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miketanier.bsky.social
NFL Writer/Editor/Founder, Too Deep Zone. Formerly Football Outsiders, the New York Times, The Messenger, Bleacher Report and other ancient empires.
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Once Jupiter aligns with Mars however...look out.

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Did you miss Carl Pickens’ appearance on the Between The Hashmarks Podcast earlier this spring? Here’s @miketanier.bsky.social and my interview with the Bengals’ legend on Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins’ historic deals and why Cincinnati will be a team to watch this fall. youtu.be/OUa3w67Ded0?...

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Stand for the things you know are right. It's the truth that The Truth makes them so uptight.

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🚨 GOOD JOURNALISM NEWS ALERT 🚨 @sfgate.com launched a National Parks bureau in Jan. 1. It's led to millions of readers and our site being one of America's fastest growing in back-to-back months. Instead of doing a 🧵 I wrote about who we hired + the wild numbers here: www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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So, did Jaire pass the Packers Amulet of Disenchantment off to Elgton Jenkins before leaving?

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Jaire Alexander bonus feature.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Jaire Alexander will be healthy for 7 games. You won't know which seven games. They won't be contiguous. You won't know until kickoff if he is available. But he will be pretty darn good in those 7 random games. Then ask for more money.

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Two years ago, anyone fluffing Rodgers could point to his recent awards and playoff appearances without sacrificing credibility. Now, his minstrels must stoop to: "Recall, dear knaves, that His Highness’ farts smelled deliriously piquant last December." miketanier.substack.com/p/perfunctor...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

By replacing their perennial Pro Bowler with the guy who is injured 10 games per year and disgruntled for the other seven, the Dolphins shall finally achieve greatness.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

I tried this with the pesto genovese.

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This! Also, the collegiality at Twitter disintegrated. Mentions were so toxic folks stopped checking them. So the chit-chat threads you saw in the early 2010s was replaced by either Troll Wars or folks with high follower counts just issuing decrees and walking away.

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The grocery checker at ShopRite asked me what I used pesto Genovese for and I have never been so mansplainy before in my life.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I think a lot of sportswriters still on X think they are getting lots of engagement when they are just getting their 10 core followers and lots of likes from bots, plus trolls. They haven't noticed because it has been gradual.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Rodgers is an off-off-Broadway revue, and no one appears to have any f***s left to give about him. miketanier.substack.com/p/perfunctor...

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

X did have diversity of opinion! There were the left-leaning and apolitical people I followed, and then there were the Nazis and Nazibots with blue check marks it forced into my feed.

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

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Los Angeles is not a war zone. The media keeps cropping the same damn photo to make it look like it is. There are plenty of live feeds going on right now that verify what is actually happening on the ground in real time. Nothing. The only unrest is coming from Trump & his thugs.

submitted 23 hours ago • 31 comments

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

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I'll be there.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE

submitted 22 hours ago • 393 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

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Portland proved this point. We didn't have to defund the police. We just stretched it's resources thin, and they ran out of money on their own. Multiple protests in multiple places over a certain length of time will do that. They didn't even have money for traffic cops after the protests were over.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments