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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 6h

"Fuck you doughboy, I can read, see that, says Adidas." Alrite that was the last one, promise, just know I'm having another great time with this ridiculous movie.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 6h

Nobody is going to any other school when Halle Berry is your host. That team should've been 90s FSU loaded

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 6h

'The Program' streaming on Amazon? I don't really have time to debate the efficacy of Amazon, it's basketball season. Just watch the damn movie.

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The Program: Football Complex Run Scene

ALT: The Program: Football Complex Run Scene

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 6h

Can't wait for real data. But this team took real coaching.

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Adam Aaronson @adamaaronson.bsky.social · 7h

Sixers head coach Nick Nurse expects to play his entire projected starting five — Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe, Jaylen Brown, LeBron James, Joel Embiid — in tonight’s preseason game @ Brooklyn. Only players out, he thinks: Bona, Barlow, Simons, Hukporti, Fall

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 10h

I would be very surprised if all the dnp vets dnp'd on Sun again. Extremely. Feels platoon-y

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 12h

Some dnp's are great because maybe you get some agents with a little more urgency to get their guy out of town. Maybe the message is driven home, ya'll aren't taking this team for a contract year stats bump, you better get out now. Will it work? Probably not! But it's a shot.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 13h

I guess having 20% of your cap already tied up in 2 terrible contracts for the next 4 years isn't an easy workaround

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 13h

And they "pay now and figure it out later" path is really really difficult for Jon because he has $36M in bad salary for the next 4 years already.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 13h

Those two need someone to do the theoretical thing(s) Jaquez does but he doesn't do them well enough to do it for the box check of it.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen enough from Dieng and Ament, I can't pay Jaime. That's a perfect trade candidate. He has as much potential to Patrick Williams as he does to Dillon Brooks and that feels like the next guys problem. Or reward. I'll take my pick and keep it moving.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 15h

Publish it.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 15h

Padres fans blamed the roof and Brewers fans would've blamed themselves for being Brewers fans. That's the difference.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 15h

You know what I learned? California is such a drug. Padres fans had so much confidence. The whole time. All unearned. Great team. But they've never won anything. Yet never wracked by any signature midwest existential dread and despair. That sun is crazy. I think you need bad weather in your life.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He should go further. "And a letter sent down from the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln, four scores and 7 runs ago..."

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brewers win. For Padres, the ceiling was the roof.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The smart posters are telling me this is true.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Brewers have spent this series hammering this elite bullpen and getting barely anything out of it. Crazy. I don't use stats, I don't care if this isn't true. Thanks.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New rules are so good

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The unclutch is suffocating me

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Barely.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are they allowed to score first?

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Brewers are small screened here. I just expected most had looked away!

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can't believe he was available at 10. What a great draft. What a good year to have an all time miserable year.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You're watching the Brewers. As you should. Burries just had a very professional split and dump to a cutting Nance that ended up in a Cormac 2 for the lead. And a big rebound and 2 made free throws for the win🤞

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Damn those sneaky white point guards

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Hoop Informatics @hoopinformatics.com · 08/10/2026

Bulls broadcast said that when Buddy Hield was a baby his parents thought he resembled Bud Bundy from the TV Show “Married With Children” and that’s how he got the nickname “Bud” which led to “Buddy” I’m speechless

Bud Bundy from married with children

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can't waste any of the OKC nightlife

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Nose Tap The Bear

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Young Bucks have now come all the way back against the Thunder reserves. Guys, I think we can go to the Final Four this year #wewantDuke

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Kel'el Ware experience is just the Paul Rudd surf lesson in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', huh? "Too much, do less. Well you have to do more than that." Over and over.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2 pleasant preseason surprises?; Sims and Dieng are just useful basketball players. That was true in March. But March can make fools. March was not a fool. They are both continuing to improve.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kasp has made a few really nice passes, but as an initial creator he's just not been strong enough. But when he's made a decision in rotation he's been really smart.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After 29 in the 1st half, the same rotation returned against a lesser Thunder team and felt more comfortable settling for just 4. They're going to have to figure out paint touches against that nasty first month sched, good defenses. But now we know it's in there.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be fair. This wasn't spicy 6 months ago, either

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very*

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You don't hate the Dodgers enough. Baseball is going to go away for a year because grandma's premiums bought a bullpen. Grandpa's, a DH.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't think you should be able to steal billions worth of old people's insurance money to defer billions worth of baseball salaries for World Series rings. That feels fairly obvious.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's extra funny* because "your owner doesn't want it enough" was actually "our owner committed fraud". But the parade still parades!

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Officially, yes. I know you weren't really asking, but Dame made waiving any future money almost impossible.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's dumb. I'm about to watch an entire basketball season only the Thunder or Spurs can win. We're very good at forgetting this stuff for months. When nothing really matters.

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bucks took 31 1st half 3s in the opener. They're at 27 in the 1st half tonight. That's too many. 39-40 total is going to be the number. They have to generate a bunch. But, you're hoping many more of them come on kickouts after orebs. Getting all this size on the rim is important. Paint touch counter

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You were very early on Mara, lottery pick. Great work

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Long rebounds. Crashing hard and the ball is over their head and OKC is leaking. We're going to have a paint touch counter for the regular season.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a group of champions who figured out the preseason scout in 1 possession and it's a demolition

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm requiring one commercial per qtr. Is it too late to change the jersey patch?

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Aday Mara: good

MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is anyone else watching the wildest commercial of all time? What in the world was that midwest grilling show hahahaha

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, what happened? You can steal a long rebound, but aggressively sending the cavalry to chase down long rebound after long rebound has hemorrhaged their transition. You still have to have an inside out game to play this way. 8 bodies under the rim when the possession ends.

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MEB @mebartl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ament pump and drive, awkwardly, but the attempt at the rim gets him an offensive rebound. They are putting an emphasis on getting interior touches. And it's necessary