Nobody Cares About Your Favourite Sport

Casey Pelous · May 25, 2025

An Indy car driver who was considered to have a good shot at winning today managed to stuff his car rather thoroughly into the wall on the warm-up lap -- when they're zig zagging back and forth to make the tires warm enough to have traction.

"By far the worst moment of my life, so, I know that's probably dramatic or whatever, but I put so much into this race, everyone does, and we didn't get to see the green flag."

Uhhhh .......... THAT was by far the worst moment of your life? Dude. I mean, seriously; like, dude!

Free · Jul 2, 2025

Only indirectly sports related.

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Infamous contract becomes beloved MLB holiday

The first day of July marks Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual celebration of one of the strangest deals in the history of Major League Baseball.

Bonilla, a six-time All-Star who played his last game in 2001, has been receiving a $1.19 million check from the New York Mets every year since 2011, the result of a decision 25 years ago to delay paying the $5.9 million they owed him.

Looking to dump Bonilla after the 1999 season, the Mets opted to defer his payment – with 8% interest – giving him $1,193,248.20 annually on July 1 from 2011-2035 – adding up to nearly $30 million.

Contract deferrals weren't new in baseball at the time and have been deployed heavily in the 25 years since Bonilla left the Mets, but the fact that he will be getting seven-figure checks until he's 72 years old is what most captivates the baseball world.

Happy retirement, I say.

Innula Zenovka · Jul 13, 2025

My day at Trump Turnberry, where Maga pilgrims pay £1,000 a round

The president is off to Scotland this summer and wants his Ayrshire golf club to fulfil his long-held dream: hosting the Open

www.thetimes.com

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Isabeau · Jul 21, 2025

Cute story.

John Oliver on hand, Moon Mammoths make debut to remember

And on Saturday at UPMC Park, it finally had something akin to a birthday party, hosted by Double-A Erie and its special guest, comedian John Oliver, whose wild idea to (temporarily) rebrand the SeaWolves as the Moon Mammoths came to life.
Wearing the black-and-purple Moon Mammoths jersey and hat designed by his “Last Week Tonight” staff, the HBO star threw out a ceremonial first pitch

Caete · Jul 31, 2025

GoblinCampFollower · Jul 31, 2025

*note the video is old, but I still think it's cool. Good clean press that she doesn't look like she should be able to do!

Caete · Aug 1, 2025

Casey Pelous · Aug 8, 2025

Apparently these techbros figure it is just fine to throw green dildoes onto a pro basketball court if you're doing it to promote your sleazy cryptocurrency.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/wnba-sex-toy-incidents-linked-cryptocurrency-group-2025-08-07/

Surely they'll be tossing green fleshlights onto NBA courts too, right? Right?

Isabeau · Aug 8, 2025

Casey Pelous said:
Apparently these techbros figure it is just fine to throw green dildoes onto a pro basketball court if you're doing it to promote your sleazy cryptocurrency.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/wnba-sex-toy-incidents-linked-cryptocurrency-group-2025-08-07/

Surely they'll be tossing green fleshlights onto NBA courts too, right? Right?

Content creators, influencers, and crypto/tech bros… :voodoo:

I know it’s irrational and maybe some of them are doing good ”creative” things, but if a genie granted me 3, I would waste one wish on making them all disappear.

Like, you know, why don’t you like, shove it up your, like, ass?

"We didn't do this because like we dislike women's sports or, like, some of the narratives that are trending right now are ridiculous," he said. "Creating disruption at games is like, it happens in every single sport, right? We've seen it in the NFL, we've seen it in hockey, you know ... fans doing random things to more or less create attention.

Free · Sep 15, 2025

Oh ho. Ouch.

Dakota Tebaldi · Sep 29, 2025

The Cleveland Guardians are the AL Central division champions, on the very last day of the regular season.

In July the Guardians were 15 and a half games behind the first-place Detroit Tigers in the division ranking, and according to people who knows this kind of stuff a lot better than I do, that makes Cleveland's surge to win the division the biggest deficit comeback in MLB history...so that's nice!

Free · Sep 29, 2025

Dakota Tebaldi said:
The Cleveland Guardians are the AL Central division champions, on the very last day of the regular season.

The new team name is still jarring (to me, someone who can handle change, but still...), but I like how much it pisses off MAGA so KEEP IT.

Free · Sep 29, 2025

"AI" "companionship" infects basketball.

NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His "Friend" ChatGPT

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.

futurism.com

Casey Pelous · Oct 11, 2025

Two of our three Seattle sportsball teams are doing well this year.

This has severely curtailed one of my favorite and most dependable lines of snarkiness.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers. I only hope I can find the strength to soldier on.

Isabeau · Oct 11, 2025

Casey Pelous said:
Two of our three Seattle sportsball teams are doing well this year.

This has severely curtailed one of my favorite and most dependable lines of snarkiness.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers. I only hope I can find the strength to soldier on.

Still bitter about the Expos (yes, I should probably get over it), but couldn’t help following along this week. Still, I didn’t stay up last night till the end. I‘m so glad the Yankees are out, and consider me your adversary till the Blue Jays win it all.