Matt Dembinsky

Back to back to back #3Peat @AlexDembinsky @samdembinsky

@680TheFan still gotta a little bit to go before it challenges Doyle Alexander for Smoltz deal

Chris Sale might go down as the best trade in Braves history 👀 "He's got a great chance to win his second Cy Young in three years with the Braves. If he stays healthy for another year plus, maybe two years, he's going to get to 3,000 strikeouts doing it in a Braves uniform... we're getting closer every day to saying Chris Sale might be the best trade the Braves have ever made." - @RealMattlanta #BravesCountry @FrontOfficeLos

@nickatnocap @7BOOMERESIASON

University of Maryland is freezing hiring and cutting at least 150 jobs while paying its football coach $6.1M, its men's basketball coach $3.4M, and still writing $1.2M checks to a coach who hasn't worked there in five years. The easy take is that coaches make too much, and the easy take is wrong IMO. Locksley's salary isn't the problem, Buzz Williams' salary isn't the problem, and Brenda Frese being one of the best coaches in women's basketball isn't the problem. In a market where the top rosters now cost $30 to $40M+ a year, those numbers are the cost of competing, and you need the right coaches to position you for long term success. The real problem is that athletic departments at flagship publics are operating on a revenue model built for decades ago, leaning on the same streams they have always relied on where most schools are operating at a deficit. Then they hit a 10% state funding cut and the only lever left is headcount in the academic buildings. This is the seam every athletic director in the country is sitting on right now, where the cost side has gone fully professional and the revenue side has not. The real answer isn't cutting custodians or capping coach pay, it's treating the athletic department like the commercial enterprise it already is, with the alumni base, the corporate relationships, and the brand inventory monetized at it's true value. Maryland has 400,000+ living alumni, one of the most valuable commercial assets the university owns. At most flagship publics, that base gets touched once a year for an annual giving ask and otherwise sits dormant. The athletic brand is the front door to all of it, and almost no school is monetizing it at anything close to its actual value. The coaches aren't bankrupting these schools, the missing revenue infrastructure is. Article link: foxbaltimore.com/news/local/uni…

@ByJasonFoster today is not helping either

The Braves are creeping ever closer to an uncomfortable conversation about Austin Riley.

30 years ago I was the starting QB at Utah State University. My senior year I got benched. For the next 15 years I walked around feeling like a certified loser. Then I read this quote from Pat Summitt: 'Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.' It snapped me out of it. If you’re still carrying a sports setback, a benching, a missed opportunity, or any “I’m not enough” story… this is your permission slip to drop it. The game isn’t over. Your story is not yet written. You are still a work in progress. The point is you keep wanting it. You keep getting up. And you listen to that quiet voice that says, "I will try again tomorrow."

@NjTank99 Ruf is off the list?

Updated Most hated Mets 1. Vince Coleman 2. Aaron Heilman 3. Cedric Mullins 4. Marcus Semien 5. Luis Castillo 6. Ryan Hensley 7. Dick Lovelady 8. Bo Bichette 9. Daniel Vogelbach 10. Mel Rojas

Olivia Pichardo makes history as the first woman to pitch in a NCAA DI game, closing out a victory for Brown University!

@RealSkipBayless You’re a fool

I wanted Bain and I’m a little down because of Downs.

This quote is going on my desk: “It will take extreme goals, crazy dreams, irrational belief and tireless work ethic…” - Coach Brooke Olson, UMD @brookeolson31

@AnthonyDiComo More like 26 feet

Mark Vientos was just thrown out at home by about six feet.

We have to let our kids work through their problems. There are two kinds of parents. One prepares the path for the child, and the other prepares the child for the path.

@NjTank99 Kimbrel seen doing Tomahawk Chop after giving up winning run

NO WAY!!!! 🤯 Riley Mercer of the @IAWild made a save you will have to see to believe and even then you might not. I MEAN, WHAT!??? #AHL | @TheAHL

@TalkinBaseball_ Moneyball people are losing their minds over this

The Brewers bunt three straight times to take the lead in the seventh 💀

Last nights storm, Newburgh NY @LeeGoldbergABC7 @LonnieQuinnTV

@KDJmedia1 Putting PUBLIC back in NYSPHSAA!

🚨 MAJOR NEWS IN SECTION 1 🚨 A proposed Amendment to the Section One Constitution will "make non-public schools ineligible for postseason play." Those schools - Albertus Magnus, Ursuline, Keio and Leffell - can compete in a non-public sectional playoff. But no opportunity for @NYSPHSAA playoffs. The Athletic Council will vote next week and needs two-thirds majority to be passed. NYSPHSAA won't move to make this seismic change - so @SecOneAthletics is attempting to take matters into its own hands.

@UNCBarstool Just rip the band aid off

Only up from here

@barstoolsports @NjTank99 6 claps to get the week rolling!

Here’s an exclusive sneak preview of the Mets/Dodgers series, according to @NjTank99

No, your 16 year old son did not actually have a 1.73 pop time at his most recent showcase

@rich_anderson5 how about this one!