Sean Manaea’s presser was pretty alarming and telling about what he and the rest of his teammates think of this fanbase and its not good at all.
Good job!
The Alonso stuff is a level of bizarre I’ve never seen in New York. The fans booed him out of town in 2024. The team collapsed in 2025. The radio hosts trashed him for 5 years. And now we’re treating him like he’s Mantle and was done wrong after he opted out. Weirdest stuff ever
If we had a nickel for every multi-homer game that Francisco Lindor hit in the Subway Series on September 12th, we’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s awesome it happened twice.
Much has been made of the Patriots’ mysterious “Pink Stripes.” How about yellow ones?
I went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered a diabolically clever piece of Patriots gamesmanship.
When opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second, offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.
In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video board appeared to point in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights, making the illusion even more disorienting.
I found dozens of examples. In the same games, I reviewed 52 Patriots field goal attempts.
The illusion appeared on Patriots kicks exactly zero times.
We actually tried copying the idea when I was in Philadelphia, but the location of the video boards at Lincoln Financial Field made it nearly useless.
It is the perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small, and no possible edge was left unexplored.
We talked about this tactic and more on tonight’s episode of the Paganetti and Underhill show, out now on Youtube