this comic came to me in a dream last night
If Darryl Sittler really cared about the game of hockey, after tying Maurice Richard's record of 8 points in a game, he should have taken a knee, said "this one's for the Rocket" and voluntarily benched himself
Last night I had 1 or more glasses of wine and posted "if Italy beats USA I'm taking a vacation to Italy this year" and I'm a man of my word and I will honour that bet
I am also doubling down now: if Canada beats Cuba right now, I will visit Canada in 2026
Team Cuba with four different increasingly silly types of error/gaffe/blunder in a row, looking like they have never played baseball before, Canada leads 3-1
Do you think the person who gets paid like $400K to be Netflix Synergy Director - the guy who's like "we need a Stranger Things crossover on Is It Cake" and "we need a Squid Games-themed Love Is Blind spinoff hosted by David Chang" - do you think he realizes his life is meaningless
Finally: a way to watch baseball with the analysis and insights of a shirtless, unfunny drunk. It's like being in the worst seats at a Phillies game from the comfort of your couch!
Wireless lightweight steadicams that can be jogged around the field with a wide aperture to give that cinematic blurred-background effect are the biggest technology to hit sports broadcasting since ESPN introduced the yellow first down line
One thing we don't talk about enough as baseball fans is how GOOD the production values have gotten.
Watch Czechia's Ondrej Satoria leave the field to a standing ovation in Japan. The WBC production crew shoots it like a movie. You couldn't storyboard, shoot, and act this any better
also when I learned I don't know how cricket scoring works, because I remember the news being like "Canada beat Bangladesh at cricket!", and I was like "wow what was the score", and the answer was some shit like "94 over 20 with 3 overs past 20 wickets".
uhhhh so like, what's that like, 3-2, 3-1?
I remember about 20 years ago, Canada beat Bangladesh at cricket, and in Bangladesh it was treated as this big embarrassment and the response in Canadian sports media was largely "we have a cricket team?"
anyways, the Italian baseball team
Why is it the teacher's job to go out on an after-hours shopping trip if their workplace doesn't have the essential supplies needed to do their job?? I would rather a workplace that is already equipped than a Staples gift card
lol yes okay point taken
not sure what it says that I'm in a spiritual Long February of my own creation, halfway into March
Like what do you mean Yankees fans and Lakers fans are both having existential crises on a Tuesday night in February and literally neither has anything to do with a Yankees game or Lakers game? Yeah man I'll take a shot of that.
Usually after the Olympics there's a bit of a sports hangover where you overdid it and you don't want to watch anymore sports for a few weeks.
I cannot stress enough how much I'm just going hair-of-the-dog, pushing through the hangover and allowing myself to be drunk as hell off of sports again.
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the FS1 commentators are so mad, the fans chanting USA are mad, what a night for baseball, what a night for Bluesky: The Sports App
BASEBALL POWERHOUSES THE MIGHTY ITALIAN AZZURRI HAVE DEFEATED THE FRAUD MICKEY-MOUSE MINOR BASEBALLING NATION KNOWN AS "THE UNITED STATES"
I was dead serious 2 hours ago and I'm still dead serious I am ready to change my plans for this year over this preliminary-round international baseball game
watching FS1 stream and I forgot how fucking embarrassing American ads are, I got an ad for Ram trucks that was just Guns N Roses set to unironic footage of fireworks and bald eagles and the moon landing like "BUY A TRUCK BECAUSE AMERICA REFUSES TO LOSE" (note: current broadcast is America Losing)
PUT HIM IN FOR THE 9TH AND LET HIM GIVE UP THE MERCY RUN this is already the funniest thing I can imagine I want it to be so funny it's beyond levels of my imagination
don't tell me this tournament doesn't mean anything!! A group of guys from New Jersey with Italian nonas are the only thing standing between me and having a mental breakdown at the site of Ernie Clement yukking it up with Donald Trump at the White House!!
don't elect a Baseball Pope if you're not ready for what it means to have a Baseball Pope!!
FORZA AZZURRI...?
oh I am referring both to Canada winning and Italy winning but if neither of these hold true I'm referring to nothing and I said nothing
Italy, my paisanos, if you do this, I'm booking a trip to Italy this year I'm not lying and you can hold me to this
