04/16/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

You know shit’s bad when Cora takes the blame.
It’s sad Don Hasselbeck won’t rest in peace seeing as he played for the Patriots before Parcells arrived and brought respectability to the franchise.
I thought I was buggin’. I was like wait, that’s DWhite??
Wait, the guy with like 10,000 tweets about Deuce Tatum turned out to be a creep? If only there were signs!
I am officially done doubting Paddy Pimblett, never again.
Shane Baz looks like a 55-year-old booze bag at a Jimmy Buffet concert.
I’m happy for Rory and whatever country he says he’s from today.
Cam in Taunton’s mom could steal 2nd on Blake Sabol.
Cakes are cooking for Jim Lonborg, Bob Montgomery, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Belichick, Billy West, Ellen Barkin, Bruce Bochy, Anne Kursinski, David Pate, Ian MacKaye, Garry Galley, Dave Pirner, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Grace Kim, Steve Emtman, Natasha Zvereva, Peter Billingsley, Tracey K. Smith, Akon, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Luol Deng, Chance the Rapper, and Sadie Sink.
On this Netflix Red Sox show, MegO still has a job.
Green Line: Delays of about 10 minutes due to a signal problem near Copley.
Irons is just upset because he pays his bills.
I’m happy C.M Punk gets his WrestleMania main event. Much deserved. But I don’t know if I like it being a triple-threat. Why couldn’t Roman Reigns be Punk’s opponent and slot Rollins into the Jey/Gunther title match?
The Ten Commandments. ABC.
There’s a million bagel shops but why no places that specialize in rye toast?
My wife this morning used the term “high-falutin”, which used to be something you’d hear every day. Is falutin actually a word? Is it used in any other context, or does the only falutin have to be high falutin?
You can tell you’re in Barcelona by the amount of Dutch people working at the hotel.
Why is Dave O’Brien surprised that Rod Beck had a camper?
I feel like Upton Bell when I watch Lee Remick.
I wonder if Abby Chin’s husband even bothers (Vulgar Term Redacted). He’s just hungry again a half-hour later.
Hey gang of questionably sane aspiring Canadian post-graduates! This week’s Phrase that Pays is, “That is definitely the right Doctor specialty for me.”
All those quirky gayisms aren’t so cute when you suck.
I think I can prove Karen Read is innocent. There is a ‘magic bullet’ aspect to this case the defense is missing.
Boneless buffalo wings?? An aristocrat!
I believe our balls can be kept nice and clean without any rotary machinery!
Garrett Crochet reminds me of some other big lefty from the past, but I can’t quite say who. I’m talking about motion/delivery/release point. Somebody else who was good threw like that, but I can’t quite get there. Anybody?
I liked Jason Statham in ‘Agent of the Commonwealth.’
I can’t believe someone with all those vowels in their last name would miss the point so badly.
Honk if you remember Bill Rodgers.
My source for all things Flau’jae Johnson is obviously Owen Pence.
What is the hiring process like at Barstool? It’s a bunch of guys nicknamed Duggs who all weigh 900 pounds.
Put me out of my misery
I’d do it for you, would you do it for me
We will always be busy making misery
We could build a factory and make misery
We’ll create the cure; we made the disease
Frustrated Incorporated
Frustrated Incorporated.
The Accountant is insane. Affleck trying to act like an autistic weirdo who’s really good at both Rain Man-like forensic accounting and shooting people in the head.
Dale Arnold has to stand there like a cuck and watch Sophia do his job.
As they say in Sometimes a Great Notion, never give an inch.
My favorite thing about the Chat GPT action figures is when fat women make one in their own likeness and say, “Why do I look so fat?”
I got a skanky spam email. Don’t open any attachments from me.
Asbestos is a carcinogen? That’s a myth from big fiberglass.
Does anyone know if this is the first time that all four American-based Original Six teams have missed the playoffs?
I saw Pasta’s goal in the elevator. I’ve never experienced that before.
Steve Buckley writes an ‘Adam Viniatieri belongs in the Pats HOF’ article, and of course a Jim Lonborg story breaks out.
These Rays/Sox games at Steinbrenner Field feels like a Cape Cod League game.
Pluto, Fubo; it’s all the same thing.
Cameron Tabatabaie joins an illustrious history of Boston sports twitter sex perverts. We haven’t seen one this nasty since the likes of Craig Teed.
Best bet for the weekend: the bestest Easter dinner ever.

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. Smack that, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
