Ben McCormick
@caseofthebens.bsky.social
2x Muskego tee-ball sportsmanship award winner. Writer. Just here for the zipline.
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Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
Matt Prater, as Marisa Tomei said in MY COUSIN VINNY, “dead on balls accurate”
January 18, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Matt Prater, as Marisa Tomei said in MY COUSIN VINNY, “dead on balls accurate”
My new thing is when Doc talks about how the team is doing he’s just talking about himself.
Example: “it was tired legs.”
Translation: Doc had a long flight and is feeling it.
Example: “We just didn’t have it.”
Translation: “I just didn’t have it”
Example: “it was tired legs.”
Translation: Doc had a long flight and is feeling it.
Example: “We just didn’t have it.”
Translation: “I just didn’t have it”
January 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
My new thing is when Doc talks about how the team is doing he’s just talking about himself.
Example: “it was tired legs.”
Translation: Doc had a long flight and is feeling it.
Example: “We just didn’t have it.”
Translation: “I just didn’t have it”
Example: “it was tired legs.”
Translation: Doc had a long flight and is feeling it.
Example: “We just didn’t have it.”
Translation: “I just didn’t have it”
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If I had what some of these NBA guys have gone down with, I’d be doing this in a pair of Depends.
Brutal stuff
Brutal stuff
Kyle Kuzma is going through his normal pregame routine.
January 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM
If I had what some of these NBA guys have gone down with, I’d be doing this in a pair of Depends.
Brutal stuff
Brutal stuff
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if you read one non-sports thing today that doesn't involve the words Minnesota or Greenland, make it this:
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
if you read one non-sports thing today that doesn't involve the words Minnesota or Greenland, make it this:
One thing on my mind: seeing videos in Minneapolis and elsewhere that make me proud to share an identity with people demonstrating and showing up for their people. They raise the mantle on what it means to be a citizen. So may we all.
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 AM
One thing on my mind: seeing videos in Minneapolis and elsewhere that make me proud to share an identity with people demonstrating and showing up for their people. They raise the mantle on what it means to be a citizen. So may we all.
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“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
Okay Bucks fans, what’s more likely:
1. Horst knows they’re trading Giannis so a coaching change doesn’t matter.
2. Horst is going for a gap year anyway, and Doc seems to be accomplishing that on his own.
(I don’t think blind stupidity about this team being good is a reason. They’re not dumb.)
1. Horst knows they’re trading Giannis so a coaching change doesn’t matter.
2. Horst is going for a gap year anyway, and Doc seems to be accomplishing that on his own.
(I don’t think blind stupidity about this team being good is a reason. They’re not dumb.)
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Okay Bucks fans, what’s more likely:
1. Horst knows they’re trading Giannis so a coaching change doesn’t matter.
2. Horst is going for a gap year anyway, and Doc seems to be accomplishing that on his own.
(I don’t think blind stupidity about this team being good is a reason. They’re not dumb.)
1. Horst knows they’re trading Giannis so a coaching change doesn’t matter.
2. Horst is going for a gap year anyway, and Doc seems to be accomplishing that on his own.
(I don’t think blind stupidity about this team being good is a reason. They’re not dumb.)
Alternatively: Giannis is getting traded and this is all pointless anyway so why fire the coach midseason.
The optimistic reason Doc is still around is something like:
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
January 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Alternatively: Giannis is getting traded and this is all pointless anyway so why fire the coach midseason.
The optimistic reason Doc is still around is something like:
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
January 14, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The optimistic reason Doc is still around is something like:
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same.
Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank.
So let it happen
Very excited to listen.
Elite thumbnail. Like someone is saying wild things on the work Zoom call.
Elite thumbnail. Like someone is saying wild things on the work Zoom call.
New Gyro Step and we have questions:
Where’s the media criticism for Doc Rivers?
Can the Bucks carry on with Doc as head coach?
Who’s right — Giannis or the booing fans? Or both?
Tap in:
🎥 youtu.be/Ys3kDrsMh4A?...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/0CwK...
🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Where’s the media criticism for Doc Rivers?
Can the Bucks carry on with Doc as head coach?
Who’s right — Giannis or the booing fans? Or both?
Tap in:
🎥 youtu.be/Ys3kDrsMh4A?...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/0CwK...
🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Very excited to listen.
Elite thumbnail. Like someone is saying wild things on the work Zoom call.
Elite thumbnail. Like someone is saying wild things on the work Zoom call.
Hearing Sacramento and Miami tied to Ja makes me more optimistic the Bucks smoke is shoehorning themselves in as a facilitator. Clear guys on both teams the Bucks would be happy to take on.
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Hearing Sacramento and Miami tied to Ja makes me more optimistic the Bucks smoke is shoehorning themselves in as a facilitator. Clear guys on both teams the Bucks would be happy to take on.
Has registered that some of these “big” names floating around the Bucks are tank commander types for a post-Giannis era (though hopefully not)
He also mentioned “there’s still thinking that a team may blow the bucks away and he gets dealt at the deadline”
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Has registered that some of these “big” names floating around the Bucks are tank commander types for a post-Giannis era (though hopefully not)
Stray LaVine thoughts:
He’s 43% on catch and shoot and 48% on wide open 3s this season. Almost exactly AJ Green numbers.
3 of the top 8 most efficient spot up scorers are Bucks. The GA effect. He’d feast.
Space cadet on defense. But against Ja, clearly the more likely to find a new level.
He’s 43% on catch and shoot and 48% on wide open 3s this season. Almost exactly AJ Green numbers.
3 of the top 8 most efficient spot up scorers are Bucks. The GA effect. He’d feast.
