01/22/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Congratulations to the Ohio State Football team for being the first six seed to ever win the National Championship Tournament.
Kirk riling up the useless Patriots beat writers into frantic activity is hilarious.
If Ted Johnson thought he had CTE before, just wait!
It’s Washington D.C. vs. Philadelphia in a battle of cities in which I don’t want to stop at red lights. And for NFC supremacy!
It’s funny because there was a television show also called Drake and Josh. No, wait, That’s actually not funny.
You’ve got the football acumen of Andy Hart, Ted Johnson’s sense of humor, and Fitzy’s encyclopedic knowledge of Beantown! What can go wrong?
Lifshatz had the Ainge deal days ago, bro.
Worst Irish ass kicking since the Easter Rising back in 1916.
Cakes are cooking for George Siefert, Steve Perry, Teddy Gentry, Karen Moe, John Wesley Shipp, Steve Riley, Linda Blair, Jeff Treadway, Stojko Vrankovic, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Diane Lane, Steven Adler, Ecaterina Szabo, Guy Fieri, Olivia d’Abo, Alex Ross, Bucky Brooks, Balthazar Getty, Chone Figgins, Ben Moody, Willa Ford, Jason Peters, Ben Eager, Leon Powe, Greg Oden, and Caitlin Clark.
The Bruins gutted out and won that MLK Day matinee to honor Willie O’Ree.
Ryan Day looks like Arby’s in human form.
If Jeff Howe gets one more fake malady he’ll turn into a white broad, forced to scroll WebMD for all eternity.
Herbstreit crying in the booth is embarrassing.
Hey gang of WX’ers, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, ‘Cold enough for ya? Hey; at least it’s not snowing!”
Al Qaeda is funnier and has less turnover than EEI afternoons.
What can I say about Tom McVie that those that knew who he was, and what he did haven’t already said? RIP.
Kirk Gibson cleared it and landed at the far end of the lumber yard across the street.
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.
Can you OD on antidepressants?
The Celtics struggling against bad teams but then beating a good (if depleted) Golden State squad doesn’t concern me because there probably won’t be many bad teams making the playoffs.
‘Puka Nacua is the closest thing to Jesus Christ I will ever see in my lifetime.’ -Middsy Middleton
E-L-G-S-E-S!!
Why am I being told I cannot attend Medical School in Canada?
Time is quickly running out for teams with vacancies to pounce on proven commodity Jerod Mayo.
The only thing Mark Daniels has ever broken is poor Bill Bendetson’s heart.
“I don’t love all the Josh McDaniels screens” should be met with a Lacey Underall, “I was really getting tired of having fun all the time.”
Skeleton Crew wasn’t Andor or early Mandolorian (and it wasn’t trying to be), but it was easily some of the best Star Wars content we’ve gotten in a very long time.
I want to start a GoFundMe for Mike Lombardi to get a proper haircut.
Bring Romeo Crennel out of retirement for DC! If he’s still alive.
‘Executive Vice President of Football Business’ always sounded like Jonathan made the title up on the spot.
Albert Breer has more arrests than he has broken stories.
Live, baby live
Now that the day is over
I got a new sensation
Mmm, perfect moments
But so impossible to refuse
Sleep, baby, sleep
Now that the night is over
And the sun comes like a god
Into our room
All perfect light and promises
Got a hold on you
A new sensation (a new sensation)
Right now
It’s gonna take you over
A new sensation (a new sensation)
Puns used to be the lowest from of humor, until the advent of the ‘same name!’ gag.
MegO went from Jonesy castoff to Celtics insider. She knows things.
‘Brady vs. Belichick: The Verdict.’ That sounds like a sensible use of my finite time on Earth.
Select 2025 Red Sox single game tickets are on sale this week!
Ryan Day looks like what you’d get if Lou Merloni and Dakota from Braintree had a kid.
Congratulations to John Karalis for announcing that he is transitioning in this current environment. Stunning and brave.
Ben Johnson has dull, lifeless eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
BBWAA ballot reveals and my eyes roll back so far they landed 565 feet away.
Honk if you remember R. Budd Dwyer.
Baseball without Bob Uecker is kind of like a birthday cake with no frosting.
Vrable is the new Bellycheck.
Jeff Darlington misusing a program intended for low-income families pays $2.10.
All of Kendra Middleton’s rebuttals to people disagreeing with her are just calling them unfuckable pussies. Way to raise the bar for women, Steinem.
Best bet for the weekend: the former NFL official on the broadcast team agrees with the on-field call.

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. Rag Mama rag, I can’t believe its true. Rag Mama rag, what did you do? I crawled up to the railroad track. Let the 4: 19 scratch my back.
