i do not think the insanity and cynicism of the pga/liv merger can be overstated. and i hate using words like "cynicism" cuz it sounds so judgy, but this...there's so much wow.
so many people tossed phil mickelson from the paint for explicitly saying what the whole ass pga tour just said implicitly, but even more clearly. what in the foxtrot.
Mar 7, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
so something interesting in this jokic mvp discussion...
before nash won the his mvp, as i recall, the biggest voice to question whether race played a role in his candidacy was...bill simmons. my ol buddy dan made the same point (and catching HELL from colleagues).
i mention that to say...how white dudes receive white basketball players can be a weird thing to untangle. nobody patronizes white hoopers more than white dudes.
but when they're *excellent*? well that's a little different. it can sometimes go too far.
Jan 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
nah, they're not finishing this. i don't care what the league thinks. the coaches clearly know their guys can't keep going.
i hope the players know they really don't have to play if they don't want to. in this moment, nobody can make them play. nobody.
glad you put "tradition" in quotes, since it's not like this stretches back before world war 2 or anything. the pioneer on this for the braves is...deion sanders.
lamar jackson threw for over 400 yards, stepping on all that "he's not a pocket passer" noise...on a night when no one cares.
LOOK GUYS, I FOUND AN IOTA!
okay, but i get his point. spurrier was a better college coach than petrino, and then was a bad pro coach. the first part gets us here. but you could argue bud wilkinson was a better college coach than spurrier *and* worse pro coach.
i don't get into the gambles, but titans (-4.5) seems like the easiest money in the world.
unless you think the jags are about to rally around urb or something.
Oct 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
i have no idea why the cbs crew is trying to start a qb controversy at georgia. fire kirby the next day if he doesn't go back to daniels.
when you're trying to win a title, you don't go with the low-ceiling guy if it's at all close.
it's probably georgia right now. i've got lsu as a better job than texas, bama and usc, tho. bama is an awful job, despite how much a coach *can* win there.
by that metric, we'd have called miami the best job from '83-01. yet there were reasons every coach before coker left on his own, three with stacked rosters.
in other news, stop retweeting the people you hate. seriously. took me a while to learn that, but we're all better when we don't do that.
exactly. people sending things that are the opposite of why anyone follows them. not that you should serve your twitter followers, per se, but i think you get my point.
tillman's a great test of one's ability to view things with nuanced eyes. can one see heroism in him while opposing the war? can people support the military -- using a broad term there but you get it -- while acknowledging that military let him down in life and death?
Apr 21, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
retweeting this because joel is a beast at this and way too humble about it. so good with that level tone, letting what's real jump out for itself.
in '09, my mom was getting herself a new car, and i talked her into passing her '96 ac 3.2 down to me. was gonna be better than anything i could afford, even if it was old.
one day, i took the 3.2 to the dealer for repairs. now...
Mar 22, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
for everyone asking "who's oral roberts?" apnews.com/article/840607…
before you ask: oral roberts lived another 22 years.
Mar 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
in other news, looks like illinois was sacrificed by the ncaa to get a good tv matchup against loyola. not that they shouldn’t have won, but still. biggest winner from having this matchup is cbs.
a game that matters in the third largest market in america is better.
andrew luck. stafford avoided it, too, but mostly because he had no competition as qb1 in his draft. we also didn't *really* pick leinart apart. nor eli manning. i'm talking pre-draft, to be clear.
