Jeremy Littau

Run data: 3.02 miles in 34:12

rebuilding mind, today working on body

Thursday was my break point. I've been undergoing a slow-motion mental deterioration that accelerated and tempted the darkest of outcomes. I say this as I log off for a spell. Listen to pleas to get help when you need it. I never stigmatized, but didn't self-advocate.

You are loved. So am I. Peace.

@defector.com

U2 - One Life At A Time (Lyric Video) YouTube video by U2

You say you wanna save the world.
Well how you gonna get that right?
You say you wanna save the world tonight.
You say you wanna save the world.
And perfect love drives out all fear.
Well how's that gonna happen here?
How's it gonna happen here?

ok that is amazing

It's like a medieval painting pose. ROYALTY.

I Put My Cat On A T-Shirt That References The Movie 'Hackers' And You Can’t Stop Me | Defector Here’s a link to Defector’s new shirt, if you don‘t want to read me ramble on about it. I love New York City. I know I’m all rah rah about Philadelphia, but I desperately wanted to move to New York af...

Story of the shirt is here. RIP to a legend.

Defector cat shirt that Dan McQuade made to pay homage to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene in the movie “Hackers.”

Having an all-timer of a shitty week so I’m wearing my favorite new shirt and remembering all the beautiful, stupid love put out into the world by @defector.com’s own Dan McQuade. Tell me something that’s making you smile today.

Don't forget we can bet on ALL of this thanks to prediction markets!

“… thought of the two of you when I bought the whole lot and blessed my neighbors.”

😂

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

@lfn.bsky.social I can confirm I’ve been contacted for an interview on South Mountain. I bring a stellar track record for mentoring and posting memes.

Ahhhhh spring training. I attended a Cubs game at Hohokam in the early 2000s when they played through a fire alarm going off for two innings.

Kraft Mac & Cheese. Self-loathing never tasted so good.

Kraft Mac & Cheese. Self-loathing never tasted so good.

Sir for some of us that is a lifestyle

And realizing that it hated us!

The sad conclusion with Knives Out was that Star Wars doesn’t deserve Rian Johnson.

Calling bullshit. I bet he doesn’t even have a definitive list of the most sigma slay maxmoggers.

Maybe the innovation is "yeah but we don't need it to be on a phone with a Home button"

Nice to see the US Supreme Court has some brain cells left.

Now we expect repayment from the tariff era and reputation harm to our Island (they called us a fraud hub with no evidence).

And this lack of distinction, or maybe a lack of understanding how this lack of distinction has big pitfalls, has left the sports media industry wide open to gambling partnerships that compromise the hell out of reporters who believe in the role of The Press and think they are part of it.

So one of the tensions I always felt in my sports journalism days is what we were. Game vs. feature vs. hard news coverage about the business or legal problems were done by the same reporter, but you can't just flip a switch on and say you're the press one day and media another day.

As in, I love baseball and it made me a good baseball reporter. It's not hard to see how someone who hates baseball would be an attractive hire. BUT. Sports journalists do hard news. Like when a billionaire owner is trying to bilk a city out of billions in stadium money. Same reporters on that beat.

This crosses into fuzzy spaces of hard news vs. infotainment. Sports journalism has always occupied a weird place. Bias in political coverage is different than in sports; for example a reporter loving football or even a particular team is a *good* on those beats for some operations.

But the reason I post it here is because what we're seeing with the gambling partnerships is a growing but undeniable distinction. What distinguishes sports journalism from sports media and what is ESPN's news operation in this scenario given journalism's role in society? What is the sports "press?"

Yes, students get assigned threads in my courses. Here's what Jay wrote. It's worth reading through it.

Related, in intro course next week we are diving into journalism and its role in society. This is a slide that I've cribbed from @jayrosen.bsky.social's great thread earlier this month (linked in the next post). They're reading the whole thread, but I found his distillation here really accessible.

Brian is worth reading here. He is literally writing the book on gambling and its growing impact on sports journalism.