Ayeeeee! There are certain moments in life where you can’t forget where you were when it happened. Like, I can still smell the leather of my bff’s dad’s friend’s couch when Brady was throwing lasers to Gronk and Moss to go 19-0 only to lose to the Giants. And days later, when Spygate happened, the smell of my mom’s perfume filled my nose while she rubbed my back, assuring me that Brady would never cheat.
Spygate
Yesterday was no different. When I heard that Glen O was leaving the radio, I froze. It’s like that scene in the Thomas Crown affair when Crown offers to return the Monet. Chills. Not because I was going to miss Glenn, but because I knew that the time was now to change the landscape.
So who is going to step up to the mound and take over for the O? Here is one gal at the game’s take at the honorable mentions:
Courtney Fallon – this gorg diva knows her stuff and isn’t afraid to back it up or delete what she said.
Lucy Burge – this bombshell knows how to drive the boys crazy and eats up hot takes like hot cakes.
Jen Royal – when she isn’t giving the boys the business lol, she’s cooking up hot takes like hot cakes.
The girl who did the poem at Biden’s election.
Literally knows more about basketball than anyone including Bird or Jordan
But the winner is: Jacquilene Mack Macmullan. Jacky is by far the most knowledgeable sports person in the United States. Her mind is like a weapon, and when she gives it a cock, you know she’s going to teach you something. It’s well known by people in my industry that she would advise Al “Red” Auerbach about who to draft and what defense to play and would, at times, defend the Celtic’s hall of famers. Her D was a known secret, so to say. So farewell big O and hello big D.
Anita Thrust is the lead writer for Competent Ladies Against Mansplaining section of The15net dot com. She lives in the Greater Boston Area with her rescue doggo Yodel, and her cats, Alice B. Toklas and Lil Wobey.
You can’t spell GONE without a Big O. AlOha, Glenn.
Kids today taking selfies at Fenway instead of scoring the game using your own proprietary system of notations. Sad!
<sighs> Just to get it out of the way – yes, yes, Nia Long *is* everything.
From mystique and aura to missing Tack and horror, for the Yankees Gerrit Cole. You hate to see it.
Is today ‘Post like Gammo or Uppy Day’? Sheesh.
Is that Minifan logo a guy staring into the headlight of an oncoming train?
Montana has weatherbunnies and wide open highways without another car for miles and miles. Just sayin’.
Cor blimey, that one Euro 2020 footie match was a boffin’s spanner!
Hiring former Spurs assistant coaches not named Becky? Troubling.
Cakes are cooking for Randy Ladouceur, Karolyn Kirby, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Monica Potter, and Chan Ho Park.
They’ve already played four games of the NBA Finals? When? Wait: not the Finals. Whew!
Oooh, semi-cryptic!
May have just eaten the whole box of ice cream sandwiches.
Those annoying subscription card thingies aren’t in Boston Magazine as much as Jen Royle is.
He’s a walkin’ contradiction Partly truth and partly fiction Takin’ every wrong direction On his lonely way back home.
Have a wedding July 17 and a golf tournament July 31. Otherwise I should be wide open.
That’s enough of your yimmer-yammer and shilly-shally.
Boston does have sufficient dedicated bike lanes if Coach Udoka wants to make Jayson and Jaylen ride to practice every day on a bicycle built for two.
Is Greek the Freak now Gimp the Limp?
What am I supposed to do with those three free articles in the Concord Monitor now?
Blehhhh! Missing pigeons! Blehhhhhh!!
Anthony Ramos says he is not disappointed by the box office turnout for #InTheHeights.
Yes Fenway fans, that win was, ‘sweet’, just like said in your chant!
Sportsblogging at a TV station is like dancing about architecture.
College World Series? Is that another thing Almost-a-Coach Bedard is an expert about?
Hey Dudes, this weeks Phrase that Pays is; “Now you see what happens when you find a Stranger in the Alps!’
