Patrick

302; mid-major stan; drinks milk

[Patrick @patrickf934]

@EricBoehm87 Just bought a ticket at midfield, upper deck for Norway Senegal, 10$ less than face value and feel like I’ve won the lottery

FIFA took an arm and leg for fees but what’re you gonna do

[Animal Rights News @theirturn]

How many more crashes, injuries and horse deaths need to occur before @NYCMayor #Mamdani fulfills his campaign promise to ban horse-drawn carriages? Today, a passenger jumped (or fell) out of a moving carriage, a child was dumped onto the asphalt when the carriage flipped over and at least one person had injuries serious enough to go to the hospital. Mayor Mamdani: please do the right thing.

[Patrick @patrickf934]

@ethan_sears Order of events is a bit backwards and it’s not the WC but:
Ukraine (Euro 2020 quarterfinalist) bombed Gazprom (Euro 2020 sponsor) literally last night

[Patrick @patrickf934]

Exhibit A: Alabama, a fan base and program completely pacified by participation in the playoff, their games have no stakes bc the threshold for success has been lowered so far from where it was when Saban first took over

[Patrick @patrickf934]

The reason that World Cup expansion doesn’t water down the product in the same way that CFP expansion does for football is that you still get countless permutations like this such that group stage matches are still relatively high stakes

[Michael Caley @MC_of_A]

just wanted to make sure everyone's clocked this

it only takes one group stage wobble to get Argentina vs Spain in the round of 32

[Patrick @patrickf934]

Under the BCS/4team every single week was a high wire act where you had to continue winning while also hoping others would lose, producing tons of week to week variation and implications

Now a coach just has to win 8 games every year to appease boosters and get keep their job

[Patrick @patrickf934]

The flagrant rules are an albatross to begin with, let guys throw elbows, players can police their own

[Patrick @patrickf934]

wemby game 3 cheap shot aside, all 8m people in NYC seem to have forgotten that the spurs were vastly superior to the Knicks all season and then decided the refs were at fault when laws of averages started coming into play

[Patrick @patrickf934]

Refs aren’t blameless ofc, they were losing control of games up until this one, but when each teams best player (wemby/brunson) are bad defenders/certified hacks, you’re inevitably walking a razor thin wire to keep the game under control without throwing sand in the gears

[Patrick @patrickf934]

Serious plothole in For All Mankind

In episode 6 von Braun chides Margo for not being a team player and that she considers personal relationships trivial, but earlier Margo had immediately known Aleida’s dad

In what universe does a person like that know the janitor by name???

[Patrick @patrickf934]

I gotta hand it to KAT, for possibly the first time in his life, he played defense like a person not from Jersey

[Patrick @patrickf934]

No one talks about the the base of the Larry obrien trophy changing from a square to a circle as a marker of the NBA sucking era, arguably just as bad as the logo homogenization and Nike jerseys

[Patrick @patrickf934]

Arsenal is an almost perfect proxy for what the clone team from the 2014 Nike World Cup ad would be if it existed in real life

[Brendan Boyle @BrendyBoyle]

I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.

He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️

The drinking water and human life lines 🤣

[Patrick @patrickf934]

A champions league match, no less the final, being played during daylight hours is a symptom of the moral rot endemic to humanity

[Michael Stanis @MJ_Stanis]

It's also that there never seems to be a moment of silence. For a game that (I think) is about the little poetic moments between plays, they sure do a lot to make sure you've got no real time to take in what's happening

[Patrick @patrickf934]

I am generally averse to manufactured divisive NYC discourse but sensing this could be the downfall of subway takes I’ll throw my match on the engagement flame: let the people lounge

[SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma @SubwayTakes]

White people should not be allowed to sit on stoops in Bed-Stuy!! @arooj_aftab

[Patrick @patrickf934]

The guy who runs the Nets SB nation account is over 70?

[NetsDaily @NetsDaily]

In their last years in Brooklyn, Dodgers would draw 7000/8000 to Ebbets Field. As a child I went to a game in August 1955. Saw six Hall of Famers including Koufax in his first win. Attendance was 7,204. Nostalgia only goes so far.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

I see we have some new players in the NBA jersey arena. Its ethos, and our fight, has been centered around one key principle: home basketball teams wear white at every level of the game, in every league in the world. It is quite simply a basketball tradition, without it being a written requirement.

What Nike has done has not only oversaturated the market with mostly unpopular designs, but uniforms that get left behind after just one season. The constant turnover has one goal: sell as many jerseys as possible, at any cost, even at the expense of the franchise’s brand equity. It is a statistical fact and focus group tested/proven that children like new jerseys, and their parents buy them.

Non-white City Edition/Classic uniforms are often worn at home, it has a minimum appearance mandate because of the NBA’s partnership with Nike, forcing the away opponent to have to wear their home whites when they’re chosen.

Every NBA game that’s played where the home team is not wearing white is a papercut to the sport’s tradition. Not the NBA’s, but basketball’s. It won’t be a tradition that’s destroyed overnight, but as children grow up and it becomes more-and-more accepted because it was never something they cared about or understood, the home whites will eventually be perceived to be just another option.

You will rarely, if ever, see an NHL home team in their away white sweaters. Even though it’s the opposite of basketball, NHL/hockey have always maintained the tradition of the home team’s fashion look.

I like to think they do this because it is something their paying customers appreciate and continue to support with their wallets.

What the NBA doesn’t understand is the sales spreadsheet may suggest that this new jersey strategy is working because so many people are buying them, but what they are sacrificing to achieve these short-term results is the legacy of the sport that made them so cool in the first place.

This business strategy, undoubtedly, will lead to apathetic fashion, market dilution, and diminishing returns with no ability to revert back — because that culture, both literally and figuratively, will be dead.

[westsiderag @westsiderag]

The thing about “bikers” is how quickly they turn back into people once you actually look at them. https://t.co/otvD2HcrcS