Jon Scher
@jonscher.bsky.social
Now: The guy in the window seat. Then: Baseball America on the ground floor, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Athletic. Free agency rules!
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After the dumbest season in history, Duke Football is somehow in the ACC Championship Game. Show up, Blue Devil fans.
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
After the dumbest season in history, Duke Football is somehow in the ACC Championship Game. Show up, Blue Devil fans.
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Congrats to Manny Diaz, back-to-back STATE CHAMPS. Unlike Mike Elko, he actually wins rivalry games at Duke!
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Congrats to Manny Diaz, back-to-back STATE CHAMPS. Unlike Mike Elko, he actually wins rivalry games at Duke!
Tony Soprano was way ahead of his time.
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tony Soprano was way ahead of his time.
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Today’s post focuses on the only way LeBron can make a buzzer-beating push to pass MJ in the GOAT debate: Winning a ring that “counts” more. Based on a system that values rings based on their rarity to the team/city, there might be only 1 place to do that. 🗽🍎🚕 neilpaine.substack.com/p/if-lebron-...
If LeBron Wants to Pass Jordan, He Needs to Leave L.A. (and Win)
The Lakers are moving on soon — and 1 ring in a place like, say, New York City is worth more than 2 elsewhere.
neilpaine.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today’s post focuses on the only way LeBron can make a buzzer-beating push to pass MJ in the GOAT debate: Winning a ring that “counts” more. Based on a system that values rings based on their rarity to the team/city, there might be only 1 place to do that. 🗽🍎🚕 neilpaine.substack.com/p/if-lebron-...
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Why are you all wasting so much time fretting over a Hall of Fame that doesn't include Barry Bonds?
May 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Why are you all wasting so much time fretting over a Hall of Fame that doesn't include Barry Bonds?
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Short term, I shoot myself in the foot. Long term, it's good news. I learn to walk without the foot. I do a three-legged hop, a tarantulan creep. Babadook-like movements. People will ask "why do you do this?" and I will say "it's important I blow my foot off for no reason." They respect this.
April 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Short term, I shoot myself in the foot. Long term, it's good news. I learn to walk without the foot. I do a three-legged hop, a tarantulan creep. Babadook-like movements. People will ask "why do you do this?" and I will say "it's important I blow my foot off for no reason." They respect this.
Followed by baseball season!
Super Bowl Sunday is five or six hours of literally unwatchable television followed by a football game
February 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Followed by baseball season!
If you're going to be bad, you may as well be the worst.
This is powerfully reminding me of Spurs being 5-0 down at Newcastle at half-time in April 2023.
January 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you're going to be bad, you may as well be the worst.
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Shoutout to everyone who lived in Park Slope or Prospect Heights during the multi-year reign of VAN HELSING and MAN ON FIRE on the closed movie theater's marquee.
At a bar for dinner and all the TV’s are in the NFL game except for one TV showing Val Helsing?
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Shoutout to everyone who lived in Park Slope or Prospect Heights during the multi-year reign of VAN HELSING and MAN ON FIRE on the closed movie theater's marquee.
I was at that game! #BulletsFever
Jimmy Carter was the first sitting president to attend a NBA game. He went to a Hawks-Bullets playoff game in 1979. He even took a picture with the Bullets mascot, which was a dachshund named Tiny.
Carter said he had been a Hawks fan since the team got started.
(Victoria Advocate, April 30, 1979)
Carter said he had been a Hawks fan since the team got started.
(Victoria Advocate, April 30, 1979)
December 30, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I was at that game! #BulletsFever
Couldn't agree more!
December 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Couldn't agree more!
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A reminder to young people that they used to build entire goddamn dioramas dedicated to cigarettes in Sports Illustrated.
December 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
A reminder to young people that they used to build entire goddamn dioramas dedicated to cigarettes in Sports Illustrated.
December 11, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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The CFP may have a 3-loss team in the field this season. If it comes down to these 2, which looks more impressive?
November 25, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The CFP may have a 3-loss team in the field this season. If it comes down to these 2, which looks more impressive?
The Wallace Wade Outdoor Stadium advantage!
November 24, 2024 at 2:56 PM
The Wallace Wade Outdoor Stadium advantage!