The most indelible Bill Mazeroski moment to me, the one that epitomized who he was, was not the famous home run to win the 1960 Series, but this speech.
After a 29-year wait, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Overcome with emotion, Maz cuts his speech short:
#RIPMaz
That’s Dan❤️🩹🦅
Credit to @joestudent.bsky.social for noticing it first btw.
Top right corner. Can't help but wonder if The Simpsons paid subtle tribute to Dan McQuade in tonight's set-in-Philadelphia 800th episode.
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Some real "Adam Gase worked with Peyton Manning" energy here.
The hell did Mike McCarthy do to help Joe Montana by the time Joe Montana played the Chiefs? Pick up his dry cleaning? steelersdepot.com/2026/01/begi...
Listen to that yinzer. Let it wash all over you
For three quarters, it was Steelers football at its absolute best, which looks suspiciously like Eagles football at its absolute worst.
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It's not just that the Steelers have lost seven playoff games in a row. They haven't even been competitive in those losses.
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The Steelers have now lost seven straight playoff games. They have trailed on every second-half snap in every one of those games.
I feel like there are two kinds of people. Those who look at his post seasom record and say “that’s what happens when you take teams who have no business making the playoffs into the playoffs so consistently” and those who look it at is a sign of his failure to win games that matter.
Really have to credit Mike Tomlin for winning a Super Bowl 17 years ago, getting to another two years later, and going 3-10 in the playoffs ever since.
Can never, ever hear his voice without thinking the same thing.
Steelers-Ravens perfectly captured that which defined this division throughout the season: the perception of prestige undermined by the cold hard reality of badly played football. defector.com/the-ravens-a...
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New and free(!) at the Too Deep Zone:
"The Steelers like to frame themselves as old-school throwbacks. They’re really just the Cowboys in an ironic bowling shirt."
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From January: What's Mike Tomlin's standard now? defector.com/whats-mike-t...
The Steelers have by far the most expensive defensive roster but they are a bottom 10 unit in several metrics. It’s not just players playing poorly.
They are predictable and it’s simply way easy to make them unravel.
Whatever it takes to signal they don't understand that Mike Tomlin can no longer coach this franchise.
I guess I've been desensitized by so many games where Bortles put up 45 or Baker put up 48 or the Eagles held the ball for the last 10 minutes when the whole world knew they'd run the ball to put much stock in all those 16-10 wins over the Raiders and Titans. It's been trending this way for too long
Teams have schemed around Watt this year. Flacco constantly got the ball out in <2 seconds. They were as blitz-heavy as ever tonight but Love/LaFleur went to the quick game and had an extra TE or a WR pinch the edges in the run game. Tomlin kept blitzing.
Is it, though? They've been getting dog-walked by good offenses for years!
Why do people still act like any of this is new?
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Loved chatting with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about all things NYC—and the urgency of standing up to Trump and ICE to protect our neighbors and our communities.
We did it
Got a new story in The Ringer today.
You have encountered Steelers exceptionalism a million times. It's the belief that the Pittsburgh NFL team is football's one indispensable franchise and somehow different from the other 31.
It's also about to come crashing down www.theringer.com/2025/09/02/n...
