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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think barely an inning went by where I wasn't thinking WTAF is happening. What a weird, stupid baseball game. But it's a win! #GuardsBall

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

By beating Cruz Azul 2-0 to win Campeones Cup, Messi has leveled up his game to that of the 2021 Columbus Crew. This is big news that should definitely overshadow everything and guarantee the Ballon d'Or for him. #Crew96

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yep. Entered 76th and scored 77th. Bested Jimmy Medranda, who entered 73rd and scored 75th.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Santi Rodriguez is the 24th player to score in his competitive #Crew96 debut (all competitions.) At the 22nd minute, he was the fastest starter to accomplish the feat. (Was Steven Lenhart 26th minute vs RSL in USOC.) Six subs under 22 mins.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Little League World Series was on at the restaurant and one of the kids named his favorite athlete as Michael Jordan. GTFOH. I tried to relate. That would be akin to asking me that when I was 11 and me saying, like, Norm Van Brocklin.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

After allowing goals at 90+3 and 90+5 to lose 3-2 in Nashville, tonight is the 2nd time in #Crew96 history they've entered second-half stoppage time with a lead and then lost in stoppage time. The first: 3-2 loss 9/15/07 at KC. Eddie Johnson PK 90+3 then Scott Sealy at 90+4.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hear me out MLS… * 29 teams make playoffs. * TRIPLE elimination. * Miami advances directly to MLS Cup Final and visiting team can only dress 18 minus their seed. So, like, the 11 seed can only dress 7 players in Miami if they make the final, Regular season matters!

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Mendez is the 12th player to score for #Crew96 in his MLS league debut. Leandre Griffit also did it, but he previously made his club debut in a USOC game. But he scored for the Crew in his first-ever MLS league appearance, joining the 11 listed in the prior note.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Mendez is the 11th player to score when his #Crew96 all-comps debut was also his MLS league debut, joining Brian McBride, Pete Marino, Thomas Dooley, Eric Vasquez, Kei Kamara, Niko Hansen, Lucas Zelarayan, Cucho Hernandez, and Max Arfsten.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Brais Mendez is the 23rd player to score in his #Crew96 debut in all competitions. The first since DeJuan Jones and Dylan Chambost both did it on 8/9/24 in a 4-0 win vs. Kansas City.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes he came out with Beatallica. They were great. I still listen to those Beatallica tunes sometimes. Such a creative gag and they pulled it off flawlessly.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m pretty sure I was at that one. Is that when Beatallica opened? I saw DT once and it was at the Newport and Portnoy was still there and Beatallica opened.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

An MLS game postponed by smoke? That’s football heritage. #Crew96

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Since Progressive Field opened in 1994, Cleveland has 103 walk-off home runs That’s 11 more than any other team in that span

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

First pitch! Cleveland’s Gavin Williams to Seattle’s J.P. Crawford.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yes, the tale is in one of the Massive Collection books. Can’t remember which of the top of my head at work. I think Vol 2. It was a 2007 scrimmage at Obetz.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today’s staff entrance is the front door.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A whole lot of stuff had to happen for the Knicks to win but if you are the Spurs you will be thinking about this moment in particular for a very long time. At this moment, there are like 50 ways you can win the game and maybe one or two ways you can lose.

De'Aaron Fox breaking into the open floor chasing a loose ball with no one between him and the Knicks basket. 14.1 seconds left, Spurs up 1.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Maybe that's why the Spurs keep gift-wrapping games to the Knicks in the final minutes. Altruistic choking.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's tough because I normally root for the more tortured fan base.... but New York sports fans are so insufferable and the Knicks finally winning after 53 years would be so overbearingly obnoxious. But the world needs some joy right now, and the Knicks are unquestionably providing lots of it.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I couldn't believe it. They had the game essentially won. (Blowing a 29-point lead notwithstanding.) They've gift-wrapped this series for the Knicks with some all-time gaffes. Absolutely astonishing how their brains just melt at the end of games.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

PS- As the San Jose telecast lamented “Threeeeee seconds to play! Threeee seconds to play!”

