Andy

Count me in.

I haven't read the book yet, but that was in the SI excerpt and it's my favorite part so far.

Fournette also went to Jacksonville in this mock at #4. I'd have taken him for Carolina at #8 otherwise. There's rumors of Carolina trying to move up to 2. No idea if they'd take Fournette there or not, but Rivera said today there's no spot too high to take a RB. No idea why they'd jump the Bears, unless there's other teams also after Fournette and multiple teams are trying to move up. Again, just a rumor, no idea if RB is what they'd want in a move up. For the Bears sake, I'd love to trade out of 3(but stay in the top 10). I do think Fournette is probably the player a team may be enticed to move up for in this draft. I haven't heard anything about them wanting to move up to 2. Fournette is a logical move for the Panthers with Jonathan Stewart entering his 10th season (he just extended his contract one year, through '18).

Fournette also went to Jacksonville in this mock at #4. I'd have taken him for Carolina at #8 otherwise.

Makes sense, the tickets I always printed off StubHub were identical to the ones that are now being shown in the app.

Only if you save the MLS All-Star Game from Goldenface's latest dastardly plot

Yessssssss

I've never been a big fan of the gold-tinged stuff, but the hell with it, we won the freaking World Series, they can wear purple clown suits all this season if they want.

WVU shot 22% from 3 (and under 30 overall) after going off for 57% (highest of the season) to knock out ND. Not that I was bitter about it or anything

I thought it was a joke, but someone pointed out that Jonah, who 'likes' more Tweets than everyone else I follow put together, didn't 'like' this one. Incredible given he posted this same list last year without a peep.

Pretty stunning that a pre-teen would care more about his favorite college team than someone who went there for a master's in theater? What? I didn't get that either. When I was 12, I absolutely lost my horsefeathers about games. It made some of the crap I used to post in the CFB threads look tame.

I knew neither that Scott Feldman was still a starting pitcher nor that he was on the Reds until they made this announcement

Carolina made the brilliant decision to trade away the guy (Kony Ealy) who was a halfway competent offense from being MVP of the motherflipping Super Bowl 13 months ago in exchange for moving up four horsefeathering picks in the draft. Since Fournette (Carolina's other major need is a RB) is gone, I'll address the need the Panthers inexplicably created for themselves by taking Tennessee DE Derek Barnett.

I'm only down 3 E8 teams, and it would only be 2 (Nova and Duke) if I hadn't gone full blind homer and put ND there. Nova was my runner-up, so that's a problem. Oddly enough, I haven't missed a single game yet in the Midwest region, which juxtaposes nicely with the complete mess I have going in the East.

When the Cubs won the World Series, I felt a tremendous weight come off my shoulders, it was almost euphoric jubilation. But when this happened I broke down and cried because this was something I had never thought possible. It was almost as if once they got to the World Series I expected them to win with the utmost confidence, but the years of torment of getting close and failing made this particular moment so much more emotionally impactful to me, personally. Hell, I got teary eyed just watching this again. I know it's #26, and winning the World Series was the pinnacle of Cubs fandom, but this for me is easily my #2. I had a bigger happy-cry meltdown when the ball hit Rizzo's glove Nov. 2, but I definitely agree with this - amazing moment. The fact that it happened at Wrigley adds a lot, obviously.

Princeton did very well executing their strategy. Matt Farrell plays too much hero-ball down the stretch and today was the first time it looked like it pissed Brey off.

I'm indifferent on all the foul related ones but I really like the 20 second shot clock for a front court inbounds. Would the shot clock go down to 20 if it's over 20 when they're inbounding (like after a missed shot when the ball goes off the defending team)? The shot clock going to 20 on the frontcourt inbound is a good idea. Everything else there mirrors what they did with women's basketball a couple years ago, and is a really really bad idea ('segments', really?)

Buck is great. there i said it He's said several times that after his hair-plug/vocal cord disaster, he decided to stop being what he thought people wanted him to be (even-keeled, never too excited) and live in the moment on these calls. Ever since he's been fantastic.

I'm surprised anyone would've needed to be sold on that book, Verducci is a really good writer and that book's going to be freaking awesome.

Yep. I can't remember who served it up, but on the very next pitch he also gave up a dong to superstar frank catalanatto. Jason Marquis, in case you were curious. I would've loved to get some odds in 2002 or thereabouts on the possibility of Sammy Sosa hitting his 600th against the Cubs off a guy wearing his number.

I was at this one too. I had no memory of Wood starting the game.

I really wish Michigan had kept wearing their practice uniforms until they lost. If they go down today I have no qualms blaming it on that.

Walk-off wild pitch vs. Philly on 8/2/07, putting us into first place for the first time since winning the division in 2003. Most of the bleachers refused to leave until they changed the NL Central flags to put us above Milwaukee. Cubs clinch NL Central in Cincinnati on 9/28/07. I decided that afternoon to drive from school at Ball State to Cincinnati. I couldn't get anyone to come with me, so I just went myself. I still had a blast. I actually had my hands on Derrek Lee's home run ball when it bounced into my row, but someone else had gotten there first and outfought me for it. Soriano's walk-off grand slam vs. Houston on 7/27/09. It was awesome. Arrieta beats the White Sox by himself on 7/12/15. He tossed a complete game two-hitter and hit a home run in the game. It also ended something like a seven-game personal losing streak for me at Wrigley. Not technically the birth of Arrieta as utter badass, because he was already in the midst of his season-ending dominance, but certainly the day I was convinced of it. We come within a lost fly ball in the sun of a no-hitter vs. LA, 5/30/16. Hammel left with cramps, but Travis Wood came to the rescue and LA's only hit was on a ball Ben Zobrist lost in the sun in RF. This was also technically my son's first game, albeit still inside my wife. Someday he'll actually be there consciously. The Brian Matusz/Travis Wood in LF/Jon Lester walk-off bunt game vs. Seattle on 7/31/16. We were so excited to see Hendricks pitch and they decided to bring up Matusz for no good reason. I was so damn bitter for about six innings until the Cubs started actually coming back. Probably beginning to end the wildest game I've been to. There was a game vs. Atlanta in 2014 where Edwin Jackson pitched that was only memorable because me and my friends spent the whole game bitching about how terrible he was. A friend of mine said Chris Johnson had 'zero power' and then he hit two HRs, and I essentially called Jackson serving up a HR to Mike Minor right before it happened.

I definitely slumped in my seat after Davis hit the homer, but felt pretty good after we got out of it still tied (until the bottom of the 9th, when Joe sent Chapman back out and it turned into a roller coaster ride). I would say, and I'm sure others here felt the same, that I felt really good about things coming out of the rain delay.

Group A: Nolan Arenado Group B: Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo Group C: George Springer, Mike Trout, Giancarlo Stanton Group D: Francisco Lindor, Dexter Fowler, Willson Contreras, Buster Posey, Adrian Gonzalez WC: PM'd