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There used to be a Penn chant when losing along the lines of "It's alright. It's okay. We're gonna be your boss someday."

Tremendous stuff. Better than whatever @tydings.bsky.social is doing, but that's a given.

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This is the labor of love video. I did this last winter games and nearly broke down. I love doing this cause it’s a fun puzzle despite how hard it is. It’ll get no views but please share it cause I really put in a lot of work. youtu.be/T2HtKD_PTag

One Last Trip To Philadelphia’s Department Store Of Dreams | Defector My son was on a mission. Simon has been walking since December, and he’s getting more confident each day. He’d spotted something, and was scooting down the aisle as fast as he could towards it. He wan...

We're going to be featuring a lot of Dan's work the rest of this week, but this is one I especially enjoyed and which no one else could have written. He had a lot of those. defector.com/one-last-tri...

I have said before on here that Dan was my first editor in Philadelphia, at the student newspaper we worked at together in the early 2000s.

He was so much more than that.

He was, and remains, one of my journalism idols. He knew it and appreciated it, and compliments from him meant the world.

The best. Shout out to @ogtedberg.bsky.social for the tremendous questions (particularly the before and afters), and to Nepal Molitor.

“HE’S THE EASTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF MY HEART”

I won!*

* = I didn't win the Philly marathon but I got a PR and a banana anyway.

Means more free time for him to join @yap-off-podcast.bsky.social

He's gonna post a 2.25 ERA somewhere other than the Bronx this year. Can feel it in my bones.

Dread it. Run from it. Freddie Freeman arrives all the same.

My way of coping with being awake is looking at Eastern Illinois game logs from the pandemic season.

Baseball vs Jacksonville State on 3/7/2020 - Box Score The official box score of Baseball vs Jacksonville State on 3/7/2020

The last time Will Klein had recorded 10 outs or thrown more than 56 pitches was March 7, 2020 for Eastern Illinois against Jacksonville State: eiupanthers.com/sports/baseb...

Between our Dodgers and Lakers, what a time in LA. I've always said Marcus Smart is the Yoshinobu Yamamoto of basketball.

You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the morning, on October the 24th, if you want to know.

Absolutely the same. I've always felt the worst way to lose is to have an incompetent bullpen ruin an otherwise good team and have been spoiled by the Yankee bullpens of the last few decades. This has been a frustrating comeuppance.

FYI, FanGraphs has Minor League options near the top of their player pages. They added it within the last few years. Very useful (I looked it up for Doval after his first Yankee appearange lmao)

Yes.

We were also one point away at RG in the Muchova year, and then we had same half issue at the 2022 US Open. Just awful luck for getting that final.

Priscilla Hon is set to serve to Ann Li on Court 17

Ann Li hugs Priscilla Hon after defeating her in Round 3

Emma Navarro serves to Barbora Krejcikova.

Krejcikova greets Navarro at the net post-match

30. Hon-Li full match. Sadly, Pri Time came to a close. Li was just more consistent even with a poor second serve.
31. Last 1.5 sets of Krejcikova-Navarro: Wowza, Krej comes back from down 0-3, 0-30 to take the final set. Good match despite meh crowd on Grandstand.

Ben Shelton has his shoulder treated on the ironically named Armstrong arena.

Shelton looks devastated as he realizes he has to pull the ripcord and retire

Shelton greets Mannarino after retiring from the match.

28 continued: Shelton's injury was unfortunate. Could immediately see how it limited his forehand, leading to a game of just serving and volleying. The disappointment on his face was palpable.

Shelton whips in a serve on Louis Armstrong

Jasmine Paolini serves to Marketa Vondrousova on Grandstand.

28. Shelton-Mannarino, all of match but end of Set 2: Shelton looked strong but Mannarino is so good at just getting everything back. Will return to this next post.
29. End of Paolini-Vondrousova: Sadly, Jasmine looked exhausted. Just didn't have it.

Priscilla Hon waves to the crowd after her win

Paolini and Jovic shake hands post match on Armstrong.

The GOAT chair ump, Kader Nouni

26. Pri Time! Priscilla Hon is a fun watch, got to see her final set of a 3-set win over Samsonova. She took it to her!
27. Paolini-Jovic 2nd set. Jasmine looked solid, but Iva put up a real solid fight. Kader Nouni chair ump!

Kym and Nakashima set to shake hands at the net after an epic match.

Kym and Nakashima embrace after an epic five setter.

Tiafoe fistpumps after taking the second set on Grandstand.

Rybakina and Valentova shake hands post match

23. Kym-Nakashima, end of 4th/full 5th set. Fun back and forth, Kym's serve so good. 5th set breaker!
24. TIAFOE! Saw 2.5 sets before leaving. He looked solid. Damm, meh.
25. Rybakina-Valentova final set: Couldn't get into see Townsend, saw a really solid set ending in a breaker. Good dub for Ryba.

Emma Raducanu gets a ball as she gets set to serve

Emma Navarro serves to Caty McNally on Grandstand

Joao Fonseca mid serve

20. Emma Raducanu R2, first 1.5 sets. Emma cruising like it's 2021. Tjen good forehand, rough backhand.
21. Last 5 games of Navarro-McNally. Emma looking solid in a year where she has been up and down.
22. Joao! First 1.5 sets of Fonseca. He was not quite it today.

Thanks!

Yeah, I get a couple OK ones, but I *know* that almost all of them stink lol. Just want to capture the memory.

Coleman Wong celebrates his R2 win with a yell!

Lloyd Harris thanks the crowd after an easy win

Priscilla Hon ready to serve to Jule Niemeier.

Michael Zheng walks from his chair between changeovers.

16. Coleman Wong! His win over Gigante probably my highlight of qualies. Great showman!
17. Lloyd Harris breezing to a dub. That's my dude.
18. Priscilla Hon! Had to fight for two sets vs. Niemeier but she got it done.
19. Sadly, Michael Zheng just didn't have enough vs. Jerome Kym.

Llamas Ruiz prepares to serve in R2 qualies match.

Hugo Grenier celebrates his R2 qualies win.

Martin Landaluce with his wild hair returns a ball.

Burrage and Rus post handshake at the net.

13. Llama Ruiz's final set of his win. Good stuff.
14. Hugo Grenier taking out Martin Landaluce, last few games. Landaluce hit a point far out of the stadium after a point win. Not quite ready, mate.
15. Aranxta Rus beating Jodie Burrage, last set on Court 17. Real tense, close jawn.

Aoi Ito after winning her second round qualies match.

Otto Virtanen in his second round qualies match on Court 9, set to return serve.

Destinee Aiava shakes hands with the chair ump after her win.

Shimizu celebrates after beating J-M Cerundolo

9. Aoi Ito! Saw full match, she plays in such an off-kilter way. Fun!
10. Virtanen losing to Riedi in spurts from across the court. Sad.
11. Last 2 games of Aiava's win. Wanted to watch after catching some of her loss to Ryba in '24
12. J-M Cerundolo, last few games of his loss. He was mad!