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steve dangle was right, this team is ruining my life

#9 fucking 3 #jfc #i know this was last night but im still not over it #leafs lb #leafs

local commentator just went: “it’s a sport you watch for fun, you can’t let it make you evil”

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

demotu-writes

ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

sergeifyodorov

Yep! Also "related to work" is a little vague here -- the sciences do use metric.

02wrldz

this cartoon ass team

anaphylactic-dread

very torontonian of me to find out eric lauer is a dodger from the black rectangle part of cp24

eerilyquietglacier

based--ball

Maybe the reason I have depression is that my coffee table doesn't fold up like max scherzer's does. Maybe that's why

based--ball

What if I'm just not folding my coffee tables enough

krakenbait

bragging rights bracket update #5

hello bracketeers! it is a wonderful thursday on several levels. for one, it’s my birthday. for two, my hockey team won and is moving on to the western conference finals!

congratulations to the colorado avalanche for finishing off the minnesota wild, and what a game. coming from losing 3-0 in the first period to two goals within a minute in the third to send it to overtime. depth players were critical, but nothing beats a clutch moment from nathan mackinnon. man, i really do love hockey sometimes.

anyway… commentary under the cut as usual.

we-rule-the-kingdom-inside

so many people not realising that there's a bonded pair on the ottawa charge??? like cava and greco had to be practically traded there together. I fear we are losing the not even ancient texts.

#michela cava #emma greco #ottawa charge

hockeyassforposterity

I went to the jays game on Saturday with my best friend and got to see Varsho hit a grand slam!! I never would have thought I’d see a grand slam in person so I made this little doodle to commemorate it

krakenbait

bragging rights bracket update #4

happy sunday, bracketeers! i’m back with you today because we had our first elimination of round 2!

🌀🧹🟠

yes, the carolina hurricanes swept the philadelphia flyers. if you are from either carolina or possess any canes affinities, i would avoid philly for the next 3-6 weeks, it’s not safe for you.

considering all other series are at either 2-1 or 1-1 right now, might be a little while again before my next update, so let’s make it count! commentary under the cut as usual.

#that gif was me opening up this post #ultimate dread

beyondrotten

ernie after his fifth hit of the game may 9th, 2026 | los angeles angels @ toronto blue jays

analog-delight

once again i'm begging you to understand that the answer to trans people in sports is not just allowing trans women to play in women's leagues, it is the radical gender desegregation of sports as a whole.

Men should not be allowed and encouraged to have their own leagues separate and apart from half the population. Siloing women and trans people into a completely separate space is not equality, it's fully giving away the plot.

And before anyone says "well we can't let women play in men's leagues, the men are fucking terrible and misogynistic." STOP ALLOWING THE MEN TO BE MISOGYNISTIC.

analog-delight

Women's leagues were already the bullshit liberal stopgap compromise. If they are to stick around permanently, it should be in an affirmative stance to make up the historical inequities in athletic development, not as the end-all-be-all final stop on a woman's athletic career.

The radical degendering of sports would solve the "issue" of where trans people get to play. If we don't segregate based on gender at all, there's no basis for excluding trans women.

flurgehbla

Looking at sports like skateboarding, bmx, slopestyle mtb, sports which up until very recently have not had any higher level competitions for women. It becomes very obvious how much the disparity in performance between women and men is influenced and enforced by social conditions. Because these are sports that dont particularly favour strenght, or body mass or height, and the variation in body types is fairly broad. And even though there is no inherent limitation for the women to do the same tricks as the men, they perform on a much much lower level. Because if you only have access to a fraction of the resources and sponsorships, and have been told repeatedly (likely for the most of the time youve been practicing the sport) that you cant do as well as men and you cant compete in it and you definitely could not compete against men, then the bar is gonna be a lot lower.

analog-delight

That's not derailing the point at all, that's actually highlighting the fact that the only limiting factors in women's sports achievement are social attitudes and money. The solutions remain the same. Investing in women's and girl's athletic programs until they achieve parity with what men and boys have access to, and continuing to address the misogyny inherent in the attitude that women/girls can't compete on the same level.

