Andy

Bump so it doesn't get lost before the season begins. Pretty darn excited, folks.

So that was [expletive]

Kris Bryant is breaking baseball.

Yeah they won 90 games despite being outscored for the season. Then kicked our ass in the playoffs to boot.

They're an insane 27-8 in one run games. It means nothing but imagine if we had that kind of fortune right now and what our record would be

He's going to hit 20-25 dongs the next 5 years with elite defense and how's Jeff Samardzija doing, I forgot

That's completely made up, right? Unfortunately, only a slight exaggeration, as NPC pointed out.

Yeah, but I really want both to miss the playoffs and a Mets sweep is the best way to further that goal right now. Oh, definitely. I wasn't making a value judgment on who to root for.

As much as I hate STL, and that is a LOT, I am enjoying the Mets' collapse after how shitty their fans were last year (yes, Cubs fans outside this board probably would've been just as bad, don't care)

And said ace goes against Hendricks in game 3, which is hardly a huge disadvantage for us.

Apparently the gun was Max Redfield's, and he was already suspended for last year's bowl for a behavior issue. So he was kicked off the team. Devin Butler suspended indefinitely, the other four subject to internal/school discipline but no suspensions - yet.

Since like 70+ percent of the games are on ESPN anyway and that's how they display them on the bottom line. Figure Central time math is pretty solid on this board.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama vs (20) USC – in Arlington, TX (8 pm, ABC) (2) Clemson at Auburn (9 pm, ESPN) (3) Oklahoma vs (15) Houston – at NRG Stadium in Houston (12 pm, ABC) (11) Ole Miss vs (4) Florida State – in Orlando (8 pm Monday, ESPN) (5) LSU vs Wisconsin – in Green Bay (3:30 pm, ABC) Bowling Green at (6) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Hawaii at (7) Michigan (12 pm, ESPN) Kansas State at (8) Stanford (8 pm Friday, FS1) Appalachian State at (9) Tennessee (7:30 pm Thursday, SEC Network) (10) Notre Dame at Texas (7:30 pm Sunday, ABC) Furman at (12) Michigan State (7 pm Friday, BTN) South Dakota State at (13) TCU (8 pm, FSN – Regional) Rutgers at (14) Washington (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) (16) UCLA at Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) Miami (OH) at (17) Iowa (3:30 pm, ESPNU) (22) North Carolina vs (18) Georgia – in Atlanta (5:30 pm, ESPN) Charlotte at (19) Louisville (7 pm Thursday, FSN/ESPN3) SE Louisiana at (21) Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, FSN) Northwestern State at (23) Baylor (7:30 pm Friday, FSN) UC Davis at (24) Oregon (5 pm, Pac-12 Network) UMass at (25) Florida (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- California vs Hawaii – in Sydney (10 pm Aug. 26, ESPN) Tulane at Wake Forest (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Maine at UConn (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Presbyterian at Central Michigan (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) UT Martin at Cincinnati (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Indiana at Florida International (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) William & Mary at NC State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3) South Carolina at Vanderbilt (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) Oregon State at Minnesota (8 pm Thursday, BTN) Rice at Western Kentucky (8 pm Thursday, CBSSN) Southern Utah at Utah (8 pm Thursday, Pac-12 Network) Montana State at Idaho (9 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Mississippi Valley State at Eastern Michigan (6 pm Friday, ESPN3) Army at Temple (7 pm Friday, CBSSN) Colgate at Syracuse (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Albany at Buffalo (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Ball State at Georgia State (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Colorado vs Colorado State – in Denver (8 pm Friday, ESPN) Toledo at Arkansas State (9 pm Friday, ESPNU) Boston College vs Georgia Tech – in Dublin (7:30 am, ESPN2) Missouri at West Virginia (12 pm, FS1) Howard at Maryland (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Western Michigan at Northwestern (12 pm, ESPNU) South Alabama at Mississippi State (12 pm, SEC Network) Fordham at Navy (12 pm, CBSSN) Eastern Kentucky at Purdue (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Boise State at UL Lafayette (12 pm, ESPN3) Liberty at Virginia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Villanova at Pittsburgh (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Kent State at Penn State (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Murray State at Illinois (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Texas State at Ohio (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Richmond at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Louisiana Tech at Arkansas (4 pm, SEC Network) Florida A&M at Miami (6 pm, ESPN3) NC Central at Duke (6 pm, ESPN3) Western Carolina at East Carolina (6 pm, ESPN3) Austin Peay at Troy (6 pm, ESPN3) Savannah State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3) VMI at Akron (6:30 pm, ESPN3) San Jose State at Tulsa (7 pm, CBSSN) Rhode Island at Kansas (7 pm, ESPN3) SE Missouri State at Memphis (7 pm, ESPN3) South Carolina State at UCF (7 pm, ESPN3) Towson at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN3) Southern at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Southern Miss at Kentucky (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Fresno State at Nebraska (8 pm, BTN) Eastern Washington at Washington State (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) Stephen F. Austin at Texas Tech (8 pm, FSN – Regional) BYU vs Arizona – in Glendale, AZ (10:30 pm, FS1) Northern Illinois at Wyoming (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Northern Arizona at Arizona State (10:45 pm, Pac-12 Network)

Non cryptic version: The annual preseason purge continues! Very uninformed speculation I'm hearing is that the gun belonged to Dexter Williams. I'm realllllly getting sick of this horsefeathers.

Even though Story is gone and I'm toast anyway: Drop Stanton, add Rizzo

We're not keeping him anyway and his job is to throw baseballs, while Joe's is to manage the game. He should suck it up. He will pitch outside the 9th in a close game in the playoffs if Joe has a brain, so he might as well get used to it

Late drop in to say Joe Smith is the new Clayton Richard

I want 20

No, it gets canceled

I love this team

He has nothing. Too bad Willson bailed him out a bit with a bad two-strike swing, but he's not long for this game.

In the team competition it was just insane how much better the US was than everybody else. Just near-perfection one after the other. Biles had a really good beam routine that was probably the worst thing any of the gymnasts did because she shuffled her feet a couple of times.

Oh, it's going to be someone important. STL won't let an unintentional pitch that injured an expensive, unproductive player go by without going after someone important. It'll be one of Bryzzo.

Szczur leadoff against a RHP is weird but I really don't care. Just make sure everyone knows to recoil at any inside pitch.

Just give Bryant and Rizzo the day off. The second it happened GRB ppl were wondering about retaliation, and saying Maddon was smirking... I wouldn't call it unbelievable, but... Let's call it remarkable how every single freaking time someone gets hit the BFIB start talking up retaliation. Never mind that it was the 10th inning of a tie game...