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The Marlins beat the Brewers 5-1. In all four situations where a player has hit for the Saint Cycle, their team has won the game. Sacrifice does not go unrewarded.
This is the kind of sports journalism we are looking for around here. Focus on the little things that really help teams win. Don't swing for the fences every time and strike out half the time. Smart sacrifices are all about winning games.
For this new edition of self-published Saturday, we take a look at two very different bat-evoking comics by Jim Mahfood and Jesse Lonergan.
Love us some Self-Published comics, and Jim Mahfood and Jesse Lonergan are two of the best artists doing it right now. They both deserve so much more recognition than they currently have. So if you aren't familiar with their work, go check them out. Raw, punk, fluid, and exceptional storytelling throughout their artwork.
This is when I realized I was no longer working on a family history project. What I had been building, page by page, was a personal encyclopedia. A structured, browsable, interconnected account of my life compiled from the data I already had lying around. I've been working on this as whoami.wiki. It uses MediaWiki as its foundation, which turns out to be a great fit because language models already understand Wikipedia conventions deeply from their training data. You bring your data exports, and agents draft the pages for you to review.
This is an incredible open source project that I love. I've always tried to dabble with tools like TiddlyWiki, Roam, and Obsidian to essentially build my own little personal wiki. This is a tool to help make that happen based off of data that already exists and working with Claude Code (or other AI tools). I wish there was a more user-friendly interface for it, but beggars can't be choosers, and this tool is incredibly cool. It's also really neat to read about how it came to be, this little personal encyclopedia.
Is there enough talent, especially high-end talent, to support two more teams? How will the talent dilution affect the quality of play? Especially now, at a time when a third of the league’s teams are barely competitive (some, but not all, by design)? Will adding two more franchises exacerbate the tanking crisis? Will struggling small-market squads have an even harder time attracting players when there are two glimmering new teams in two glamour markets?
The real question is how does the NBA work to create more parity? What does the league look like if teams are forced to keep just one superstar rather than the ability to stack three together on a team? I think there are close to 32 players in the league that could conceivably be the best player on their team. Tanking is going to happen in some form or fashion no matter what, whether you add two teams or not. But bickering about the number of teams is pointless—there should just be a constant turning of the knobs to de-incentivize the bad and incentivize the good.
Response to the series was mixed, with The Madison scoring a 60 percent positive rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 74 percent among viewers.
Oi vey. I made it through thirty minutes before I gave up and gave it 1 star. I was interested because of Pfeiffer and Russell, but boy did it not deliver and felt more like a soap opera to me. I wonder what the week two drop off will be like.
He will co-write a new movie with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, and LOTR veteran screenwriter Philippa Boyens. Its working title is Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past.
I like that they call his son a screenwriter even though he has zero writing credits on IMDb. Colbert also has no features to his name, but obviously everyone knows his fandom. Either way Boyens is still involved so I’m sure she will be able to keep the ship steady.
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