To take a small tangent, I wanna talk about a sport-like activity I used to be heavily involved in: Drum Corps International (DCI for short). DCI is a highly competitive marching band league (that's an oversimplification, but enough info for the purpose of this comparison). DCI has two main divisions, World Class and Open Class. Think of these as a major league and a minor league. The main differences between WC and OC are the average age of the members of the corps, the cost of enrolling in the corps, and the amount of time dedicated to training and rehearsal during the season. World Class costs more, has an older average age, and rehearses far longer and more rigorously. Open Class has it's own competitive circuit, and is judged at a slightly lower standard than World Class. OC has its own seeding shows and its own semifinals/finals competition. There is an Open Class Champion named every summer at the end of the season.

And then every Open Class corps also competes in World Class finals week. Every corps in DCI, regardless of division, competes in World Class Prelims, and then the top 24 corps regardless of division advance to World Class Semifinals, and then the top 12 regardless of division advance to Finals. The Open Class champions also get to perform at WC Finals as "the thirteenth corps". When DCI started formatting it's finals competitions like this, Open Class corps got better on average. Having the opportunity to compete at the highest level raised the overall quality of the activity for everyone. Some OC corps regularly make semifinals, some WC corps get knocked out of contention in the process. It's not perfect, but the fact that every corps is allowed to compete in the same competitions is something to be lauded. This isn't a perfect one-to-one with a lot of competitive sports, but I think it's a decent analogue when discussing the effects of economic disparity.

I think, until all of the economic disparities have been addressed (which is as much of a class issue as a gendered issue), women and girls need a space where they can be developed and celebrated. But I don't think that necessitates the existence of Men's Leagues at all. The NHL should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing hockey full stop. The NBA should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing basketball full stop. There are already women and trans people who play well enough to be in these leagues. The continued existence of Men's Leagues speaks to the misogyny inherent in the culture, and I think the rise of women's sports (the PWHL, the WNBA, the NWSL) is both something to be celebrated but also needs to be understood as a compromise position, not the end-all-be-all of gender equality in sports.

Because it's not equality. It's segregation. It is separate but equal in all but name.

analog-delight

And to reiterate what I think is the main point:

If we degender sports, there will be no way to keep trans women out of sports. Men and women, cis or trans, can all compete on the same level when given the same time, energy, and space. That should be the end goal of any talk of sports advancement.

Sports achievement and access is as much a class issue as a gendered issue. We should campaign to forcibly overhaul men's sports just as we should campaign to elevate women's sports.

analog-delight

I hope one day we look at women's leagues like the Negro Leagues

analog-delight

@lucky-deergirl I want to put this here, because you're completely right. I'm in know way trying to say that DCI is perfect. I marched in the BD organization for 9 years and taught there for 4 (BDC/BDB for marching and BDB for teaching specifically) so while I can't speak to everything that went on at the world class level, I can say that DCI has huge problems with how it handles sexual assault and gendered issues. The last two years I taught there after I came out as trans were a nightmare. Even on staff, I was sexually harassed and eventually let go because I was a trans woman. But I think the competition structure of finals week is worth highlighting as an example of what more equitable competition might look like while the social and economic inequalities get addressed with player/member protections and robust systems that punish abuses of power.

No activity is free of misogyny or abuse of power, but the solution shouldn't be allowing the people in those positions of power to continue to act freely in their own spaces, the spaces where they act should be taken away and the actions should be punished.

lifesgrandparade

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

lifesgrandparade

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

shadowtherat

Oh man, I almost forgot to post my tribute to Neil day! Happy 20 years Neil, Feta banged out the tunes in your honor!

ppepohappy

in my humble opinion, the moment you know you or a friend truly in it as a sports fan is if you have beef with sports reporters. officially in the trenches

krakenbait

bragging rights bracket update #2

g’day bracketeers! it is a lovely day in the nhl, and you are a horrible duck.

well, that’s probably what the folks in anaheim were thinking after putting the oilers out of into their misery last night. after two straight years of cup finals losses, connor mcdavid will experience summer seasonal depression even earlier this time!

but we’ve also had two more eliminations since i last graced y’all with my witty commentary. in fair verona pennsylvania, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean… the flyers finally finished off the penguins. who is romeo and juliet in this situation is for you to decide, but the power of playoff gritty is undeniable.

also, the mean green regional revenge series (aka stars vs. wild) kind of ended with a whimper yesterday. congrats minnesota, sucks to suck dallas.

commentary is under the cut, including the first appearance of this year’s busted gif! if i have not yet identified your bracket, please let me know which one is yours.

#i’m so fucking toast lmao

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