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a large reason the Braves have such a national fanbase and MLB only now is thinking about Southern expansion is because TBS was on basic cable at a time basic cable took over the landscape.

I do think the NFL and its corporate partners do not understand a large reason for the NFL's dominance on the American sporting landscape is that it is the only major league that does not require a cable package or streaming service to access

you being bisexual is my personal "why is nobody talking about how depression causes memory loss"

it's 80 degrees and i'm watching a half-filled marlins stadium cheer for a home run, somehow this is early march and not mid-may

an AI named "Plorp" will be here to evict you from your $2000/mo studio apartment. the US$ is now monopoly money backed by the full faith and credit of HR managers and guys who consume energy drinks called "Heroin Greg"

anyone who has been on hormone therapy will tell you that you just cannot do as much after you've been on it a while.

hell, I remember going up a flight of stairs at 6 months of HRT and felt as winded as I had after a whole game of basketball pre-HRT. you really do lose *a lot* there

it helps me somewhat to know most them have never played sports and thus have no idea what or what doesn't constitute a competitive advantage

I joked that my dream job was to be an offensive coordinator for an American football team based in Paris and hey would you look at that there's two of them now!

looking forward to a repeat of this chart again

you may remember "arm the kurds" from the last middle eastern conflict where we armed the kurds

having jobs selected by sortition would unironically be much fairer and probably produce a more productive workforce than basically building guilds, but I'm just a humble neighborhood transsexual

I think it would be good for the country if getting a job wasn't dependent on your family or friends also having a similar job

the homemade protein drink 10 oz. of unsweetened orange juice or apple juice 3 raw eggs 1 banana/8-10 strawberries/a quarter of a cantelope 4 heaping tablespoons of powdered milk 1 scoop of ice cream if someone is struggling to gain weight

found a Texas Longhorns strength and conditioning guide from 1979 and this is the most deranged drink I've ever seen in my whole life

there does get to be a point where your show is a little bit Too Stupid. this is perhaps most personified by an entire portion of the second season of Friday Night Lights being dedicated to two high schoolers literally killing a guy.

this is also literally how Andy Weir wrote The Martian

unfortunately I have to admit that For All Mankind is actually pretty good. well, the first three seasons of it, anyways

it's an all-of-the-above situation with Buttigieg. he's not really likeable enough to do anything, he's obviously been fast tracked despite several public incidents as mayor of South Bend.

and that's the Republican version of this is Kane running for president in 2028

Democratic primary voters are constantly thinking about "electability", which would normally be good news for ol Petey in the very loosest sense -- or at least it would be if those primary voters weren't also saying "the reason he can't get elected is because he's gay" away from prying ears

horrifying mental sound. like strumming a banjo with only two strings.

it is one of those things I think is probably more natural if you are younger and that word is more in the general lexicon, though. like most Southern phrases, it's very colorful and does the job.

on the other hand, hearing that word from a voice that doesn't naturally have a bit of twang in it is like hearing a hound dog sing like a bird; maybe cute, perhaps even charming, also reflexively wrong in terms of the natural order.

I know TN in general is a very conservative state, and the University of Tennessee is a pretty conservative university by public school standards, but I swear a good chunk of people there in my day were kind of like me: first gen students who were trying climb up the ladder.

incredible how much of life's backstory is intensely chud-coded until i reveal the first detail about my personal life

they keep making brackets that you'd find in some archaic Australian rugby league system

they are neck deep in shit and already starting to panic

personally I think it's fine to want to colonize Mars. it's a stupid idea for any number of reasons I can think of, but it's fine in a moral sense. I just disagree that Mars's Potential Man should be worth hundreds of billions of dollars because of it

I imagine when people thought about space 60 years ago, they did not think we would hand the reigns over to people who cannot even do stuff NASA did with less ram than a modern refrigerator

this gives:
- Arkansas a historic national championship win that helps program visibility
- Arizona State a share of one that kicks them into overdrive
- Miami two in a row to stop their downturn in the 2000s
- West Virginia keeps Rich Rod
- Chip Kelly stays at Oregon with a national title

as far as I would do:
- give Arkansas 2 points to beat Texas in '69
- give Arizona State 4 points to beat Ohio State in '96
- give Miami 8 points to beat Ohio State in the '02 NCG
- give West Virginia 5 points to beat Pitt in '07
- give Oregon 4 points to beat Auburn in the '10 NCG

less insane for antics, more insane for personal life (has dropped money on plane tickets for the discord polycule)