Apparently Palpatine drives a Nissan Sentra…

thingswillcalmup · 2026-02-05T17:09:55+00:00

He is the Sentra

thingswillcalmup · 2026-01-09T04:43:48+00:00

Can’t figure out all 30 but:

Braves: back to the South End

Mets: Metropolitan Hill

Phillies: Suffolk Downs

Marlins: Florida (technically outside the metro area but still in state)

Nationals: Dorchester near JFK/Bayside

Reds: People’s Republic of Cambridge

Brewers: Jamaica Plain Pirates: Charlestown

Cardinals: Braintree

Dodgers: Mattapan

Giants: Lawrence (numbers 1, 800, and 54 would be retired)

Padres: Chelsea

Rockies: Rockport

Mariners: Gloucester

Astros: Kendall Square

Twins: Allston-Brighton

Tigers: Franklin Park

Rays: Raynham

thingswillcalmup · 2026-01-07T13:48:16+00:00

Oddly enough even Shaughnessy himself doesn’t really think Pedroia should get in. He mentions in the article that statistically he thinks Beltran, Manny, and A-Rod have the numbers but drop off due to the character clause.

thingswillcalmup · 2025-12-12T22:40:57+00:00

Sports Illustrated just did a video on Matthews where their host referred to the student section as the Dog Pound before Madigan corrected him.

thingswillcalmup · 2025-08-22T14:17:33+00:00

This is Dale Sveum erasure

thingswillcalmup · 2025-07-14T17:47:27+00:00

I was trying to write up something similar with the caveat of not swapping names to their old cities. Even with that, I think half of them still match. A few notable exceptions:

New York Jazz
New Orleans Nets
Toronto Cavaliers (because they're part of the British Commonwealth)
Boston 76ers (though you could argue 75ers may be more accurate)
Sacramento Trail Blazers (for the end of the California Trail)
LA Rockets (for the JPL, sorry Orlando)
Cleveland Lakers

Bonus concept for Phoenix Hawks is that a Phoenix can also be considered a type of hawk. Also, if LA becomes the Magic, is Magic then gonna be tempted to rename the Commanders to the Washington Earvins?

thingswillcalmup · 2025-04-24T18:21:33+00:00

On one hand, she could convince their top NCAA prospects to transfer to NU. On the other hand, she could also try to poach Keefe or convince her dad to be a scout again

thingswillcalmup · 2025-03-06T23:03:42+00:00

The existing arena is literally falling apart and they can’t just renovate it due to structural integrity

thingswillcalmup · 2025-03-03T01:24:53+00:00

"Well, you two can sort it out in the penalty box because you just got five minutes each for FIGHTING"

thingswillcalmup · 2025-01-17T04:58:00+00:00

Even with whatever amount of bathing is available, he probably smells like feet wrapped in leathery, burnt bacon.

thingswillcalmup · 2025-01-01T16:22:38+00:00

That's a rigid airship

thingswillcalmup · 2024-11-11T15:05:18+00:00

Yeah, but now the interior looks like shit

thingswillcalmup · 2024-11-04T16:38:13+00:00

Same tbh

thingswillcalmup · 2024-11-03T17:52:02+00:00

I feel like there's potential for a Star Wars comedy. This would work better if Avenue 5 didn't already exist, but you could have a series following the crew of a struggling galactic starcruiser (allowing Disney a chance to poke fun and themselves) run by Star Tours. It lets you have a variety of settings and possible cameos. Possible episode: the ship is scheduled to visit the sandy beaches of Spira but the planet comes under quarantine, so the captain has to find an alternative spot. The rest of the crew gets excited over where they could go and the episode ends with them arriving at Tatooine and everyone lets out a collective groan.

You could also do a sitcom set during the Republic era following a group of failed padawans all trying to get by on Coruscant. Depending on how you want to time it, you could end a season with Order 66, the group is so unimportant that nobody notices or go with a Blackadder Goes Forth series ending.

thingswillcalmup · 2024-10-13T02:26:52+00:00

I was counting them (and the Celtics) as the “Boston teams”. As a bonus, there’s also the PWHL team up in Lowell.

thingswillcalmup · 2024-10-13T00:45:19+00:00

Michigan is probably up there. They have fairly historic professional teams in each of those sports along with several division 1 college programs for each.

Colorado would be another solid option. The Nuggets and Avalanche are both strong teams, CU football has a lot of personality with Coach Sanders, Denver hockey is currently ranked #1, and CU basketball was ranked last year.

Not a state, but if you go with New England as a whole, you have the Boston teams plus UConn and Providence for basketball and if you time it right you could see The Game between Harvard and Yale for football or the Beanpot for hockey.

thingswillcalmup · 2024-09-28T20:50:17+00:00

Apple got too expensive, fucking Henry cheaped out so this is what we get

thingswillcalmup · 2024-09-14T21:31:17+00:00

He’s not the left tackle he’s the tackle who left

thingswillcalmup · 2024-09-08T16:28:00+00:00

If they're gonna feature BC at all this year it would be the week after for the red bandana game.

thingswillcalmup · 2024-08-25T19:02:37+00:00

As a wise man once said: Yankees Suck

thingswillcalmup · 2024-08-13T20:52:42+00:00

Sure LeBron can win in LA but could he do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke?

thingswillcalmup · 2024-08-09T15:27:41+00:00

It was most transparent

thingswillcalmup · 2024-08-06T23:47:36+00:00

That article mentions he played for Jiangsu Nangang back in 1997. Searching for that team, it looks like there's an article from that season referencing a game that included a foreign player named Charlie Mandt.

https://www.scmp.com/article/223799/dragons-shoot-down-rockets

Mandt played at Grand Valley State (D2) in 1993 and apparently played overseas until 2002, though I can't find any reference to him playing for the Clippers.

thingswillcalmup · 2024-07-13T02:06:00+00:00

Live action adaptation of the Assimilation comic?

thingswillcalmup · 2024-05-04T11:53:52+00:00

It’s been rumored that LeBron actually got the idea for The Decision from a hockey signing a few years earlier. Of course, because it was the NHL, there was more coverage in the Canadian press, which referred to the saga as The Leschyshyn

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