Bon travail bon effort femme avec un signe.
This Gatorade is warm! Take their picks. All of them.
This was a bad week to have an irrational aversion to wearing shorts masquerading as a point of pride.
That Yankees equipment truck is like a metaphor, or something.
Does that Supreme Court NCAA ruling mean UMass gets its Final Four appearance reinstated?
A heat advisory has been declared for the Entitled Town Metropolitan Statistical Area. Be prepared for rolling interruptions in the podcasting schedule. Cry, but hydrate.
Honk if you remember Tidy Cat.
Green Line B Branch Update: Train service is resuming between Kenmore and Washington St, shuttle buses are being phased out.
Clambag!
Just for the All-Star game, pitchers should be able to bring a bucket of whatever they want to cheat with.
Will Amaka Ubaka interview Ime Udoka?
Reminder: TEVA sandals are to be written in all caps. Like WARRIOR Ice Arena.
A fireworks shortage? Not among #The15.
Well whatsherface is certainly the most famous third place finishing hammer thrower ever.
Some days Twitter is just one big 24 hour open meeting of Oversharers Nononymous. Or Pseudonymous.
Best bet for the weekend: Songs that build up America.
Yankees truck! Yankees truck!
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Ash + Kat, the Hess twins. I’m not sure what it is exactly they do,but they look good doing it.
Sports are like life. One minute you’re waving the ball fair in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Reds like the O.G. Carlton Fisk, and the next your ex is posting engagement party pictures with your sorority sister on the gram and your bff is liking the pic wuuuuuuuuuuuttt.
Just when I thought the Celts were going to wave the ball right around Pesky’s pole on the monster, they airball a foul throw. Nobody, not Beyonce or Meg the Stallion or Meryl Streep or Michael B. Jordan or Michael A. Jordan can tell me that this dude Ime Udoka is a better coach than Kara Lawson.
Didn’t the Seventy-Sixers just get eliminated? Boy bye.
I thought Brad was going to do the right thing. I really did. Like, remember when you first heard Driver’s License by Olivia Rodrigo and you cried and ate Nutella and drove to your besties’ house to spill tea and watch Pierce Brosnan movies? Remember that emotion? That’s real. If I’m being really real here, like really, really, real, I have to say that this is another example of Boston’s reputation as a sexist town being confirmed.
Boston fans want to rant and rave about how the stereotypes are wrong, and that beantown is a bastion of inclusiveness and progressive thought. They get aggressive and defensive about it, but facts are facts. From the school bus issues in the 70’s to Carol and Charlie Stuart and so on: It’s a hard truth: Boston is a sexist city.
Ime not smiling. (Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images)
So where do we go from here? I mean, the Cees could draft Mississippi center Shakira Austin (like they should). The Red Sox could hire Jennie Finch as pitching coach. The Patriots could hire Sarah Fuller as kicking helper. The Bruins could hire Nancy Kerrigan as skating coach.
All examples off the top of my head. Will it happen? Well, in Olivia Rodrigo’s words:
I got my driver’s license last week Just like we always talked about ‘Cause you were so excited for me To finally drive up to your house
I hope Brad is listening. I hope Boston is listening.
Report: 11 out of every 12 NFL jerseys sold over past 36 hrs were his.
Just give him the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award now.
The real robbery in the Selke was the fact that Brad Marchand wasnt even nominated.
Saint Peter only had to deny knowing Jesus three times, Doug.
No Spida?
Sometimes, the Red Sox win when they score last.
Jim Nantz can’t believe he didn’t get a Father’s Day line after that Rahm finish.
No Nets, Lakers or Sixers. Best case scenario after a Celtics first round exit.
I guess @FanSided is cool with plagiarism?
Udoka? Maybe.
Cakes are cooking for Colin Montgomerie, Barbara Jordan, Mike Bartrum, Selma Blair, and Zinedine Zidane.
I don’t believe in omens, but stomp on Lucky at your own peril, Kyrie Irving!
