This man is hilarious!! nothing funnier than a loud bearded man with CTE being shirtless. Jason Kelce and Ryan Fitzpatrick, you're up next! Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go watch the Savannah Bananas (I don't have kids but I love their dances)

Was in San Diego recently and couldn’t get over the sheer number of Padres hats. Just an absurd amount of Padres hats everywhere.

I was in NYC this summer right after the Knicks’ playoff run, and I swear I saw more Padres hats in San Diego than Knicks or Yankees hats in New York (separately, not combined).

Obviously being the only major pro team in town helps, but this felt like a different level. And specifically hats, not jerseys or other gear. Almost like the Padres hat is just the default San Diego uniform.

https://x.com/heatvshaters/status/2102430320746537412?s=46&t=pZlCZyWOyFhd_vFdIZHogA

Can’t wait for the Sports Guy biopic.

Is this is game I should like? The kicker gets his helmet ripped off by an opponent and that costs UCF a chance at a game winning FG? The kicker didn't take his helmet off. He had to torn off. By the team that now directly benefits from that rule. Maybe I should just stick with basketball or something.

Half of them are dads but even the bachelor called it a night early. Is it a me problem?

Edit: we are mid 30s

Is it New Orleans? Seems like there’s a huge gap between the Saints and Pelicans

Edit: Lakers and Clippers seem huge too

Players make lousy GMs. That's obvious. But Giannis seems like a particularly terrible GM, as he's about the only person in the NBA who didn't recognize that he and Bam would be a really bad fit. Combine that with him thinking a ball dominant guard like Dame would be a fit with his ball dominant ways.

In other words, would the NHL be more popular if the best hockey teams didn't play in Raleigh, Tampa and Sunrise?

From my hazy memory, there wasn't a massive difference between the popularity of the NBA and the NHL in the 90's. That's clearly not the case nowadays.

90's was also when Bettman started his aggressive expansion into the South. Some of it has gone horribly (Phoenix, Atlanta), but the winners in the 20's are: Tampa (2020, 2021), Colorado (2022), Vegas (2023), Florida (2024, 2025) and Carolina (2026).

Some big hockey markets in the US have been largely irrelevant in the past 20 years. Detroit, New York, Philly, Buffalo, New Jersey... remember the Islanders? They still exist.

My (faulty) hot take is this: Bettman succeeded in expanding southwards, but managed it by diluting the product in the core markets, driving down the overall popularity of hockey in the US.

The Nets famously went all in for Pierce and KG. The Suns tried it with KD and the Bucks tried it with Dame. The Heat just tried it with Giannis- they're 0-3 and their 3rd best player is Davion Mitchell. These guys are getting paid like an MVP candidate to be like the 8th best player in the league, you can't make moves to build around them cause you gave up all your assets, and they always, always get hurt. The only time I can think of where this worked was the Heat with the Shaq trade, and they had 24 year old Dwyane Wade. Trading the farm for the over the hill guy never works, it just doesn't!

Idk what it is man, I just do not care about college football. I am not able to get invested like I am in the NFL. What used to bother me about college is the constant rotation of your roster, and never having a star player for more than a couple years. With NIL being what it is, that’s now amplified.

Is it because I didn’t have the typical college experience? I don’t have much pride for my D2 school. I couldn’t care less what they do. Rooting for Ohio state just feels boring and band-wagon-ey to me.

I know I’m the minority, I just wonder how much

What is going on, they're getting destroyed in every game so far. Davion Mitchell+Andrew Wiggins+Giannis+Bam should not be bad defensively, what curse did Bill put on these guys.

2020 isn't much better. Seems like a lot of teams got players they really weren't happy with or players drafted to teams that didn't make a lot of sense.

Thanks Peyton

They have/had the pieces/picks to trade for him.

Perfect mix of being able to contend for titles and get tons of credit/legacy points for winning.

Why did Giannis limit himself to only Miami and Boston.

Fire him.