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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Tennis has never seen anything like this before" -NYT Really? This is 2019 and 2021 We could have #3 vs. #10 (live rankings) in the men's championship. That should never be a surprise. This sport is deep. Both men's and women's tour. All that some players outside the top 100 need is opportunity

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Diana Shnaider is going to win this match

Still from the broadcast of the French Open women's fourth quarterfinal, in the second set with Aryna Sabalenka leading Diana Shnaider 6-3, 4-1 & 30-love. Shnaider has since taken over the match.

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

WBD moron: We need an "event notification" button to generate alerts that people turn off immediately because they're so intrusive. What should the toggle button look like? WBD idiot: How about identical to the standard volume control button, in both design & location? Moron: DONE and DONE!

A notification button and a volume button are circled on an HBO MAX app screenshot of a tennis match. The buttons are near identical and this is reflective of terrible design and UI

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

You've got more than CBS to include in this vow

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For the CBS boycott proclaimers, here is your mission: These are ALL the channels you're now vowing never to watch again (plus the score of owned & operated CBS local affiliates) Hopefully you accomplish more than your BlueSky post on this mission. I have some faith in a few of you.

List of paramount/CBS television properties for people announcing their (probably actionless) boycotts of the company.

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Well there are wonderful people everywhere. I hope that castigating an entire state--and let's face it, probably the whole region, right--gives you warm feelings of righteousness and sanctimony. Seems odd to do that to people and places you've never met or been to but 🤷

Suburban posers vs. good Appalachian folk

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

WHO DARES QUESTION RYAN DORN?!?!

Still from Mr Show with David Cross doing the best James Lipton parody ever

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

These comments, man You realize this is you?

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

On my first glance it looked like the first letters of the old *PAT bus logo, in a sandwich bun *Port Authority Transit in Pittsburgh

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

With Jamahl out, it's time for the Magic to turn to Alonzo Mosely

FBI Special Agent Alonzo Mosely, as played by Yaphet Kotto in 1988's Midnight Run

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's #HOPEningDay Hoist the Cone, boys, Hoist the Fucking Cone 🏴‍☠️⚾

Poorly made T-shirt from fanatics & Nike that says Hoist The Cone, a new, absurd and possibly mysterious rally call for the 145th season of the Pittsburgh National League Base Ball Club

AI derived image of the Pirate Parrot mascot waving an orange traffic cone on a flag stick, behind him is an altered image of a scoreboard that says Hoist The Cone

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This Netflix broadcast is a nightmare Bert Kreischer as a hype man of some kind, screaming interjections over heavy rock instrumentation... Followed by the presentation of colors--in wartime no less--and the anthem sung by a sailor

Homer Simpson saying "are you ready to laugh"

An audience member saying "quiet, you awful man," to Homer Simpson

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Here's how the first race experience on CrappleTeeVee is going Literally I haven't had to re-log into MyChart in over two years But watching a niche (in the U.S., people) sporting event requires a birthday, a csc code and 58 laps of two factor authentication, among other circus hoops

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Angie, meine liebste 🥰🇩🇪🎾🏆

Angelique Kerber, 2016 Australian Open champion, in attendance at the 2026 Australian Open women's final at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Dust off the Nolan Richardson gameplan

sign at an Arkansas basketball game from the 1990s. It says Payback is Hell, 40 Minutes of It! That was the motto of the Razorbacks at the time, under head coach Nolan Richardson

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Pittsburgh network affiliate news directors right now

Pressing buttons meme regarding the winter storm vs Steelers hiring a new coach

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Brooks returning to sign papers at PGA Tour HQ

Scene from the Simpsons where Homer begs for his job back at the plant

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Definitely a choice by the #UnitedCup media team🎾to omit a headshot of world #18 women's singles player, and Canadian Open champion, Victoria Mboko; whilst including one for her mixed partner, world #89 men's doubles player Cleeve Harper

Scoreboard of the Belgium vs Canada tie at the United Cup tennis competition

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I need to know more about the Sugar Bee®️Apple🍎 cartel and why they are flooding the search results for rival fruits 🍋🍊

Top Search results for oranges at giant eagle dot com, which oddly include two listings for apples

Top Search results for lemons at giant eagle dot com, which oddly include two listings for apples

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Ah yes, Villanova Stadium, famously located in Philadelphia

ESPN scoreboard graphic with the incorrect location of Villanova Stadium, which is in Villanova, Radnor Township and not Philadelphia

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Going for two was not even remotely a "gutsy OT gamble" by Seattle If the games ends in a tie, LA has the h2h tiebreaker (1-0-1 to 0-1-1) It was a no-brainer, it wasn't even "going for it" It was the *only* decision

the espn dot com home page as of 0122 on 19 DEC 2025. It's about the Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks game from the previous night, with the finals score Seattle 38, Los Angeles 37, in overtime. And there's a link to a video clip from the ballgame.

