@CamStewartLive@MayoMediaNet Looking pretty good coming off of surgery Cam! Hope you get a few Masters bets in, kick the feet up and take a much deserved rest.
I am fully convinced that 2019 was the last normal year we will ever have.
Not normal in the sense of perfect. Not normal in the sense of without problems. But normal in the sense that there was still a shared reality. A baseline. A world that, for all its flaws, still felt like it operated according to recognisable rules.
That world is gone.
Since 2020, something fundamental has shifted and most people feel it even if they cannot name it. A persistent low-level anxiety that never fully lifts. A sense that time is moving both too fast and strangely out of sequence. A feeling that nothing quite lands the way it used to that experiences, connections, even ordinary moments feel slightly hollow, slightly off, like a frequency that no longer quite tunes in.
Everyone is exhausted. Everyone is overwhelmed. And yet nothing seems to slow down long enough to make sense of it.
The anchors are gone. The institutions we were raised to trust have revealed themselves. The social fabric that held communities together was deliberately stressed and in many places snapped entirely. The relationships that did not survive the last five years left silences that have not been filled.
And underneath all of it is something that does not get said enough.
Grief.
Grief for the world that existed before. For the innocence of not knowing what we now know. For the relationships that were lost not to death but to division. For the version of the future we thought we were building that has quietly been replaced with something none of us voted for.
2019 was the last year most people lived without the constant sense that the ground beneath them could shift without warning.
But we are living in the aftermath of something enormous and we are being asked to pretend that we are not.
You are allowed to grieve what was lost.
And you are allowed to say that the world as it was is gone — because it is.
Look around.
@gfienberg17 Bet 365 started offering “Prop Protection” insurance on NFL/NBA/NHL because so many ppl were complaining, so maybe that does work! The bet settles as winner with a reduced amount paid out in bet credits. Classy move by them imo
@TheModelManiac Ok maybe they didn’t have their best stuff today 😂 but Rahm was 7th at the US Open and Bryson was 5th at the masters. That course was super baked out and crispy too. AK was a ball striking machine !
@JasonSobelGolf I don’t like LIV (mostly for what it did to the game of pro golf fracturing it) but this is one of the greatest live sporting events I’ve ever watched
@Daniel_Rapaport It’s amazing how some people let their golf politics override their appreciation for this moment. Biggest comeback story in golf after Tiger winning the masters in ‘19
@AnthonyCumia@JimNorton Not breaking any new ground here but with the remote show being such a thing now, why aren’t you guys doing one a week? Give the people what they want sock cuckas!
@robpizzola How were the zebras not calling any pass interference on Denver (especially some of TJ passes in the 4th) then call 2 that decide the game? Not a great look for the league