The 15

So far, so good goes the Bruins’ defense of the Presidents Cup!

Good job, good effort in the playoffs, AL East squadrons.

A heady mix of shooters and defenders on this Celtics team. Should be a fun one.

I know how Patriots fandom works, you complain during their 20 years of dominance that they should have been even more dominant, and when they finally come back down to Earth you get to crow about being right all along. Fuck these fanz.

Since China is recalling all the Panda Bears, do we have to send them Pablo Sandoval?

Salk had better ratings than Jones and Mego.

And the team built by former Red Sox took a big early lead against the team built out of former Red Sox. Hub of the universe.

Anyone see Mrs. Doubtfire the musical? If so, how was it?

Cakes are cooking for Sid Fernandez, Chris Chandler, Hugh Jackman, Terry Ray, Tanyon Sturtze, Miroslav Šatan, Bode Miller, Tom Guiry, and Mike Green.

My gratitude to a man whose career maybe most typifies the gloriously brutal early days of the NFL. Godspeed Mr. Butkus, I hope for St. Peter’s sake he’s not on offense when you get there.

Bruins fans just like yelling Loooooch!

Fall Out Boy covering Billy Joel is why they hate us.

Kale Bort DFA’d?

Hey gang of college football fans, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I think I love Smacker Miles.”

Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson (shoulder) did not practice yesterday, and PJ Walker would start if he can’t go.

The Dodgers are cursed for what they did to card carrying Alpha Male, Trevor Bauer.

We don’t talk enough about how cool it is that so many different personalities can succeed as NFL coaches. Like I’m inviting Dan Campbell to my kegger and I want to wander around an art museum with Mike McDaniel and if I want to talk shit about the other two I’m calling Belichick.

Blue Line experiencing delays of about 10 minutes due to signal problem at Beachmont.

All weed is gay now.

Mac will be all fixed once they get Jeudy. PTT!

I am so sick of Pat McAfee being shoved down my throat. But our Vern Dozier has a different opinion! Heyooooo!

Nick Perbix is the league’s new “Dolores” (stick taps to pioneers Jake Bean & Grant Clitsome).

You all right?

She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965.
She had legs that never ended,
I was halfway paralyzed.
She was tall and cool and pretty and she dressed as black as coal.
If she asked me to I’d murder, I would gladly lose my soul.

Now I lie in bed and think of her,
Sometimes I even weep.
Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep.

I admit I have not been a huge fan of Lions head coach Dan Campbell’s approach of biting knee-caps motivation—it was too high schoolish for me. I prefer the more intellectual approach of reaching the players. But I was wrong.

Honk if you remember Fred Villari.

Everyone knows your crazy conspiracy theory being true is an absolute defense to witness intimidation!

Connor Bedard. Talented, and not hateable. Weird!

Call it ‘brotherly shove’ more.

Cats will make you feel like a kaiju in your own home.

Frankly offended the VGK Stanley Cup banner doesn’t have neon on it.

A shame Charles Napier wasn’t in Stop Making Sense. Nevertheless, it is worth seeing the remastered film in theaters while you can.

Wouldn’t “pink hat” Bruins fans be the least likely to know who Lucic is?

The Raiders game. That’s the real test.

Best bet for the weekend: the Revs start their playoff run.

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Chris Snow. Tim Wakefield. Russ Francis. Tough week.

Be more obviously checked out, Red Sox Ownership Group.

Play the kids, Jim Montgomery!

Get well soon Christian Gonzalez and Matt Judon.

Does Jrue have a nice dump shot?

There being no Wild Card Game threes today is proof you can’t script October.

Mike Lombardi is the Vince Lombardi of spam tweets.

Yes, worry about Kristaps getting injured because you lost the ironman Rob Williams.

All I did was listen on my earbuds most of the morning and still feel like I ran a marathon. Nothing like the Ryder Cup.

