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  1. Andy
    Well, he's better than Darnold and cost almost nothing, so OK.
  2. Andy
    I was really hoping Big Ten would grab at least 2 more west coast schools. Looks like Stanford and Cal would be the 2 more likely options at this point. Poor Washington State and Oregon State No idea whatsoever how much to believe but the rumblings I was seeing was that the B1G basically told Oregon and Washington they'd have to wait on ND because they wouldn't up the per school takes for everyone else. UO and UW must not have been getting good vibes on how that would go.
  3. Andy
    BTW, why the hell is Jeff Garlin's stupid ass still being invited to the booth? I thought we'd be done with his crap after he was kicked off The Goldbergs for misconduct but for some insane reason he was polluting Pat and Ron for an entire inning yesterday.
  4. Andy
    As someone mentioned in the comments, whatever you think of Wrigley Field, good or bad, it's just ridiculous to call it "stock standard".
  5. Andy
    And Leandro Bolmaro. Feels like not much of anything. ETA: Take it back, Woj now saying it's 4 first-round picks. That's freakin crazy.
  6. Andy
    North Carolina and Georgia Tech were rumored B1G targets before the ACC signed their grant-of-rights several years ago. I have no idea if they still would be. I think Miami would make sense for the SEC and UVA seems like a cultural fit in the B1G (if that matters anymore).
  7. Andy
    I'm sure it can all be figured out but I thought ND was pretty much locked into the ACC if they join a conference. Plus they almost certainly will not join a conference unless absolutely forced too. And if they did join a conference they seem to have little appetite to join the Big Ten despite multiple reasons it makes a lot of sense. ESPN's Heather Dinich tweeted yesterday that unlike full ACC members, ND would only have to pay up to get out of the media grant-of-rights for non-football sports. As for the 'locked into' thing, that's my understanding too, but if other ACC schools start bolting, which they will, I think that provision would be pretty easy to get out of. I'm on record here as pretty much loathing ND in really any conference and specifically the B1G, but if these two superleagues are going to coalesce (and in the process largely lock everyone else out of the playoff) and their mutant forms aren't going to bear much resemblance to what the original idea of a conference was anyway, the Big 20 makes more sense for ND than the SEACC.
  8. Andy
    And now the P12 is trying to find teams.
  9. Andy
    They'll add Mountain Time teams before long. Utah probably makes some kind of sense. Maybe Colorado. I don't know. Who cares anymore
  10. Andy
    Probably went without saying but:
  11. Andy
    Never forget that Notre Dame is the greedy ones, though, not the mega conferences just adding whatever schools they want for no reason other than to Hoover up more money. I'm guessing this ends with whatever you call the SEC and B1G just taking the rest of the programs they want (Clemson, FSU, et al to SEC, Oregon, etc. to B1G) and walling themselves off from everybody else, and yes, ND will have to join one of them, presumably the latter as much as I hate that.
  12. Andy
    So you did this
  13. Andy
    The Nico and Happ plays to rob Goldschmidt were both all kinds of awesome.
  14. Andy
    I'm sure it's not actually true, but it certainly feels like that stupid-ass team is consistently unusually fortunate on horseshit contact, at least against us.
  15. Andy
    Obviously MLB does not give a rat's ass what I do, but I simply do not watch extra-inning games that aren't the Cubs. I used to seek them out if I ever had time to kill but I have no interest in watching them under the fake-runner rule.
  16. Andy
    Jesus they got horsefeathering killed again? The Pirates haven't even pretended to try for like half a decade now. This is a joke
  17. Andy
    Well, that magical ride crapped out in a hurry. Two punchless performances in a row won't get it done in Omaha.
  18. Andy
    I'm an idiot. Do we think something nefarious could increase a player's barrel rate? It seems like that's cheat proof but we've learned pretty much nothing is Knowing what’s coming would increase your barrel rate. And no I’m not suggesting they’re cheating. I knew I was right to call myself an idiot, I was thinking of manipulation of the physical bats and not about sign-stealing type stuff.
  19. Andy
    He came off the IL like 2-3 weeks ago and he missed all that time in 2018 or 2019 with the concussion he got trying to rob Fowler’s walk off dong vs us when he actually was hitting well. He also got IL'd in 16 after making the greatest catch I've ever seen unfold as it happened in SF.
  20. Andy
    I'm an idiot. Do we think something nefarious could increase a player's barrel rate? It seems like that's cheat proof but we've learned pretty much nothing is
  21. Andy
    This team sure gets their ass handed to them a lot
  22. Andy
    Trending toward ND vs A&M in an elimination game Tuesday
  23. Andy
    It’s only baseball so I wouldn’t expect anything like that. Now in 2025 when Texas returns to Kyle Field all bets are off. For that one I may be in the Texas family section too. My best friend’s kid is dying to play there and I think he’s got a real shot. That would be so weird for me. Might be sooner than 2025. I’m hearing it could be as early as 2023 that OU and UT join the SEC. They’re trying to legally wiggle out of their BigXII contract and some speculate that could be accomplished this year. Interesting. I would have thought between the CFP not expanding as both sides assumed it would when this move was being discussed (for UT and OU) and the new SEC TV deal not kicking in until 2024-25 (for the SEC) that both parties would be alright waiting it out for now. But you can't put a price on the awkward factor I guess.
  24. Andy
    O/U 3 fan brawls in the Omaha stands?
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