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the entire fucking european union lmao

Starting a war with no clear purpose or defined endpoint and then initiating the process of fucking up the economies of all manner of potential allies is, let’s say, an unconventional approach.

I realize Rogers owns the Jays and more-or-less owns the Raptors, and that they sunk a ruinously dumb amount of money into NHL rights, but it’s a bit ridiculous that they couldn’t put the Italy/Mexico WBC game on one of their *six* cable sports channels instead of relegating it to laptop-only status

Me strategically rooting for Italy to lose to Mexico tonight a day after rooting for them to win

genuinely for this to happen as Team Warfighter forgets the enemy gets a vote is just...exquisite.

You know things are pretty dire when your manager makes Ernie Whitt look good.

Torn between the hilarity of the US getting knocked out in the group stage and the prospect of Canada facing Aaron Judge in a high-pressure game.

Canada has punched its ticket to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic.

Or as Mark DeRosa calls it, "officially eliminated."

GUESS WHO’S PAX
PAX AGAIN
PAX IS BACK
BACK AGAIN

This WBC is extremely fun. Bring on Mexico or Italy!

Give Josh Naylor the Order of Canada. Or at least the Order of Mississauga.

Zwan on your Zune.

(Is that anything?)

Fake Toronto Star cover from February 1976: Headline: "Why Darryl Sittler and the Leafs should have stopped at 9 points, rather than taking Maurice's mark" By Sam Amick | Special To The Athletic Photo of Darryl Sittler scoring 10 points against the Bruins

Ah yes, that's the Yariel Rodriguez I remember

I think a number of people and groups are so invested in Platner as proof-of-concept that a good candidate can go around all of Mills's institutional advantages—you can beat a former governor! who needs Schumer and the DSCC!—that they're looking past way too many capital-N Nazi-related red flags.

Kobe took 46 shots in his 81 point game; Bam took 43 last night.

as a society we have failed to make this kind of herb-ass dork shit as embarrassing and shameful as it should be

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

And the icing on the top is a photo from a store that is about to be closed permanently with no replacement

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

Attn: @kdonhoops.com

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This is dope

Putting aside how awful and dangerous this sounds, the guy’s level of misplaced confidence that a pardon is coming from a sundowning narcissist is astounding. But there’s some small comfort in imagining the panic by DOGE/ICE/CBP goons as 20 January 2029 rolls around and they haven’t been pardoned.

When the NYT got hoaxed by someone at a record store in Seattle circa. the early 90s Lexicon of Grunge: Breaking the Code All subcultures speak in code; grunge is no exception. Megan Jasper, a 25-year-old sales representative at Caroline Records in Seattle, provided this lexicon of grunge-speak, coming soon to a high school or mall near you: WACK SLACKS: Old ripped jeans FUZZ: Heavy wool sweaters PLATS: Platform shoes KICKERS: Heavy boots SWINGIN" ON THE FLIPPITY-FLOP: Hanging out BOUND AND HAGGED: Staying home on Friday or Saturday night SCORE: Great HARSH REALM: Bummer COB NOBBLER: Loser DISH: Desirable guy BLOATED, BIG BAG OF BLOATATION: Drunk LAMESTAIN: Uncool person TOM-TOM CLUB: Uncool outsiders ROCK ON: A happy goodbye

Pretty sure you mean swing on the flippity-flop

Addison Barger hit a home run so hard it bounced off the image of his face on the scoreboard, which seems noteworthy to me, anyway.

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Like what do you mean Yankees fans and Lakers fans are both having existential crises on a Tuesday night in February and literally neither has anything to do with a Yankees game or Lakers game? Yeah man I'll take a shot of that.