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when you show Chris Collins what is behind the dumpster at the Mulholland drive diner
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Chicago is heading into primary elections and I will be paying close attention to candidates who will deal with the most pressing crisis in the city: my Jewel playing an ad for mayonnaise over the PA system where a guy sings Sweet Caroline but has changed the lyrics to be about sandwiches

michigan really brings it out of him

bringing in the pitchcom for the WBC and all of the australian pitches have names like the "wollongong wobbler"

and of course the gold standard, probably the most insane a person has ever looked while coaching college basketball

chris collins's eyes bugging out of his head and his mouth is open exposing his teeth like he is about to do a dracula bite

chris collins reacts to northwestern blowing an insane lead against michigan state, his mouth is open and his eyes are bugging out of his head like he has just turned into a toon in roger rabbit

chris collins with his mouth agape like he is donald sutherland in invasion of the body snatchers, big ten tournament 2016

A Collection of Chris Collins Insane Faces

Pixelated Eberflus espouses the BITS Principle

lmao

searching eberflus on bluesky right now gets you a few aggregators posing about him getting hired by the Niners and dozens of posts comparing noem giving a press conference while unaware that she is fired to his "my timeout strategy was normal" press conference he gave while he was getting fired

Pixelated Eberflus is telling me I can't upgrade to Rocket Arm because I don't have enough Tackle Credits in an unlicensed Future Violence Football CD-ROM game that came with the Gateway
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While the collisions of the heavyweights have been enjoyable (the pool elimination game between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico was a like a playoff Game 7 atmosphere that also seemed like a party), I've really been enjoying the games between teams with players I've never heard of.  The feeling of turning on high-stakes baseball game at 10 pm contested by teams filled with players you don't see often in MLB-- squat, spherical outfielders, 45 year-old pitchers who look like they might need to take an urgent business call in the dugout, excited teenagers-- while an announcer desperately is searching for things to say like "Donovan Bluddle made it to Double A with the Brewers in 2013 and now plays for the Brisbane Gobblers" is powerful enough to require a prescription.

wrote about the critical "Guys Phase" of the WBC in 2023

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incredible feeling knowing that for the next few days I can turn on a TV at 10:30 at night and see a 38 year-old guy who last pitched in MLB six years ago trying to strike out a guy who learned about baseball accidentally from the youtube algorithm in high stakes international competition

Chotiner interviewing the guy who directed the Orson Welles Frozen Peas ad: So you say you know a remote farm in Lincolnshire where Mrs Buckley lives. And every July peas grow there.
DIRECTOR: Yes
CHOTINER: And yet we're seeing snow covered fields.
DIRECTOR: (stammering) well

DJ Moore catching a ball in the endzone with a Packers receiver grabbing his head like an alien face hugger to beat the packers in overtime and win the NFC North.

probably the most satisfying nfl play that has happened in my entire life. Sorry to see DJ go.

northwestern doing a Blackout Night against a team whose main jersey color is black for a game where it will probably a two to one visiting to home fan ratio is really funny

All of these in that thread are fucking incredible by the way, the only explanation I can imagine is one madman seizing control of the printing presses, it is impossible to believe more than one person was approving these

show me the first time in recorded history Martin Van Buren has been pictured next to someone and had the more normal looking facial hair
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Seeing everyone pumped about Bennetti getting the NBC gig, one of the few things that all baseball people can agree on is that he rocks. Except for Jerry Reinsdorf.

screenshot from MLB.com showing Italy 9 Cubs 4

the cubs have been forced to cede their holdings in Fiume

Basketball Costas is still holding up ok which is disappointing compared to my favorite announcer, 2020s Ken Burns Monologue Between each Pitch Baseball Costas
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COSTAS (yelling over enter the sandman) and all that stands in their way is the towering frenchman rudy gobert an all defensive player who is not all-hygiene. gobert, whose disgraceful microphone-licking act at the height of a pandemic that we did not yet
ROUNDBALL ROCK: BA DA DA DA DA DUT DE DA

thinking about the NBA returning to NBC where they gave the dramatic pregame narration back to bob costas and he's just rambling about how he does not care for the length of anthony edwards' shorts over the terminator theme song before a finals game

goes without saying

The WBC should make a rule that you have to have one guy who actually grew up in the country you are playing for, the British team must be required to roster a grumpy guy who dismissively refers to baseball as "rounders"

(Sitting up bolt upright) i need to know if the Nicaragua Mustache Guy is back

Riding Wingrove wearing an NPB Giants jersey that is halfway open and a thick chain and generally looking like an oaf

one of the pleasures in following an international sporting event is when a Guy you enjoyed 3 years ago and haven't thought about since re-enters your life. Glad to see this Australian baseball galoot named "rixon wingrove" in the WBC again

I am remembering a Cubs Guy insanely hard right now
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