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  1. Andy
    A terrible All-Star pick but since the ASG means jack anyway, good for LaHair. A great moment for him.
  2. Andy
    His Tweets to other followers seem to suggest it was Bob, not that it's surprising.
  3. Andy
    Indy will bid on - and almost certainly get, at some point - a national championship game, which would be just as egregious HFA for a B1G team as the Sugar or the Rose. Since no B1G team has finished in the top 4 of the final BCS standings since 2007, it doesn't seem like an immediate issue.
  4. Andy
    Fox has night games tonight which is why they can start at 4 and still air the game, but I'm not sure why beyond that.
  5. Andy
    I haven't seen anything official, but all indications from what I've been reading are that blatant instances of unfair home-field advantage for a lower seed in the 4-team playoff will be avoided (i.e. #3 or #4 SEC team in the Sugar, #3 or #4 Pac-12 team in the Rose). Stewart Mandel posed the idea of the #1 team getting to choose which of the 2 semifinal bowls they played in.
  6. Andy
    3 picks for Tyler Zeller seems excessive. (24, 33, 34 all going to Dallas for Zeller.)
  7. Andy
    Isn't Dumars still there? If so you'd think that would've happened when he blew 90-some million bucks on Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva just because they were there.
  8. Andy
    Granted it's been years since I looked into it, but wasn't there a time when the sports pack would basically give you everything on the RSN's BUT the good games? LIke CSN would give you the Sports Reporters and stuff but not the Bulls games? The sports pack does give you everything but the games on the individual RSNs that are outside your viewing area. Yes, that's the package I mentioned looking into. I didn't realize anyone actually got that, but I suppose if you're in the 'territory' of a bunch of MLB teams like Bob is, there is some value to that package.
  9. Andy
    It's true though, KC somehow has basically five entire states (the immediate St. Louis metro area excepted) as a blackout territory. It's insane.
  10. Andy
    This is really going to hurt the Cubs' BCS rankings, guys
  11. Andy
    Considering there are really only four good conferences anymore, it really shouldn't be considered so insane for one league to get two teams in, especially when the B1G spends so much time beating each other up these days, making it hard for one team to finish with a top-4 resume.
  12. Andy
    Well the only team in your territory is Detroit, and I assume you get FSN Detroit, so that still follows. What I'm saying is not that people with that DirecTV package can see all games, it's that I think that they can see games from teams in their territory(given they don't already have it at a lower tier like you and FSN Detroit). That's my memory when watching Cardinals/Royals games on that tier when I was at Mizzou. Ah, ok. You may be right. I'm a lucky one, though, as you mentioned. I got EI when I moved here in large part because I can watch every game (save FOX/ESPN blackouts) since the Tigers are the only blackout.
  13. Andy
    TT, I have DirecTV and looked into that, but all pro sports games on those RSNs on that package are indeed blacked out. Those packages seem to be for people who really, really want to catch college softball or something on a local RSN. So far as I know, there is no way to get a DirecTV package that includes pro sports beyond your local RSN. I know Comcast cable in South Bend had the highest possible tier that enabled you to get the Reds and Tigers games, which was the excuse given, I suppose for blacking them out. I don't know if other cable companies have similar structure.
  14. Andy
    Preaching to the choir. I was vocally in favor of Oklahoma State getting a shot at the title game last year. At least in 2014 and beyond, the Oklahoma States and Oregons and Stanfords (to use 2011 examples) will get a shot. Hell, even TCU would have been involved in playoffs in 2009 and 2010, and Utah would probably have gotten a chance in 2008 too.
  15. Andy
    I still don't see how this can be 'worse' than the BCS if the idea is to get more teams involved, especially considering we literally know nothing about this plan except a couple of dates and that there will be 2 more teams. don't know about "worse", but not necessarily better. Your probably the only person here who thinks this is not better. I'm in wait and see mode. Your issue so far seems to be with the selection committee, but if there's 4 teams involved and not 2, it's still better. There is a far smaller chance of a deserving team being shut out. And I'll take a selection committee (the members of whom, it would appear, will be public) over some of the idiots voting in the Harris Poll, not to mention the blatant conflicts of interest in the coaches' poll, every time.
  16. Andy
    I checked Hawaii just for the heck of it and every West Coast team is blacked out.
  17. Andy
    I think Garza's perfect season would involve someone new to the team doing something good every day so he could always have an excuse to distribute pies to the face.
  18. Andy
    The Cubs' unbeaten streak with Rizzo is ON.
  19. Andy
    My definition of a ton must be different. The last few years I've been there were perhaps 200 people in line by the time they opened the gates. Still quite a few but a far cry from the mid-00s.
  20. Andy
    I still don't see how this can be 'worse' than the BCS if the idea is to get more teams involved, especially considering we literally know nothing about this plan except a couple of dates and that there will be 2 more teams.
  21. Andy
    http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-tebow-mocks-brady-quinn-2012-6#ixzz1yxIcBSFl There's a decent chance that if this were to develop it would be the most discussed feud of backup quarterbacks in the history of the league.
  22. Andy
    I'll be here all week. :twisted:
  23. Andy
    This means nothing, but I thought it was funny that the Mets' announcers were talking about the bleachers as if they opened 3 hours before the game (they don't) and that there were lines of oodles of people waiting to get in long before that (there haven't been at any game I've been to in 6 years). But then I assume most visiting announcers are similarly misinformed.
  24. Andy
    Playoff's officially been approved. 6 bowls will rotate hosting duties for the semifinals and the title game will be bid out. It's presumed the 4 BCS games will be among the 6 bowls (with the Cotton and the new SEC/B12 bowl game assumed to be the other 2), but nothing official on that front. One semifinal New Year's Eve, the other New Year's Day, with the title game the Monday after NFL wild-card weekend. Now all we have to do is wait 2 years.
  25. Andy
    There's nothing wrong with having a blackout rule. Teams being able to have a blackout territory 3 states away where no one living there has any reasonable way of getting the regional sports network necessary to watch said team? Yes, there's plenty wrong with that.
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