Andy

So Plan, Sammy, myself and Brian to start. In the wild event it gets that far, Jersey, Ding Dong and the robot can have a battle royale to determine the next spot. (I really enjoyed typing that last sentence.)

I believe they are. I remember listening to a game last year. You can also use International VPN or a service like delocator to watch the game. They definitely are, I used it to listen to the bulk of Games 1 and 3 of the World Series (damn you, work).

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama at Texas A&M (7:15 pm, ESPN) Wake Forest at (2) Clemson (12 pm, ESPN2) Iowa State at (3) Oklahoma (12 pm, FOX) (4) Penn State at Northwestern (12 pm, ABC) (5) Georgia at Vanderbilt (12 pm, ESPN) California at (6) Washington (10:45 pm, ESPN) Michigan State at (7) Michigan (7:30 pm, ABC) (23) West Virginia at (8) TCU (3:30 pm, FS1) (9) Wisconsin at Nebraska (8 pm, BTN) Maryland at (10) Ohio State (4 pm, FOX) (11) Washington State at Oregon (8 pm, FOX) Ole Miss at (12) Auburn (12 pm, SEC Network) (13) Miami at Florida State (3:30 pm, ESPN) Oregon State at (14) USC (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) (16) Virginia Tech at Boston College (7:15 pm, ESPN2) (17) Louisville at (24) NC State (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) (19) San Diego State at UNLV (10:45 pm, ESPN2) Stanford at (20) Utah (10:15 pm, FS1) LSU at (21) Florida (3:30 pm, CBS) (21) Notre Dame at North Carolina (3:30 pm, ABC) (25) UCF at Cincinnati (8 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Arkansas State at Georgia Southern (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Memphis at UConn (7 pm Friday, ESPN) Boise State at BYU (10:15 pm Friday, ESPN) Texas Tech at Kansas (12 pm, FS1) Illinois at Iowa (12 pm, BTN) Temple at East Carolina (12 pm, ESPNU) Eastern Michigan at Toledo (12 pm, CBSSN) Tulsa at Tulane (12 pm, ESPN3) Duke at Virginia (12:20 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Syracuse (12:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Central Michigan at Ohio (2 pm, ESPN3) Bowling Green at Miami (OH) (2:30 pm, ESPN3) Florida International at Middle Tennessee (3 pm, ESPN3) UL Monroe at Texas State (3 pm, ESPN3) Minnesota at Purdue (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Charleston Southern at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN) Western Michigan at Buffalo (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Air Force at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Ball State at Akron (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Kent State at Northern Illinois (3:30 pm, ESPN3) New Mexico State at Appalachian State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Arkansas at South Carolina (4 pm, SEC Network) Colorado State at Utah State (4:30 pm, Stadium) UL Lafayette at Idaho (5 pm, ESPN3) Florida Atlantic at Old Dominion (6 pm, Stadium) Georgia State at Coastal Carolina (6:30 pm, ESPN3) Kansas State at Texas (7 pm, FS1) SMU at Houston (7 pm, CBSSN) Southern Miss at UTSA (7 pm, Facebook) Missouri at Kentucky (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Fresno State at San Jose State (7:30 pm, ESPN3) Arizona at Colorado (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) Hawaii at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN)

I was saying that because in the past we rotated by who had the best regular-season record. Unfortunately that info seems lost to history at the moment. I'd definitely give Game 1 to Sammy regardless of all else.

Alabama is both an outstanding football team and may very possibly not face a team that will finish ranked before Thanksgiving. (Texas A&M might, and they're probably the only one that might mess that up.)

Remains to be seen if they can take advantage but this was a really nice and needed win for Carolina today. If nothing else Cam can brag about being 2-0 against Tom Brady for the rest of his life.

So are we setting a playoff rotation?

I don't care what order, but Hendricks and Quintana need to start the first two playoff games.

1) Where is Tree? 2) Tell that story, I've definitely never heard it. In 2004 there was a poster named Controversy. When we had the old picture thread, she posted a picture. Tree was impressed and started talking to her. We actually had an outing with me, tree, controversy and an old poster (his name is mark, drawing a blank on NSBB name) at a Cubs/Expos game (Scott Downs pitched a complete game shutout for Montreal). I believe this was their first meeting and they ended up dating for a bit, so I'm assuming they had sexy time. Wasn't Mark just MarkR? Or is this a different person?

Yeah, this is irrationally annoying me. Not even a mention of Ian Happ doing this for months.

MLB makes the schedule. I'm guessing we end up around that 5:30 slot because the game in LA is likely to be the late game.

This inning is the best inning of this game

Every time I look up I see another pitch out of the zone called a strike

We were down 3 in the 6th. I didn't see it either but it better have been really horsefeathering obvious for that clown show to think we'd hit anyone intentionally in such a situation.

Matheny is so laughable. Wish we could've made them pay for that stupidity.

It's crazy, I can only think of 3 Cubs playoff games out of the...47 that have happened since 1989 that have been weekday afternoonish. 1998 Game 1 against the Braves was early afternoon, 2008 Game 1 against the Dodgers I believe was very late afternoon, something like a 4 or 5 PM start, and then 2015 Game 4 against the Cardinals started sometime around 3:30 PM. We've been quite fortunate in that regard. 2015 Game 2 against STL was also during the day, albeit a Saturday.

Schwarber Fan has been fired for dereliction of duty. I'm 9-2 this year, and I'd like win #10 to be the clincher please.

