The 15

Can one claim a moral victory from a loss that meant Coach Bill can’t call himself the Owl any longer?

But, but the evening lottery number was 1-9-7-8! Poor, irrelevant Dan.

Go look up Floyd Giebel and get back to me.

Dondero, who nobody normally reacts to, opining about the art of entertaining, is fucking entertaining. A paradox.

It’s almost like Gilmore was malingering. Aloha, Stephon.

It’s also preseason for those crying about preseason NHL officials.

Get (h)er, Urb!

Cakes are cooking for Elisabeth Shue, J.J. Stokes, Rebecca Lobo, Richard Seymour, Daniel Brière, and Addison Rae.

Johnny Lawrence is going to be good once he gets rid of the hardo High School head coach.

JD Martinez sprained his ankle tripping over a base? Only in baseball.

Bubba Wallace winning at Talladega was even more impressive considering he was pulled over three times by the police during the race.

Please bring Bucky Dent to every game against the Red Sox, NYY.

Produce jockeys are now trying to denigrate Super Bowl rings and Hall of Fame gameplans. Technology was a mistake. All of it.

Is there minor league professional lacrosse?

Hitting range balls before a charity scramble is a clown move.

It’s always funny to me when the pregame show has to hype up NFL games for two hours and then has to be throw in the “stay tuned to ESPN for some great WNBA action!”

Schefty breaking out the MAN WALKS ON MOON headline font for the SHOCKING release of Gilmore. FFS.

Ha! You call that a turnip?

Good luck to the talented and delightful Katie Nolan on her next project which I will never watch or listen to.

Imagine paying for a $28 shirt in 4 monthly payments.

The 15: sex positive.

Hey gang of enjourtainerulists, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “Respect the art.”

Who knew paying Steve Buckley to watch Leo Durocher on The Munsters wasn’t a viable business model?

I drink a lot
I get naked a lot
I like man coverage for my Defense
I keep it simple and I let the Players Play

That halftime show is going to cure racism. You watch.

Blue Line Update: Delays of up to 15 minutes due to an earlier signal problem at Orient Heights.

Rehab worked fine for me, but I didn’t spend the whole time arguing with everyone there about the illuminati.

Kyrie. Not our problem.

Marisa Ingemi only got another beat writing job because the league expanded, caller.

Arcand looks like the 3rd runner up in a Jason Segel lookalike contest.

Oh remember my darling
When spring is in the air.
And the bald headed birds
Are whisp’ring ev’rywhere.
You can see them walking
Southward in their dirty underwear.
That’s Tennessee Bird walk.

Gotta win this one, Connecticut Sun.

What’s this about Pandora Peaks being back in the news?

Panthers GM Scott Fitterer has already made 8 trades in his first year on the job: Traded away: QB Teddy Bridgewater, OT Greg Little, LB Denzel Perryman, Traded for: QB Sam Darnold, CB Stephon Gilmore, CB CJ Henderson, DE Darryl Green, K Ryan Santoso. Wheeling and dealing.

Somebody primary challenge Spilka. Please. I wanna bet on sports in the Commonwealth!

Fandom = delusion. That’s why I don’t consider myself a fan. I’m simply an educated observer who prefers one particular outcome over the other. If you’re not hating the teams you root for 90% of the time, you’re doing it wrong.

Honk if you remember Garber’s Gorillas.

Really though; doinking the upright should be worth 4 points.

Now which one is Vanessa Carlton and which one is Michelle Branch?

I don’t think that crowd was chanting ‘Let’s go, Brandon!”

The Ringer has recorded TWO separate podcasts in which some white dudes gather to rewatch The Depahded, yet not a single iota of WNBA content in sight … at least be original in your brazen disrespect!

This has to be one of the greatest Red Sox teams of the Covid Era.

The joke’s on the Athletic; Buckley purchased an entire bolt of vintage uniform flannel at the linen auction!

Where was the Fake Spike King with the Gilmore scoop?

Best bet for the weekend: Sale. Owning.

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The Red Sox are giving the thumbs-up from the hospital bed.

