Derek Gittus

@BaseballQuotes1 It reads like the old Big 8 football standings.

The AL East standings are very ascetically pleasing

@GraigKreindler Billy Ripken FF ‘89 Fleer. Smart kid!

I HEART THIS SO HARD

@NHLBruins 1 game tank is on. Better win tomorrow.

Trailing after two.

@NFLExcelerated @TomCaron And who earned a one seed of that group

@TomCaron The turnout you'd get if these 4 schools played in the Worcester region. A lot of Merrimack students aren't flying to North Dakota. But would certainly make the drive to Worcester.

Providence College is located 114 miles from Quinnipiac University. The two teams will play in Sioux Falls, North Dakota - a mere 1,544 miles away.

Teachers vs Professors This has been on my mind since I first encountered it almost 15 years ago. When I was in high school, I had a few teachers in the humanities/social sciences who were really, really good: deep, serious thinkers, with lots of interesting views synthesized over decades of globetrotting experiences. As teachers, even at a nice private school, they were not real “winners” in the sense of climbing a prestigious career ladder, and neither did they publish academic papers. You could call them very advanced amateurs, and as dabblers they got to toy with lots of interesting ideas, kind of randomly assembled, without outside judgment. When I got to the University of Chicago, known for its life of the mind in the humanities, I didn't really find anybody who seemed to be as deep or as interesting a thinker as these teachers I encountered in high school. I always wondered why. Partially, it's because I got lucky with my teachers. They were the best we had. Maybe I didn't get so lucky with my professors. But today I may have figured it out: I think the actual reason is that my professors at UChicago were, in a sense, winners on an academic career ladder. It’s an extremely competitive environment, and they had somehow made it to the top. By definition, this is a tremendously powerful filter. And I think this had actually filtered against a whole group of people whom I consider interesting. This has become especially clear over the last few years, as a lot of traditional academia has been losing prestige rapidly: people are trusting the kind of professorial expert class less and less and less. It turned out that professors of ethics and sociology are just as unethical and susceptible to groupthink as the general public. And the general conformity of ideology and thought in academia is now well-known. These professional humanities academics may publish papers that are respected or even highly esteemed within their own niche communities, but this particular value system has long since been removed from what I consider interesting, or, in many cases, even related to the pursuit of truth. Reflecting on it, the heart of the matter is that those teachers in high school were unconstrained by convention and had been allowed to fully lean into their interests — kind of like the platonic dream of academia — whereas the professors I encountered in university, even when very successful, had been conformed by the academia-industry pressure cooker and their work sanitized, professionalized, and ultimately made uninteresting under the constraints.

@Jomboy_ @JomboyMedia Anybody who has been to a youth tourney with pool play knows they hadn’t clinched yet. Or if they watched the Olympic hockey, where there was a three-way tie just last month. No executive above DeRosa figured that out?

Here's a full summary of how Team USA embarrassed themselves last night in the World Baseball Classic.

@packers He stunk in NE.

Packers name Cam Achord special teams coordinator

@jorgecastillo @Buster_ESPN A Yale degree is worth so much more than NIL money. 40-plus years of ROI.

Jack Ohman was one of the country's top pitchers as a freshman at Yale last season. Then just about every elite program called offering big money to transfer. He stayed. "It's more of a loyalty thing. I think that's a little bit of a forgotten trait, I guess, in college sports." espn.com/college-baseba…

@_TyAnderson He’s from Weymouth?

Weymouth’s own is back in town.

@RearAdBsBlog I was hoping he’d get a moment like Thompson last night.

Give Werenski a lil love, no?

@SecDuffy Dear lord. You are an idiot. Pick up a history book.

Best cabinet since 1776 🇺🇸

@awfulannouncing “Own goal” is a soccer term.

NBC’s Olympics hockey coverage has included several own goals dlvr.it/TR4c7H

@BigLeagueDigest Wisconsin hates the Cubs more than the Cards.

Is this graphic accurate for most hated MLB teams by region?

@RearAdBsBlog Be ready for a US-Sweden quarterfinal. Ugh.

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@JDSchurz @barstoolsports Much respect, John. You already got to enjoy an incredible football season. Just give the Badgers a crumb. If reunion was in June instead of May I’d be there.

@DerekGittus @barstoolsports Derek, I disagree with you disagreeing with me. But, I have mad respect for you and your opinion. Hope to see you one of these days, my friend.

'Never Seen Anything Like That' - Greg Gard Is Rightfully Pissed After The Refs Handed Indiana A Win With Some Bullshit Calls In The Last 30 Seconds s.barstool.link/c/article-3562…

@JDSchurz @barstoolsports Strongly disagree

@barstoolsports Maybe. But, the refs were the reason Wisconsin was even in the game. Bad calls all around.

@CFB247 @ClassicsCFB The Georgia trio is probably better, but Gordon, Ball, and White was a pretty good troika too

This is the best RB room in CFB History 🚨

@sokeefe66 @nufced @MiracleOC @MERUZIONE @JimCraigUSA Some of the same old stories, but a lot of new footage and interviews too. Would recommend.

@nufced @MiracleOC @MERUZIONE @JimCraigUSA Is it as good as “Do you believe in Miracles” ?

Don’t usually give TV tips but Netflix doc Miracle:The Boys of 80 is spectacular. As somebody who covered the Boston guys since college can not recommend more strongly. A deep dive into what makes teammates and family forever. @MiracleOC @MERUZIONE @JimCraigUSA

@ConorRyan_93 My new favorite Bruin. What a trade.

Make it 14 points in the last 15 games for Fraser Minten.

@ProFootballTalk It was a very enjoyable watch. More domes are coming, along with more sterile football. Weather games are becoming a rarity, please don’t speak for us.

Everyone hates the idea of neutral-site conference championship games. Until the fourth quarter of Patriots-Broncos, which was unplayable -- and unwatchable. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…