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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 12h

EA Sports has issued a press release that they are canceling the release of Bill Belichick College Football '27

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 10h

watching some classic Kershaw playoff highlights
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bhh...

EPIC! Crazy Car Pileup in Montreal. Bus Police and Snowplow!

YouTube video by Willem Shepherd

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago Guy legend. iconic delivery of "I gotta a bottle a 12 yer old SCAHTCH to whoever puts a collar on dat QUACK"
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 11h

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

I am not a professional sports broadcaster, but I am not sure if the the proper way to describe 37 year old guy getting shelled in a playoff game is to act like he is being taken to a vet to get put down

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

waiting for the edit of Kershaw runs set to the wrestling guy screaming AS GOD AS MY WITNESS HE IS BROKEN IN HALF like that deadspin edit of the Brazil-Germany world cup game

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

There is a certain way that Joe Buck says the words “and taking the mound for the Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw” joebuckishly that has become one of the most eerie sounds in baseball, a chilling declaration that is like the phone call whispering “seven days” to the people in The Ring who are normally going about their day until a nightgown ghost lady crawls from their television to tear them apart.

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

man i don't know if anyone in baseball has ever loved anything more than Dave Roberts leaving Kershaw out there to get annihilated in a playoff game

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 11h

watching a Classic Kershaw playoff dinger
bringyourchampionstheyreourmeat.blogspot.com/2020/10/i-am...

I am not a Sadist but Clayton Kershaw Getting Lit Up in the Playoffs is Baseball’s Most Endearing Recurring Bit

There is a certain way that Joe Buck says the words “and taking the mound for the Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw” joebuckishly that has become one...

bringyourchampionstheyreourmeat.blogspot.com

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 12h

Bill Bellichick responds to criticism by announcing that he has named a new receivers coach: his heretofore unknown and most upsetting son Beavis Bellichick

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 12h

here's a stupid baseball thought: Aaron Bane

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 12h

EA Sports has issued a press release that they are canceling the release of Bill Belichick College Football '27

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 13h

figured out what sean penn's nasty rubber-faced Mouth Movements in one battle after another remind me of and it's a baseball manager deciding whether to challenge a play

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 14h

playoff baseball is the only time you can feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming at the Predator to kill him for 3+ hours

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 9d

me finally watching my team clinch a berth in the mlb playoffs: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

me turning on my team's playoff game and wanting to vomit with every pitch: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 17h

Bill turned him into a 1990-91 Detroit Piston, sad to see

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 17h

well I've seen enough from the Cubs. hopefully Mo Baller is good next season after they let Tucker go.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23h

You would not think that Iowa’s football team, a notoriously staid institution where Brian’s father Kirk has been churning out the same defense, tight ends, and punts operation for decades as the longest-tenured coach in the Big Ten would be something I would write about. My interests tend towards the cutting edge. For example, in Jeeves Nation, I explored the world’s most innovative search engine poised to remake the entire concept of searching the World Wide Web. In Liar’s Pogs, I examined the burgeoning pog economy emerging in schoolyards that turned into a complex international financial system of its own. My own interest in sports came out in The Trestman Cometh, a story about a coach whose battle to bring revolutionary strategies from Canadian football to the NFL was derailed by the fact that he looked like a ventriloquists’ dummy from the cover of an R.L. Stine novel.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23h

to be fair I have used the kirk ferentz eating an onion like an apple joke when I tried to write an excerpt of a Michael Lewis-style book about Brian Ferentz as a football revolutionary that came out right before the season where he was fired for incompetence

Going Iowanfinite: The Rise of a Football Revolutionary

Note: The following excerpt from the author embedded within the Iowa football program in the spring of 2023, is from a book originally c...

theoafquarterly.blogspot.com

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23h

JAMES LIPTON: What turns you on?

KIRK FERENTZ (silently squinting)

LIPTON: What is your favorite curse word?

FERENTZ (silent squinting)

LIPTON: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

FERENTZ: (bites into a big white onion like it's an apple)

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 23h

JAMES LIPTON: What is your favorite sound? Bearing in mind we've already talked about how it is an insult to the great Bernard Pivot to just keep saying "you know, seeing the ball, having a good at bat"

KYLE TUCKER: (nervously swallows) well just you know

LIPTON: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STUDIO KYLE

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

thinking of the fuckyou fuckyou fuckyou guy from yankeesfans.gif tonight

BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

has anyone forgotten how disastrous it went the last time we had the Texas Guard in Illinois

D.J. Augustin dribbles the ball in a Bulls uniform

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

I would pay a substantial amount of money to see Werner Herzog interacting with Dabo Swinney

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

Footage for the Hulu UNC football documentary has been turned over to Werner Herzog for his new project: The Hubris of Man vs. The Inevitability of Death, Let's Go Heels

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

gritting my teeth and saying "let's do the fucking news" as I start writing a 1,500 word post on the concept "what if karl ove knausgaard had to sign up for the ACC Network"

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