Kyrie is anti-vax AND going to use it as an excuse to skip games? I’d say he’s playing 3D chess but I don’t think he believes in that level of geometry.

Alex Guerrero can’t get cuffed and frog-marched soon enough.

I think the Bruins have a netminder that can steal you a game. Finally.

Hi Weather Girl! Panties or bra? LOL

I think Dean Wormer knows how many times previous Belichick has been likened to an owl.

Kirk! Aiden! Talk about Aiden, Kirk you coward!

Cakes are cooking for Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay, Hersey Hawkins, Erika Eleniak, and Jake Westbrook.

When it comes to frozen Walmart pizza, the name I think of is “Dave Portnoy”

When it comes to deciding which is worse, I used to think it was nostalgia bias, but as of late I have come around to believing what’s actually worse is recency bias.

Have more gimmicky singing shows, Fox.

Jamie Collins? No Interest.

Keep up the non-losing streak, New England Revolution!

Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “multiple un-named sources.”

There are zero normal women in law enforcement.

Blue Line: Delays of up to 15 minutes due to a maintenance train inspecting the overhead wires. Trains may be asked to stand by at stations.

Now it’s apple picking weather.

If there are any Hollywood guys reading. . .the athlete that you could make a GREAT movie about would be Big Bill Tilden. I promise you: there is no other story like that one anywhere else in sports.

Maybe if Belichick was a Dr. Robert Leonard client he’d get some positive press.

Why don’t they build the whole plane out of effort?

Jerry was a race car driver
He drove so god-damned fast.
Never did win no checkered flag
But he never did come in last.

Jets WR Jeff Smith, not at practice today, was in a car crash heading to the facility this morning, source said. He will be on the injury report today with details of what he’s dealing with.

That Blair! Amirite?

That was a pretty ugly half of football. Looked like two teams and offenses that kinda miss the HOF franchise QBs they used to have. #NotYourDadsPatriotsvs.Saints

Honk if you remember the Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company.

Emmy Award-winning Katie Nolan is a free agent.

Daughtry is a super underrated band. I’ve probably said it before- but I’ll say it again.

CBS has three FBI shows?

Maybe people act like a jerk to Bob Kraft because they know they can get away with it.

Best bet for the weekend: MLB Playoff Wild Card reshuffling.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Facebook, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, BSMW poster Coma and #the15 were used in this column. Captain Pierce was a fireman. Richmond engine #3

A draw is as good as a tie, Revs.

Bringing in Otto Graham to a ‘greatest quarterback ever’ debate is the football equivalent of Godwin’s Law.

Keep Cashman and Boone. Please.

I rate that Applebees commercial 4 wet teddy bears and 1 singing hood ornament.

Juancho Hernangómez? Frankly, it sounds made up!

Happy Autumnal Equinox, Merle.

Restore the four pitch intentional walk, MLB.

I wonder if Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend voted for Annissa Essaibi George?

Kirk is having problems with interpersonal relationships!

Cakes are cooking for Joan Jett, Mike Richter, David Adjaye, Emmanuel Petit, and Ashley Eckstein.

“All Gas, No Brake” is a really fucking perfect Jets slogan. Good way to slam into a ditch.

A Bruins ‘Captains’s Practice?’ Sounds like a violation of the league collective bargaining agreement to me.

Aaron Schatz is Jewish? Huh.

Jerry Thornton having the hackiest Earth, Wind & Fire 9/21 tweet was taken off the board in Vegas.

Do the Bills have institutional knowledge about the Dolphins?

Hey 5 bouroughs gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “Miss the Accelerator, Hit their Dick.”

Reggie Jackson is two days older than Cher. That is all.

“i didn’t get beat out! i didn’t get beat out!!”, cam continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob

Flobots?

Buccaneers place WR Antonio Brown on reserve/COVID-19 list.

Lisa Byington. That’s it. That’s the post.

Additionally, you taunters may get off of John Mara’s lawn.

Ok, we get it: Dan Campbell’s a hardo. How many different ways can you say it?

Six, Two and Even.

Evan Lazar has fluid hips and grinds tape.