Cakes are cooking for Steve Miller, Brian Johnson, Bill James, Bob Geldof, Imran Khan, Careca, Michael Andretti, Laura Davies, Patrick Roy, Mario Lemieux, Guy Pierce, Karyn Parsons, Kate Winslet, and Travis Kelce.

It is also Rex Chapman’s birthday, but no cake for him. Loser.

We’re in New England. Stop saying y’all.

Did Wakey get Fawcett’d by the 2023 Patriots?

I’ve noticed that a lot of popular “Celtics twitter” accounts take my takes and flip them into their own. It’s funny because they think I don’t notice.

You do dirt, you get dirt.

Worcester Line Train 512 (9:05 am from Worcester) is operating 5-10 minutes behind schedule between Boston Landing and South Station.

NFL crowds are the worst. So many donkeys.

Hey gang of otherwise unemployable Stoolies, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Break one her for me.”

I’m always in a debate with myself on who’s better: Tim Brady or Matt Jones.

The play of #NHLBruins Matt Poitras (age 19) this preseason is too eerily similar in terms of really making an impact offensively the way a former 2nd round draft pick at age 18 pretty much was an impact player almost from get go. Patrice Bergeron. The similarities are there IMO.

Why wouldn’t you want a refrigerator with an icemaker?

Curt Schilling is like Pete Rose, in that every time you feel like you’re ready to start defending him again, he goes back to his looney room and comes out with another treasure.

We all share this planet – we are all connected by our oceans.

John Wallach will die before being anything but a footnote. God is real.

Am not going out on a limb by now projecting Jonathan Jones will not earn his NLTBE $250K 90% playing-time incentive this season.

Shabazz Napier is from Roxbury…

Terry Francona’s scooter was stolen again. And it was beaten up pretty badly. And, well… “The worst part was they defecated on it.”

Whenever I look at Benjamin St-Juste I think that Juste must be the patron saint of hyphens.

The 2010 and 2011 Red Sox should have played harder to get Wakey the wins to tie or pass Cy and Roger. There; I said it.

Our house it has a crowd.
There’s always something happening,
and it’s usually quite loud.
Our mum, she’s so house-proud.
Nothing ever slows her down,
and a mess is not allowed.

Our house, in the middle of our street.

Lombardi forgot to turn off his automatic book pitch when sending his thoughts and prayers to a kid with cancer.

Whither Jared Grasso?

25 years ago today Britney Spears’ “Baby, One More Time” was serviced to radio as a promo. Entered Hot 100 Airplay at #59 on November 7th, 1998, Sales on the 21st, Hot 100 at #18 on December 5th, 1998 but the video didn’t debut on TRL until December 18th, 1998. Hit MTV early Dec.

Honk if you remember the uniform 22-foot NBA 3-point arc.

The people who mocked Belichick as being a “genius” for 20 years are also the same people who think he should be able to completely rebuild the team in four. In other words, fucking idiots.

Good job, good effort US Ryder Cup team.

If there is a heaven, I hope Jerry Remy gets to announce Wake’s arrival to the Pearly Mound.

Revs. Flailing.

Can someone string together all of Christian Gonzalez’s All-22 reps so I can re-watch them for the next 4 months while weeping and eating Cheetos?

‘The Pearly Mound’ sounds like a low-rent Tampa area gentleman’s club.

Artificial Intelligence program’s inability to correctly render human hands must give Larry Johnson some comfort.

Mike Gorman’s replacement Drew Carter? Decent pipes, terrible picture of him in the NBCSN group photo.

Best bet for the weekend: rain.

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. I apologize for the delay. It was too nice out yesterday to work on the column.

I ain’t calling a grown man “Sauce.”

Lee Corso doesn’t seem healthy. Probably in his best interest for him not to be on GameDay regularly anymore.

Wrap the remaining Bruins in bubble wrap!

It’s like King Pyrrhus said, “another such victory and I will have two wins so far this season.”

