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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're working for a for profit media corporation, just get out. Now. Do something else. Anything else. The only people in for profit media now are in it to try to squeeze a few more dollars out of it before they kill it.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like what PCA is doing is still being undervalued by everyone but stat-obsessed weirdos. The GAP between PCA and 2nd-place Shohei Ohtani is the same as what Ranger Suarez, Jake Bauers and Braxton Aschraft have done this year. Basically, PCA is a full All-Star level player better than anyone.

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Joe Posnanski @joeposnanski.com · 12/09/2026

I know that for so many only October matters … but the fact that Tampa Bay and Milwaukee will be the first two teams to clinch postseason spots does point away from the whole “small market teams have no chance” narrative.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Brewers are gonna win 105 damn games or whatever it is and I'm still going to have to hear for the next 6 months that we need a salary cap because they can't compete.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

None of these games are at all likely to affect the CFP race. That they're limiting this to those games is curious.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The amazing thing about this Dodgers thing is that many baseball fans actually seem to believe that "billionaire owner was committing massive financial fraud to boost his team" is an argument FOR giving the owners everything they want and not an argument that they are a bunch of lying liars.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy 10th birthday to an incredibly special boy. Even though the game itself was a bust, it was an amazing experience to get to treat you to your first Wrigley trip, Matthew. I love you.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Everyone loves this guy for lobbing shots everywhere but I'd submit a big talker who refuses to play anyone decent in the non conference represents literally everything bad about this stupid sport at the moment.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We can't afford to drink at Wrigley, but we had to raise a plastic cup in honor of Cubs Trip 21.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every time I make the mistake of glancing through Facebook comments on a news article, it reminds me why that's such a bad idea. You are left thinking this species is much too stupid to deserve survival.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Unfortunately this means my fatwa against the Celtics is going to continue for a long time to come. I'm virulently anti-Celtics until they stop benefiting from Kevin McHale gifting his old buddy Danny Ainge KG in 2007.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Baseball will never make sense, and that's why I love it. Two weeks ago every Cub fan, including me, was ready to fire this guy into the sun.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Modern situations the framers didn't anticipate in a constitutional amendment, you say? Like, you know, the possibility of a one-shot primitive musket versus an automatic machine gun that can fire a gazillion bullets per minute? That kind of modern situation, Brett?

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

MLB is going to keep making this about 'competitive balance' when it's not. It's about taking money currently going to players and giving it to owners. That's it. I'm not buying the propaganda. Many already do, and many will. Hopefully enough don't that this doesn't go through.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's funny how words can become indelibly linked in your subconscious with movie/TV scenes. For instance, I'll never not think of Jim Halpert when I hear the word "blurry." And in a much deeper cut, I'll never not think of You've Got Mail when I hear the word "Vancouver."

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Such ridiculous whining from this guy all offseason. Say what you want about Notre Dame vis a vis last year's playoff, but you never once heard any loser talk about how if they'd played a tomato can instead of Texas A&M they'd have made it.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Cubs trainer Nick Frangella has spent more time on the field than half the damn roster this season.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Newspapers didn't go under because it was 'too expensive' or 'didn't make money.' They went under because rich people took over profitable-but-not-profitable-ENOUGH businesses, slashed printing budgets, made deadlines earlier and produced crap like this.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cubs offseason: Bregman (sucks, owed $175M next 5 yrs) Cabrera (gave up real assets, mediocre at best) Re-signed Shota (sucks) Tyler Austin (injured, will never play) Hunter Harvey (injured again) Hoby Milner (meh) Phil Maton (2Y/$14.5M to be worst in the pen) Has there ever been a worse offseason?

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JCsPops (Fuck Mango Mussolini) @jdub9911.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

14/116 w/RISP since May 9th. 4/78 w/RISP since May 9th outside of the Crosstown Rivalry.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Cubs have had two 10 game winning streaks and will still be out of the playoff race in a month. It's actually pretty impressive.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I really don't have much against the Brewers, but if they get rolled by the Dodgers in October again and I hear their fans whining for a salary cap again afterwards I'm going to want to roundhouse kick them all.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sometimes I wonder what I'll tell my son when he starts asking questions about the world. Because in a world where evil always seems to win, where people who do care get screwed over repeatedly by the people who don't care without consequence... I don't know.

