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  1. Andy
    Chip Brown is Chip Brown, but:
  2. Andy
    B1G would have to add a 16th school if they brought in KU, no? Do they save another current Big 12 school from irrelevance? Iowa State is in the AAU, for whatever that's worth, but that might ruffle Iowa's feathers. Maybe Colorado if the B1G wants to continue playing Manifest Destiny. This is all to say nothing of the fact that the current 14 B1G schools would definitely be seeing a minor hit to their per-school payouts by adding those schools, there's no way they'd be worth enough not to.
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    Official
  5. Andy
    Count me as another vote for Spiders. The logos would've been sweet, it would've been a cool mascot that's all their own and it had historical ties. It was perfect. So of course they went with something incredibly boring.
  6. Andy
    FWIW, Pete Thamel had a pretty good column today about this, and among the things he pointed out is that from people he's talked to, Missouri is not a no, and A&M is on an island here.
  7. Andy
    In addition to the academic side of it, Vandy has a history of abstaining from these votes. They did so for both A&M and Missouri. The Athletic writers have been pointing out that the SEC would prefer to present a united front. If A&M and Missouri really are this vehemently against bringing in UT and Oklahoma, the SEC likely wouldn't want to be seen as basically telling them to shut up and deal with it, even if by league bylaws they could.
  8. Andy
    I miss when a topic like that could blow up for 110 pages.
  9. Andy
    I know none of this matters in relation to money, but I've seen plenty of talk just in the last couple of days that Baylor to the Pac-12 and WVU to the ACC would be nonstarters. The Pac-12 takes pride in its secular identity and Baylor is a Baptist school, to say nothing of the various sports program-related horrors in their not distant past. (They probably would also not be thrilled at the academic profile of the other 3 schools mentioned.) West Virginia coveted an ACC invite when they were leaving the dying Big East and supposedly didn't get one because their academic reputation isn't good (some ACC fans still don't like that Louisville is in the league for the same reason). If the ACC did invite WVU they'd probably want to add another team to get to 16. If we continue to assume the Notre Dame thing won't happen...UCF? Maybe?
  10. Andy
    The SEC is essentially 2 different conferences that happen to compete under the same umbrella as it is. (Georgia STILL has not played at Texas A&M and this is year 10 of the current SEC alignment.) If they go to 16 and keep divisions, they really will just be separate conferences with a title game between them at the end of the schedule.
  11. Andy
    Would you look at that, another game where a supposedly available off the bench star never leaves the bench despite a close game where it would've made sense at almost any time to put him in.
  12. Andy
    Who's ready for more realignment?
  13. Andy
    Somewhere on the South Side right after you sent this post, Len Kasper yelped "Striking out the side means you struck out all 3 batters in the inning!" and didn't even know why. I've never heard that "striking out the side" is limited to a "three up, three down" situation before Len was always adamant about it, and he actually swayed me to his argument.
  14. Andy
    Somewhere on the South Side right after you sent this post, Len Kasper yelped "Striking out the side means you struck out all 3 batters in the inning!" and didn't even know why.
  15. Andy
    LMAO, the filing says he intentionally went 'from the top of his game' to not playing. Ben's Baseball-Reference page can be used as exhibit A to refute that one.
  16. Andy
    "No one had any idea how important Ortega and Chirinos would be to the 2021 Cubs in the spring" Well, first of all, half of them weren't with the Cubs in the spring, and second of all, they're not important in any real sense just because they swung this game God Sutcliffe is a moron
  17. Andy
    I don't know why it is happening but I've officially had enough of JD being minimized/sidelined as much as he has. Sutcliffe is a damn mess on these games.
  18. Andy
    Sexual assault allegation that came to light in early 2012 and ultimately didn't result in charges. https://www.espn.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7431695/chicago-cubs-starlin-castro-part-sexual-assault-investigation
  19. Andy
    Rizzo already turned down 5/70 and has played worse than that this year, so if he gets extended it's not going to look a thing like 6/90.
  20. Andy
    Well damn, I feel bad for the guy now. I think the catcher is more to blame than Craig. You re-run that play with every single player that has ever played the game and 99.9999% or more of them either turn into the dugout or stand there and let themselves be tagged. Craig takes a step to tag Javy and Javy backs up - at that point Javy can't go anywhere - Craig takes another step - so does Javy - but again where can he go. It really unravels when the catcher calls for the ball and Craig throws it to him (which he shouldn't have done) - at this point I believe Javy's foot is in the batters box. The catcher (too lazy to look up who it was) could've tagged Javy there but tries to get Contreras and then yadda yadda yadda. I'm not saying Craig executed the play well but I think the catcher, at a minimum, deserves as much scorn as Craig. It really was a team-wide disaster. Craig obviously started it, but as you outline the catcher fucked up too. The second baseman fucked up by not covering first base during the rundown. Everyone else on the infield fucked up by not screaming at Craig to just tag Javy or touch the base. Craig deserves better than to be the only face of that play.
  21. Andy
    Finally Manfred says something I don't completely hate
  22. Andy
    In my outfield, drop Ian Happ, add Chris Taylor.
  23. Andy
    I'm going to Wrigley this weekend and the cumulative cost of the tickets I bought on StubHub has already fallen $50 since I finished buying them like 5 days ago.
  24. Andy
    I'm not going to go diving through the entire thread, but his own agents didn't clarify that it was spelled 'Ohtani' until November 2017, so whatevs.
  25. Andy
    Bench - Drop Kyle Lewis, add Giancarlo Stanton
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