very poignant

Naturally I don't want to have to eat these words but - as I was discussing with a guy in a Wayne Simmonds jersey at the Heavenly/Swansea Sound show last night - casual or inherently negative fans might be forgetting the Flyers aren't playing the 2017 Penguins here. They have a real shot.

It Is Now Safe to Care About the Flyers In a season full of ups and downs, first-year head coach Rick Tocchet and an unexpected core of rising stars has given the city’s most devoted fan base — and Bryce Harper — hope.

At one point this was gonna end at the Olympic break, and be published in the April @phillymag.com. That would have been a very different story. Literally. And spiritually. www.phillymag.com/news/2026/04...

Stevie Wonder isn’t blind

Flyers last 6 games: 22 goals

Phillies last 6 games: 10 runs

Garrett Wilson getting loose for Game 3

Can't believe Matt Cooke still plays for the Pens, he's 47 years old

Definitely prefer the Penguins' "we just gave up a goal" song to the Flyers' equivalent (Tom Petty's "Don't Do Me Like That" versus Weezer's "Say It Ain't So")

LUKE GLENDENING!

Hi, you should come watch us sing songs Saturday night in St Johns

This is the sort of playoff hockey stress/potential misery that Philadelphia has been missing for six years.

You know why hitting Sidney Crosby is so expensive? Because it's worth it.

Is that like Ted Cruz?

What do you call a certain processed breakfast meat?

I said it was time for a SHG but I did not call Hathaway

Tippett would like a word

Pooder Mawtone

What a great shift by the Flyers' fourth line to set the stage for that goal.

This is a new one. Someone subscribed to the newsletter using their work email address. Now their dumb AI assistant is replying to the emails like this. What a world we live in.

They did. And they broke the story! The first link in the one you shared goes back to NJ dot com's story picking up the Athletic's original story.

They have run multiple stories about that

Philadelphia to offer fans free transport when leaving World Cup games Lincoln Financial Field will host six men's World Cup matches this summer, with Brazil and France among the teams playing in Philadelphia.

"it is currently possible to travel, on a World Cup match-day, by rail for a much lower price from New York City to Philadelphia’s venue (a 96-mile journey) compared to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium (an 18-mile journey)" www.nytimes.com/athletic/720...

I hope Jason Benetti was fully briefed on how to get a conversation going about absolute nothing and nonsense to give the national audience a true John Kruk experience.

Phils vibes somehow getting worse

Phillies announcer John Kruk on the NBC national telecast, wearing a blazer and tie, hair slicked back, glum expresssion

Kruk looks like he just got his first Bar Mitzvah suit at Fleet's. And also like Bart Simpson at church.

Searches "NBC baseball music"

Five years ago, Jake Voráček called me a name and ripped my writing. Sean Couturier didn’t let me forget. Flyers captain Sean Couturier answered my question the same way Voracek did on the postgame podium five years ago. Then came that toothless smile.

Sean Couturier, comedian (gift link) share.inquirer.com/pNbKtq

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

Picture of Flyers coach Rick Tocchet wearing a "Believe" t-shirt with Bernie Parent's signed goalie mask that the team unveiled yesterday

Already seeing scammy Facebook ads and websites with unlicensed versions of this shirt (which say "3.8%" on the sleeve). Photo reposted by Bernie's widow. www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nhl/philadel...

screenshot of text from Philadelphia Inquirer about the Sixers playoff game not being televised by local network. "In previous years, NBC Sports Philadelphia was able to broadcast first-round Sixers playoff games in and around the city. But they lost those rights this year thanks to the NBA's new 11-year, $76 billion media rights deals with ESPN, NBC, and Amazon."

Speaking of.... (this also already happened in the NHL, used to be the first two rounds were still on local as well as national, though rarely over-the-air at this point) www.inquirer.com/sixers/live/...