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The future of Major League Baseball. This may be distressing news to some of you, and it pains me to be the one who breaks it, but anime is not real. Obviously anime – the medium – is real. If it wasn’t, you couldn’t have weird, heated, and vaguely Gary Glitter adjacent arguments about which 13 year old girl from Neon […] Coaches Corner 2 responses 8 min read October 24, 2019
When the Sun Opens When the Sun Opens I was told a lie growing up. It was one of those lies that was, at its very core, entirely harmless, especially when it was fed to the over-imaginative brain of a child. Of course, harm is hardly a dualistic thing. There’s a sliding scale involved, because the world is […] Coaches Corner One response 13 min read June 10, 2019
You Can Hear The People Shouting Have you ever heard a joke that was so funny you wish you could hear it a thousand times? A quip, a phrase, an anecdote, anything – not necessarily for the first time either – that simply appreciates in value the more and more you hear it? Do you wish that there was a way […] Coaches Corner 3 responses 9 min read October 23, 2018
Death There’s something old people like to say about the only certainties in life being death and taxes, but come on, let’s be real. No one actually pays their taxes. If the president doesn’t have to, why should anyone else? It’s startlingly easy to just funnel your money through 3rd party platforms as “gifts” and keep […] Coaches Corner 2 responses 6 min read September 15, 2018
I Tried To Order A Fortnite Burger At McDonald’s. This Is My Story. ON August 6th, let’s all go to mcdonald’s and order a fortnite burger. the look on the employee’s faces will be awesome. One month ago I woke up at about 7:30, and, like everyone else in the world, I immediately checked my Twitter feed during my morning shit. Buried inside of “The Algorithm” (which actually […] Coaches Corner 4 responses 8 min read September 13, 2018
Top 5 Ways You Can Tell If You Are Currently Living In A Society You’ve probably asked yourself this question before. “Am I living in a society?” If you’re the type of person who googles “QAnon Antifa Paul Simon Farewell Concert” and “What does SEO stand for?” you probably have always pondered the great questions in life, like “What is a society?”, “am I living in one?”, “Do they […] Coaches Corner One response 14 min read September 6, 2018
Who Is PlayerUnknown? Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time. There are questions that, with enough time and enough lack of answers, become embedded in the human psyche. The collective consciousness of mankind still asks themselves every day about the functionality of magnets, or whether someone shot and killed John F. Kennedy, or if his head just did that. There’s been one specific question on […] Coaches Corner 2 responses 5 min read April 22, 2018
The Coaches Corner “Three Days Late Playoff Preview” Article It’s the most wonderful time of the year, folks. That’s right. It was Homestuck Day yesterday. Just kidding. I don’t even give enough of a shit about 4/13 to write a joke review. Hiveswap actually did come out, by the way. It was okay. A solid 7/10. Ever since then, Homestuck was bought some anime […] Coaches Corner 2 responses 3 min read April 14, 2018
A Response to “Overwatch’s Nicest Players Are Giving Me Anxiety” Firstly – Nathan Grayson, go fuck yourself. I have been working in the journalism industry for half a decade, and I have been around journalism and the products thereof for my entire life. I have witnessed some truly extreme and embarrassing takes from the “verified” “professional” types, from CNN to Fox and Friends to Carles […] Coaches Corner 5 responses 3 min read March 9, 2018
Germany 4 – 3 Canada The world often doesn’t make sense, and it seems that the absolutely inexplicable becomes more commonplace with each passing moment. A D-List reality TV star became the leader of the free world. The media now uses the word “trolling” to describe international espionage. Just a few short months after Kim Jong Un threatened nuclear war, […] Coaches Corner One response 6 min read February 23, 2018
The Top 5 Things I Learned From Watching All Of The “Death Stranding” Trailers On Hard Drugs Hideo Kojima. Where do I even start? An absolute visionary in his field, and one of the most clear-cut examples of why anyone should even take the “video games are art” discourse remotely seriously. Kojima is best known for his work on the Metal Gear Solid series, and some other stuff too, I think. I […] Coaches Corner One response 17 min read December 11, 2017
Last Take #5 – A Eulogy for the Cubs and Yankees Two of my favourite types of columns in the sports journalism world are “why your team sucks” and eulogy columns for whoever has taken the biggest and most highly publicized L in the playoffs recently. I wrote a particularly scathing take on legend-turned-embarrassment Phil Jackson over the summer, and it was the particular kind of […] Coaches Corner One response 4 min read October 23, 2017