Cup of Coffee: May 7, 2024

Manfred's bullshit, more ugly City Connects, a French Field of Dreams, missing why Marvel keeps missing, ugly Americans, sponge cities, and a terrible graduation ceremony

Author

Craig Calcaterra
May 07, 2024

Good morning!

Today Rob Manfred, as is his wont, makes a couple of spurious claims, the Tigers City Connect uniforms underwhelm, and we (very) briefly contemplate a French Field of Dreams.

In Other Stuff some Marvel directors fail to diagnose why Marvel movies aren’t working anymore, Americans who buy English football clubs fail to understand why English people like football, we visit a sponge city — yeah, that’s a thing! — and we learn why Ohio State University just had the worst graduation ceremony ever.

Subscribe to Premium Membership to read the rest.

Become a paying subscriber of Premium Membership to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content.

Already a paying subscriber? Sign In

Join the conversation

or to participate.