Brian Moritz

I don't like replay review here. That's been how a double play is turned forever.

Replay review is bad!

Late post today due to life stuff. Some thoughts on the CJR interview that shook sports media last week. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/blood-on-m...

I could have been asking for a "production fee" for The Other 51?

Rooting against the Bills must be so annoying because Josh Allen will pull some hot country bullshit like that.

Gardner-Johnson got ejected and the Bills in the crowd started cheering

The fact that Brandon Bean's big defensive signing this off season was CJ Gardner-Johnson is a fireable offense.

Ran through Terrell Bernard like he wasn't even there.

The national discussion about the Bills is all about Allen (an maybe Cook) but the defense is an embarrassment.

This is a great piece (and being quoted in the same story as Bob Ley is something I never thought would happen).

This is a great post (from an absolutely top-notch historian) and it makes me wanna visit the TR library so bad!

I believe this is the single best story ever told on the internet.

"What was telling to me was that I had pitched numerous stories that would take a harder look at some of the gambling companies and addiction, and none of those stories was greenlit." A brilliant piece from @dannyfunt.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

This one really isn't about Stephen A. Smith. It's about the collective reaction to his comments last week, and how it shows an important evolution on sports culture and sports media. New at Sports Media Guy: sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/the-sport-...

There is nothing more compelling or interesting than two people nerding out over a very specific thing. Anyway, @bomani-jones.bsky.social and @edsbs.bsky.social are exquisitely delightful in this.

The “You should go back to Twitter” discourse is bringing me back to this piece. I left Twitter in 2024 and haven’t looked back. In part because of politics. In part because honestly it wasn’t useful anymore. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/i-loved-tw...

football gods are more real than they’ve ever been holy fucking shit

The Bills secondary is an embarrassment.

I'm beginning to think Brandon Beane maybe shoulda done a little more* to bolster the Bills' secondary. *-literally anything.

"He found a hole in the Buffalo secondary." The devil, you say!

once again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it.

When I was in grad school, I did some work on the unbundling of media. I'm thinking of bringing it back, because a. AI is the logical endpoint of that movement and b. I think it's clear it has had massive societal implications.

so cheerful and inclusive!!!

Needed sanity against the Haidt moral panic: "Blaming screens is a convenient way to avoid harder, deeper issues: inadequate mental health care and a system that chronically underfunds treatment." I’m a Child Psychiatrist. Screens Are Not the Problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

This is a great conversation.

This thread is really interesting and important. Because there are use cases for AI in a lot of jobs. But those use cases don't create a trillion dollar world changing industry, so instead of focusing on those, we get silly videos and bad posters.

This is the first time in a long time I can remember seeing an analytics-based story where the numbers cut deep against vibes/eye test. And credit to Austin, I like his graf about questioning the score the metric gives Josh Allen. That's part of this work! Interrogating the numbers.

This week at Sports Media Guy: How I would teach the Cornell story in undergraduate journalism classes. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/teaching-j...

Any team that signs Tyreek Hill would be adding to its roster someone who is actively trying to keep documents and recordings out of court that, according to public records, reveal him making threats against his estranged wife. defector.com/tyreek-hill-...

This week at Sports Media Guy: How I would teach the Cornell story in undergraduate journalism classes. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/teaching-j...

If you weren't there, it's hard to explain just how big a deal, how popular, Cornelius Bennett was on these Bills teams. "The Biscuit." We don't speak of him much because, well, Google him.

When I tell you this is the best candy bar, it is the best candy bar.

Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.

I can't believe it's been 20 years since we lost Buck O'Neil. How do you possibly sum up a life that great?

I can't believe How I Met Your Mother wasn't anywhere in the comments here.

Game recaps I get, AP already does that. Media Guide Bios I sort of get, although the inputs are not as systemitized as they maybe seem. I don't know how an AI writes feature stories without someone doing the initial legwork.

Ask yourself, who does this benefit?

Indiana Jones

It finally happened! #Brewers

In solidarity with all who give -- or have given -- care.

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Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.