Fred Smith
Fred Smith
@fredsmith.bsky.social
Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans
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This has been expected for a day now, but it's still a shocking headline to read. A good NBA player as recently as the '24-'25 season! A big part of the reason the Pistons got better very fast!
Malik Beasley, a nine-year NBA veteran, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a Department of Justice investigation into illegal sports gambling, his attorney told The Athletic. He will plead on Dec. 9 in Brooklyn.
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There are a lot of lovely Rays fans on this site but it is kind of hard to look at just about any crowd at that place and not think that maybe, potentially, there is not a full-sized MLB fanbase in Tampa.
tremendously embarrassing by rays fans to get your park overtaken by a fanbase from 1500 miles away IN THE WORLD SERIES
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It is kind of incredible how quickly musk’s policy of open revenge on employees of a company he bought caught on with these guys. You do it like this to tell staff you want them all gone within the year.
these people gonna crash & burn so hard. It's so obvious in everything they do, from the overpay to balloon payment to court filings, (alleged blacklist), but not the least of which is cuz they appear to be clueless AF @ dealing with creatives - lifeblood of their org, and I'm popping corn for it
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This is the one thing we should let umpires do. Much like fouling in basketball, and completely unlike balls-and-strikes, it is an annoying system that is far better than the alternative.
The vibes-based "I know it when I see it" system of umpires determining if a swing was successfully checked or not is actually fine — a time-tested and effective solution to an annoying problem — and anyone trying to write a new rule to make it "objective" is a sicko who should not be trusted.
This is also a thing that European auto racing championships say to justify their absolutely ludicrous total fan estimates. Daniel Ricciardo currently stars in an ad that claims F1 has somewhere in the area of 800 million fans; that is not a number you can arrive at while saying fans watch races.
"You no longer think about F1 as something that you've got to go to every race or watch every race on television to be a fan, right?" (Liberty Media President and CEO) Derek Chang said. It's actually good that people don't watch all the races!
His win yesterday is a microcosm of this whole thing. Is this a silly way to decide a champion? Yeah, but we spent a decade deciding it in worse ways. Similarly, winning from eighth because nobody knows what to do with their hands is better than winning from third by wrecking two leaders on accident