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This Cavs team is so unenjoyable. They are capable of doing great things for stretches but are equally capable of being the worst team you’ve ever seen. You can neither trust nor enjoy anything with them. Even up 22 with 7+ left in the game.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

PS- Fun fact...the 1998 Revs also had an instance of allowing two hat tricks in six days...TB's Musa Shannon on 5/10 and KC's Digital Takawira on 5/16...but had yet another game squeezed in between on 5/13.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I got you covered. Seventh all-time. Second this year! I have a thread with all of them.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2026 CLB 5/10/26: Hannes Wolf in 3-0 loss at NYC 5/13/26: Julian Hall in 3-2 loss at NY

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2026 ORL 3/21/26: Sam Surridge in 5-0 loss at NSH 4/4/26: Denis Bouanga in 6-0 loss at LAFC

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2025 RSL 9/17/25: Denis Bouanga in 4-1 loss vs LAFC 9/21/25: Son Heung-min in 4-1 loss at LAFC

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2024 NE 10/12/24: Alexandru Matan in 4-0 loss at CLB 10/19/24: Lionel Messi in 6-2 loss at MIA

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2022 COL 8/27/22: Daniel Gazdag in 6-0 loss at PHI 8/31/22: Hany Mukhtar in 4-1 loss at NSH

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

2011 RSL 9/24/11: Dwayne De Rosario in 4-1 loss at DC 9/28/11: Marco Pappa in 3-0 loss vs CHI

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

1998 NE 8/22/98: Cobi Jones in 5-1 loss vs LAG 8/30/98: Diego Serna in 3-2 loss at MIA

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

By my count, #Crew96 are 7th MLS team to allow hat tricks in consecutive league games. (And the second this year already!) 1998 NE 2011 RSL 2022 COL 2024 NE 2025 RSL 2026 ORL 2026 CLB

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Digging but so far found NE allowed b2b hat tricks in 1998....

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

*Two guys have equal claim to the ball.* NBA: “Let’s do a farcical little ceremony that awards the ball to the team of the taller player.”

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Mike I’m so sorry to hear this. I can only hope that whatever trials you can do will hold it off long enough for something better to become available to you. This would be hard enough without all the counterproductive cruelty. All my best to you. #CrewSchmack

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NEW POST: Cleveland Astra Lighting the Way Cleveland's WPSL Pro team, debuting in 2028, now has a name and logo. And it turns out that @clevelandprosoccer.bsky.social CMO @ginaprodan.bsky.social and I thought of the same teacher as the brand came into focus. sirkbook.com/2026/05/04/c...

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Cleveland Astra: Lighting the Way

The last few years, Clevelanders have had many reason to look to the heavens. We’ve witnessed the eerie majesty of a total solar eclipse, ogled the specter of the wondrously luminous northern light…

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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

13-year anniversary of the greatest Tweet in MLS history

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I know a game is about to kick off, but I have been asked to share the sad news that longtime #Crew96 team ops legend Tucker Walther has passed away. I don't have the words right now.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

That was so dumb. If Carolina wasn’t even legally in the zone when the penalty occurred, how did the penalty still stand? Getting tugged from behind to disrupt an illegitimate breakaway that replay confirmed should have been blown dead = penalty shot?

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You’d have to switch to fiction, which he’d remind you is all made-up lies that didn’t really happen.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Too much nuance to fit into a single post, but of course! The more the merrier! The problem is only someone from New York can write about Erving and only someone from Virginia can write about Malone, so it gets tricky in a hurry for a principled writer who respects firsthand knowledge boundaries.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The synthesis and sharing of hard-won acquired knowledge is the job. Philadelphians had 43 years to conduct dozens of in-depth interviews and do years of newspaper and magazine research in order to tell this specific story. Philly fans should thank the midwestern guy for doing it.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

That was a very aggravating baseball game.

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Steve Sirk @stevesirk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

(I used "loser points" as is the common vernacular, but there are also "tie-er wins" from shootouts that cause further standings inflation that divorce the modern standings from any semblance of historical reality.)

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