Josh (garik16)
garik16.bsky.social
Josh (garik16)
@garik16.bsky.social
Co-Founder of Hockey-Graphs; hockey, baseball blogger. Isles, Mets, Jets, Knicks, Hotspur, Duke Fan (Duke 09) and Cornell fan

Now mostly a science fiction and fantasy book blogger at garik16.blogspot.com.

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The Knicks bench has combined for 68 points (& counting!!) tonight, the most the Knicks have gotten from their bench since Nov. 10th, 2021.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Me: Do you know what this song is?
10yo daughter:
Me: It's from the 90s.
10yo daughter:
Me:
10yo daughter: That's all you ever say about songs in this car.
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Apparently no stats monitor, plus internet issues. And they're playing 8 men's games there over the next 10 days.

Also it's women's>mid-major men's>high-major men's.

I don't love how it sort of feels like they're doing it in that order so everything is hunky-dory by the HM men's ones.
Currently using the ESPN footage to review the end-of-half skirmish at the Greenbrier. Which makes sense, as it appears the possession arrow is literally a piece of paper.
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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wvu was down three to duke when this happened and is now up by ten
Who needs a bench
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@emilyadler.bsky.social I swear this offense is going to give me a stroke. Almost as many field goals as turnovers again wtf is she teaching
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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After the election results last week Republicans don't want to add any more Democrats to their seats.
Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December.

Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure
It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Should be Klobuchar. Senate Democrats need someone who'll be really mean to them.
"Several Democrats clued into party dynamics suggested that centrist Sen. Cortez Masto could be a potential challenger to Schatz [for the Senate Democratic Leader position]" puck.news/democrats-tu...
Tick, Tick… Schumer
The embattled Senate minority leader once again faces calls to step down.
puck.news
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Spare a thought for the elected Republicans in Missouri, who every day have to struggle with the fact that they hate Missourians.
NEW: Missouri Republicans are in a "bare-knuckle brawl" to create legal delays in hopes of sabotaging a citizen-led ballot measure aimed at blocking the state's new Trump-backed gerrymander ahead of a major Dec. 11 deadline.
Republicans in ‘Bare-Knuckle Brawl’ to Stop Missourians From Voting on Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Incredible closing quote
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Yesterday I learned that the US Navy has a tiara option for female sailors to wear in dress uniform and I for one think they are missing a huge opportunity for recruitment by not making this more well-known. I did not know the Navy had tiaras when I was picking my service branch. I feel cheated.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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VC David gets an entry in the unofficial Delaware Footnote Hall of Fame
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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When I was a chancery court law clerk, we did one case about a parking spot at Bethany Beach that allegedly had been adversely possessed.
The Court of Chancery spends a lot of time deciding cases that involve multi-billion-dollar deals. Its equity jurisdiction means it also gets to decide things like who should keep Tucker the Goldendoodle (don't worry, he's not getting cut in half) courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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November 14, 1999: Toronto's Vince Carter dunks on Philadelphia's Theo Ratliff (twice).

Carter had 27 PTS/11 REB/5 AST, but the 76ers defeated the Raptors, 93-90. Allen Iverson had 30 PTS/7 REB/6 AST and Ratliff added 17 PTS for the Sixers.

📺 NBA Action
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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There's way too much NYT discourse on here already but re: The Big Olivia Nuzzi Feature, I am pretty squarely against the Times thing of doing a long feature story about someone disreputable and doing it in that kind of arch "get a load of this asshole" tone. It's still a big feature about them!
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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As a companion to yesterday's Bounces deep dive into 1xBet's problematic presence in tennis, I chatted with Ross Higgins of @bellingcat.com about their investigations and why sports brands that *should* be prestigious keep doing deals with this dirty company.

www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-cont...
Digging into 1xBet's Bleak World of Sports
A conversation with Bellingcat's Ross Higgins about investigating the bizarre, depressing world of 1xBet, an emerging tennis presence.
www.benrothenberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Hey, any of the @nytimes.com staffers who spent all day yesterday chivalrously defending the honor of The Gray Lady care to incorporate this shit into their arguments? Nobody? Weird.
what the actual fuck
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m reminded of the case of Stephen Glass. After falling from journalism due to plagiarism he tried to become a lawyer and was denied for a lack of character and fitness (he also tried to understate his prior conduct to the NY and CA bars). That’s good! We should follow that example more!
generally speaking if you violate your professions’ core principles you should find another profession, and the compulsion to romanticize a fall from grace has no place in the real world. it is bad for everyone, including the offender.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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generally speaking if you violate your professions’ core principles you should find another profession, and the compulsion to romanticize a fall from grace has no place in the real world. it is bad for everyone, including the offender.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Listen I’ve only played one Metroid game, the original Metroid II Return of Samus, where samus silently travels to a planet and attempts to commit genocide and the game encourages you with a counter noting how many of the target species remain alive. Prime 4 was never going to be for me
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Whether you agree it was a suspendable offense or not I feel like we can agree that treating a 72-hour suspension like you were banned for life and lost everything is a little much.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM