Bloke Mind Virus

@mmigliore.bsky.social

Lives in Jacksonville, misses Buffalo

there’s an important lesson in Abdul El-Sayed’s win and Francesca Hong’s loss, and that is that in politics it’s good to be cool and bad to be weird.

This is nutty: Red Sox have won nine consecutive series (min. 2 games per series) for the first time since an 11-series streak from Aug. 4-Sept. 19, 1912. Sox finished 105-47-2 that year. Smoky Joe Wood was 34-5 and threw 35 complete games. Sox beat Christy Mathewson and the Giants in the WS.

It's grim how Wannabe Executive Brain has so thoroughly poisoned baseball discourse that the Red Sox feel like they have to make excuses for swapping a bum catcher for an All-Star catcher because they also threw in a bunch of mostly unranked A-ball prospects

ESPN was and still should be the king of “background noise” TV. You could just keep SportsCenter on all morning. Everyone used to do this. Instead, it is now actively annoying and abrasive to have ESPN on while you’re doing other things. I don’t know anyone who does it.