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Best video of all time. Hands down

[ESPN @espn]

Greg Jennings put the team on his back with a BROKEN LEG 😤

A classic moment in internet history. (via @Gbread86)

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@joshjohnson1515 Legendary

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@joshjohnson1515 buzzer beater should be on this list

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@hjohnson101 😂😂😂

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[NBA 2K27 News&Intel @2KIntel]

Me and the boys on August 28th loading up NBA 2K27

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@DraeJack

[Warriors Nation @WarriorNationCP]

Steph Curry reportedly wants to stay with the Warriors and will not request a trade, per @BrettSiegelNBA.

One team. One city. One legend.

Dub Nation wouldn't have it any other way. 💙💛🐐

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@uglydrae Hahaha naw we gonna be top 5 in the west

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Bro ppl were hurt . We’ll be better this year. I promise

[trev @BayAreaTrev]

The Warriors still haven’t added to a roster that went 37-45

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@Ralfy_E Ahahh that’s what everyone says

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I’m not down either. It’s a clown show

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Michael Wilbon is NOT down with the Savannah Bananas

"Tony, I'm not acknowledging that Banana stuff, I'm not!"

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Bro stfu . You didn’t need to write a whole fucking book about this . You’re sorry

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

A Mets rookie jumped, kicked his legs apart, and slapped the grass after his first career strikeout, and half of baseball called it disrespectful to the game. Here's who he actually is, because once you know the story, "respect the game" starts to sound like the disrespectful part.

His name is Jefry Yan. He's a 29-year-old rookie. Read that again: 29, and a rookie, in a sport where most careers are over by then. He signed his first pro contract in 2013, at 16. Then he spent more than four years completely out of affiliated baseball. Out. Not in the minors, not rehabbing, out of the sport. The Miami Marlins rediscovered him pitching in a men's beer league in Arizona in 2021. A beer league. The kind you play in after your dream is supposed to be dead.

From there: Single-A, Double-A, a stint in Japan with the Seibu Lions, the Dominican Winter League, Triple-A Syracuse, and finally, thirteen years after he signed, his major league debut Wednesday night in Cleveland. He struck out the first batter he faced and did the celebration he's done at every stop of that thirteen-year climb.

Now the "unwritten rules" crowd wants him to tone it down. And here's where the whole "respect the game" argument collapses on itself.

The celebration isn't disrespect. It's the most respectful thing on the field, because it's the only honest one. Yan explained it himself: he wants to play like it's a kids' game, like he always has. This is a man who was told the game didn't want him, went to a beer league, and clawed back over thirteen years. The joy is not an act. It's the accumulated release of a decade of being nobody. Asking him to suppress it to look professional is asking him to pretend the climb didn't cost what it cost.

Baseball's "respect the game" ethic has always had this problem buried inside it. The unwritten rules police celebration hardest, and they disproportionately police the players who celebrate the way Latin players celebrate. Yan is Dominican. The flat-affect, act-like-you've-been-there ideal was built by and for a specific culture of the sport, and it has spent decades treating the expressiveness common in Dominican and Venezuelan baseball as a violation. Bat flips got the same treatment until the league finally realized it was marketing gold and started selling the highlights.

Here's the tell that the "disrespect" framing is empty. His own manager, Andy Green, said he doesn't fear teams taking offense, because Yan's reputation preceded him. The people inside the game aren't offended. The offense is almost entirely from the outside, from the guardians of an etiquette that was never really about respect. It was about conformity, dressed up as respect.

And notice what nobody's disputing: the man throws 101. He threw the eight fastest pitches any Met has thrown all year in a single inning. He earned the mound the hard way and the stuff is real. The celebration isn't covering for a lack of substance. It's sitting on top of a fastball that touches 101 and a story most players would have quit on at year three.

So the real question isn't why Jefry Yan gets a pass. It's why we ever decided joy needed one.

The game doesn't get disrespected by a man celebrating the thing he waited thirteen years and one beer league to do. It gets disrespected by pretending that celebration is the problem.

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Mixon was a fucking demon

[BakerMuse @MuseBaker]

Never forget the Great Baker Mayfield and Patrick Mahomes Shootout

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As Warrior fans, please appreciate KD. @KDTrey5 was unguardable on the Warriors. I love you KD. Should of stayed and it would of been 5/7 championships

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@Kofie lol bro he’s a good piece on a playoff team. Your job would be safe

[College Hoops @CollegeHoops]

#2 Arizona vs #9 Duke (1989)

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Played every role you can play. From franchise player on down. Blessed to call him my favorite player of all time

[#CoachHova 🏀 @realbucketscout]

Andre Iguodala is the perfect example of why box score watchers miss the game completely. He wasn't just an athletic wing, he was a basketball genius and also a role player who won Finals MVP over some of the biggest names in basketball.

[#CoachHova 🏀 @realbucketscout]

Andre Iguodala is the perfect example of why box score watchers miss the game completely. He wasn't just an athletic wing, he was a basketball genius and also a role player who won Finals MVP over some of the biggest names in basketball.

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This was one the best series by individual players I’ve ever seen. And I was like 12

[Wise Michael Jordan @itsMichaelJ]

Can anyone name the year?👀

(@timelesssports_ )

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Walter McCarty was nice

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People need to start respecting his legacy

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

72 3’s in a row is insane

Klay Thompson is one of the best to ever do it

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Arizona will make the CFP

[CFP @CFBPlayoff]

Drop your boldest take for the upcoming college football season...

...we'll revisit this in February. 👀

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

Few could fly like @andre ✈️

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@hjohnson101 You thought the comment section would be flooding 😂😂😂