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  1. Andy
    MAC cancels fall football. Says they'll try to play in spring (LOL ok). Rumors the B1G might be headed that way too. This will all be over by Tuesday.
  2. Andy
    I think we've discussed this, but it's kind of ridiculous how many insane Cubs/Rockies games there have been at Wrigley when they only come here for one series per season. That 01 game, the Bob Howry blows it/Soriano wins it game in 07, the wild rally in 08, the 18 wild-card game, the Rafael Soriano disaster/Kris Bryant walk-off game in 15. Plus in Colorado you have Javy's debut/12-inning game in 14 and the Dexter Fowler GW HR in 15.
  3. Andy
    Updated thread title. Thanks again, STL.
  4. Andy
    I haven’t watched him at all but is he worse than Soler? Soler's not great but he at least always seemed to know where he was going. Eloy's flying crash into the netting last night suggests he doesn't have that particular skill.
  5. Andy
    Had to retitle this thread because of St. Louis being super dumb. Off to Cleveland.
  6. Andy
    I can't find any GIFs, and they don't compare to that Eloy silliness, but this reminds me of Jacque Jones regularly spiking throws 15 feet in front of him.
  7. Andy
    I'm completely in love with that send by Venable
  8. Andy
    I tend to agree, however maybe playing a very limited NC schedule breathes some life into the non-NY6/playoff bowl games. I find all bowl games outside of those games boring and pointless (though I see how GO5 schools may like them). I suspect the genie is out of the bottle on that front. Now that CFB has succumbed to bracket fever, I don't think the average fan is going to care about the non-playoff bowl games anymore regardless. (This is the part where I concede I'm a CFB lunatic and really like watching the NY6 games, at least, and often tune in for at least bits and pieces of the minor bowls too.)
  9. Andy
    There's been a little bit of chatter from The Athletic's CFB writers that fans won't want to go back to a 'normal' schedule after (if) they get a taste of a 10-game league slate. Just selfishly, I hope that isn't true. CFB schedules are already becoming a bit too uniform for my tastes with many schools playing 9-game conference schedules. Give me more high-octane non-league matchups (lots of fun future matchups have been announced in the last couple years) rather than more league games.
  10. Andy
    Not that this was unforeseeable given the circumstances, but there's a bitter irony in MLB taking all these measures (DH, runner on 2nd) presumably to avoid pitcher injuries and yet we're seeing a whole horsefeathers ton of them anyway.
  11. Andy
    Is Tyler Chatwood... Awesome?
  12. Andy
    Happ has been locked in and I'm loving it.
  13. Andy
    Years on now, and I think I can safely say very little in baseball makes me angrier than when an impatient hitter takes a ball and gets screwed on the call.
  14. Andy
    Gastrointestinitis, which is a different hangover euphemism than usual
  15. Andy
    He's either tipping pitches or everyone in baseball has decided to pull an Astros on him specifically for whatever reason
  16. Andy
    Didn't even have the game on and pulled up the app and sure enough there's 2 Pittsburgh runs before an out is recorded. This guy's done as done can get.
  17. Andy
    Marlins add one more positive, so that's 18.
  18. Andy
    The B1G is apparently set to announce tomorrow that it will begin play on the normally scheduled Week 1, so as of now, the Power 5 conferences have 5 different opening weekends - B1G week 1, Big 12 week 0, ACC week 2, SEC week 4, Pac-12 week 5. This sport is so ridiculous.
  19. Andy
    "Everyone else" made their own rules. No one consulted ND on whether to join conferences en masse in the 80s and 90s for TV money (ironic considering the common complaints about ND) and add $40 million conference championship games, and change the rules for who could have conference championship games as the Big 12 did. Nor should they have, because it was none of their business, just like it's none of the conferences' business what ND does. And "the system" "capitulates" because ND makes everyone a lot more money when they "capitulate".
  20. Andy
    ACC has already said they'll accommodate ND, not that it matters much https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29559987/acc-sets-fall-football-plans-includes-notre-dame Fun fact, ND could win the ACC championship and go to the Orange Bowl as the ACC rep even thought they're "independent" Can we stop this charade? College football fans' intense focus on the status of ND's independence amidst a season that won't happen anyway continues to amuse me. Anyway, ND hasn't been truly independent since joining the ACC (and they are in the ACC, which is why the conference is doing this). They play 5 ACC games a year (on average), which are picked by the conference. They trade the other 3 (and any shot at a conference title) for USC, Stanford and Navy. Two of those 3 were ranked in 2019's final CFP rankings. Two of the entire ACC was ranked. As far as schedule strength, this is a non-issue. ACC football teams also make significantly more media-rights money (like $8M per year) than Notre Dame does, so financially, this is a non-issue. It's only an issue for those who demand conformity for some reason.
  21. Andy
    This didn't work out
  22. Andy
    If we can keep them at 2 we'll be ahead by the end of 7
  23. Andy
    Gray is carving us up but it'd be nice if the ump would stop giving him strikes 2 inches off the plate and/or low
  24. Andy
    Symptoms, but no COVID. Too bad they didn't stick around a little longer.
  25. Andy
    He might have if he'd had the luxury of a third catcher, to be fair. But Ross' lineup management has definitely been A+ so far.
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