10/9/24 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Swayman had got his contract signed. Our short, regional nightmare is now over.
Thank God the Patriots made the Maye announcement on Tuesday. It would have been a shame if the Texans didn’t have a full week to prepare.
Be careful out there, Floridian friends.
Peppers has made $34MM in his career and rents an apartment in Braintree? He should be cut for that reason alone.
“Hey, can I ruin your photo?” – ‘Fitzy’
Luis Clemente Tiant Vega; taken from us too soon. Cigars and a crazy wind-up. He was called, ‘El Tiante’, which means, ‘The Tiante.’ Rest in peace, amigo.
Do the Mohegans have a legend about a wily Lynx defeating the Sun? Maybe they should.
It’s not Giancarlo’s fault! Bob Costas is basically what everyone always said Joe Buck is.
So the Manning’s spent time wondering if Matt Patricia had a special pencil that worked on a laminated play sheet? Another chess move by Bill.
Cakes are cooking for Nona Hendryx, Jackson Browne, Brian Downing, Richard Chaves, Sharon Osbourne, Tony Shalhoub, James Fearnley, John O’Hurley, Scott Bakula, Don Garber, Ini Kamoze, Michael Paré, Mike Singletary, Trevor Matich, Guillermo del Toro, Dwayne Sabb, Polly Jean Harvey, Annika Sorenstam, Kenny Anderson, Brandon Pollard, Dexter McCleon, Steve Burns, Sean Lennon, Nick Swardson, Brian Roberts, Henrik Zetterberg, Marie Kondo, Jacob Batalon, and Ben Shelton.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes due to a signal problem at Wood Island.
I just got beeped at in drive thru line at Doughboy. It’s rather concerning if the general public no longer understands the concept of a drive thru line.
It’s almost like choosing as Belichick’s heir apparent a man whose post-playing career talent ceiling is ‘casino greeter at Plainridge’ was a bad idea.
Veal Parm is the greatest of Parms for Subs.
Hey gang of incurable romantics, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Everyone knows that the portion of the brain used for critical thinking is markedly less developed in women, honey.”
I’m fine with it not being tonight and surprised Goldberg wasn’t getting that Saudi check versus Gunther, but you gotta pull the trigger on Sami, Great matches with Gunther, Cody, Roman all as challenger. The Sami Hogan shit is corny. Put the belt on him in the next 12 months
It’s 2024, don’t get offended if I tell you i won’t eat your dish made with Rao’s or Ragu jarred sauce. it’s not that serious. I don’t like it, you cannot change my mind. I am sure you are a wonderful cook. it’s not personal
First they came for William Bendetson, and I said nothing…
Someone should ask Mayo if he knows he can make these decisions without consulting the press.
I have a peck of apples to eat from last weekend!
What do you call “imposter syndrome” when it’s not a syndrome?
Tasing is lame. Just shoot him.
Vegans and people from Texas; They’re going to shoehorn that fact into every conversation in any way that they can.
Look, he’s crawling up my wall.
Black and hairy, very small.
Now he’s up above my head.
Hanging by a little thread.
Boris the spider.
Boris the spider.
Now he’s dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door.
Maybe he’s as scared as me.
Where’s he gone now, I can’t see.
Boris the spider.
Boris the spider.
Just when I thought D daddy bald daddy NBA champion daddy White couldn’t be any cooler. I need this hoodie of him tucking in Tatum’s best friend the Larry O’Brien Trophy into bed immediately
The world does need Rat Shovelers.
The Kraft’s have their team back. It’s an awful, irrelevant team, but hey, it’s theirs!
Honk if you remember Dean Smith.
When the Red Wings fans throw an octopus onto the ice, the team either needs to have a player leave the ice or they get called for a too many men penalty.
Joe Kelly is the modern Moe Drabowsky.
Yaaaaa Sully … Mayo’s got a plan, kid, yaaaaaaaaa!
A: Nothing, she’s already been told twice.
Few things are more annoying than when the referees constantly delay the game by making unnecessary “Delay of Game” calls. Hold up the game 20 seconds because the snap was a half-second late.
Drake Maye’s lifelong dream is about to come true and Greg Dickerson thinks he should be depressed.
Best bet for the weekend: someone earns their True Yankee pinstripes.

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. Creepy, crawly, creepy creepy crawly crawly.