Green Line Reminder: Shuttle buses replace B Branch service between Kenmore and Babcock St, Mon – Thurs, beginning at 8:45 PM through the end of service. Also Shuttle buses replace D Branch service between Brookline Village and Riverside, Mon – Thurs, beginning at 8:45 PM through the end of service.

De La Cretaz? Not really LatinX. But dresses like DJ Bean’s imaginary friend.

I know you’ve heard it all before.
So I don’t say it anymore.
I just stand by and let you
Fight your secret war.

And though I used to wonder why.
I used to cry ’til I was dry.
Still sometimes I get a strange pain inside.
Oh, Joey if you’re hurting so am I.

Starting a Heritage Month on the 15th is taking mañana culture a bit far, dontcha think?

Happy Mo Lewis Day Eve, everyone.

Honk if you remember the White Fuel Sign atop the Hotel Buckminster.

The Connecticut Sun is playoff-ready.

Do you know another tune though, Tom Senior?

When things end with #The15, they tend to end emphatically.

Kitchen when? Kitchen Now!!!

Is it time to declare the Mac Jones experiment a failure? My column…

Best bet for the weekend: rain out at the Eastern States Exposition, BKA ‘The Big E.’

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Take this down. Paul Pierce is a Hall of Famer.

Red Sox stil make the playoffs. Probably.

You see, Mac Jones completed too many passes on Sunday.

Lou Merloni is a shameless, mumbling company man.

Smerlas reminiscing with Ordway about two a day’s in training camp! Who is this postgame show for? 

Norm Macdonald dead? Damn those snowmobiles!

Cakes are cooking for Earnest Byner, Chad Bratzke, Tom Hardy, Heidi Montag, and Jenna Marbles

Matthew Fairburn is the new Julian McWilliams. Just less thorough.

Kevin Harlan is terrible and so is whoever his non-union former Chiefs sidekick is.

Sorry UMass broke your quarterback, Boston College.

Find someone who loves you as much as Mittens Volin loves Ryan Fitzpatrick. (Who played for Harvard.)

Not sure who that guy was, but everyone knows the real Steve from Blues Clues died in Vietnam.

The Jets are working out a group of punters, including longtime Saints P Thomas Morstead.

Joey Gallo is the Gene Tenace of 21st century baseball.

Enjoyed Bill Russell’s previously written, confused hostage Hall of Fame acceptance speech which generously praised his wife. Wonder who wrote it?

Snobbar som Jobbar.

Pats OL Trent Brown’s calf injury lists him as made the scene, week to week, day to day, hour to hour.

Deep down, I suspect Millwall does care.

Hope Stihdsy enjoyed the apple picking on Sunday.

I see Megan Fox is trending. Is she playing Lady Macbeth?

Have a scragglier chrysanthemum. You can’t!

A British woman tennis player won the US Open? What next, a blancemage winning Wimbledon?

Won my fantasy football opener after drafting Kyler Murray. Thanks, Josh!

WARRIOR Ice Arena. That’s it. That’s the post.

95% of sports media would be just as happy to cover the red carpet arrivals at the VMA’s or the Met Gala.

I don’t eat boiled mutton or jellied eels on 7/4, but that’s just because I’m normal.

I missed Brimfield? Oh no.

Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “I don’t know anyone who voted for Annissa Essaibi George.”

News Item: the troubled Boston Sports Journal financially unable to complete warm snuggly blanket giveaway promotion.

I mean, who does Kayce think she is, Doris Day or something?

Green Line E Branch Update: Regularly scheduled service is resuming.

Get over yourself, goodbye (goodbye)
It must be hard to be you yeah
Livin’ in your life
I was always the one to cry (to cry)
Now everything, everything, everything is alright.

Sneaky Orange Hobbitses!

Great news, you guys. Kid Hocules will be the referee next week!

Honk if you remember the Who’s More Grizzled? SNL skit.

Sketchers. Comfortable as advertised. 

Knock-Knock. ‘Who’s there?’ TJ Ward. ‘TJ Ward who?’ EXACTLY.

Do Joey Murray’s outfits come with a ukulele?

Best bet for the weekend: Revs start another winning streak.

