10/22/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Tough loss, Mariners. Can I interest you in a baseball poem?
Hoping that for his next investigation, Pablo Torre can find out how Katie Nolan keeps getting work.
NESN talking Patriots credit pie? Bill only ever got blame pie. And such large portions!
When you turn too many corners you end up back where you started.
Toucher, Adam 12, Hardy and Big Jim… why not make the entire station out of failed rock DJs?
If I had been playing in that media basketball game, I would have pulled my team off the floor. Sometimes you have to make a statement.
Dammit Carolina Hurricanes, stop wearing the Whalers branding as a skin suit.
Cakes are cooking for Christopher Lloyd, Derek Jacobi, Jan de Bont, Lee Meredith, Greg Hawkes, Jeff Goldblum, Bobby Blotzer, Cris Kirkwood, Barbara Potter, Leonard Marshall, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Boitano, Valeria Golino, Carlos Mencia, Ron Tugnutt, Shaggy, Shelby Lynn, Spike Jonze, Saffron Burrows, Tyrone Williams, Ichiro Suzuki, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brad Stevens, Jon Foreman, Olivier Pla, Heath Miller, Robinson Canó, Zac Hanson, Jonathan Lipnicki, Marcus Jones, and TreVeyon Henderson.
Love my gals of sports twitter today and always.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “We’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.”
You can be bald or gay but not both.
Globe Pitchbot makes Michael Hurley look like Patrice O’Neal.
Green Line D Branch Reminder: From 8 PM on October 24 through October 31. Local and Express Shuttle buses will replace service between Kenmore and Riverside for maintenance work.
FYI, Celtics season ticket renewal is March, with commitment to renew in February.
I wonder if Gene Simmons gave Ace Frehley’s family a Kiss coffin at half-price.
Guys, I don’t know if it’s been said before, but we’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.
Whomever convinced Chris Gasper he’s a good writer needs to be brought before The Hague.
Aaron Rodgers yelling is lowkey kinda scary.
Hate when I see a 12-year-old kid wearing a sliding mitt, but Vlad Jr. makes it look cool.
As usual I’m the only one in the exit row to review the passenger safety card. I don’t see any of these people helping in the event of an emergency.
It’s crazy, like, I was just thinking that we’re actually starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is. Anyone else feel this way?
Savor all the moments we have left with Chris Berman.
Long Johns went on today. Sorry folks, but it’s officially winter. I don’t care what your calendar says.
White women love two things: fucking with their faces and autumn.
You know the Patriots are back when Joe Murray and Dondero open up the postgame show by complaining about the Patriots trying to force the run, and how the defense needs to play better.
Black cats conduct heat evenly.
Why do refs say, “by rule”? What else would it be by?
As I was driving home, a thought struck me: We’re starting to reach the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.
Damn convenient the Charles River water quality markedly improved right before the Regatta!
And when I wake up in the morning
To feel the daybreak on my face
There’s a blood that’s flowing through the feeling
With a knife to open up the sky’s veins.
Some things will never change
You just stand there looking backwards half unconscious from the pain
It may seem rearranged
In the backwater swirling there is something that will never change.
The best murder weapon would be a Tupperware lid…No one would be able to find it.
Porzingis had POTS? So is he better now? I ask because the broads seem to make it their personality for the rest of their life.
Honk if you remember when Paul was dead.
The next day, local television journalist Clark Booth suggested, “Instead of playing a seventh game, they should spread tables and checkered tablecloths across the outfields and just have a picnic, a feast to a glorious World Series, and toast one another until dawn.’’
It’s alright to cry Marchy, crying takes the sad out of you.
Congratulations to K’Lavon Chaisson for being named AFC Defensive Player of the Week.
Salem Ghost Lantern Stroll!
After looking at Marchand in a Panthers uni all night now I look up and it’s Marcus Smart as a Laker.
The Celtics, they could surprise!
Best bet for the weekend: we draw inexorably nearer to the point where it’s no longer Drake may … it’s Drake is.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. She’s drivin’ away, with the dim lights on.
