Peter Duling

Chicago Bulls The Bulls won 6 NBA Titles in the 1990’s, which was more than any other team in any other North American sports league that decade, and hasn’t been matched by anyone in a 10 year period…

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New Jersey Devils The Devils started as the Kansas City Scouts, who moved to Denver to be the Colorado Rockies after a couple seasons before finally moving to New Jersey in the 80’s. After the Nets moved to Br…

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Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a long suffering franchise that is one of 4 teams to have never played in a Super Bowl. They do have 4 AAFC Championships before joining the NFL in 1950, where they proceed…

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Franchise Relocation Multipliers I recently used a x2 multiplier for teams with relocation pain, and its application will be fairly rare. In order to qualify, the team must be in a location that has lost a previous franchise in th…

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The Athletics Formerly From Oakland The A’s have a long and rich history, starting in Philadelphia, moving to Kansas City for a couple decades, and finally moving to Oakland for 50 years. Currently they are homeless in an offic…

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Toronto Raptors The Raptors started play in 1995 in Toronto as one of two NBA teams in Canada, but after the Grizzlies moved to Memphis in 2001, they are Canada’s only NBA team. They have one Championship fr…

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Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers were an NHL expansion team in 1993 playing in Miami, and are the defending Stanley Cup champions, having won the last 2 Cups back to back. They are the defending champions (+0)…

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Misery Index Update After a lengthy conversation with my mathematical advisor, it was determined that negative scores are less than ideal. Also there needs to be a way to track fanbase optimism in regards to team impr…

an explainer on the updated formula after input from my mathematical advisor misery-index.com/2025/09/29/m...

Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia has a long history of pro football with the Eagles playing in the NFL for over 90 years. In that time, they have won 3 NFL championships in the pre-Super Bowl era, and after half a cen…

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MLB 2025 Postseason Update There’s a lot to iron out regarding the twelve playoff teams and the various playoff matchups. In the AL, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Seattle Mariners have the top two seeds respectfully, …

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New York Yankees The Yankees have too many championships in the past to truly be miserable anytime soon. 27 World Series wins is more than double the total of the St. Louis Cardinals, who have the second most at 11…

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Boston Celtics, the least miserable franchise The Boston Celtics, having won 18 NBA Championships since they were founded in 1946, currently as of this writing have a misery index of -16. They last won a title in ’24, so that’s a 1…

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I plan to post daily, and if I can get the equipment maybe turn the posts into short form video at some point.

What is the Misery Index? The Misery Index is a way of gauging how miserable a fanbase is during a prolonged title drought. Basically, if you win a title, you lose all claims at being miserable for a time, and the longer yo…

so I've been cooking on an idea for a while, and I just started a website. misery-index.com/2025/09/26/w...

so I was ignoring blue sky for a while due to a lack of push notifications, but lo and behold, that feature got added when I checked back in. I think y'all are going to see more of me here

Here's hoping he lands on his feet. It does suck though, I thoroughly enjoyed the fumble dimension

I know I'm late to the party, but I recently heard Pink Pony Club for the first time the other day, and I've probably listened to it about 100 times now. And for some reason every time that pre chorus hits and she hits that high note, I can't stop ugly crying. I can't explain it.

How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.

BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

We explained this lawsuit here:

Wolverine on the attack screaming "trans rights are human rights, bub!"

Picture of a worm driving a car with words: the worm in RFK jrs brain on his way to day one as deputy health secretary

I AM DECEASED.

if you didn't watch that fight you missed the most recent fight of all time

So you know how on Twitter you could flag certain accounts so where if they tweeted something you got a push notification? Is there a way to do that here?

Oh hey, I can do this stuff on my phone now. Get ready for more of my bullshit, lol

you call them a Pinball Wizard?

it must be, it's on the Internet after all, and everyone knows you can't lie on the internet

This lawyer should have examined this issue in advance with the regular level of scrutiny

well there is a Manhattan in Kansas....

I'm excited for Outlaws personally

also he's saying it's bad for kids, which should be obvious with an M-rated game