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I wish I could decide if the Red Sox season is over, or if they should start getting their playoff rotation in order.

It’s not imposter syndrome if you aren’t actually talented.

RIP, Nomar from The Wire.

The Super Bowl champs get to play the first game of the new NFL season? Since when?

RIP, former New Orleans Saint great, David Pattern. Rest easy.

I really don’t think that one voter not voting for Derek Jeter is much of a news story.

And not Sam “The Bam” Cunningham as well! RIP.

Cakes are cooking for Jim Corsi, Adam Sandler, Jill Sudduth, Michael Bublé, and Michelle Williams.

Find someone madder than Ma Scartelli that college football is preempting the start of ABC World News Tonight. You can’t!

Giambi was safe.

Jeff Howe now covers the whole League for the Athletic, bro. Congratulations.

Just found the english muffins…in the freezer. That’s a new one.

Dugie benched on his own bobblehead night? Rough swag.

Raiders star TE Darren Waller has added to his representation, bringing on agents Damarius Bilbo and Kelton Crenshaw of Klutch Sports Group to work with him.

30,000 Trupianos at Fenway think every ball hit into the air is a HR.

The gap between the U and the serif of the B in Upton Bell’s logo is low-key enraging.

Matt?

It came out in 1956, and Bill Doggett’s “Honky Tonk, Part 2” has stood the test of time as the greatest Rock era instrumental of all-time.

See if you can hold BC under 70 points, UMass. Please.

Why didn’t Jeter’s parents include a ‘don’t get the herp’ clause in his contracts? 

Having to issue a clarification of a statement about the difficulties of coaching during this pandemic that was intentionally misconstrued into an anti-vaccination screed is probably why Belichick dislikes the media.

This may be they year I actually buy a cowboy hat at The Big E.

Where are my Revs fans readers at?

Orange Line experiencing southbound delays of about 10 minutes due to a train with a mechanical problem at Chinatown.

Green Line B Branch Update: Trains are returning to regularly scheduled service.

There is no “n” in “restaurateur”.

In a way-back corner of a cross-town bus
we were hidin’ out under my hat.
Cashin’ in on a thirty year crush;
You can’t be young and do that.
You can’t be young and do that.

Honk if you remember 2 PM start times for Baltimore Colts games.

The statue is famous!

Whenever I travel to Buffalo I always check into the hotel under the name, “Swanton Zubaz.”

If Top Gun: Maverick had come out when it was first scheduled, everyone who enlisted in the Navy the day after seeing it would now be in the Reserves phase of their hitch.

Best bet for the weekend: Coach Flores sending blitzers after Mac Jones.

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Man, what lousy luck for the Red Sox to get hit with all these breakthrough COVID cases.

Gasper raises a good point: When have we ever seen accurate passers who spread the ball around be successful in this offense? Not for at least 1 years!

I’m sure the next Minifan live event will get the show back into the red! Or the black, whichever the good one is.

That was a well-timed loss, NE Revolution. Michael Gee would approve.

Can Scott Zolak wear a standard issue Klan hood, or does he need to go custom for the wonky eye?

Source: CLNS is laundering hot takes through Greg Bedard and the BSJ.

Cakes are cooking for Keanu Reeves, Lennox Lewis, Salma Hayek, Tommy Maddox, and Katarina Studenikova.

And a happy 90th birthday soon to the Springfield Newspaper’s Garry Brown!

ISIS-K, the New Coke of terrorist organizations.

From Cris, to Jac, the next Collinsworth’s Christian name will be just two CONSONANTS.

Schwarbsy. Owning.

Masking fatigue may be real, but at it’s worst doesn’t require getting hooked up to a ventilator.

Asante Samuel should do a podcast with Ted Johnson.

Carles Gil seemed to be grievously injured, but now is back? That never happens in soccer!

At this rate Zo is going to suggest it may be a good idea for Mac to have season ending knee surgery.

Allston Christmas is too commercialized nowadays.

Man, it has been so hot out, I’m hearing Andy Hart has been dating Nancy Quill just for the shade!

Bon Voyage, Jonah Keri! Ne fait pas tomber le savon.