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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

SPEECHLESS.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm very much enjoying the "Nico Hoerner gets sick of being underrated so decides to turn into a RBI machine" era

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Watched way too much baseball to assign much meaning to any April game, but rallying from 4 down in LA the day after winning your 9th straight - in extra innings - at home is pretty big time. And worth staying up way too late for. #FlyTheW

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Don't talk much about being Catholic because frankly I don't walk the walk enough to earn it, but ooooh boy am I enjoying Pope Leo XIV.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I refuse to believe any team is better at executing fake rallies than the Cubs. Flat out refuse.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

According to MacroTrends, Disney's annual gross profit in 2025 was up 9.17% over 2024, which was up 9.99% over 2023, which was up 4.86% over 2022. No amount is ever enough for the pigs running these companies.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In retrospect, I should've picked UConn to be the runner up. It would've fit better in my "everything always sucks" bracket than Duke. And it would've done even better, obviously.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

By the way, I picked Michigan to win in my bracket knowing this was coming. I don't gamble on sports because I'm too broke and because I'm smart enough to know that I'm too stupid to be good at it. But this is one of those things I knew ahead of time and wish I had gambled on.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There are a ton of reasons I've lost the belief in karma, and one of the less important ones is that the B1G - and Michigan in particular - are just apparently great at every sport now. No entity has done more damage to college sports and yet they get to win at them all.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I barely follow Ball State basketball but I'm irrationally happy they beat the crap out of Northern Illinois today in the teams' last conference game. Have fun in the Horizon League, you dirty backstabbers. (That's tongue in cheek. Kinda.)

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The ex South Korean president was tried and found guilty of leading an insurrection. Hmm.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

College football fans have been totally red-pilled. How is it that fans of teams want to be bored out of their minds every September watching crap football in service of maybe, possibly, making the playoff?

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This seems to be common among those who plan to destroy publications. Because the point isn't the money - it's the power they have to control employees' lives.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Look at the bright side (I guess), Post folks- at least the guy who decided to gut your publication didn't stick around to preside over the zombie that remained?

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I'm in a very dark place these days - depressed, angry and fed up with the state of my life and the world - and it seems pretty clear I'm not alone. The fact that it's clear I'm not alone is, in its way, a bit helpful.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

simonwillison.net

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

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Chris W @rakesofmallow.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🏈 new newsletter 🏈 There are many issues with college football but it's become apparent that the biggest threat to what we love about it is Tony Petitti. How the Big Ten commissioner has become the sport's top villain: rakesreport.substack.com/p/rakes-repo...

“If you’re 6-3 in the Big Ten, I would argue that’s a great record, and if you stumbled in a nonconference game, I don’t know why that disqualifies you,” Petitti said at last year’s Big Ten media days. “8-4 as a winning percentage, if you project that winning percentage in every other sport, I’m pretty sure you make the postseason.”

Very cool, sir -- whatever you do, don’t look up a random Big Ten schedule and ask who the best wins would be if that program lost to the top three or four teams it faced. It somehow got worse from there. Petitti tried to sell off 10% of the league’s media rights to private equity, an idea so bad he made the Trojans and Wolverines look like heroes for throwing themselves in front of it. A Michigan congresswoman wrote to Petitti opposing the deal and then a month later a Washington congressman called Petitti a jackass and accused him of trying to buy votes for the SCORE Act. While I abhor blind fetishization of bipartisanship it should be noted that the two legislators are on opposite sides of the aisle, a disdain of Petitti’s machinations bringing them together.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Also reposting this. Why? Who knows.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Reposting this repost, just because

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

One thing is for sure, if Notre Dame ever wins it all I will be in debtor's prison from all the gear I will buy.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Tony Romo just said he thinks whoever wins this game has a shot at going to the Super Bowl which is in fact how the postseason is structured

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This first round has featured two crimes against offensive football, one team self destructing to hand the game over to a team they previously beat, and two complete wastes of time. Hope you're all proud of yourselves, college football.

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Andy Roberts @andy-roberts.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

They used Notre Dame for outrage bait for 6 weeks. They flat out lied about their playoff positioning and then pulled the rug out from under them by invoking something they'd ignored the whole year. Now they're mad ND won't play into the script and allow them to profit off it. Screw them all.

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Matt Barrie rips Notre Dame for withdrawing from bowl consideration - ESPN Video

Matt Barrie explains why Notre Dame is wrong for opting out of playing in a bowl game after missing the College Football Playoff.

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