Jon Couture

The nature of post-2018 #RedSox baseball makes it pretty rough to trust anything about this run they're on. Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters. boston.com/sports/boston-…

A cheap-looking AI slop ballpark rendering video could be the anthem of the Tampa Bay Rays organization

They called it The Athletic. (Perhaps not in literal word and limited to sports, but still.)

Definitely front of mind in a snowstorm, but before too long, grass will be back at Gillette Stadium for most of the year. bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/spo…

Profiteering horseshit of the highest order every time they do it. Lucky for them, it drops a little lower on the profiteering horseshit leaderboard every successive time, because there's no shortage of alternatives making a run for the top spot.

After reading through the 33-page term sheet for the Chiefs' new stadium in Kansas, I think it's one of the most lopsided stadium deals in NFL history. Kansas is essentially giving the Chiefs $3 billion (stadium funding + mixed-use development funding + tax incentives), yet getting virtually nothing in return. The Chiefs get to keep 100% of the revenue from all stadium activities, including ticket sales, concessions, sponsorships, naming rights deals, personal seat licenses, and more. That applies to NFL games and all other events (concerts, basketball games, etc.). Kansas will own the stadium, with the Chiefs paying $7 million in rent annually. But that money doesn't go back to the state; it goes into an account the Chiefs can use for renovations, repairs, and operational expenses. That means the Chiefs can use their own rent money to hire stadium security, parking staff, and concession vendors throughout the season. I know Kansas had to offer a great deal to get the Chiefs to leave Arrowhead, but this is worse than I expected. Here's a full breakdown of everything I found in the term sheet: huddleup.substack.com/p/the-kansas-c…

Attacking? Sign me up.

[Sees "Heels" trending.] [Thinks, "Oh, must be a Belichick thing." Clicks.] [Immediately reminded this is the internet.] [Closes window, goes to feed the cats.]

@JerryBeach73 Maybe this sport's not so bad after all.

Both Red Sox runs are earned in an inning in which Carlos Rodon made an error. It's finally happened, @JonCouture!!!!

This is content for you, @JonCouture. (Though it'd be nice if Ed figured out spring training homers too THANKS ED)

Another year, another "boy, these #RedSox have something cooking" before the trade deadline.

However many children you think are in Messi jerseys tonight in Foxborough, there are more.

Put the crayon logo on the chest, you cowards. It feels like I will impulse buy this regardless.

The Thunder still have a logo that looks like the placeholder logo a city uses when it hasn't figured out its name yet. Stuck with it now!

In 2007, got pulled with a few other reporters to do a Japanese TV segment about Matsuzaka. It was ask a question, hold up a little sign with a happy/sad type thing on it, then answer. Remember thinking, "This feels very goofy Japanese TV." NESN now does it every night.

Used to be a baseball town, but there's a new national pastime.

Always the danger of hyperbole in the moment, but Sunday feels like an organizational failure to top them all. Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle was undercut at the spark of a fun summer. Just gross. boston.com/sports/boston-…

Spare a thought for the people in the #RedSox ticket office this morning, who two weeks ago were already in the "two free hot dogs with every ticket purchase" portion of their Rolodex.

The most amazing thing about all of this is that it might be worse than the Mookie Betts trade, given team control, contention, the market, etc. At minimum, it's debatable. Not debatable: The Red Sox have done this twice in 5+ years.

Carlos Narváez is this generation's Sandy León. #RedSox