“Regina” is Latin for Queen. Live your best life, Regina!
First Smaven, now the Smonitor.
A turkey hen visiting the bird feeder? Technically allowable.
Chris Paul’s leadership wins again.
Now we can’t mouth racial slurs as a lip-synching teenager without having to issue an apology? Says who? Those Belgian drits, probably.
Blehhhh! Prime Day! Blehhhh!!
This is real. No one tries harder than Trey Hendrickson in practice. He goes 100% in non-padded practices when no one blocks. Doesn’t matter.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “Are you okay?”
my sex and dating life would be so much more exciting if I was actually dating all the hot people that some people seem to think I am dating? I’m glad people think I have that much game, though!
Being on the field for a walk off home run is deff one of the most exhilarating experiences 10/10 would recommend.
It’s Girardi not Girardi, idiots.
Using Talkbox/Electro Harmonix & Vocoder effect on songs of the 80’s ≠ AutoTune usage in songs after Cher’s “Believe” in 1998 through the early 00’s in urban music.
Autocrat syrup!
Parker Posey was great in WANDER, FRANCO (1994)
Remember to proofread, tweeting out ‘Your (sic) a fucking pig!’ fatally undermines whatever point you tried to make.
Maybe the Red Hat should have charged 11¢ per chicken wing? Just sayin’,
In 2021 they’d never be able to keep Randall Gay’s #21 in stock at the Patriots Pro Shop.
Honk if you remember the Maine Lumberjacks.
Doug probably wasn’t going to get appointed Minister of the Exchequer in the false pretender Spike Kingdom.
You can always find me down at Smokey Joe’s. That’s where all the hip and groovy people go.
Rich Hill is the new Jamie Moyer.
Carling Black Label. Used to be brewed with the clean Ice Cold waters of Lake Cochituate. Simpler Fucking times, Danny.
Who needs Benadryl when you’ve got 5 lbs of Xanax?
Good thing this Carl Nassib news hit and kept Steve Buckley from writing about the time Boog Powell guested on an episode of The Courtship of Eddies Father.
Dating show idea: Sox-y Beasts.
Las Vegas is an adult summer camp. That seems so true. Especially if you like to get wild.
“You’re sticking with that motherf—er?” Do you kiss your kids a second too long with that mouth, Tom?
To be fair, sometimes you can’t detect any tuna DNA after the proteins are damaged by cooking. Or after having been blasted with sweet onion sauce.
Not all who Wander are Franco.
Mattapan Trolley Update: Regularly scheduled service has resumed.
‘Eat shit, Doug.’ Well said, counselor.
New rule: Easter Island Mo’ai statues don’t get a vote for the Selke Award.
Best bet for the weekend: Suns in four guy embarks on his 2nd fifteen minutes of fame.
Remember?
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If anything, be mad at Billie for wearing baggy clothes and dying her hair like a fishing lure.
It’s a great few days ahead. Take off your masks and get outside.
The state of emergency is over. The Baker out front should have told ya.
Cry more, Gerrit Cole.
Channel 5 can’t keep you so busy you couldn’t do a 5 minute Google search and find out Tatum does watch a lot of video, Gasper. Just like Spida!
So would a healthy goalie have prevented the defense from turning over the puck 10 feet from the net repeatedly? Because if not I’m not sure what difference benching Rask would have made.
Which hesi pull-up move do you guys rock with the most?
Nate Diaz is a warrior.
Cheese and crackers is such a simple but good snack.
Gosh, it is a shame Philly fans are upset today.
Has Kirk made the Call Her Daddy payday about himself yet?
I believe swallowed by a whale Guy.
Cakes are cooking for Mike Milbury, Isabelle Delobel, Venus Williams, Kendrick Lamar, and Andrew Ogilvy.
I meant no ill will towards Nikki, but I’m used to the people associating with her twisting my words to fit a narrative about the media.
I had too much to dream last night.