Space cadet on defense. But against Ja, clearly the more likely to find a new level.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Stray LaVine thoughts:
He’s 43% on catch and shoot and 48% on wide open 3s this season. Almost exactly AJ Green numbers.
3 of the top 8 most efficient spot up scorers are Bucks. The GA effect. He’d feast.
Space cadet on defense. But against Ja, clearly the more likely to find a new level.
He’s 43% on catch and shoot and 48% on wide open 3s this season. Almost exactly AJ Green numbers.
3 of the top 8 most efficient spot up scorers are Bucks. The GA effect. He’d feast.
Space cadet on defense. But against Ja, clearly the more likely to find a new level.
Stray Morant thoughts:
Ja is career 38% from the corners 👀
People wonder about offensive fit with Giannis. The problem may be more defense. GA needs to take plays off and ball watches periodically. Ja does it too. He also pouts and gives up in transition. Incompatible.
Ja is career 38% from the corners 👀
People wonder about offensive fit with Giannis. The problem may be more defense. GA needs to take plays off and ball watches periodically. Ja does it too. He also pouts and gives up in transition. Incompatible.
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Stray Morant thoughts:
Ja is career 38% from the corners 👀
People wonder about offensive fit with Giannis. The problem may be more defense. GA needs to take plays off and ball watches periodically. Ja does it too. He also pouts and gives up in transition. Incompatible.
Ja is career 38% from the corners 👀
People wonder about offensive fit with Giannis. The problem may be more defense. GA needs to take plays off and ball watches periodically. Ja does it too. He also pouts and gives up in transition. Incompatible.
Have a low stakes New Year’s resolution where I watch a movie/month I know I should have seen but haven’t:
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
The Equalizer
Taxi Driver
Life of Brian
Before Sunset
Training Day
Inside Llewyn Davis
Manchester By the Sea
Schindler’s List
Magnolia
Miami Vice
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
The Equalizer
Taxi Driver
Life of Brian
Before Sunset
Training Day
Inside Llewyn Davis
Manchester By the Sea
Schindler’s List
Magnolia
Miami Vice
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Have a low stakes New Year’s resolution where I watch a movie/month I know I should have seen but haven’t:
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
The Equalizer
Taxi Driver
Life of Brian
Before Sunset
Training Day
Inside Llewyn Davis
Manchester By the Sea
Schindler’s List
Magnolia
Miami Vice
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
The Equalizer
Taxi Driver
Life of Brian
Before Sunset
Training Day
Inside Llewyn Davis
Manchester By the Sea
Schindler’s List
Magnolia
Miami Vice
While we wait for Bucks trades, want to point out they need to acquire on money into next season.
Even if this is a gap year, they need salary to be outgoing salary this summer.
Otherwise they wind up exactly where they are today: no tax, but GA, 3 guys who make over $15m/year, and 11 whoever.
Even if this is a gap year, they need salary to be outgoing salary this summer.
Otherwise they wind up exactly where they are today: no tax, but GA, 3 guys who make over $15m/year, and 11 whoever.
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
While we wait for Bucks trades, want to point out they need to acquire on money into next season.
Even if this is a gap year, they need salary to be outgoing salary this summer.
Otherwise they wind up exactly where they are today: no tax, but GA, 3 guys who make over $15m/year, and 11 whoever.
Even if this is a gap year, they need salary to be outgoing salary this summer.
Otherwise they wind up exactly where they are today: no tax, but GA, 3 guys who make over $15m/year, and 11 whoever.
Bucks just don’t seem to know what to do with a switching defense.
After his hot 3pt start, Myles has been bad
After his hot 3pt start, Myles has been bad
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Bucks just don’t seem to know what to do with a switching defense.
After his hot 3pt start, Myles has been bad
After his hot 3pt start, Myles has been bad
Packers games will continue until morale improves
No Zach Tom is a brutal blow for the Packers. That hurts
January 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Packers games will continue until morale improves
The ideal time to go drinking is in the afternoon and finishing after dinner, and I will not be taking further questions on this matter.
January 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The ideal time to go drinking is in the afternoon and finishing after dinner, and I will not be taking further questions on this matter.
I don't enjoy that Charlotte's linked to Bobby and said to be making Bridges available who the Bucks have pursued in the past.
I especially don't enjoy that Bobby/Ajax/Coffey works straight up and given the need for paint touches and rebounding it makes a modicum of sense.
I especially don't enjoy that Bobby/Ajax/Coffey works straight up and given the need for paint touches and rebounding it makes a modicum of sense.
January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I don't enjoy that Charlotte's linked to Bobby and said to be making Bridges available who the Bucks have pursued in the past.
I especially don't enjoy that Bobby/Ajax/Coffey works straight up and given the need for paint touches and rebounding it makes a modicum of sense.
I especially don't enjoy that Bobby/Ajax/Coffey works straight up and given the need for paint touches and rebounding it makes a modicum of sense.
Oh fuck, BILL KENNEDY went down with an injury???
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Oh fuck, BILL KENNEDY went down with an injury???
NBA forever
MLB beat writer: talk a little about the rally in the 7th, what did you tell your guys with regard to changing their approach at the plate
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
NBA forever
Robin Lopez on the NBA studio broadcast is so great.
*KD spikes his water in a highlight cut*
“That poor water bottle. It was just doing its job. Now it’s just another dead soldier 😢 “
*KD spikes his water in a highlight cut*
“That poor water bottle. It was just doing its job. Now it’s just another dead soldier 😢 “
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Robin Lopez on the NBA studio broadcast is so great.
*KD spikes his water in a highlight cut*
“That poor water bottle. It was just doing its job. Now it’s just another dead soldier 😢 “
*KD spikes his water in a highlight cut*
“That poor water bottle. It was just doing its job. Now it’s just another dead soldier 😢 “