I've been a sports fan for life, my favorite team has a great coach (manager), and even so, I agree with the epithet "gym teachers".
20.11.2025 18:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1@bobwait.bsky.social
Milwaukee w/Pittsburgh & Wash. D.C. stops, Upstate NY origins. MLB (Brewers); NHL (Penguins, Capitals); ECAC hockey (Dartmouth, RPI). Former (?) math geek. Raised on Tom Lehrer; schooled on Monty Python.
I've been a sports fan for life, my favorite team has a great coach (manager), and even so, I agree with the epithet "gym teachers".
20.11.2025 18:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Hot take: pre-game studio shows have pretty much run their course.
12.11.2025 23:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Fell asleep for most of the second half and still put up more points than the Packers.
11.11.2025 04:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Great fun to see the Division III MSOE women's hockey team beat Lawrence this afternoon. But don't worry; he's okay. #rimshot
09.11.2025 05:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks to all the baseball writers who worked overtime to publish today's World Series postmortems. Not ready for the reading-about-#MLB season to be over!
02.11.2025 16:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also, to "Eleanor Rigby."
30.10.2025 01:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marking myself safe after an 18-inning, 6:39 game. In case anyone asks.
28.10.2025 06:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We met you once during an AFP pre-show meet 'n' greet in Denver. I remember you differently.
28.10.2025 00:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not the best era for an INTP. The F and J are annoyingly nosing their way into the proverbial tent.
25.10.2025 13:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Won't have clarity on that until after the work stoppage.
19.10.2025 16:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What is the logic of trading away the team's last remaining, not to mention popular, starting pitcher?
18.10.2025 11:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We're about one inning away from Bill Clement looping his necktie around his head. #Tigers #Mariners
11.10.2025 05:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Wish the #NFL would take better advantage of its international game telecasts to add just a bit of local color as a mini-travelogue.
28.09.2025 14:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I admire Pat Murphy's leadership, but he's got to take charge and lift Contreras right away, not a few batters later. #Brewers
21.09.2025 01:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This #Brewers game was so lost, I bailed for an inning - so glad I rejoined for the full comeback! Congrats to the Crew on a well-earned W!
14.09.2025 04:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I freaking love this series of posts. Thanks for the reminiscence & well done for the perspective.
12.08.2025 03:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was so wrong about the #Brewers earlier this season - had them pegged as a .500 team. What a treat this summer has been.
12.08.2025 03:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brandon Woodruff goes out to the mound directly, with purpose, like a football lineman to the line of scrimmage. #Brewers
09.08.2025 00:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just read the word "yeets" in an online episode recap, as in "she notices the arm in the freezer and yeets out of there," and ten minutes later I still have the recurring giggles.
04.08.2025 02:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just read that Wisconsin high school athletes can now benefit, at least in a limited way, from NIL contracts. Too bad my eligibility has quite recently expired.
25.07.2025 01:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Finished Ted Lasso's three seasons to date. Great fun. Glad the show is being extended, but hard to see S4 reaching the same high notes after S3's clean wrap-up. Maybe it'll be a fan service season with familiar faces, a la "After-M*A*S*H".
23.07.2025 21:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0freddy peralta saying βI stand up for ueckerβ
freddy paying tribute to uecker during the stand up to cancer moment. brewers legend.
16.07.2025 01:45 β π 545 π 56 π¬ 10 π 8Love that #MLB all-stars are back to using their own teams uniforms. How I always remembered it; how it's supposed to be.
16.07.2025 00:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0B.A. and Vinny have done such a good job of describing the team's mentality going into the All-Star break that it feels like I have a few days off. #Brewers
13.07.2025 20:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks, I needed that.
12.07.2025 15:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So I had on the Wimbledon men's doubles match for a while, and eventually I noticed that the two guys beat the two other guys, and that was that. #rabidsportsfan
12.07.2025 15:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wondering who is the "David!" near the end of the FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin filler loop between innings of #Brewers games - the producer's kid?
05.07.2025 00:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Took time away from his bridge game.
14.05.2025 23:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hear the #Brewers are giving away a free baseball game if you buy a cribbage board.
14.05.2025 01:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Same
12.05.2025 20:03 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0