Remember; you’re the jerk for noticing that Deion Sanders has always been an asshole. Plus he played for the Yankees, the 90’s Braves, and the Dallas Cowboys. He’s a bandwagon kid’s wet dream.

In baseball rather than the first and second Wild Card, the slots should be referred to as the Wild Card and the Even Wilder Card.

Zo doesn’t like the play calls on third down. He doesn’t have a better play in mind, he just thinks they should always pick up the first.

Cakes are cooking for Randy Bachman, Denis Lawson, Mike Schmidt, Shaun Cassidy, Steve Kerr, Alonzo Spellman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Arnold, Anna Camp, Lil Wayne, Avril Lavigne, and Jenna Ortega.

It’s a crime that Dunkin’s raspberry watermelon refresher is only a summer flavor.

Maybe I’m an idiot but I could actually see Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce being together awhile. Everyone expects it to fizzle out so watch them zag. They’re gonna sense how much power there is for them in how annoying it will be for us.

This pizza thing is going to be huge. give it time.

I think there are like three people I follow whose retweets have led me to block about 2/3 of Congressional twitter accounts. (Any politicians whose tweets cross my timeline, agree or not, I immediately block)

There’s no way there’s a real thing called ‘wet AMD.’

Al Michaels will continue the longest streak in television history. His tie knot will be perfect. He needs to teach a class on Instagram how to tie the perfect knot. Like Stanley Tucci does drinks Al could do knots.

Dougie Meehan couldn’t have kicked in five bucks for half a pack?

Final, King Philip 28, Norwood 0. Brian Lee did not coach tonight in lieu of investigation into training camp hazing incident.

The MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line will be free during the Red Line Ashmont Branch & Mattapan Line 16-day diversion. From October 14-29, free shuttle buses & Fairmount Line service will be available to riders as we perform track work.

Frank Langella was a pretty good Skeletor but the film overall was trash so does it still count?

Hey gang of carmine hose dead-enders, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, ” Houck unraveled quickly.”

Day after day it reappears.
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear.
Ghosts appear and fade away.

Alone between the sheets.
Only brings exasperation.
It’s time to walk the streets.
Smell the desperation.

At least there’s pretty lights.
And though there’s little variations.
It nullifies the night.
From overkill.

A lot of hugs in the dugout for Zack Kelly after his scoreless inning of work.

Why is this random Getty Images meme of Kevin James suddenly resurfacing? What did I miss?

Artie T is the biggest needle mover in the world of banana boxes.

What kind of pizza place isn’t open on Sunday?

As a result of Taylor Swift eating a piece of chicken with ketchup and ranch in Kansas City, Chiefs stadium food provider Levy Restaurants says they have increased their supply of ranch in the suites.

Things are gonna turn around for Aidan any day now.

Honk if you remember Montecore.

Go ahead Mr. big mouth tell us how’s the game is going you four-eyed rat.

Sad to hear The Human Vacuum Cleaner died. What? No! Not Debi Diamond! Brooks Robinson! From the Orioles! What’s wrong with you!?

Tony Massarotti has more suspensions than Marchand in the past year, but yeah, he shouldn’t have been named captain.

Did Taylor Swift do the tomahawk chop?

Fun NBA roster nerd thing: The Clippers re-signed all four of their own free agents: Moussa Diabate – 1 year, two-way Xaiver Moon – 1 year, Exhibit 10 Mason Plumlee – 1 year, $5M Russell Westbrook – 2 years, $8M. No other team has re-signed all of their own FAs this offseason.

It’s nice to live in Massachusetts where lesbian gym teachers were allowed to marry each other 30 years ago.

A: $3.46.

Jack Edwards is already in midseason form. Unfortunately.

David McCallum has died. Dosvedanya, Agent Kuryakin. Close channel D.

Best bet for the weekend: A hard-fought Eagles win against Virginia on Family Weekend in Chestnut Hill.

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