Henge

[WS999 @Wisc9999]

Hey @Giannoulias what’s the deal with these assholes riding these bikes through River North like rules don’t apply? Are they licensed? State & Grand.

[AeroNiners 🇺🇸 @BowTiedNiners]

Some peak corporate jargon heard around the office today:

“We need to stop putting racing stripes on the Titanic”

[Devin L. @HockeyWithDevin]

I understand you have to maintain a certain cap structure, so you can't just throw money at people.

But if you're unwilling to pay top players what they're worth, then you're never going to attract top players.

[dylan @narrenhut]

This is still one of my favorite jokes from the original Despicable Me. I wonder if you could put something like it into a kids’ movie today without people worrying that it’s too complex

[Henge @henge35]

@NHL_Muse Brian Lashoff

[Joe Chapp @JCSportsDetroit]

Understand what the two positions actually are. Larkin wants out — reportedly because he wants to win, which is the one motive nobody can really argue with. Yzerman wants a return that helps Detroit compete immediately, because a decade into this tenure with no playoff appearance, he is squarely in save-your-job mode. Both positions are individually rational. Together, they're a deadlock. Larkin's three-team list guts Yzerman's leverage; Yzerman's win-now demand guts the list's viability. Neither man is wrong by his own logic, and the collision of those two logics produces exactly nothing — no trade, no reconciliation, no resolution, all summer.

And if the reports are accurate that the captain and the general manager went an extended stretch without speakiung, then this deadlock wasn't fate. It was manufactured. A conversation — an actual, adult conversation between the two most important people in the organization — either prevents this or resolves it early enough to act on. Instead, agents around the league reportedly knew about the freeze-out, which quietly answered a question fans have been asking for years: why don't the good free agents come here? Why does a franchise with Little Caesars Arena, a state-of-the-art practice facility, and one of the great brands in hockey keep finishing second for players? Because the people paid to represent those players could see what we couldn't.

Meanwhile the neighborhood got better. Toronto improved. Florida — already the class of the conference — added Brady Tkachuk to a lineup getting Aleksander Barkov back. The Atlantic Division is an arms race, and Detroit's contribution to it this summer has been a staring contest with its own captain. The Red Wings didn't get better for now. They didn't sell for the future. They picked the one option with no upside in either direction: nothing.

The cruelest part is that fans can't do anything about it except what they've always done: buy the tickets, watch the games, refresh the feeds, and wait for two men who reportedly couldn't be bothered to speak to each other to figure out what the rest of us pay for the privilege of watching them not decide.

Larkin will land somewhere fine. Yzerman will survive this. The fans get the summer of limbo, the season of consequences, and the bill for both. That's the saga, stripped to its studs. Everybody in it has an exit except us.

Link to video; https://t.co/CCd181iMUi

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Meet the man behind the Sky Ride Tap, the Loop’s last real dive bar. https://t.co/iZRSkZFY9E

[Kyle the Butler Fan @kjmac111]

Current mood

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

WE ARE SO BACK.

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

CABOOOOOOOOOO VERDE GOAAAALLLL

WE’RE TIED AGAIN

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

We are all Poch rn

[MLB @MLB]

The @Tigers pick up their first sweep in the Bronx since 2008!

[𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝟑𝟒𝟒 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 @Section344Lions]

The Red Wings are far and away the most boring team in the NHL. A non-playoff roster & a strict unwillingness to be bold or creative in player acquisition.

Just a big, wet paper bag of nothing.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Germany and Japan suffering devastating defeats. Has this ever happened before?

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Made it back

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Austria were on the brink of elimination after Riyad Mahrez had given Algeria the lead in the 93rd minute…

Then Saša Kalajdžić scored a 96th-minute equalizer to send Austria through to the Round of 32 🇦🇹

[br_betting @br_betting]

Maybe the craziest ending to a soccer match EVER

Both teams need a draw to advance, either team is OUT with a loss

-Algeria takes the lead in the 93rd minute

-Austria gets the equalizer on the LAST TOUCH OF THE MATCH 🤯😱

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

AUSTRIA FINDS LIFE IN ITS DARKEST MOMENTS OF THE WORLD CUP AND STAYS ALIVE WITH THE DRAW

WHAT A THRILLER IN KANSAS CITY