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Giving embittered former Rams fans the chance to laugh at how good Carson Wentz is while Jared Goff sits the bench. But in seriousness, I don't know. Those map anomalies are usually due to a former college player from the area, but I don't think either of those teams fit that description.

Seriously. I'm actually fat now, but back when I was a ridiculously skinny 205-210 pounds, at 6'4", BMI had me as overweight. That's the last time I paid attention to that number.

I'm more excited than anxious, but if we lose a game I fear I will do a quick 180. That said, I was confident the Cubs had a chance to rally back against the Mets right up until the first inning of Game 4 happened, so maybe I will be more optimistic again this year.

On the one hand, it's really dumb that a relatively rare Carolina national TV game is going to be played at the same time as a Cubs playoff game, but on the other hand, Carolina really horsefeathering sucks, so maybe I should be glad I'm getting spared it.

Well what do you know, this worked out after all.

No way they blackout the playoffs, right? Huh? Why would they do that when they are the only network in the country broadcasting the game? Yeah, I'm not sure jumbo realizes those blackouts don't apply when the local RSNs don't have the game.

This happened to me in my keeper league 2-3 years ago. Ended the season with far and away the most points but missed out on the playoffs with like a 5-9 record since I played the highest scorer every week. Update: After the 3pm games, I held a 154-139 lead. Opponent had Roethlisberger left, I have Minnesota's D. You can see where this is going. Normally in that situation I'd feel pretty good about winning. But Roethlisberger scores him 43 points and now I need 25 points from Vikings D to avoid going 0-4. I am likely to finish with the 3rd most points in the league this week and of course my opponent will finish with the 2nd most. How does this keep happening? I hate that so much. One year I led my league in scoring four different weeks (I don't remember where I finished for the whole season in scoring, but it was high) but finished 5-8. 1-8 when anyone in the entire league outscored me.

This week I somehow caught the wrong end of 3 same-team combinations that should usually go my way. I had DeAndre Hopkins and my opponent had Will Fuller, which resulted in about minus-20 points for me. I had Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett and my opponent had Jimmy Graham, which resulted in minus-6 more. (Just to rub it in, my opponent also had Russell Wilson, who threw TDs to CJ Spiller and an undrafted rookie FA, but not Baldwin or Lockett.) I had David Johnson and my opponent had John Brown...another minus-4 points. I am somehow winning by a fraction of a point because I had Matt Ryan (hey, thanks for ruining my NFL season, buddy), but I have Orleans Darkwa and my opponent has Odell Beckham Jr. tonight. It'd be nice if I caught the right end of one of these improbable teammate dichotomies, but who am I kidding.

FS1 has UFC stuffs that night so I imagine that's the problem. Maybe MLB shot down being on FS2? MLBN always gets a couple of playoff games regardless of whatever else is going on. They did last year too but both of them were AL games.

I have a wedding to attend the weekend after this one and I live in fear of missing an NLCS game because of it. One thing at a time, though.

Andy Lee is the only good Panthers' player. He's also the punter.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama at (16) Arkansas (7 pm, ESPN) Indiana at (2) Ohio State (3:30 pm, ESPN) (3) Clemson at Boston College (7:30 pm Friday, ESPN) (4) Michigan at Rutgers (7 pm, ESPN2) (5) Washington at Oregon (7:30 pm, FOX) (6) Houston at Navy (3 pm, CBSSN) (9) Tennessee at (8) Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) (23) Florida State at (10) Miami (8 pm, ABC) Washington State at (15) Stanford (10:30 pm, ESPN) (25) Virginia Tech at (17) North Carolina (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) (19) Boise State at New Mexico (9 pm Friday, CBSSN) (20) Oklahoma vs Texas – in Dallas (12 pm, FS1) (21) Colorado at USC (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) Arizona at (24) Utah (9 pm, FS1) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Georgia Southern at Arkansas State (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Temple at Memphis (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) Western Kentucky at Louisiana Tech (8 pm Thursday, CBSSN) SMU at Tulsa (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Cincinnati at UConn (11:30 am, CBSSN) Notre Dame at NC State (12 pm, ABC) Auburn at Mississippi State (12 pm, ESPN) Iowa at Minnesota (12 pm, ESPN2) Maryland at Penn State (12 pm, BTN) TCU at Kansas (12 pm, ESPNU) East Carolina at South Florida (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Bowling Green at Ohio (2 pm, ESPN3) Army at Duke (3 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Miami (OH) at Akron (3 pm, ESPN3) BYU at Michigan State (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Purdue at Illinois (3:30 pm, BTN) Iowa State at Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Ball State at Central Michigan (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Kent State at Buffalo (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Texas State at Georgia State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Vanderbilt at Kentucky (4 pm, SEC Network) Northern Illinois at Western Michigan (6:30 pm, CBSSN) Texas Tech at Kansas State (7 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Wake Forest (7 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Fresno State at Nevada (7 pm, ESPN3) Idaho at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) California at Oregon State (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) Utah State at Colorado State (10 pm, CBSSN) UCLA at Arizona State (10:30 pm, ESPN2) UNLV at San Diego State (10:30 pm, ESPNU) Georgia at South Carolina (2:30 pm Sunday, SEC Network)

Good for IU, they've had a lot of near misses against the good East teams and deserved one. ND still has played no one with a Power 5 win, but that will end next week because NC State toppled mighty Wake Forest today.

I don't want the Cardinals anywhere near the playoffs. i mean at this point, i'd rather face them than the giants, not that it matters. the three team are all pretty mediocre. the main thing for me is avoiding thor and madbum (and maybe cueto) as much as possible. the cardinals have none of those. and tiebreaker games are always fun. having 3 one game playoffs to watch this week would be cool. horsefeathers St. Louis. If the choice is "only" two such games or 3 with at least one involving them, give me two.

ND still hasn't played an opponent that's beaten a Power 5 team (besides ND), so there's that.

This whole glove/position swap thing is dumb. Screw off, umps

Alright, so it's an Arrieta-start dress rehearsal lineup.

That looks an awful lot like a playoff dress rehearsal lineup (except that Lester and Ross will be playing Game 1).

T E L E V I S I O N Is it basically just an ESPN asks so we have to give in sort of thing? Our home opener wasn't on ESPN this year, this is a CSN/WGN/whatever decision

I was going to say the same thing about 'grammar school'

LMFAO. I almost posted about how distasteful I found it that Carlos Martinez managed to shoehorn his murderous drunk driving horsefeathers former teammate into the Fernandez tributes Sunday night.

An unforgettable sports moment. It definitely got dusty in my house watching that

Not necessarily. Last year Game 1 was at, what, 5:30 ET? And that was a Friday as well. Oh, I see what you mean - Wrigleyville. Yeah, I seriously doubt that will be a consideration.

Thread is gone. What was it? Someone created an account called Cardinal_Way and basically copy/pasted Duke's GIF-filled post from earlier in this thread.

Awesome as it is, I definitely think we'd be laughing if STL was joyously cheering their backup catcher multiple times in a game. But whatever, I don't care.