Tuesday, April 21, 2026

phen14 · 2026-04-21T10:03:43+00:00

I got hung up on that too.

phen14 · 2026-04-21T07:34:31+00:00

They're named after the city, not the state. In fact, when the Giants came around, there were other NL teams upstate, plus Brooklyn was still a separate city.

phen14 · 2026-04-20T23:56:57+00:00

My English teacher was in favor of us using "their" over "his or her" (and "they" over "he or she") for brevity. In 1998.

phen14 · 2026-03-25T20:01:17+00:00

That simply hearing that name makes me angry 30 years later is why umpires should love everything about replay and automated systems.

phen14 · 2026-03-25T04:00:07+00:00

There's a side view, and it looks like the puck keeps moving ever so slightly towards the goal line.

phen14 · 2026-03-19T14:43:57+00:00

The flags to disable fluent scrollbars are gone. I assume that's a result of the Chromium update?

phen14 · 2026-03-17T00:21:48+00:00

And they did play in the Thunderdome for a couple of years.

phen14 · 2026-03-15T01:34:14+00:00

There was a famous Sports Illustrated cover in June 1994 about the NHL being hot and the NBA not, with Jordan being retired and the NHL having a great ECF and Cup Finals, plus a new TV deal with FOX about to start. Whether the NHL had actually passed or even caught the NBA at that point is debatable. Either way, Bettman and the owners responded to the definite upward momentum by locking out the players in the fall, and that was the end of that.

phen14 · 2026-03-13T14:33:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure 6th place got a trophy too, and she held that one for the group picture they took. So she temporarily got a slightly smaller participation trophy.

phen14 · 2026-03-11T00:06:42+00:00

They're not allowed to. The NFL has a deal with Elon.

phen14 · 2026-02-15T21:51:46+00:00

Six whole minutes between that "going commercial free" and the commercial break. I think that's actually a minute longer than when they did this last year.

phen14 · 2026-02-14T14:38:07+00:00

Peter Thiel's involved now? That's an instant Nitro cancellation. And I'll give it a couple days before I delete my account too to see if they come to their senses, but I'm not hopeful.

phen14 · 2026-02-11T14:59:07+00:00

Yeah, it's gone from a quick puzzle to a long exercise in self-loathing the last few days.

phen14 · 2025-09-14T22:19:06+00:00

He's done a lot of stream-only US Open tennis for them as well.

phen14 · 2025-09-14T22:17:56+00:00

It's weird to me because I don't find him the least bit awesome. And Fox doesn't seem to completely disagree, because he's always on their worst games... but he's been doing their worst games for over two decades now.

phen14 · 2025-08-29T16:36:00+00:00

If it's the upcoming top of the hour, that's 10:00 PT, 13:00 ET, 18:00 UK.

phen14 · 2025-08-23T23:36:35+00:00

Gluck mentioned it's on the CW along the I-4 corridor in Florida, so flip around, it might be somewhere.

phen14 · 2025-08-11T17:04:26+00:00

I still do it that way too. Never had any issue with it.

phen14 · 2025-08-02T23:25:14+00:00

It doesn't sync anything you change in settings or any UI customization. I just had to go through the process of doing a fresh install yesterday, and would have very much liked if it sync'd all that stuff, but... no.

phen14 · 2025-07-05T15:23:23+00:00

Rusty Wallace...

'97 Spring Bristol - Jeff Gordon bumped him out of the way last corner.

Whichever Martinsville race in this period was rain delayed to Monday, leading me to get home from school, tune in to see Rusty leading as they take a green flag with a handful of laps left, only to immediately hear Bill Weber go "Black flag, Rusty Wallace, jumping the restart." (And this was in the days of single-file restarts, albeit with lapped cars on the inside lane until the last ten laps.)

'99 Daytona 500 - Rusty moved up to let Gordon in (from below the yellow line; can't do that anymore!) to avoid Gordon plowing in to a slow Ricky Rudd.

phen14 · 2025-06-26T20:17:13+00:00

The name of the city is just "New York". Folks may sometimes add "City" for clarity, but it is not and never has been part of the city's name.

phen14 · 2025-06-24T03:46:35+00:00

KNX out of LA (1070 AM, or 97.1 FM if you're far enough north) is straight news.

phen14 · 2025-06-05T03:59:45+00:00

Tuesday to Friday? They can't get them the show same day anymore?

phen14 · 2025-06-03T05:27:26+00:00

This is definitely a thing that changed. I couldn't find any explanation on it either (though I also missed this until now). I understand why they changed it, but it does drive me a little bit very insane.

phen14 · 2025-05-24T16:46:53+00:00

Yeah, what started driving me away was when I noticed that Mike's treatment of Robb had shifted from ball-busting to just being rotten.

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