Steve Sirk

Writer of massive stories about Massive subjects. 2022 regional Emmy Award winner. NEW BOOK "A Massive Collection Vol 2" is now available on Amazon and B&N!

[Steve Sirk @stevesirk]

#Crew96 fans, I'll be where the sky is its natural hue.

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@REFLOG18 Definitely not the first. Houston Dynamo part-owner James Harden was traded from Houston to Brooklyn in 2021.

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@PNWGary I used to try to explain, for scope, that CLE and AKR downtowns are closer to each other than some major CLE suburbs are to each other.

What you linked, I did something similar in the CBJ press box one night in the early 2000s to show if CLE annexed burbs to be Cbus city size.

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@PNWGary When I moved to Cbus in 96 it blew my mind how entrenched city over metro was. I was like, "Have you ever BEEN to Cleveland?" (The gap has closed since then. At the time it wasn't even close.) What's worse was I had a coworker who thought Columbus was bigger than TORONTO.

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@DegenerateTBone What's funny is we couldn't care less about racing but for some reason peeked at it like halfway through then ended up watching the rest of it because there was so much stuff happening that made it interesting even to people who couldn't care less. And it paid off. That was fun.

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PS- Fun fact...the 1998 Revs also had an instance of allowing two hat tricks in six days...TB's Musa Shannon on 5/10 and KC's Digital Takawira on 5/16...but had yet another game squeezed in between on 5/13.

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By my count, #Crew96 are 7th MLS team to allow hat tricks in consecutive league games. (And the second this year already!)

1998 NE
2011 RSL
2022 COL
2024 NE
2025 RSL
2026 ORL
2026 CLB

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2026 CLB

5/10/26: Hannes Wolf in 3-0 loss at NYC
5/13/26: Julian Hall in 3-2 loss at NY

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@EnswellJones Decades ago, a co-worker clicked yes to everything in spell check and sent a widely distributed email on behalf of a high-level manager, Beanie Pronoun.

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@brownbuckeye1 @MrCleveland_216 It was. A very special memory with my dad. In that split second your brain recognizes that if he's able to get to that ball and catch it, it's over. They're all dead meat and you're going to see something super rare and amazing. But all I could do was excitedly hit his arm.

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NEW POST: Cleveland Astra Lighting the Way

Cleveland's WPSL Pro team now has a name and logo. And it turns out that @cleprosoccer CMO @ginaprodankelly and I thought of the same teacher as the brand came into focus.

Cleveland Astra: Lighting the Way | https://t.co/RuVhhTNkuO

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Tonight, we wear black armbands in honor of Tucker Walther, a long time member of the Crew's support staff who recently passed. He served the club from 2000-2015 as Equipment Manager, Team Administrator and finally as Director of Team Operation. Our thoughts are with his family.

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I know a game is about to kick off, but I have been asked to share the sad news that longtime #Crew96 team ops legend Tucker Walther has passed away. I don't have the words right now.

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@DesignSpecter @Kat_A_Tonic For these standings-based things, they are cut and dried. 1996 TB and 1997 DC are Shield winners even though the Shield didn't yet exist. Same concept to the Spoon. Dead last is dead last.

Super Bowl is a different beast as it was the title game between two leagues.