Happy “Flying Pizza” Day if you’re observing it…
19 years ago today. April 16, 2007, Marathon Day, a fan at Fenway Park chucked a slice of 🍕 at another fan.
It was a custom job.
NEW: It's now more lucrative to have a losing sports team than a championship team.
We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.
In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season.
RIP to my favorite Presidents Day fun fact.
John Tyler, our 10th president, had a grandson alive until last May.
John had a son while in his 60s.
That son had a kid while in his 70s.
And that kid, Harrison Tyler, passed away last year at age 96.
So… New fun fact:
John was born during Washington administration. So 3 generations of Tylers span EVERY PRESIDENCY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Boston teams have not gone more than ONE year since 2000 without playing in a game or series that could send them to the finals or Super Bowl #TitleTown
2001 PATS AFC Championship
2002 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2003 SOX ALCS
2003 PATS AFC Championship
2004 PATS AFC Championship
2004 SOX ALCS
2006 PATS AFC Championship
2007 SOX ALCS
2007 PATS AFC Championship
2008 SOX ALCS
2008 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2010 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2011 PATS AFC Championship
2012 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2012 PATS AFC Championship
2013 SOX ALCS
2013 PATS AFC Championship
2013 BRUINS Eastern Conference Finals
2014 PATS AFC Championship
2015 PATS AFC Championship
2016 PATS AFC Championship
2017 PATS AFC Championship
2017 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2018 SOX ALCS
2018 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2018 PATS AFC Championship
2019 BRUINS Eastern Conference Finals
2020 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2021 SOX ALCS
2022 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2023 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2024 CELTS Eastern Conference Finals
2026 PATS AFC Championship
This is absolutely mind-bending. By locking the camera to a fixed point in the sky rather than the ground, this stunning timelapse perfectly visualizes Earth's rotation.🌍🌌
It really puts our movement through space into perspective.
Low-frequency electromagnetic fields can degrade collagen, weaken tendons, and cause soft-tissue damage at levels regulators call "safe."
We have a real world case study proving this:
An NFL team whose practice facility sits next to a massive electrical substation.
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Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.
Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?
Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.
And still became one of the greatest of all time.
Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.
So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.
That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”
Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”
Save this post.
The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.
You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.
Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)
I hate losing to the Yankees more than I hate anything. I hope the Red Sox front office responds to this in a major way. I understand the confidence level in that happening may be low, but that’s the only way this team gets back to October and actually wins a playoff series.
Divide the lintel circle at Stonehenge into 30 parts and each spans 10.56 feet. Halve that and a unit emerges: 5.28 feet — the human pace.
Count 1,000 of those paces and the result is a mile. This suggests the mile may not be a modern invention at all, but a legacy of an ancient system of measurement encoded in megalithic design.