Fred Smith

Yes and additionally baseball pioneered the “turn based but with parrying” style made popular in games like Paper Mario and Expedition 33

It's always jarring when something gets a new tone on Instagram. Almost always seems to get goofier and more annoying, too. I am always so curious what the meeting to sign off on that is like.

this should be the standard reaction to seeing Miles Bridges in public

These guys spent a decade sprinting full speed at the most humiliating possible position on every issue in American culture. We are only really finding the edges of that just now. This shit was so embarrassing that it is more humiliating to pretend it's a success than it is to mock it.

Huh! That’s very bad!

Maxime Raynaud 20-20 game, Kings lost, Nets win, Jazz won, Nique Clifford kept his double digit scoring streak up and I’m willing to pretend I don’t see the shooting numbers from tonight. Great evening of hoops.

The call when Stewart gets in this is very Wrestlemania, like he popped out of the crowd and got Bridges with a chair

He’s playing with Precious, Dougie McBuckets, Devin Carter, and Daequon Plowden. You could argue that this is the single worst five-man group available to Christie with a fully healthy roster. Thank you, Doug.

This is how you know the Kings have begun fully tanking: Drew Eubanks is playing tonight

I think “TOC” is a common enough cultural shorthand from before it was relevant to Jeopardy. No idea why he’s doing that with “JIT.”

the type of contact they’re making off Trevor Bauer in Japan:

Tanking is no match for apathy. Zion Williamson just let his man, Precious Achiuwa, catch an inbound and waltz to the rim in two steps without ever even pretending to guard him.

Most of the New Orleans Pelicans shoot 3s like I do

Hard to believe those are almost five years old now, CPO models on lots are still out of my price range though

Terrible news for Kima who is already no match for Jyn even before she starts lifting and doing steroids

Another just DeMar game for the Kings among intended day 1 starters. They of course need to lose against an equally bad team that has no incentive to lose themselves.

Regardless of what you think of Trump's policies, "Panican" is absolutely elite political communication on the merits. Of course everyone instantly grasps what it means and it just looks so good on the page, but furthermore it's also very easy to imagine how someone would say it aloud.

It would be nice if this actually had a direct positive effect on the world, but these guys sure have been on their back foot for a month now. Surely at some point people that actually matter will be fired over what they all know is coming at this point.

"A bunch of good shapes combine to make a bad one on this ubiquitous race car"

lmao

I am convinced that the 2022 Winter Olympics never happened. Too soon after Tokyo 2020* to feel like a comparable event, awkwardly in a host city that had held one of the greatest Summer games ever just 14 years prior, full of weird stuff. I remember watching some of it, but do I really?

Yeah that'll happen

Yeah. It's odd.

I am wondering if there is another license holding it up because I cannot imagine that Lego voluntarily opted to do the F1A/movie/New Audi sets without planning this.

Big air and ski jumping both have the same problem where something superhuman is happening and, since I have no real way to measure how someone is good at it or what good even looks like, all I can really think is "hm, pretty good"

Keep the non-playoff squads as the actual lottery teams, keep trading rules as they are now, just change how balls are distributed to this system. I'm perfectly content with that.

Yeah, this works. It's simple enough to not be convoluted and it only impacts odds, not non-lottery picks, so bad teams still get their own benefit. This also keeps teams like this year's Pacers or the 2019-20 Warriors from intentionally blowing up a Finals squad for position if someone gets hurt.

There are lots of bad things going on but I think one underrated bad thing is that all the gambling websites have terrible names. FanDuel and DraftKings are both named after their now mostly irrelevant trojan horse business models for semi-legal gambling. Kalshi sounds like an off-brand cereal.

"You might think this is a huge hill, but this is just a normal hill to me" - Ski jumpers trying too hard to impress all of us

The way every single line is yelled, that's what makes it art

I almost admire the mileage they've gotten lately out of literally just playing back their anti-Bush work.