The market for wildly inaccurate Montreal Expos articles dried up, I guess.

Heyyy besties, this week’s Phrase that Pays is”Considering talking about football is my job, I think I know.”

“Arm Talent?” Not actually a thing. Sorrey!

‘Antivaxxer Conservative Radio Talk Show Host’ just passed ‘Aspiring Rapper’ on the mortality rate charts.

Orange Line Update: Service is suspended between Ruggles and Jackson due to water in the track area. Customers can use Route 22 service between stations. Customers can also use Route 39 service between Forest Hills and Back Bay.

John Havlicek, who was the best all/around player in the NBA for four years.

Jed Hoyer > Brian Hoyer.

Bill is having the Pats training staff treat the team with horse paste and aquarium cleaner, caller!

Sometimes I swear they raise the gas prices just before holiday weekends.

Power lines!

Schedule more cupcake non-conference opponents, UConn Basketball. You can’t!

Florio’s take is something your dumbest acquaintance at work wouldn’t even say. “Imagine if the Bucs signed Newton?” would be met around the cubicles by the biggest “so the fuck what?” in the history of Earth.

Who do you think the vaccinated Red Sox player is? Tell us your best guess in the comments!

Jungle Cruise in on Dale Arnold’s Top Ten list of films based on amusement park rides.

Did it rain last night?

It was pleasure to cover Cameron Newton. He was funny, accountable and personable despite sucking shit. I enjoyed our weekly chats about how his day was going during media sessions. Best of luck to him.

So Carles Gil has his own Alex Guerrero? Interesting.

Bishop Sycamore, 2nd Century saint & martyr, whose impromptu sermons brought peace to those Christians about to be attacked by beasts in the Roman Colusseum; patron saint of athletic mismatches.

Pro tip: Vermouth? Not shelf stable. Refrigerate after opening.

Carson Green is now headed back to the #Texans practice squad, source said.

Honk if you remember “Ellis the Rim Man.”

News Item: Western Massachusetts residents preparing to close their pools for the season.

Cam was just turning his life around.

Your computer is like an umpire. When you have an argument with your computer, the computer always wins.

I have waited with a glacier’s patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
‘Till nothing was standing
65 miles wide..

Everything breaks their way, UMass football could go 6-6. Here’s hoping.

Apple cinnamon is significantly tastier than Pumpkin spice.

Can’t straight think? Slunk jeep.

Bedard wants a parade for the guy who threw 8 TDs. SMDH.

How can there be no blotchy Irishman in the running to be Mayor of Boston?

The practice squad is for stashing.

Kinda getting sick of grilling. There: I said it.

Best bet for the weekend: Trumping an All-Pro NFL player in football knowledge using your Fisher-Price credentials.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Facebook, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, BSMW poster Kingasaurus and #the15 were used in this column. Looks like a pump, feels like a sneaker.  

The Football Gods can be so cruel, even in preseason.

East side of the hurricane gets the strongest winds, West side gets the heaviest rain. It’s the McDLT of weather systems.

Are the red-hot Revs peaking too early?

Mike Richards getting cancelled was off the board in Vegas.

Maybe the league should have written the COVID test protocol in Cam’s lunatic Instagram font?

I like my cults currency-based.

First Don Everly, then Charlie Watts. Be careful, pioneering rock & roll bass guitar player.

The Patriots running test is overrated for running backs.

Cakes are cooking for Tim Burton, Joanne Whalley, Vivian Campbell, Marti Noxon, and Spider One.

Trinitron. Traded.

For decades, all good stories started with multiple high schoolers in an American made vehicle hauling beer.

Green Line D Branch Update: Regular service has resumed with residual delays of up to 15 minutes. Shuttle buses are being phased out at this time.

Like I’ve been saying, only Barnes can kill Barnes.

Seahawks LB Ben Burr-Kirven suffered a torn ACL on Saturday night, source said following the MRI. The former fifth-round pick had worked with the starters and was impressing at camp, emerging as a key player. Now, done for the season.

Sha’Carri Richardson. Such a big personality. Like Cam’s!

Seeing the outpouring of heartfelt grief over Jimmy Hayes makes me wish I had known him. Or heard of him prior to this week, to be honest.

