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are we cowabunga on this? senior editor @TheAthletic.com. past: WaPo, OC Register // Go Griz

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every 90s Angels eBay tshirt i’ve purchased feels so sturdy it almost seems illegal

06.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

100 percent.

in the last 3 years i’ve become addicted to buying deadstock 90s/Y2K sports merch on eBay. you can just do that! i’m wearing a Mighty Ducks inaugural season tshirt right now!

06.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

like it’s totally fair to boycott Fanatics, but when people say β€œthe fakes look more like on-field stuff than retail” i’m like… c’mon. i think you might be bad at colors

06.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i don’t mean to start Discourse, and please understand i mean this with absolutely no judgment, but i can spot a knockoff DHGate jersey from a mile away

06.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

tired: a father of 8 children

wired: Montana’s new D-line coach

06.03.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this feels like a bit one of my friends would’ve pulled in college and i really hope that’s the case

06.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i def think he’s much better at his job than people (in 2026) give him credit for, but i also think Tina Fey would run that shit like the Navy (complimentary)

06.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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genuine Q: where would the Angels’ facilities (locker room, weight room, nutrition, etc.) rank among SEC baseball programs?

05.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 28727 πŸ” 3943 πŸ’¬ 360 πŸ“Œ 159
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Although most NFL scouts fly under the radar even inside their own buildings, their scouting reports shape the entire league.

During the long days of the combine, they often move in small packs.

So, how does it all work?

05.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10

I think I will learn of my death thirty minutes before it takes place from PopCrave

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Markwayne Mullin is the most β€œdefensive coordinator the whole team hates” option we have

05.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1199 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 13

Alejandro Kirk erasure on my TL? respect my captain

05.03.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

!!! Per local Montana news, Sen Steve Daines has withdrawn his name for re-election, literally minutes before the deadline to do so.

05.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12

kind of a Hydrogen Bomb/Coughing Baby situation if the hydrogen bomb also had its own, smaller hydrogen bomb

04.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they did everything they could to talk about anything but the game in front of them, and that kind of "this is a three hour podcast with a game happening behind it" perspective isn't down to the announcers themselves. That's direction from on high.

04.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Writing about the Rockies

27.02.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

WaPo paywalling AP wire articles is so bleak

04.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

imo tbh

03.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

c’mon man

03.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

idk what to tell people anymore. the goal isn't competitive balance. It's franchise values. And they want a salary cap because capping spending makes their franchises worth more because it artificially restricts their costs. That's the entire thing. If they could do that without parity, they would

03.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

or that the owner has the fans' best interests at heart!

03.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

well, for a lot of people, it's the principle of it. but also, if you don't trust the owners, why give them what they want?

03.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the wide band floated is how you know it won't happen. the floor was unrealistically low and it was *still* likely too high for a good handful of owners

03.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my professional opinion as a labor reporter and an economist is that I don't think my brain has short circuited this much in a very long time after reading these responses

02.03.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

working on a new kind of soup that removes soup stains so if you spill soup on yourself you can just spill soup on yourself and it'll be like you never spilled soup on yourself at all, even though you did, you spilled soup on yourself twice. but i can't get it to work on crab bisque or chinos

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of all the responses in our MLB fan survey, these two back-to-back are the funniest.

the owners are to blame for payroll disparity, so the solution is to... give them more power?

πŸ”— www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

02.03.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 13

Not sure if Schefter has done this in past years but we’re now up to two posts about how draft prospects are actually larger and faster than their official NFL Combine measurements, presumably after texts from agents

01.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 182 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 4
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

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