Tim Booth

Death of a Sports Section The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.

This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
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The year is 1998. You hit your local Tower Records store and buy a copy of Yield from the cardboard display. You get home, peel off the plastic, and press play for the first time. Life is good.

Cheers to 28 years of Yield, and to Kevin Shuss for keeping this in the archives!

(late 1990s Jim Ross voice) "By God, that's Jerry Dipoto's music."

The Belgian delegation flew from DC to Seattle after the draw to start scouting options. Sounds likely they'll be in Renton.

The NFC is the visiting team (for coin toss etc) but the NFC will use the 49ers locker room, according to the 49ers. Ipso facto, I don’t believe I’m incorrect

Full voting results per the BBWAA:

US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United State...

The World Cup is just 6 months away, everyone!

US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance

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Fair question. I'm a big hall person so I wanted to get to 10 and really threw a blanket over Pedroia, Buehrle, Pettitte and Hammels. Ultimately the decider was the other three had some type of individual accolade in their career -- MVP, LCS MVP, etc. -- that was the tiebreaker for me.

Happy Boxing Day @notmrtibbs.com … (or Friday news dump — either way works).

Beaker in Die Hard.

xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread

Can we vote against it?

a group of cartoon soccer players are playing a game on a field ALT: a group of cartoon soccer players are playing a game on a field

what it feels like watching the draw

Concacaf is like, "jeez, this is ridiculous."

Blazers announce they've added KSTW in Seattle to their list of regional over-the-air partner stations carrying their game broadcasts.

Something else.

Do you like walk off touchdowns? How about a walk off touchdown to cap off an 80-yard 2-minute drive and win Central Washington's first Lone Star Conference title? Unreal.

Was there a loud “holy shit” yelled in the Booth household on the final play? Perhaps.

Hall of Famer Wilkens feted with statue in Seattle Lenny Wilkens, the legendary former SuperSonics player, coach and executive, was honored as the first person to have a statue unveiled outside Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

Tried to capture what Lenny Wilkens meant to the Sonics franchise and Seattle more generally when his statue became the first outside Climate Pledge Arena in June. Glad Lenny got to see that fitting tribute before passing away Sunday at age 88. Farewell to a legend. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Oh man. Thats a great question which I should have an answer for. I know he played it for the 18-inning game in ‘22

Dave Niehaus statue helped his daughter get through Mariners' epic ALDS win The daughter of late Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus began Friday's ALDS Game 5 in her seat at T-Mobile Park but finished it at the statue of her father.

My latest story for the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social about a magical moment at the end of Friday’s @mariners.com
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Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

I love me some Beecher’s but the rest of the airport takes away from that goodness

SeaTac right now is in the running for the worst in the country. I’ve gone out of LAX twice this season and I’d take that over the SeaTac mess currently.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

Today’s #TheMayerGWS brought to you by the number 6️⃣4️⃣.

Sir, do not besmirch the greatness of Paine Field. It’s the oasis we need up here because SeaTac is currently a flaming bag of dog poo left on the porch for everyone to step in.

Until next year when it’ll be countries instead of clubs …

50,628 at Lumen today for Sounders-PSG ...

Sounders drew 51,000+ for Atletico and 30,000+ for Botafogo.

All in all, considering the missteps with pricing and likely freebies those are 3 decent crowds for the Club World Cup.

It's probably going to get overshadowed by 3 losses, but Cristian Roldan has been exceptional in the Club World Cup.

Don't know if at age 30 there is a path or desire to go overseas but he's been the Sounders best player and it's not close.