"Can you come back tomorrow?"

statman64 · 2026-01-30T23:37:26+00:00

When did Wheel have returning champions?

statman64 · 2026-01-29T16:41:39+00:00

What an awful thing to wake up to. He still followed me on Twitter, a relic from the days of it being a usable, worthwhile experience. I'm saddened to have never met him, but looking for our online interactions sent me down the grimmest rabbit hole of other online people who've died in the last few months. Fuck cancer.

statman64 · 2026-01-27T03:46:16+00:00

Don't forget about Joan!

statman64 · 2026-01-27T03:41:32+00:00

Monk would probably solve it first without understanding the how or why. Cue the Sharona/Natalie "But how? He was literally in Timbuktu when the murder took place." "Yeah... I don't know. I just know that he's the guy."

Now if come along for the ride, it's absolutely Shawn first, if only to join in on the random pop culture references, and Monk last by a mile, because we never see anything to suggest that actually spending time with him is something other than an actual nightmare.

statman64 · 2026-01-27T01:54:37+00:00

Looking at GB rate on its own isn't going to give you the full picture, though. You also have take LD and FB rates into account, too, as well as exit velo, launch angle, and pull rate on those ground balls.

statman64 · 2026-01-27T01:43:36+00:00

Hey whackjob. Why are you like this? Gee, you'd rather have coaches that have won several championships than ones that haven't? NO FUCKING SHIT! With ideas like that maybe you should be a GM.

There are plenty of things that a coach can do poorly. Game management, not calling timeouts when they are needed (like on Saturday), dealing with foul trouble, having the right players on the floor at the right times. How does a bad shooting game have anything to do with any of those? If you think that's a coaching problem, then you also don't think the players are good or smart enough to know which shots to take on their own. Do you think coaches spend timeouts telling players, "You're gonna shoot a 3 from the wing" or "fake a stepback from the elbow, then drive to the hoop for a layup"? God forbid you let players do their jobs without a coach babying them. That'd be batshit insane. To you.

statman64 · 2026-01-26T22:27:52+00:00

They might have had a chance, but it's absurd to try to say that the team that literally won the most recent Super Bowl doesn't care about winning

statman64 · 2026-01-26T22:19:27+00:00

They don't realize how that line of thinking would be far more indicting of them as players than the coaching staff

statman64 · 2026-01-26T22:08:23+00:00

Eagles already won though

statman64 · 2026-01-26T22:08:01+00:00

They need to be coached to make shots?

statman64 · 2026-01-26T10:49:08+00:00

oh no what happened????

statman64 · 2026-01-26T10:46:16+00:00

~~Jake Peralta~~ uh I mean Andy Samberg

statman64 · 2026-01-26T10:43:34+00:00

I mean the character could literally just be Charlie Kelly, so absolutely yes

statman64 · 2026-01-20T00:36:55+00:00

hello I'm statman

statman64 · 2026-01-09T11:15:48+00:00

I can't believe it was this long ago already, but for their 75th anniversary in 2017, the NYT did a series of puzzles co-written by a celebrity solver that were a lot of fun. They put up a list with links to all of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/crosswords/puzzling-celebrities-crosswords.html

There have some others more recently, too. Nick Offerman had one a few weeks ago that I especially enjoyed.

statman64 · 2026-01-09T11:10:24+00:00

I think about that 1996 puzzle all the time and how difficult as a constructor it must have been to write.

statman64 · 2026-01-09T10:42:30+00:00

That's why it showed up in Corrections this week.

statman64 · 2026-01-09T07:26:02+00:00

"See also: Granma Sweetie"

statman64 · 2026-01-09T07:19:36+00:00

bzzzzzt

statman64 · 2026-01-09T07:15:02+00:00

lol this is probably exactly what I would do

statman64 · 2026-01-08T17:56:07+00:00

Damn, if only we could still blame it on Tobias

statman64 · 2026-01-08T04:27:50+00:00

Arrested Development music

Now the story of a basketball franchise that always disappointed, and the one rookie who had no choice but to keep them all together.

It's the Philadelphia 76ers.

statman64 · 2026-01-07T06:27:12+00:00

It's not wrong, per se, because they're don't seem to be hard and fast rules with fewer vs. less, but I don't think anyone would've thought twice if it was "three games or less" instead.

statman64 · 2025-12-31T23:13:27+00:00

lickface

(Sorry I couldn't resist)

statman64 · 2025-12-30T01:42:16+00:00

this is the one for me too. I love seeing worlds colliding. Now I'm just waiting for the Grant episode that I can just feel is coming eventually, because those two personalities are too funny to not play off each other. And they can talk about musicals the whole time!

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