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Braden Smith made a 2! Though I have sneaking suspicion that end of game situations like tonight won’t finish with him under the basket surrounded by dudes a foot taller than him very often moving forward.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 2h

We got goalie’d as hard as you can tonight. But I continue to believe the pieces are in place for us to be a problem during the sprint season. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 4h

True two weeks ago, true now. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 4h

That is certainly one way to come off an interminably long international break. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It will be a source of a lot of freaking out on this site in particular over the next two years, but perhaps Ossoff’s biggest strength is that he is decidedly *not* perceived as an ideologue.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is no reason to care one bit about Wilfried Nancy potentially becoming the manager at LAFC. If he were to go to the San Jose Earthquakes however, we storm the Capitol. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My favorite non-Hali-return adjacent observation from that half of ball is that Siakam is out there arguing calls in a preseason game. His level of genuine, non-contrived competitiveness is both deeply unhealthy and hilarious. I love that guy.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

KU *and* Hogs? It’s only by the grace of our lord and savior morgan hughes that I don’t try to do you serious harm. MIZ.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for consistently posting here. I maintain a presence on the other site specifically for Ducks content - so I know this isn’t exactly an engagement farm. Fly Together, brother.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grimly funny that John Cornyn is 100% gonna vote for Talarico and Jasmine Crockett is 100% gonna vote for Paxton.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, definitely Brais. He’s an absolute killer.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, man. And all three would’ve been absolutely unbelievable goals.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not winning that game would’ve been a grave injustice to Anass Zaroury. Also, how has @acesradio.bsky.social not given more attention to the fact the #Crew96 have a guy named ‘an ass’ who rips.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a night. Impossible is an opinion, brother. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hop aboard everyone, the Columbus #Crew96 are about to demolish the sprint season.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They’ll all be from Pittsburgh

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Bangoura had started this game, he’d have 3 red cards by now. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think that makes it worse. Trying to pass himself off by blending in. It’s evil.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look, I know Messi has driven many people to psychosis. But wearing a Ronaldo Al Nassr jersey to a Miami-Columbus game is easily the most pathetic behavior in the history of anyone who has attended a #Crew96 match.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s honestly frustrating to see the boys in yellow play that well because it’s almost certainly too little too late #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s time to give Hagen the shirt. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Prayers for Casemiro, who has spent his career at Madrid and Man United, the two clubs who receive the friendliest refereeing on the planet. He didn’t know that could happen. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a Cincinnati Reds fan, I’ve never disagreed with a tweet more emphatically than I do this one. I’m rooting for a work stoppage just so I don’t have to spend one minute thinking about that bum organization for an entire year.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just introduced my six year old son to Barenaked Ladies. Would be a concerning sentence if I weren’t the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saw diesel at $6.69 at a station near my house this morning and thought of you. That's a super high number so I assume that's like, a really good thing?

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

dawg, i effin heart brais mendez #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I mean, I guess that was as interesting as a 0-0 half between two really bad teams can realistically be? #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight the Columbus #Crew96 play CF Montreal. They’re calling it the least significant sporting event in North American history. But I am locked tf in.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If we take nothing else from this season heading into ‘27, it’s that we know all 3 DPs are dudes. #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Much like morgan hughes the host of the thriving @acesradio.bsky.social i have always believed this a trophy winning squad #Crew96

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He’s so beautiful. The first one billion point season in NHL history incoming. #FlyTogether #CutIt #FullyTorqued

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tonight as I lay my head down, my mind is full of happy thoughts. #FlyTogether

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A thousand think pieces about what Sydney Sweeney flaunting her body means for feminism. None about the fact she’s doing it to hawk a sports betting platform which, you know, massively harms society.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

smh Chicago Pope in Name Only.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And streaming services give you immensely more content for your fee than cable ever did. All the while you’ll pay more for a single writer’s substack content than you used to have to pay for an entire daily newspaper.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An interesting phenomenon is that everyone has the permission structure to complain about needing to pay for streaming subscriptions, but get scolded for complaining about written subscriptions. When, on the consumer end, it’s a similar outlay.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Man, that OSU loss would’ve ruled so hard if it affected their playoff chances by even 1%. Alas it was still a cool game, for a glorified exhibition. #BringBackTheBCS

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gotta be because there are a bunch of legitimately anti-social freaks in *online* left spaces. Big Z recognizes that he lives in the real world with other humans. It's his super power.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Though Orlando is an MLS club, they’re spiritually in the USL. We will lose to them as is our birthright. Thank you.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If no one watched (in DC or on TV) another embarrassing #Crew96 performance, did it even happen?

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The current era of gambling/NIL/portal driven college sports, which has driven its on-field quality precipitously down, has created a state of affairs such that I care more about the Boom’s transaction log during CFB Week 1 than I do about college football.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Lindsay Clancy case, like Rittenhouse or OJ or any number of high profile murder trials before hers, shows that televising the court proceedings is always a terrible idea.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sheesh, ❌ really is Elon’s passion project ain’t it. Though, I think it’s fair that we all agree about KState fans trying to inject themselves in any Border War discourse being the embodiment of the Mad Men *I don’t think about you at all* meme.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s sort of a ‘why are we talking about Hasan Piker (who, to be sure, is an idiot) when the GOP wants to end American democracy’ type situation.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I see it as mostly a distraction from the broader discussion about how Bill Self if one of college sports’ most prolific cheaters, but it sort of given a pass because of his perennial underachievement in March.

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Ted Masthay @tmasthay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last Friday morning before school, after we beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff the previous evening, I called upstairs to my kids “Mizzou won their first game last night, even though it was against a garbage team!” My 8 year old called back down, “who, Kansas?” I’ve never been prouder as a parent.

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