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Graig
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Sports fan, "writer", hockey captain and dog owner. If I can respond with a Simpsons quote or GIF, you can bet your sweet… ass… I will

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Well this could be an evergreen notification that just burns into my screen at this point:
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
69th interview: a Padres fan from the UK
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Interview #69: The Welsh Friar
Tom Purnell's journey from visitor from the UK to Padres diehard
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January 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Saw some cedar waxwings today, didn’t even know they were in town!
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
According to Merlin birdID this is a greater sage grouse
January 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Im getting new tires installed and I’ve just sat back to back to 2 of the worst football movies ever made
January 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
How do I place a bet on the Bears winning the Super Bowl on a Hail Mary?
January 11, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I always believed
January 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
That guy was wasting perfectly good cheese!
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 AM
It’s like the Bears are trying to lose by 40 and the Packers refuse to let them
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Man this ad really wants me to be aware of swelling in my anus or genitals
January 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Nope, I did not need to see that ankle slapping in slo-mo
January 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Amazon has a market cap of 2.6 TRILLION dollars and somehow has the worst broadcast of all NFL partners
January 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Doing back to back interviews with a stand up comedian and then a baseball coach are two wildly different conversations. I need a nap
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Just a couple ducks yapping at the pond
January 8, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Saw some bunnies
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Interview #68: Figure it Out with Jeff Stanek open.substack.com/pub/stateofb...
Interview #68: Figure it Out
Jeff Stanek on coaching, scouting and a lifetime love of the game
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January 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
There are 163 animals you can track in Red Dead Redemption 2. Let’s see how long it takes me to finish the compendium in the real world, and if I get any better at drawing.
For the first one I went all the way to my roof for a rock pigeon. I assume this will get harder #rdr2
January 7, 2026 at 3:46 AM
WHO IS THE AFC NUMBER ONE SEED!?
January 5, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Built a storage cubby for all my baseball gear and painted it Fenway Green, which is a huge improvement over… a cheap shelf from Target
January 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Well that’s a fun sequence of subtitles. Describes by mornings at work
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Remember kids, never drink and drive
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
All hail TEAM DENTAL PLAN led by almighty QB Shough
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My fantasy football championship fate rests on either Jaxson Dart or Tyler Shough… just as I planned in August
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Why is Drew Brees dressed like one of the kingpins in Scarface?
December 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
14-year-old me would be pumped to know I’d still be listening to Lit and Fuel in 2025… then he’d ask why I live in Arizona and did we ever become an astronaut?
Also, Santa sang a cover to “Highway to Hell” in true Christmas spirit
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM