Waking Up to EIGHTY-ONE Texts

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Went to bed fairly late last night—watched Janik Sinner beat Tommy Paul at the U.S. Open in a match that was quite a lot better than the three-set score would indicate—and slept only a few hours. Then woke up early this morning to EIGHTY-ONE text messages from our pals Mike Schur and Brandon McCarthy.

Well, I wasn’t entirely sure that all 81 were from t…