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  1. Andy
    Jed needs to get us a starter right freaking now.
  2. Andy
    I'm not telling you it makes sense. It's just my preference. I love college football in large part because very little about it makes any sense at all.
  3. Andy
    4 is not good as implemented - a true plus one after the bowls would've been better, not that it would've slowed playoff creep - and 12 will probably be better. I'm just annoyed that the only sport that truly required season long greatness to win a title is going out the window and that there's essentially no way the current ruling class will ever miss a playoff again (they weren't anyway, but it was in play). They put the idea of single season-altering outcomes on life support when they went to 4 and 12 is pulling the plug.
  4. Andy
    I'm not saying anything you're saying is wrong, but Michigan basketball played in the national effing title game twice in a five-year span and was a 1 or a 2 seed in each of the two tournaments played since that 2018 runner-up finish. They have been extraordinarily more successful than the football team. And speaking as a fan of a college hoops team that made the Elite 8 twice in a row in '15 and '16 (before utterly collapsing on itself since), I speak from experience when I say I don't remotely blame you if that has made you a bigger UM hoops fan than football fan of late. Anyway, I just have my doubts that the era of good feelings about 'bigger access' or whatever will last a few years into the 12-team event and people notice that the only meaningful difference in the final results is that current second-tier type teams like Michigan (and, frankly, Notre Dame) end their seasons with meaningful losses rather than meaningless wins.
  5. Andy
    As one Athletic commenter said, the fans should probably be masking, but if a fan catches COVID-19, it won't force several players on our favorite baseball team into quarantine. Being a baseball player sometimes comes with headaches that the average person doesn't have to worry about.
  6. Andy
    I just Googled and didn't see anything to confirm the antibody treatment thing is true. It certainly doesn't seem to be relevant now, or else Heyward wouldn't have been so ridiculously defensive about not being vaxxed.
  7. Andy
    I would love to be so secure in a lucrative job that I could do something as dumb as not get vaccinated while really sucking at said job and not worry about losing said job.
  8. Andy
    I could get used to this version of Davies
  9. Andy
    Nice baserunning O'Neill
  10. Andy
    Got some bad news about how national broadcasts work
  11. Andy
    I actually think AJ is doing a good job *shrug* He's meh to OK but he also spent about 5 minutes saying essentially "Joc changed teams for the first time this offseason and it takes a bit to adjust". Drives me nuts when guys overtalk.
  12. Andy
    Joc can hit lefties
  13. Andy
    High prices, somewhat short notice to go to full capacity. I'm a little surprised it's that low but not surprised it wasn't a sellout.
  14. Andy
    Longest Cubs AB to result in a homer in the history of pitch-count tracking (since 1988), Boog just informed us.
  15. Andy
    That was easily the best shot of the month for Anthony Rizzo. OK, puns aside, that was horsefeathering cool.
  16. Andy
    Rizzo and Tom are really ruining 100% capacity day with this BS I'd give anything for Boog or JD to offhandedly ask, "Boy Tom, you definitely wouldn't have ordered Darvish traded if you'd known we'd be at full capacity this soon, huh?"
  17. Andy
    Yep I’m still mad at KB swinging at that 3-2 in the first inning. It feels like he does that more often when they send the runner, which of course flies in the face of the entire reason they send the runner (because of Bryant's normally good eye).
  18. Andy
    With NIL, the 'for free' part will be somewhat mitigated. As others have pointed out, it wouldn't be hard to envision an 'appearance fee' type of situation from bowl organizers.
  19. Andy
    They already did, and it turned the schedule into Clemson (who was on the 2020 schedule before COVID), North Carolina and 9 ridiculously boring opponents. The first 2 of those were pretty cool, the rest of it was a slog. lol - join a better conference ACC grant of rights through 2036, so that's not an option. I should've known better than to even allude to this topic on this board.
  20. Andy
    I would agree that having Ross or Hoyer come out and publicly horsefeathers on the unvaxxed players wouldn't get them to get the shot or play any better. But the fact of the matter is, not getting the shot, unless a medical professional tells you you shouldn't, is a horsefeathering stupid and selfish decision, and people are going to point it out.
  21. Andy
    My objection to emphasizing the postseason over the regular season is well documented on this board, but I'm glad they picked 12 instead of 8. I think between the two, 12 is far better. I'm less than thrilled with the proviso that the top 4 conference champs will automatically receive the top 4 seeds, which means Notre Dame can't get a bye no matter how good a regular season it has, but considering the ND athletic director was literally on the subcommittee that came up with this idea, I guess they have no one to blame but themselves for that one. Just join a conference already lol They already did, and it turned the schedule into Clemson (who was on the 2020 schedule before COVID), North Carolina and 9 ridiculously boring opponents. The first 2 of those were pretty cool, the rest of it was a slog.
  22. Andy
    Kemba Walker trade: Five hypothetical deals involving Celtics guard I don't much care for Kemba, but that seems like a lot for Boston to give up for one pretty good starter and two guys that are mostly roster filler.
  23. Andy
    This makes me so horsefeathering happy. I liked 8 team, but I'll take 12 team for sure. Maybe Michigan will make it one year. My objection to emphasizing the postseason over the regular season is well documented on this board, but I'm glad they picked 12 instead of 8. I think between the two, 12 is far better. I'm less than thrilled with the proviso that the top 4 conference champs will automatically receive the top 4 seeds, which means Notre Dame can't get a bye no matter how good a regular season it has, but considering the ND athletic director was literally on the subcommittee that came up with this idea, I guess they have no one to blame but themselves for that one.
  24. Andy
    This wouldn't start until at least the 2023 season, but here we go.
  25. Andy
    It just makes me mad that Darvish and Caratini are kicking our asses in this series instead of the other way around. There's just no good reason they shouldn't still be wearing blue.
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