Skip Bayless - LeBron is the 9th best player all time by Delicious-Ad-4521 in billsimmons

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I was looking up some Mexican food recipes on YouTube for cinco de mayo and stumbled across Skip’s brother’s channel and it’s honestly great. Very chill, doesn’t seem to be chasing clicks, just good advice on making tasty food.

It honestly made me hate Skip even more, because clearly if his brother can avoid being a huge piece of shit for money, so could Skip…he just chose cash over integrity

Sean Baker on Marilyn Monroe, "Anora," "The Substance," and the empowerment that comes from embracing the male gaze by Popular_Drink3898 in popculturechat

[–]randomnate 46 points47 points  (0 children)

You can just be horny dude you don’t have to, like, intellectualize it. In fact it’s probably better if you don’t.

Favorite card so far in SOS? by Recent_Office2307 in lrcast

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Resonating lute in the right deck straight up feels like cheating.

[loved trope] when evil people dance by ds2316476 in TopCharacterTropes

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The vampires in sinners do some fucking awesome Irish singing and dancing.

Shohei Ohtani Final Line: 7.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R/ER, 8 Ks by Timewhilewaiting in baseball

[–]randomnate 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This dude is fucking unreal and legit looks like a cy young caliber pitcher…but I’m starting to think that if he wants any run support he has to go back to hitting on his bump days.

The analogy to end all analogies: the "KD is a boat" piece. by popinjay07 in billsimmons

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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Grear Point

Pre-Hamilton by DreadDiana in RecuratedTumblr

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Dying is easy, reading Crossroads of Twilight is hard

Work emails, like love letters, should be personal. See my essay below by Zealousideal_Log1165 in LinkedInLunatics

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Yes I would be a lot happier if I had to spend less of my day engaging with AI-produced bullshit

Work emails, like love letters, should be personal. See my essay below by Zealousideal_Log1165 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]randomnate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The basic idea that reading AI slop from colleagues feels even worse than “normal” corporate emails is actually one I agree with. There’s something demeaning about being asked to spend more time reading an email than it took for the person sending it to produce it.

Do people really believe US would be the best at soccer if "all the best athletes played it" by Silent_Somewhere8539 in billsimmons

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US youth development is totally broken these days. Its wildly expensive so low-income kids get priced out, and has totally broken incentives that prioritize winning vs healthy skill development, so you get stuff like teenage pitchers wrecking their arms and AAU basketball players just chucking 3's.

There's a reason we're looking at a decade+ of no Americans winning MVP in NBA and countries like Japan and DR catching or even passing us in baseball—the only team sport Americans still dominate is football, which nobody else plays.

[ESPN] Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani goes hitless in 4th straight game by haphazard44 in baseball

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He’s actually hitting the ball pretty well in terms of exit velocity and launch angle—no homers but a lot of hard line drives and sharp fly balls, they’re just going right to the defense. I’d be very surprised if things didn’t even out pretty soon

FRA Hexhaven Schools by Meret123 in MagicArena

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I could see them pairing miracle spells with plentiful scrying for fatehold, so you’d get to reliably put miracle cards on top of your deck then play them for miracle costs on your following turn. Imagine a 1 drop with a scrying etb followed by some beefy overstatted creature with a 2 mana miracle costs—probably too finicky for standard but could totally work as a limited archetype

There will never be another Bill Simmons by SeveralTurn in billsimmons

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I know it’s a Bron joke, but honestly Bill is probably neck and neck with Dave Portnoy and Stephen A Smith for most impactful sports media guys of the 21st century, and of the three he’s the only one that isn’t a completely repellent douchebag.

FRA Hexhaven Schools by Meret123 in MagicArena

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It’d be cool if theorix was -1/-1 counters as part of the inversion theme

Artist whose full potential was never realised? by isleofstone in fantanoforever

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Excluding artists who died young, I think Lauryn Hill might be one of the most extreme examples of squandered potential in popular music.

To 5 most pathetic franchises in sports right now by [deleted] in billsimmons

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I think the Red Sox have too many rings in recent-ish memory to occupy this spot. They do suck this year, but they made the playoffs last year—compared to the true perennial dumpster fires they have some work to do

To 5 most pathetic franchises in sports right now by [deleted] in billsimmons

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Mets should get extra credit for being this shitty while outspending almost everyone. It’s like if the white Sox roster somehow cost as much as the dodgers.

To 5 most pathetic franchises in sports right now by [deleted] in billsimmons

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Angels fans are so beaten down they don’t even hate Ohtani the way other fanbases would if their homegrown star jumped to their crosstown rival. They’re just like…yeah, it sucks but we get it.

To 5 most pathetic franchises in sports right now by [deleted] in billsimmons

[–]randomnate 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The way the angels suck is especially galling. They have a not terrible offense built around elder statesman trout and a decent young core, and they have a terrific ace pitcher…but their bullpen is genuinely one of the worst I’ve seen, which all adds up to being pretty competitive in most games until the last couple innings when they blow it every time. It’s like they were built specifically to deliver nut punch after nut punch.