I can't wait to watch Carolina get blasted to hell by New England and Detroit the next 2 weeks

Top 25 games ------------------------------ Ole Miss at (1) Alabama (9 pm, ESPN) (2) Clemson at (12) Virginia Tech (8 pm, ABC) Indiana at (4) Penn State (3:30 pm, BTN) (5) USC at (16) Washington State (10:30 pm Friday, ESPN) (6) Washington at Oregon State (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) (7) Georgia at Tennessee (3:30 pm, CBS) Northwestern at (10) Wisconsin (12 pm, ABC) (11) Ohio State at Rutgers (7:30 pm, BTN) (24) Mississippi State at (13) Auburn (6 pm, ESPN) (14) Miami at Duke (7 pm Friday, ESPN) (15) Oklahoma State at Texas Tech (8 pm, FOX) Murray State at (17) Louisville (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) (18) South Florida at East Carolina (12 pm, CBSSN) Northern Illinois at (19) San Diego State (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Vanderbilt at (21) Florida (12 pm, ESPN) Miami (OH) at (22) Notre Dame (5 pm, NBCSN) Troy at (25) LSU (7 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Texas at Iowa State (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) Nebraska at Illinois (8 pm Friday, FS1) BYU at Utah State (8 pm Friday, CBSSN) North Carolina at Georgia Tech (12 pm, ESPN2) Maryland at Minnesota (12 pm, FS1) Rice at Pittsburgh (12 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Houston at Temple (12 pm, ESPNU) New Mexico State at Arkansas (12 pm, SEC Network) Syracuse at NC State (12 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Central Michigan at Boston College (1 pm, ESPN3) Florida State at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, ABC) Baylor at Kansas State (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Navy at Tulsa (3:30 pm, ESPNU) UTEP at Army (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Buffalo at Kent State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Iowa at Michigan State (4 pm, FOX) Eastern Michigan at Kentucky (4 pm, SEC Network) UConn at SMU (4 pm, ESPNEWS) Arizona State at Stanford (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) Texas State at Wyoming (4 pm, Facebook) Akron at Bowling Green (6 pm, ESPN3) Memphis at UCF (7 pm, ESPN2) Air Force at New Mexico (7 pm, CBSSN) South Alabama at Louisiana Tech (7 pm, ESPN3) Ball State at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPN3) Coastal Carolina at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Marshall at Cincinnati (7 pm, ESPN3) Middle Tennessee at Florida Atlantic (7 pm, Stadium) South Carolina at Texas A&M (7:30 pm, SEC Network) California at Oregon (10 pm, FS1) Colorado at UCLA (10:30 pm, ESPN2) San Jose State at UNLV (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

Lot of interesting stuff happened today. Georgia appears to be A) really good and B) quite possibly the only other team in the SEC besides Alabama that's any better than 'ok'. The playoff looks a lot like Alabama, Clemson, the Penn St/Ohio St winner, and probably Oklahoma right now. So I'm sure it will all blow up next week.

[something very smart about launch angles goes here]

Hearing Bryant got a clutch hit. Can anyone confirm?

Carolina is 2-0, but Cam looks like ass and Olsen broke his foot. Pretty rough team to watch.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama at Vanderbilt (3:30 pm, CBS) Boston College at (2) Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPN2) (3) Oklahoma at Baylor (6:30 pm, FS1) (4) Penn State at Iowa (7:30 pm, ABC) (5) USC at California (3:30 pm, ABC) (16) TCU at (6) Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPN) (7) Washington at Colorado (10 pm, FS1) (8) Michigan at Purdue (4 pm, FOX) UNLV at (10) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN) (17) Mississippi State at (11) Georgia (7 pm, ESPN) NC State at (12) Florida State (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Old Dominion at (13) Virginia Tech (2 pm, ESPN3) Toledo at (14) Miami (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) (15) Auburn at Missouri (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Nevada at (18) Washington State (6 pm, Pac-12 Network) Kent State at (19) Louisville (12 pm, FSN/ESPN3) (20) Florida at Kentucky (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Temple at (21) South Florida (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) San Diego State at Air Force (7 pm, CBSSN) (23) Utah at Arizona (10:30 pm Friday, FS1) (24) Oregon at Arizona State (10 pm, Pac-12 Network) Syracuse at (25) LSU (7 pm, ESPN2) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Virginia at Boise State (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Texas Tech at Houston (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Arkansas vs Texas A&M – in Arlington, TX (12 pm, ESPN) West Virginia at Kansas (12 pm, ESPNU) UMass at Tennessee (12 pm, SEC Network) Army at Tulane (12 pm, CBSSN) Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech (12:20 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) New Mexico at Tulsa (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Idaho at South Alabama (2 pm, ESPN3) Ohio at Eastern Michigan (2 pm, ESPN3) UCF at Maryland (3 pm, FS1) Georgia Southern at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Rutgers at Nebraska (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Duke at North Carolina (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Louisiana Tech at South Carolina (3:30 pm, SEC Network) Cincinnati at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Miami (OH) at Central Michigan (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Wake Forest at Appalachian State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UL Monroe at UL Lafayette (5 pm, ESPN3) Akron at Troy (6 pm, ESPN3) Western Illinois at Coastal Carolina (6:30 pm, ESPN3) Arkansas State at SMU (7 pm, ESPN3) Bowling Green at Middle Tennessee (7 pm, ESPN3) Florida Atlantic at Buffalo (7 pm, ESPN3) Wagner at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPN3) UTSA at Texas State (7:30 pm, ESPN3) Florida International at Rice (7:30 pm, Facebook) Utah State at San Jose State (7:30 pm, Facebook) Notre Dame at Michigan State (8 pm, FOX) Southern Illinois at Memphis (8 pm, ESPN3) UTEP at New Mexico State (8 pm, ESPN3) Hawaii at Wyoming (10:15 pm, ESPN2) UCLA at Stanford (10:30 pm, ESPN) East Carolina at UConn (12 pm Sunday, ESPNU)