You didn’t how good you had it while the PayPig was around, did you, ladies? Sad.

Hey Gang from Paddy’s, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “playing like a team that already won the snaps that mattered.”

On old Olympus’ Towering Tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops.

I like drip-brew coffee better than the Keurig pods. There: I said it.

With non-team media brusquely banned for locker room access, what does this mean for old friend Amalie Benjamin?

If this Mike Richards thing has taught us anything, it’s this: never make a podcast.

Perillo “likes to defer to Zo on the football stuff?”

Blehhhh! Staying home the last year before your daughter leaves for college! BLEHHHHH!!

‘Ivermectin’ sounds like a hockey player name. Or maybe tennis.

Famous adopted people include Simone Biles, Gerald Ford, Jamie Foxx, Faith Hill, Ray Liotta, and Dave Thomas.

Happy for all the OnlyFans creators.

Now I’m in my car
I got the radio on
I’m yellin’ at the kids in the back seat
‘Cause they’re bangin’ like Charlie Watts. You think you’ve come so far
In this one horse town
Then she’s laughin’ that crazy laugh
‘Cause you haven’t left the parkin’ lot.

Jungle Cruise is in Dale Arnold’s list of Top 5 Movies based on theme park rides.

Honk if you remember the McDLT’s styrofoam-intensive packaging.

Is that Milk Crate Challenge thing a fundraiser for sickle cell anemia research? What?

A: Tom Flores.

Someone put two dollars on the five horse in the third race at Saratoga to win. I’m good for it.

I hope no rappers expected to use Airkraft One as an AirLyft while it’s away on a mission of mercy delivering supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Wow. That Kirk thing? At Saco? Classic!

Sure Mac has looked effective in the joint practice against the New York Football Giants. But Cam just tweeted something profound in Sanskrit while dressed like the bad guy from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Maybe there’s something to this ‘drinking light beer’ business?

No, getting past the 98.5 call screener is decidedly not tougher than what Sony Michel accomplished in the 2018 Playoffs. Losers.

Really though: are the Eagles going to commission a statue of last week’s joint practice?

Best bet for the weekend: accusations of racism.

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I don’t think Bill’s kid’s mullet is ironic anymore.

No one likes my recurring ‘NBA max contracts are named for Cedric Maxwell’ jokes. At all.

Sorry Naomi Osaka, but 120 years ago a fictional bartender said the job of newspapers is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. And they decide who is comfortable.

Blame The Fed for everything.

Mike and Kevin, do I use the junk drawer To retweet?

Leaving runners in scoring position is like getting vaccinated against Playoff Fever!

Can you use Bitcoin to purchase Patriots season tickets?

Cakes are cooking for Madeleine Stowe, Kenny Walker, Everlast, Nate Jones, and Liz Cambage.

Revs. Owning.

Every individual person is definitionally sui generis you swishy mountebank.

No Tim TE-bow? How disappointing. By which I mean ‘predictable’.

I hope Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force can appear on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Synesthesia is psychosomatic.

Kirk is afraid of trains AND afraid of Jen Royle.

Olha que coisa mais linda
Mais cheia de graça
É ela menina
Que vem e que passa
Num doce balanço, a caminho do mar.

Red Line Update: Regularly scheduled service has resumed.

Blehhhh! E-commerce! BLEHHHHH!!

Take this down: Bobby Dalbec is The Fruith.

Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy told reporters that Dak Prescott will be limited in practice today. “There’s a good chance he probably won’t play” vs the Texans.

Bye, Marwin.

Hey gang of short-term NFL researchers, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “This graphic is so chaotic.”

Nolle prosequi, there’s a nice Latin phrase.

Sometimes I worry about writing a personal essay collection as my second book because what if I don’t cash in enough on the ‘brand’ of sports journalist I’m creating & deepening with my first? will I seem all over the place as a writer?

Do fish like to tell pollock jokes?

“Darkest hours.” Nailed it! GTFO.

If Belichick thought Nordin was going to be that good, why didn’t he draft him?