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Rams are not like the Carnivale; they lack a durable outer casing to prevent fall-apart

A scene capture from The Simpsons, featuring Homer Simpson and a shady television salesman

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Eli Heidenreich is who Stefan Djordjevic could've been if he hadn't gotten in with the wrong crowd in Ampipe. So, Cal Poly it was

Tom Cruise as a high school football player named Stefan Djordjevic in the movie All the Right Moves

Eli Heidenreich, a senior football player at the U.S. Naval Academy

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They could've made exciting regional matchups here but instead these are pretty much for sickos only People are questioning the need for bowls to continue One way to maintain relevance, whenever possible, would be to restore rivalries lost to conference alignment Missed opportunities here

The tv listings for college football bowls on Sat Dec 27, specifically Pitt vs East Carolina and Penn State vs Clemson.

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Sunrise on the Mon, not bad for a pic from inside the bus

Sunrise over the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Oh no, he's been struck down by an Achaemenid mace

Chicago Bears linebacker Ruben Hyppolite II, injured on the field of play

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Some NFL team's gotta take a flyer on this man He'll be on cereal boxes someday ⚓⬇️

Crudely modified box of Flutie Flakes cereal, which have been renamed Pavia Flakes

Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt University Commodores quarterback

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think about this post from time to time People that dive into religion for the first time as adults are often nuts Similarly people who start partying around midlife vs average teens experimenting 40-somethings that post pics of their "airport beers?" Zero chance they drank underage

Twitter post from 2022 by @agraybee
Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It's a rule that any headline about Corentin Moutet includes a word like mercurial, enigmatic, volatile, capricious or...

Headline on davis cup dot com about Raphael Collignon of Belgium defeating Corentin Moutet of France in a quarterfinal tie in Bologna, Italy

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Garnet Hathaway's Dad 🤝 Garth Algar

Garnet Hathaway's Dad at the Flyers vs Blues game

Garth Algar character from Wayne's world player by Dana Carvey

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Here is my old boy Nico sitting on a countertop, next to a picture of my much older boy Lindy. They could've passed as brothers. I think about them every day

a domestic shorthair cat, mostly white with tabby markings here and there, sitting on a countertop next to a picture of an older cat that looks just like him

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Inconsistent as usual--I didn't have to do anything

Email from Google (dba YouTube TV) telling me about a $20 refund. Apparently I don't have to do anything to receive it but others have to go through a few hoops

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Post an birb announcing Dick Cheney is dead

A laughing kookaburra bird

Creator: tracielouise | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just thinking about the Bee Swarm Delay during the Zverev-Alcaraz match in the Indian Wells 2024 men's quarterfinals The bee whisperer guy was the star of the tournament

Beekeeper Lance Davis at the Indian Wells tennis garden stadium in 2024

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Will Smith almost home run guy in the 14th

Fan getting excited about the prospect of a world series game 3 winning home run

A few seconds later, the same fan, in saddened disbelief that the homer wasn't to be and the game keeps going after nearly four and a half hours and counting

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Um, you know, the former race team, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated, duh

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Bob DeNiro as Jack Walsh and Chas Grodin as Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas in Midnight Run, a film made in 1988

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Some additional info here but still a lot to sort out it seems

Athletes First CEO statement on Doug Martin's passing

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Are we just going to overlook that Whit Stillman posted this?

The cast of Metropolitan (1990) the best holiday movie ever, written & directed by Whit Stillman

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The intimacy of the side courts on the European indoor swing is unsurpassed I'd rather watch tennis in places like this than at grand slam centre courts I'm so sad that the ATP tour won't be Bercy next week. I used to call their side courts "tennis in a basement'

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matt connors @mcin412.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Maybe they were all documentaries?

Commissioner Dreyfus and Inspector Clouseau and

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