude, but I wonder if we'll look back on him in 20 years as this figure in a time capsule from a really weird era, kinda like Fred Durst in the late 90s/early 2000s

"believe it or not, that dude was one of the most famous musicians in the world for 2-3 years"

that was *one* sentence?!

the Rockies facing the Pirates vs the Rockies facing the rest of Major League Baseball

never forget: not only was Memphis' 1985 Final Four appearance vacated, but their coach actually went to prison (for an unrelated matter; the NCAA doesn't have THAT kind of power)

Does anybody want Memphis? The Tigers desperately want to get out of the American, a league they've likely outgrown. But what's realistically out there for them?

I'm pretty fascinated by Memphis' predicament

the Tigers have clearly outgrown the current American, have a ton of money and ambition, but none of the Power Four conferences seem to want them

dove into the situation for this week's newsletter

really, really excited to see what Audrey does with this

she's done stellar work covering Penn State for a decade-plus and I'm still stunned The Athletic didn't believe it was worthwhile having someone occupy that beat

their loss is our gain

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I see posts from DoBetterDNVR come up all the time on my Insta feed (even though I don't follow it). there's a fine line between having genuine concern about homelessness/drug addiction and using inflammatory content to shame folks. this account regularly crosses it

nice work from the Denver Post

given the run he's on, I'm convinced Pablo Torre's gonna get his hands on the Epstein Files at this point

god bless the Le Batard show for the discussion this week on songs you're most likely to hear playing at a CVS, if only because it has reminded me that "The Way" by Fastball is an absolute bop

feel like we need a separate designation beyond Nepo Baby for people like Ben Stiller and Sally Jenkins who benefitted from who their parents were but are also extremely talented and excellent in their own right

dude's out here talking about Colbert like he was sitting in Walter Cronkite's chair

these Netflix/Amazon behind-the-scenes shows with sports teams are usually just empty, unsatisfying PR campaigns, but I'd pony up to see cameras following around Nick Rolovich and Bryan Harsin living and working in Berkeley

truly astonishing to learn this dude's only eight years older than me

it's just wild seeing people get up in arms over a jeans/genes pun. you can acknowledge that people get certain genetic traits from parents/family without being a full-blown eugenicist

this uproar over the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad only furthers my belief that the brains of a portion of this country's population are irreversibly fried

if you go to New York in 2025 and never once feel safe, you're softer than baby shit. or, just as likely, you're lying

Andy Beshear vetoed a trans sports ban bill in Kentucky and got re-elected pretty easily 18 months later

there's an easy and effective way to discuss the subject and persuade folks, but too many instead are perfectly happy demonizing trans people

everyone who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy, should carry a deep sense of shame that follows them for the rest of their lives

watched the White Men Can't Jump remake last night. I don't understand all the backlash against it and poor reviews it received

was it as good as the original? of course not. did it need to be remade? probably not. but it was an entertaining movie with likeable characters and solid performances

the closest I could get to saying Puff was cool was that he was an attractive, stylish dude who surrounded himself with cool people. but he wasn't particularly cool himself

hell, one of the most famous moments in hip-hop history is Suge Knight getting up on stage and effectively calling him a herb

a flicker of time so brief that it never existed

not sure I've got a healthier habit than following Nate Silver on social media in January of a presidential election year and then unfollowing him the day the loser gives their concession speech

happy for Ryan McMahon, though. he may have walked up to the plate to some stupid country song, but by all accounts, he's a great dude and now doesn't have to be one of the first people national baseball writers go up to in the Rockies clubhouse to interview for stories on how much the team sucks