Glad to hear that Jerry Remy is back at home scratching comfortably. Resting! Resting comfortably! Ha ha, What did I say?
McGreevy’s, Lir, The Pour House, Bukowski Tavern, Whiskey’s. With all those Boylston Street bars permanantly shuttered thanks to the pandemic; it’s like a bomb went off.
‘Yacksel Ríos’ sounds like Bronson Pinchot’s Serge character from Beverly Hills Cop saying the name of the GnR frontman.
You can tell I’m “In Sports” because I constantly post revealing thirst trap pictures then get mad when you notice.
We have 15 sports editors.
Yes, but what if you are an asshole who has bad shorts? Hmm?
Imagine y’all sign a woman HC and win the chip next season. That would be epic
If your pronoun is He, shouldn’t you be playing in the MNBA?
Mudcat Grant? Sounds made up. RIP, if real.
So sensi.
News Item: Celtic great Bob Cousy to get statue in Worcester.
Also; bronze statues of Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Marcus Camby, Jack Leaman, and John Calipari to be unveiled at UMass this September.
No statues planned of Dan Shaughnessy by his alma mater, employer, or either any of his families.
It’s an ice cream place; the menu hasn’t changed.
I heard after placating mopey Cam the Patriots coaches were also discussing what a sexual tyrannasaurus Greg Bedard is.
Honk if you remember the “Quickie Board”.
Prediction: Mama Wilfork is gonna whip that boys ass.
Ok so for some reason I’m watching the bachelorette and being around this many men at one time seems terrifying/terrible
Hey true believers, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “We HAVE to be allowed to keep cheating, or batters are going to get hurt!”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid on the comments made by his former RB Le’Veon Bell: “I enjoyed my time with him. I’m pulling for him. That’s how I roll.”
Do the Red Sox have a Big 3 (Martinez, Bogaerts and Devers) or a Big 4 (Martinez, Bogaerts, Devers and Verdugo)?
Sign more Holy Joe God Squadders, Easterby.
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PINK STRIPES LOL I pay attention to stuff.
Wanna tell her that I’m sorry For the pain that I’ve caused I’ve been listenin’ to your reasonin’ It makes no sense at all Need to tell her that I’m sorry For the pain that I’ve caused You may think that you’re a player But you’re completely lost That’s why I sing
How many Father’s Day telephone calls does Tom E. Curren have to make this Sunday?
Blue Line update: no Blue Line information is available at this time.
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I don’t know why Gary Tanguay isn’t allowed at Patriots training camp, but I wholeheartedly approve of the decision.
Stan Van Gundy, fired. Again.
Best bet for the weekend: smart asses complaining that Juneteenth fell on a Saturday this year.
This Guy. Amirite?
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Hey y’all! Let me start by saying this isn’t a story designed to get you to watch the WNBA; You’re already watching.
It wasn’t an easy decision to get involved with the 15. When you are a woman in sports, you have to deal with waaaay more than any dude. It’s basically like trying to hit John Papelbon’s 98 on the red with a wiffleball bat from Osco Drug. I’ve written some things you’ve read before, but the time is right for me to take it to a much bigger stage. This is Kyrie moving on to the Big Apple. When the 15 asked me to be the lead writer for Competent Ladies Against Mansplaining, I decided to take on the challenge.
Back to the Queens of the hardwood. The WNBA is more popular than ever, with ratings for last Sunday’s Atlanta Dream tilt outdoing the boys’ Atlanta Hawks game 1 win over the Philadelphia Sixers. it doesn’t end there. As of Saturday, June 12, here were the hottest jersey sales in America.
