@YouTheReader, hopefully, you know the deal by now, but on Thursdays, @YouTheReaders submit a topic or take of your own. It doesn’t have to be just sports, just whatever is on your mind. All you have to do is send something to me that you think should be covered during the week and I promise to try my best to post it by Thursday. It can be as simple as a text or a DM to @You_The_Reader and also please don’t feel like any topic or take is irrelevant, the wider the field that Week to Week Notes can cover, the better.
My expertise admittedly is the Yankees, Jets, MLB, and the NFL. Despite loving to play basketball, I don’t keep up with it from start to finish like I used to. My thinking is the more teams&sports that get covered the better and there are so many of you that die-hard sports fans who know what you're talking about so this Thursday spot could only help.
@YouTheReader your default setting for His or Her Words, Not Mine is a team/sport/topic “fan insider.” If you wish to come up with your own @Name, I’ll run with that so that other @YouTheReaders could start to get to know your style as well. Either way, I won’t tell no one your name. Unless of course, you want your full name on Week to Week Notes.
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Billboard @HeranMamo Imposter
Here is a quick story on what went down in the @You_The_Reader’s DMs during the week… The professional Instagram account received a message out of the blue from this odd account @heran_mamo1. Usually, I hit ignore immediately if I haven’t met the person or think it is spam but this account stuck out because it mentioned Billboard.
Here are the DMs, I played along with first…
The bot was very complimentary of the songs I picked for the past week, but I was thrown off when it insinuated that I made the music… AI clearly isn’t all the way there yet.
So I figured I’d throw a curveball at @Heran_mamo1 and screenshot the verified account that they are impersonating. After that, the bot made up some other excuse why they weren’t using the verified account and then asked for my CashApp. At that point, I was just looking to make content out of this exchange so I asked the bot for an emailed invoice.
It’s a fake Billboard Invoice from a spam account, but I do have to keep it $100, these bots are getting better. May have to frame it.
@HeranMamo, the real one, you have an imposter you should report. @YouTheReader don’t worry the spam accounts are all blocked now.
Nets Trade KD
-From one of my Nets Fan Insiders’ POV via Twitter
2/3 ‘23
Kyrie Irving isn't up for any challenge. Wants to crawl back to daddy LeBron or be #2 to Luka. Sad such a great basketball player has zero loyalty to teammates and fans. Boston was right. @KyrieIrving Bum!
Scathing remarks about the 1 of 1 Kyrie. Warranted and you can tell the passion but I don’t think he needed to compliment Boston. My Nets fan insider doubles down when he next Tweets…
@joetsai1999 bring back the Russian, you're in over your head buddy.
You know it’s bad in Brooklyn when a young American capitalist is calling for a Russian Oligarch to take back the Nets.
2/7 ‘23
In response to a Tweet stating will Kevin Durant request a trade before the ‘23 NBA trade deadline?
Well KD is a hooper, not an egomaniac.
What an incredibly underwhelming run. Maybe Cam Thomas is the next MJ. Can’t say for certain yet.
More on Cam Thomas and what the Nets got back in return for KD & Kyrie tomorrow!
Guinness Fan Insiders
Read today’s Pint &pen &paper. Here’s a little trick to get close for the Guinness first sip challenge… drink until the foam hits the bottom of the embossed harp on the other side of the glass.
I’ve been trying out this new insightful technique and ever since the results are slowly but surely getting there. Work in progress.
Another commenter, in reference to “You and Me” by Lifehouse was on in the background of Monk McGinnis: Fantastic song.
If any @YouTheReaders ever have a song or pub recommendation, always feel free to share!
NY Jets Offseason Flight Plan
-From a village idiot writing about sports and Jets fan insiders.
2/3 ‘23
So painful to think Revis' only Super Bowl - was as a Patriot !!! Awful.
Revis tearing his ACL in ‘12 took down the whole franchise. They were already heading in the wrong direction (it was Tebow year) but that ended the Rex run. Also, the Giants on Christmas Eve but that was the nail in the coffin.
Butt Fumble too. Went from bad to mockery. They turned Revis into Sheldon Richardson (not bad but they over-drafted at that position with Mo, Leonard, and Sheldon and got rid of all of them). This was the Dee Milliner year - didn’t quite turn into the next Revis.
More on Darrelle Revis next Friday, 2/17 ‘23.
2/5 ‘23
Forget Carr - can’t even win a flag football game.
Haha kind of cool how the NFL tried making their own NBA All-Star weekend, I guess it’s better than the Pro Bowl.
It was cool. The real game is lame.
On this date in 1997 the @nyjets introduce Bill Belichick as Head Coach and Bill Parcells as a consultant until they can get Parcells out of his contract w/ NE. Here is an interview after the PC conducted by former Jets radio analyst Dave Jennings
#TakeFlight #Jetshistory https://t.co/MAs0UIjzsh
This was wild. Many don’t realize he technically was the HC of the NYJ. Twice. And never coached a game as HC.
I never saw this clip so it was interesting to hear that the evil hoodie was actually an interim head coach prior to the time he resigned on a napkin. The clip takes place in February 1997 when Bill B was named interim head coach of the Jets because the Patriots were still negotiating with NY on the trade compensation for Bill Parcells. After the trade, Bill Belichick served as the Jets’ assistant head coach and defensive coordinator from 1997 to 1999. When Parcells decided to step down as the team’s head coach after 1999, Belichick was announced as his successor, which spurned the man who would go on to draft Brady and become the evil genius, because the Jets ownership situation was in flux after the death of Leon Hess. Yes, Hess, like the green and white trucks you might’ve played with as a kid.
Question from @Amanda_Balionis: “Is there a favorite color, favorite city that you have on your mind for next season?”
Aaron Rodgers: “I’m just going to say the predominant team that we hear [from the fans] as we’re walking is Raiders.”
(🎥: @GolfonCBS)