krebs bicycle

oh no we're doing tv discourse

been watching house again lately. house is a good show.

/end tv discourse/

"the second most points scored in an nba game is an inviolable record that should remain sacrosanct" and here i thought people got dumb about baseball

him saying it was a hard decision and he'd definitely come back to watch the semifinals and finals made me cackle

i don't think so, he can say what he wants, but they were talking about the dates he was pitching as being pretty inflexible to make sure he stays on his season prep schedule.

american PLAYER to be clear, fans can think whatever they want.

like, they go overboard talking about skenes and how patriotic he is and how important this is to him, and also his starts are precisely scheduled to match his season prep and not movable as a result.

fundamentally you cannot convince me any american thinks of this tournament as anything other than fancy spring training

this is the *first* tiebreaker in a three-way tie

this would be one of the funniest things to ever happen in baseball history

team usa gonna be eliminated from the world baseball classic on the tiebreaker everyone knows, "lowest quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in the games in that round between the teams tied"

had a slice with the lunch special yesterday

the correct place to get pizza in chapel hill is "Italian Pizzeria III."

one of my students went to UNC and after he moved to chapel hill he sent me a text saying, "please tell me where to get pizza, i just got pizza and it was the worst thing i've ever eaten," and i knew exactly what happened.

universally agreed to be the worst pizza anyone has ever had.

there was a big dust up over how much money was being spent by UNC on "gourmet pizza" when i was there, because the only pizza place in town that both accepted checks (how most of the faculty paid) and kept a UNC charge account was called "amante's gourmet pizza."

now THIS part, he's used to

everyone keeps saying american politicians sound like sephiroth and now look what happened

wonder how the professors complained about me and my friends not respecting the glenn miller orchestra hard enough in the nascent social media era

they got Ken Rosenthal out here trying to give NBC Olympics style updates but all the anecdotes are, "Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper are acquainted with each other."

it’s wild that Paul Skenes was the no. 1 pick less than three years ago and is now the best RHP on the planet and the no. 1 pick Skenes and the current Skenes bear almost no resemblance to each other as pitchers

just a ho-hum four innings, seven strikeouts, one hit on 60 pitches on march 9th for paul skenes

"team GB" does roll off the tongue better than "team UK," i guess.

i really just think there are places where the machinations required to get a tournament full of vaguely competitive teams becomes very apparent, and this is one of them.

although it's a confusing distinction in general; there are bahamians on team "great britain," so maybe they're the commonwealth team, but then canada has its own team

well, i'm asking because the baseball team in the world baseball classic is "team great britain," and not "team UK," which makes no sense for this exact reason

the moment the true purpose of disney star wars became fully clear to me was when i realized that the name "grogu" was chosen because it could be respeechered out of weird creepy CG composite luke skywalker's mouth based on him once saying the words "rogue group"

Jazz is from the Bahamas

Why are they Great Britain and not the UK

GOOD MORNING!

totally forgot jose contreras was briefly a pirate

team brazil looks as much like the 1992 seattle mariners as possible, making them the official Team of Bluesky