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Mike Sielski

@mikesielski

Husband, dad, author, sports columnist for @PhillyInquirer, co-host on @SportsRadioWIP, persona non grata at your local Wawa.

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Join Mike Sielski and basketball analyst Marc Jackson at the Fitler Club for a subscriber-only evening exploring the power and poetry of basketball. Mike and Marc will dive into the myth, meaning, and enduring legacy of Philly hoops 🏀 RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-w


Join <a href="/MikeSielski/">Mike Sielski</a> and basketball analyst Marc Jackson at the <a href="/FitlerClub/">Fitler Club</a> for a subscriber-only evening exploring the power and poetry of basketball. 

Mike and Marc will dive into the myth, meaning, and enduring legacy of Philly hoops 🏀

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Mike Sielski (@mikesielski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The “health & safety” component to the push to ban the Tush Push—when there is no evidence yet to suggest the play is excessively unsafe—is galling. It’s a convenient cover for a league whose leaders & lawyers insisted for years that head trauma pretty much didn’t exist. #Eagles

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After the fifth inning, JesĂșs Luzardo's pitch count was up to 94. But he told Caleb Cotham that he wanted the sixth to help save the bullpen. And he did. “He’s a grinder, man. He’s a gamer. I love him. He’s not going to give in. He’s going to fight.” inquirer.com/phillies/phill


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My theory: Don't listen to the reasons the NFL has offered for banning the Tush Push (e.g. it's about safety, it's boring, it's a "rugby play"). The league wants to ban it because the Tush Push has the potential to "break" the sport. Column: #Eagles share.inquirer.com/JLobdR

Mike Sielski (@mikesielski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No. The league doesn't want to allow ball-carriers to be pushed in any way, because that opens the door for offenses to do it so often that it becomes unstoppable.

Mike Sielski (@mikesielski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What's relatively new (w/in the last 20 years) is the rule allowing offensive players to push ball-carriers. That's the "loophole" the NFL is afraid teams will exploit. In the league's mind, it doesn't matter that only the #Eagles excel at the play. The fear is other teams will.

Mike Sielski (@mikesielski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s not about what teams get hurt now. It’s about taking away a mechanism that can make a sport predictable & boring. Which is what the “3 true outcomes” approach did to MLB & the overemphasis on the 3 did to the NBA. The NFL doesn’t want even a whiff of those leagues’ problems.

Seth Wickersham (@sethwickersham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Inside the Tush Push debate, filed to ESPN: Toward the end of a speech that lasted close to an hour, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made an off-the-cuff analogy that it was “like a wet dream for a teenage boy” to create a play that was so successful that the only way for it to be

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“When a bad person is determined to do you harm, no amount of money, court orders, or security systems can protect you.” Rich Cohen Farrar,Straus&Giroux trib.al/te9d8Xq

Keith Pompey (@pompeyonsixers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another great read by Matt Breen. But I have to admit my favorite part about this picture is the "NC" car magnet for North Catholic. Falcons Forever! Attempt to ban the Tush Push was a ‘crock,’ says Eagles fan with ‘TSHPUSH’ license plate inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-
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The problem with being a fan of a New York team is that it's hard to garner sympathy for heartbreaking losses. NY is the biggest market in the country. It's Apple. It's Amazon. So with certain exceptions ('69 Jets/Mets, '07 NYG), its teams aren't perceived as underdogs.

Matt Breen (@matt_breen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Was driving Tuesday night behind a guy with a TSHPUSH license plate. So I had to find him Wednesday when the Tush Push wasn’t banned. “Regardless if the Tush Push gets banned, it will live on forever because it’s on my car.” inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-