Recent content by Joe D Reid

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    Former SoSH Greats in the media (Simmons and SeanBerry Megathread)

    Someone should definitely tell Sparky that Berry is in a basement.
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    Let’s Talk About These New Uniforms

    That could account for the pants, but it doesn't account for things like the Chavis jersey having misaligned numbers (unless the Nike specs are truly insane). What we have here appears to be a bad idea that, independently, has also been badly executed.
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    That was then: Celebrating what was

    I've only seen the first episode (and not really learned anything new), but they've done a good job starting the story in the right place with Bledsoe and a nice amount of background on the Pats, Kraft, and Bill. I don't think this will reveal a lot, but might be a good single-setting review of...
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    Plus interns of course don’t get benefits. So total comp for the full-time folks is still going to be higher even on a rate basis. But it’s a good sound bite by the union.
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    Is It Over Now? Chiefs/Niners SB Thread

    Up to 1 dead and 30 injured, now, with 3 in custody. Looks like the rally ended by the old/new train station/public space downtown, which is where the incident happened.
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    Championship Weekend: Chiefs @ Ravens, Lions @ 49ers

    My daughter just correctly compared Harbaugh’s facial expressions to those of the Billerica’s U-12 girls soccer coach, and now that’s all I can see.
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    Wild Winter Fun- January 2024 Transfer Window

    It is one of the non-PIF clubs, although I can’t imagine those clubs don’t take phone calls from the prince. If I read Eales’s comments correctly, though, it’s not even the fee that they care about. You book all of the profits from a sale in the year of the sale. But if you take that money and...
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    Wild Winter Fun- January 2024 Transfer Window

    If they do, the new regime won't kick in until the season after next.
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    Wild Winter Fun- January 2024 Transfer Window

    Newcastle seem like they are on the verge of blowing it up to reset their FFP. Lots of smoke around Trippier to Bayern and Almiron to a Saudi club. That's all broadly consistent with what Darren Eales was signalling earlier in the month, too. Joelinton is also out for the year and unlikely to...
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    2024 FA Cup

    As incongruous as a hot dog sausage in a burger bun.
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    2024 FA Cup

    Nah, this should get the USC-UCLA exception every time. FIFA/UEFA’s increasingly strict kit clash rules have already ruined enough (color limits on World Cup jerseys; hideous white blocks around the numbers for teams with horizontal hoops like Celtic). Keep the FA Cup weird.
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    Rethinking Barstool?

    Yes, it is great and selfishly I am upset this ding-dong let the cat out of the bag. Also, an actual chef had that same quote about Joanie’s in last year’s Boston Magazine, so Portnoy might have just plagiarized it.
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    Week 15

    DISRESPEK
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    Shohei Ohtani is an LA Dodger: 10 years/$700 million

    This is just the Ilya Kovalchuk moment come home to MLB. As MLB has moved closer to a hard cap, it has gotten to be better and better value to have cap guys poring over ways to design contracts in a way that minimizes CBA consequences. Next go-round this loophole will be closed, but kudos to all...
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    Midweek GW 15: How Do I Get Onto a Zoom With My Boss And Keep The Game Volume Off

    Yeah, I'm not even mad. NUFC aren't getting back to the CL anyway, and Everton deserved that.