We recline in our seats/current draft spots.

Roll Um Easy Little Feat · Dixie Chicken · Song · 1973

In this house, we celebrate what should be Lowell George’s 81st birthday on Monday all weekend long: open.spotify.com/track/4CYS95...

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Yes, totally with you on that.

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Same goes the other way, too. I don’t care that the band America debuted in 1970. They were not then and are not now a classic rock band.

Conversely, bands from their era that you might hear on classic rock stations—Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, whatever—are not, and never will be, classic rock bands, no matter how far removed we are from their heyday. Classic rock is a genre, not a synonym for old rock music.

I hate that the band that personifies this for me released its first studio album in 1990, but stick with me. The moment Twice as Hard by The Black Crowes hit the airwaves, they were a classic rock band. They didn’t need to wait 30 years to cross some invisible temporal threshold to become one.

I realize no one was calling the Stones or Led Zeppelin or Cream “classic rock” when they were at their peak, but that was 60 years ago. In the intervening decades, “classic rock” has turned into its own genre and acquired a definition, and it’s not “rock music that was made at least X years ago.”

Not at all the point of @dennycarter.bsky.social latest Bad Faith Times post, but I nodded vigorously as I read this.

How Friday night of the Sweet 16 is meant to be

Wisconsin went 5-2 against teams currently into the Elite Eight, with four of those wins on the road or on neutral floors, stop asking if I’m upset, of course I’m not upset.

Get the plaque ready, Cooperstown

Am I a tiny bit annoyed that Wisconsin went 4-1 against the teams that advanced to the Elite Eight yesterday, with three of those wins coming away from home? Of course not, why would you ask?

Playlist shuffle got Friday morning hoops off to a helluva start

Thank you

I’d like to thank Jacob Misiorowski for wasting no time in highlighting the need for quality start reform. My proposal…

5 to 5 2/3 innings, 1 ER or fewer
6 to 6 2/3 innings, 2 ER or fewer
7+ innings, 3 ER or fewer

Hit any of those, you’ve got yourself a quality start.

Solid 8/10 on the “Kramer Building Levels in His Apartment” scale.

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Upside of halftime + ending of the game window…watching this UNC/Nova ‘16 retrospective for prime remembering some guys. Kennedy Meeks! Brice Johnson!

Yer Blues - Remastered 2018

Friday afternoon, let’s ride: open.spotify.com/track/6UrgPc...

Absolutely, especially since a punchout is really only a called third strike.

I just wrote an executive order stating that High Point’s last bucket yesterday doesn’t count, I’m pumped to watch Wisconsin play Arkansas tomorrow.

My hopes for Wisconsin basketball in 2026-27…

1. Make the tournament
2. Be literally anything other than a 5-seed

A fellow pickhoops guy, I like it.

Best sports weekend of the year on deck, let's do this

“Imagine the worst place on the planet filled with the most insufferable bros who have ever lived…”

I’ll give the committee $100 to give Wisconsin a Friday/Sunday assignment.

Avoid a loss to a bad team, get a win against a good team, give an elite team a dogfight, don’t play four games in four days. A literally perfect Big Ten tourney appearance by the Badgers.