Tom Brady (Don’t get me started…UGH)
Kobe “Bean” Bryant
Lebron “King” James
Sabrina “Buckets” Ionescu
Patrick “Patty no-look” Mahomes
Cam “Super Cam” Newton
Tina “Goat” Charles
Brianna “Goat” Stewart
Lamar Jackson
Betnijah Laney
This could be us but you playin’
So when you see the title the WNBA has “NEXT,” I’m talking about you, Boston. The time is right, the stars are aligned, and a little birdie who would know has whispered that this is a real possibility. Think of the best moments in Boston sports history: Brady’s game winner to upset the Rams in Super Bowl 36, Dave Roberts’ steal in 2003 to reverse the Curse of Babe Ruth, Marchand’s hat trick in 2011 to hoist the trophy, and the 1998 all star game.
Now, think about actual meaningful basketball in Boston. Think about what it would mean. Local girls and boys and those who haven’t decided what they are would have female gay role models to look up to. I grew up watching the Celtics with my dad and I remember seeing Larry’s final game. I was there at the FleetCenter. I fell in love with the sport. Since then, the Celtics have won one title and been to the finals only three times. It’s time to try something new. Give the ladies a chance. I think they’ve earned it.
The world is already watching the WNBA, and soon the world will be watching Boston. We got next.
Anita Thrust is the lead writer for Competent Ladies Against Mansplaining section of The15net dot com. She lives in the Greater Boston Area with her rescue doggo Yodel, and her cats, Alice B. Toklas and Lil Wobey.
Did we win last night? No? Ugh, I can’t believe they lost! This is because you didn’t will them to victory in Game Five!
That was some stretch of cabbage in the hat weather we had there.
Bob Kraft’s lawyers should have petitioned the court to have the Bentley birthday present video destroyed, too.
Anyone but the Islanders. And Montreal, naturally. And not Tampa either because fuck them. And I’m not rooting for a team based in Denver so the Avalanche are right out. And Las Vegas has to wait their damn turn. So…
Out: Spider Tack. In: Spida attack.
N’Keal Harry will make you not care about Julio playing for the Titans instead, you honks and bobos.
So what are we supposed to do, drape the house in black and gold crepe? Lower the Fan Banner to half mast? Grow up.
Hey Red Sox; stop stinking up the diamond.
Cakes are cooking for Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Brent Sutter, Bill Burr, Pokey Reese, and Tara Lipinski.
And also for Gina Gershon, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Elizbeth Hurley, and Leelee Sobieski.
Boar’s Head Deli Dressing makes a great marinade. #ad
The host chair over at the @EntitledTown podcast is beginning to resemble Spinal Tap drummers.
So that junkie horse skipped the Belmont?
With injuries limiting him to only 278 at bats on the season, old Al Kaline finished the 1972 season with 16 hits in his last 28 at bats, raising his season’s average 30 points in his last 7 games.
Coah K retired. Well, bye!
Well I for one am rightly chuffed by that outrage at the footie match in Denver!
College softball? C’mon.
News Item: Fields of Watermelons Found on Mars, Police Say.
Apparently Mike has never had Cooper Sharp American Cheese.
No use the portable one for now it works for me.
#tcot
Make boringer lists, Nana Gary.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With false spike kings and counsellers of the turf, which built desolate places for themselves.
Whatever happened to the LeBron Lakers Dynasty?
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “The bloom is off the rose.”
McKayla Maroney? Y.
Congratulations to Prince* Harry and Meghan Markle on the birth of their second child. 8th in line for the throne.
What fucking skank has no kleenex?
In jail, in jail, without no bail In jail, we’re in jail because we failed In jail, in jail, without no bail In jail, we’re in jail because we failed.
Red Line: Delays of up to 10 minutes due to a signal problem at Alewife. Trains may be asked to stand by at stations.
Jaboukie?
At least the red Sox win a series vs the yankees in new York..beggars can’t be choosers..pillow time.
Honk if you remember multicolor pens.
Boomtower. Back.
A partial solar eclipse? That’s almost as disappointing as only wining two games in a playoff series.
The NFL docked the #49ers the last week of their rookie development program for a violation of offseason work rules, per sources. The infraction took place during rookie minicamp.
Best bet for the weekend: lawn care. Do it.
