8/21/24 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
Did Mayor Wu ever get that meeting with Jarren Duran?
Crazy that Andy Hart’s kid is pulling in his dad’s biweekly salary in a single weekend.
Happy Hour’s overdue return to the Commonweath shot down yet again? Another W for the Puritans.
A certain percentage of fans are going to treat WAR as a reliable estimate of a player’s value, no matter how obvious it is that it is wrong.
Adam 12, Deathcat Holley. Deathcat Holley, Adam 12.
The International Olympic Committee wants Jordan’s Chiles bronze medal back? Molṑn labé.
Veronica Burton…TD Garden, ten minutes court time, two rebounds, one assist. Zero points on 0 for 4 shooting…your thoughts?
I’m going to give Bedard the benefit of the doubt. It’s clear he meant to say, “Nip Cage is a goof.”
Cakes are cooking for Archie Griffin, Kim Cattrall, Kim Sledge, Jim McMahon, Carrie-Anne Moss, Josee Chouinard, Craig Counsell, Alicia Witt, Jason Marquis, Kelis Rogers-Jones, BJ Upton, Eve Torres, Laura Haddock, Usain Bolt, Kacey Musgraves, Hayden Panettiere, and Bo Burnham.
Love the idea that talking gambling while bouncing your your titties is some sort of intellectual property that needs protecting.
Hey gang of deck chair rearrangers, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I don’t need to know anything about the radio losers’ lifestyles.”
I’m sure Bloomberg’s AM signal is already one of the 14 stations beating Jones and MegO, but will they really have more listeners than good old American rock n roll?
‘Keep off the moors and stick to the roads’ was the best advice I ever got in life.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
Angel Reese has officially signed a sponsorship deal with Reese’s. Her first “Reese’s Pieces” apparel collection launches today.
Mayo’s “I have impostor syndrome” article from 2021 is a “boy did I outkick my coverage, hahaha!” humblebrag.
A “blend of lifestyle entertainment?” That should give Joansie the ratings he got at The Sports Hub with F&M as his lead-in.
I don’t care how many times you email me about it, I do not want two free weeks of Uber One.
If I’m Michelle Wu, I’m demanding a sit-down with Eliot Wolf right now.
Just saw a Dairy Queen commercial where they’re eating the Blizzards at home. Unless you live right next to the DQ this is a bad idea they melt fast in transit.
A fan with very poor sense of humor yelled “You need a tennis racket” with Duran at the plate Friday. Comedic value? 0 out of 10.
Fun Fact: Everett is not in Boston.
Spencer Torkelson would be a great name for a Professor of Paleontology. That is all.
Lifestyle and entertainment? What’s Keefe gonna do, talk about his Funko Pop collection?
Naming a cat Dr. Doom is great. But it’s especially great when the vet tech announces “Dr. Doom?” in a waiting room.
I only do my banking at Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg Bank.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
No, not just for some, but for everyone.
Lord, we don’t need another meadow.
There are cornfields and wheat fields
Enough to grow.
There are sunbeams and moonbeams
Enough to shine.
Oh listen Lord, if you want to know.
Frogger is an interesting game because at the highest level of play it’s possible to reach a board that’s not solvable, ending your game. It’s not a true kill screen, however, because with proper strategy that scenario can be avoided.
Two deep throws so far, two completions from Jordan Love to Romeo Doubs. The connection is real and has the potential to be spectacular.
Pochettino? Sounds delicious! Is it something a gaucho chuckwagon makes?
Honk if you remember Rick & Paul Reuschel becoming the first brothers to pitch a combined shut out.
The Pope doesn’t even have a rain gauge in the Vatican FFS.
I know more than a few people who would consider a standard big watermelon to be ‘personal sized.’
Golf swings and fantasy zings: Steve is a pop culture poster!
Oh sure, MegO, she’s obviously the problem. The least-smarmy of the three hosts.
The right Jennifer is out there for you Ben Affleck! Probably.
Maybe making someone other than a sullen, unpatriotic, cigar store Indian-looking player the face of the WNBA was a good thing.
Best bet for the weekend: Red Sox hang tough.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Gresh? Fauria?
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