Denis Irwin

@pj-jr.bsky.social

Good guy, tries hard.

Michael Cox provides - at this point - something like, or perhaps just above, replacement-level tactical insight. He’s probably the best-platformed in-depth tactics writer. It’s a shame (and tbh a little bit funny) that he’s such an insufferable dickhead.

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Busio is a nice player who’s having a nice career but man, this made me a little bit nostalgic for the time he came on the scene and looked like he might be THE dude…also probably the last time Sporting were a serious contender.

John Muller@johnspacemuller.com · 2mo ago

There's a lot of data in the article but the easiest way to sum it up is with @futi.live ratings, which look at the goal probability added by every touch and how his team does with and without him By that measure Cavan's having a record season at 16, better than Alphonso Davies a year up

This is why I just do not get how people justify using “X” on a regular basis. You often hear “well, that’s where the *conversation* is happening. Bluesky is merely an echo chamber.” The “conversation” isn’t real, my friend. It is synthetically engineered by a sick person to poison your brain.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BUT it seems self-evident that X and the things it pushes on to the vast majority of sensible British politicians and pundits who use it every day, is having a non-zero effect on their worldview, most obviously in the valence of news events, and their conception of how the "public" feels about them.

I really hope not. Maybe it’s me but i feel like one of soccer’s main appeals is the ever-cycling answer to “what wins games.” There is almost always a trend “counter-punch” available (whereas you couldn’t just make a home run worth less). As a comment mentioned below, the Meat Wall was a glimpse at

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my main takeaway for soccer is just how far we are from broad agreements on what wins games that could ground these sorts of training-analytics (which as the article says are still, reasonably, hotly debated in the sport) baseball can be like gazing in the future sometimes

It’s always interesting to me when people decide they’re gonna tap-dance. I wonder if maybe they try it out, and some people clap, and they think “hey, this isn’t so bad.” A couple months, years later they aren’t even sure if they ever liked tap-dancing, but it’s all they know how to do.

Brian Floyd@brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

got nothing to generate interest but whining about his former employer and rewriting spiked columns that aren’t good. none of his audience cares when he writes about sports. he ain’t got it and isn’t good enough to get it, so he’s trapped in a prison of his own making, good luck

Matt Calkins @Matt Calkins
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The FIBA Women's World Cup began today in Berlin, where Caitlin Clark is front and center.
The Fever guard is the most popular player in women's basketball history, but makes headlines for a lot more than her prowess between the lines.
There's also Clark's petulant on-court behavior, the string of hard fouls she endures, and the question of whether her race or sexual orientation factor into her treatment and/or popularity.
Here are eight thoughts I have on the superstar.
mattycee.substack.com/p/eight-though...
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Some very deliciously sour grapes quoted within this article. Btw, most of the the MO Supreme Court is made up of appointees of Republican Governors. It’s not even a “politicized” decision! And yet you have the Secretary of State declaring it a “constitutional crisis.” Guy is a looooooooserrrrrrrrr

The Kansas City Star@kansascity.com · 2mo ago

“We are equipped to make the necessary changes,” the directors, one Democrat and one Republican, said in a joint statement to The Star.