Margaritaville Faneuil Hall Boston. Opening Late 2021.
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Gentleman’s sweep? We have officially bottomed out.
Trader Danny only GM’ed the team to one TITAL because he doesn’t respect YOU, caller.
The Red Sox lost, despite having scored first.
Steve Roenicke could use another shot, Celtics. Just sayin’.
Why didn’t the TDGarden crown will the B’s to a W?
Congratulations to Helio Castroneves for winning the Indianapolis 500 for the 4th time. I guess all the good Brazilian drivers are in motorsports. What?
Draft the kids, Brad!
Well, if you’re gonna throw a water bottle at an athlete, make sure it’s a Patriots player. Absent that, at least don’t do it to a Black player during a year-long nationwide moral racial panic.
Ironically, the fan missed Kyrie because he forgot to correct for the Coriolis Effect.
Puck luck. Amirite?
Cakes are cooking for Doro Pesch, Mike Gordon, Carl Everett, Al Horford, and Lalaine.
Chris Gasper pronounces Roger Taney’s name the way it’s spelled.
Sports media are really showing their true colors with this Naomi Osaka business.
This is 6A ball.
Wagyu Teppanyaki would be in the HOF if they counted his Japanese home runs.
WEEI is denying us a Larry Johnson traced cartoon of Danny with an exploding cigar motif.
Every hotel room should have a Bible in it. The Good Book shouldn’t be lost on anyone. I don’t read it but I should.
Watching the Garden full made my heart dance. A win made it almost give out.
Pierce Brosnan will bring the kids.
Winner of the Veiled Prophet Pageant also gets a job at the Boston Sports Journal.
Ok, that’s enough chicken sandwiches.
Media invents reports Celtics should hire a woman. Celtics don’t. Media kills the Celtics to sell auto glass.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is: “Horse mouthed hussy.”
Buying bagels off QVC?
What’s your guilty pleasure? Mine is room temperature skim milk.
Spida wants smoke.
You keep Bill Belichick’s name out of your mouth, Mike Lynch.
Cruz Azul, motherfuckers.
Know less about Regulation 204 CMR 4.03(1), restaurant owner lady.
Lions HC Dan Campbell on RB Todd Gurley: “We have interest in Todd, we do. And we’re talking with his agent.” He added that if a deal can be agreed to, they’d like it to get done sooner than later.
MSG. An overrated food additive and arena.
You have to figure Bob Ryan would approve of the Celtics bringing in Jason Kidd as coach.
I saw Bob Lobel drinking and hanging out at a restaurant in NH. Seemed friendly and in great spirits. That was 1990 or so.
Hello Rangoon!
Honk if you remember TWIB Notes.
Good work, Boston College Lady Women Lacrosse Eagles defeating the Syracuse Women Lady Oranges. Champs!
To atone for the bottle thrower, the Celtics need to hire Leslie Jones as coach.
Hug your li’l rappers a li’l tighter today.
I sometimes confuse Claudine Longet with Claudine Auger, and vice versa.
I’m not exactly sure what a Marquess is.
Glad to hear that Jon Secada is back after seventeen years.
One name to keep an eye on in the Celtics’ coaching search: Sophie “Swish” Pryce, who coaches the Portland Littlenecks in the WNBA G League.
You just knock that off, Rays.
Lie around all day Have a drink to chase “Yourself and tourists, yeah That’s what I hate” He said we’re going wrong We’ve all become the same We dress the same ways Only our accents change
So have a nice day
Old gout ankles wants you to know how tough he is.
Why stop at Ainge. Clean house. Go get Juwan Howard and hire him as your coach.
Orange Line Update: Regularly scheduled service has resumed.
This is my motto: You have to keep your friends’ secrets unless there’s any reason not to.
Sunburnt angular features? Pass.
Best bet for the weekend: the old barn on Causeway to be rockin’.
Good luck keeping me out of here now that the restrictions are gone.
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