Cup of Coffee: December 28, 2021

The gambling ad bubble is gonna smack sports media one day, the Blue Jays are gonna renovate Rogers Centre, and Joan Didion did not golf. Which is important, apparently.

Good morning!

It’s practically a law in media that people write retrospective pieces during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. And, yes, I used to write a “The Biggest Stories of the Year” series each year during that time. I don’t do that anymore, for a couple of reasons.

The first reason is that when I was at NBC I had a couple of tools at…