Philip Conliffe

Market researcher. Baseball fan and coach. News media junkie. Big picture guy. Favourite expression: Let's take a step back.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

What a final sentence from Cathal Kelly! Saying out loud what we've all been feeling. https://t.co/YohcssrqVM

[The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs]

Happy birthday to Paul Westerberg, whose intuitive feel for the economic and social underdog informs the subtle politics of his best material. Here is a piece I wrote for The New Yorker, about the workingman's blues at the heart of the Replacements' 'Tim.' https://t.co/JXKARrSD8d

[Joe Sheehan @joe_sheehan]

Wednesday's Newsletter on Peter Seidler and John Fisher has gotten a great response, so I've made the entire piece FREE at the Web site. (Link in bio because Twitter is broken.)

Thanks to @sean_forman, @jposnanski, @craigcalcaterra and more for the push.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@oldhockeycards Warren Cromartie

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@dannogallagher7 That's so cool. I had no idea.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@paullanglois101 Pub Flamingo in Halifax, summer of '88, I believe.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@andrew_leach For me it was the former. The platitudes, the trust-us-even though-we-clearly-don't-have-a-plan tone. They've tried it so many times before. This was once too many. Couldn't believe they thought this was an adequate response. So condescending.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@acoyne That's nothing. I saw Egg Nog at the grocery this evening.

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

This is a thank you to Kelsie and Chris Snow, for sharing how hard it was. I’m sorry. https://t.co/uPd514f5Xa

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@JayCuda This illustrates that there is much less competitive balance in the NFL than in MLB.

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

10,000 retweets and this definitely happens

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

The most 'intriguing' member of the family.

[Prep Baseball Ontario @PrepBaseballON]

‘25 LHP Gregory Conliffe
@VaughanOfficial

Intriguing look at the young lefty. Utilizes the side-arm slot, had feel for all his pitches throughout his pen.

@PBR_Uncommitted || #EBLOScoutDay

[Prep Baseball Ohio Scouting Coverage @PrepBaseOHScout]

2025 CF/1B Gregory Conliffe
@VaughanOfficial

Gets the bat head through the zone and singles up the middle

#cabaucmia #pbr44

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

There's always been a better way to run elections, it's called proportional representation, and over 85 other countries, including 80% of the OECD, already use it.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@Wilnerness And the Rays lost to the Royals. Good teams need to win those games. Time for management to blow things up.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@TaoofStieb Schedule eases up through the ASG. I expect them to go on a bit of a run. 13-5 seems feasible.

[Philip Conliffe @philipcornflake]

@editaurus I stumbled upon them at a festival in 2015, not knowing much about them. Grew confused then angry that the crowd was enthralled with something so dull. Context: was coming down off the exhilaration of a Buzzcocks set.

[The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs]

Something like a concept album about squandered promise, The Replacements 'Tim' speeds through the entire Springsteen-emotional circuit of wildly misspent youth to washed-up dotage in a breathtaking thirty-five minutes. Bus rides and long nights. Hard days of nothing much at all.

[Michael Armstrong @ArmstrongGN]

Dear Hockey Gods,

The rest of Canada is starting to think what you’re doing to the Maple Leafs may have gone too far.

It’s funny — don’t get me wrong.
But maybe it’s gone on a bit long.

I’m not saying the Cup… but maybe a round?

Sincerely,
A Habs Fan