It’s so easy to blow up your problems.
It’s so easy to play up your breakdown.
It’s so easy to fly through a window.
It’s so easy to fool with the sounddd.

You can’t fool me; Jackie Mac retired years ago.

Honk if you remember Fisher Price Adventure People.

I’m going to be so mad if the Red Sox team I didn’t even like to start the year doesn’t overachieve!

Get an uglier wife. You can’t.

Polar Ginger Lime Mule seltzer? Approve!

YOU got blown out in the Summer League Championship Game! You did!

Jack Morris is so solly.

Pronouncing ‘Taliban’ like you’re Harry Belafonte is as bad as ‘nucular’.

Did the Yankees get their (cough) ‘booster shots’ (cough) early?

¡Hola Ecuador!

Best bet for the weekend: shark sightings near Monomoy.

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Medal Count. Scoreboard. Suck it, China! USA! USA! USA!

You can tell you’re at a Revolution game by all the Liverpool shirts. Sorry; ‘kits’.

This could be the most anticipated exhibition preseason game in decades.

Which episode of the Call Him Papi podcast will Jared Carrabis grill David Ortiz about sleeping with drug dealers’ wives?

No, Manning and Brady can’t BOTH be the GOAT. Knock it off.

That said, TB12 is playing nice with all the wrong people.

Megan Rapinoe has spent the past few years acting like the lead singer of an all-girl U2 cover band. (“We’re called X2, you know, because of the chromosomes? Uno, dos, tres, catorce!!“)

Dugie swag. Dugie swaddle. Congratulations, Dugie.

You too David Andrews. And also Diana Russini.

Cakes are cooking for Sir Mix-A-Lot, Pete Sampras, Rebecca Gayheart, Casey Affleck, and Antoine Walker.

Pay them less.

If they are going to call it “street skateboarding” in the Olympics, there should be a couple of old guys driving around in a Honda and a Chevy yelling at the kids to get out of the way.

The New England Journal of Medicine should publish something about how non-colloidal gold treatment can reverse the effects of Losing DNA.

Manifestos get a bad rap nowadays.

This Iowa cornfield baseball game is going to get overshadowed like Farrah Fawcett by football. Good scheduling.

Green Line Reminder: Shuttle buses replace B Branch service between Kenmore and Babcock St, Mon – Thurs, beginning at 8:45 PM through the end of service. Also: Shuttle buses replace D Branch service between Brookline Village and Riverside, Mon – Thurs, beginning at 8:45 PM through the end of service.

Cover Heather Thomas and Heather Locklear in bubble wrap until the playoffs!

‘Cos if you wanna run cool
If you wanna run cool
Yes, if you wanna run cool, you got to run
On heavy, heavy fuel
Heavy, heavy fuel.

Were The Wood and Felger among the Covid culls from Barry’s Birthday Bash?

I don’t blame you Steve. All of my interactions with you on here are you just disagreeing with things. It’s not that enjoyable.

Jaguars coach Urban Meyer said it’s an open competition between QBs Trevor Lawrence and Gardner Minshew to start the season opener against Houston.

Hey hard of hearing and searching for offense gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “I heard the Rockies fan say ‘Yanni’.”

Jale Dolegala, we hardly knew ye.

True story, ‘Spike Protein’ was my stage name for ten years.

Six shitty seasons in Dallas and this guy Jason Garrett is Colonel Jessuping people?

Serpentism is psychosomatic.

Boy do I love Eck telling stories about himself every day for no reason.

Honk if you remember Fotomat booths.

Congratulations to my Brewster Whitecaps, 2021 CCBL Champs!

Edge James? Cute little player. Not HoF. Sorrey!

Time to watch Field Of Dreams and cry.

One of Shank’s kids should check up on him: he forgot to call Bob Kraft ‘Hef’ in a recent dashed-off Sunday column.

Thanks, ‘Mr. J’. You’re a good sport.

The non-Truman bulldogs really should be named Snoopy and Prickly Pete. Unbelievable.

Best bet for the weekend: The Olde Towne Team climbs back into contention.

material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, other writers, league and team sources, Non-weirdo Bill James and #the15 were used in this column. Stay hydrated.