Andy

Too bad they couldn't get one more in, but a lead's a lead.

No putting these dudes away.

- I've sat most everywhere in the ballpark (non-rich people division) and my favorite seats remain the upper deck box seats. However, behind home plate 200 level, which I sat in for the first time last year, was pretty amazing too. Bleachers are always fun, but you have to get there early to get in the top row, which is my preference because you can stand and catch the wind if it's a hot day. - I park north of the Clark/Southport intersection just past the cemetery. Once you get past that intersection you can park on Clark for no charge. It's something like a 10 to 15 minute walk to Wrigley from there, which is nothing to save $50+. - The Lillie Q's stand in the CF bleachers is pretty great. You know what's low-key awesome, especially on a hot day? The Oatly ice cream helmets. My favorite things to eat were the Chef Series in the RF bleacher area, but unfortunately that went away after 2019. - I do not do that mostly on account of being poor, but I've been to Sluggers a couple of times and enjoyed myself each time. - Get all the food you want to get as soon as you get in the park if that's a feasible option, lines get stupid during the game. But the Clark/Southport parking thing is my biggest suggestion, it was a total game-changer when I discovered that hack.

Actually, I screwed that up, they are ranked. But they won on the road against a presumably good team, which is more than most teams have done, so I'm cool with that.

Top 25 games Ball State at (1) Georgia (12 pm, SEC Network) UNLV at (2) Michigan (3:30 pm, CBS) (11) Texas at (3) Alabama (7 pm, ESPN) Southern Miss at (4) Florida State (8:30 pm, ACC Network) Youngstown State at (5) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN) Stanford at (6) USC (10 pm, FOX) Delaware at (7) Penn State (12 pm, Peacock) Tulsa at (8) Washington (5 pm, Pac-12 Network) Austin Peay at (9) Tennessee (5 pm, ESPN+) (10) Notre Dame at NC State (12 pm, ABC) (12) Utah at Baylor (12 pm, ESPN) (13) Oregon at Texas Tech (7 pm, FOX) Grambling at (14) LSU (7:30 pm, ESPN+) Troy at (15) Kansas State (12 pm, FS1) UC Davis at (16) Oregon State (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) Appalachian State at (17) North Carolina (5:15 pm, ACC Network) SMU at (18) Oklahoma (6 pm, ESPN+) (19) Wisconsin at Washington State (7:30 pm, ABC) (20) Ole Miss at (24) Tulane (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Lafayette at (21) Duke (6 pm, ESPN+) Nebraska at (22) Colorado (12 pm, FOX) (23) Texas A&M at Miami (3:30 pm, ABC) Charleston Southern at (25) Clemson (2:15 pm, ACC Network) Other nationally available games Thursday Murray State at Louisville (7:30 pm, ACC Network) Friday Indiana State at Indiana (7 pm, BTN) Illinois at Kansas (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Saturday TV Vanderbilt at Wake Forest (11 am, ACC Network) Purdue at Virginia Tech (12 pm, ESPN2) James Madison at Virginia (12 pm, ESPNU) Delaware State at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Iowa at Iowa State (3:30 pm, FOX) Richmond at Michigan State (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) UTEP at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Wagner at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Marshall at East Carolina (4 pm, ESPNU) Kent State at Arkansas (4 pm, SEC Network) Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (5:30 pm, CW) UCF at Boise State (7 pm, FS1) Houston at Rice (7 pm, NFL Network) Charlotte at Maryland (7:30 pm, NBC) UCLA at San Diego State (7:30 pm, CBS) Eastern Michigan at Minnesota (7:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Temple at Rutgers (7:30 pm, BTN - Regional) McNeese at Florida (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Arizona at Mississippi State (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Air Force at Sam Houston (8 pm, CBSSN) Auburn at California (10:30 pm, ESPN) Oklahoma State at Arizona State (10:30 pm, FS1) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+) Holy Cross at Boston College (12 pm) South Carolina State at Georgia Tech (1 pm) New Hampshire at Central Michigan (1:30 pm) Eastern Illinois at Bowling Green (2 pm) East Tennessee State at Jacksonville State (2 pm) Eastern Kentucky at Kentucky (3 pm) Southern Utah at BYU (3 pm) Western Michigan at Syracuse (3:30 pm) Southern Illinois at Northern Illinois (3:30 pm) Texas Southern at Toledo (3:30 pm) Miami (OH) at UMass (3:30 pm) Texas State at UTSA (3:30 pm) SE Louisiana at South Alabama (5 pm) Duquesne at West Virginia (6 pm) Fordham at Buffalo (6 pm) UL Lafayette at Old Dominion (6 pm) Morgan State at Akron (6 pm) New Mexico State at Liberty (6 pm) Ohio at Florida Atlantic (6 pm) UAB at Georgia Southern (6 pm) North Texas at FIU (6:30 pm) Alabama A&M at Vanderbilt (7 pm) Middle Tennessee at Missouri (7 pm) Florida A&M at South Florida (7 pm) Houston Christian at Western Kentucky (7 pm) Jacksonville State at Coastal Carolina (7 pm) Memphis at Arkansas State (7 pm) Northwestern State at Louisiana Tech (7 pm) UConn at Georgia State (7 pm) Furman at South Carolina (7:30 pm) Nicholls at TCU (8 pm) Lamar at UL Monroe (8 pm)

I did too, which made me feel even more stupid when I saw the most popular choice and realized

I honestly don't root against Kelly, but that being said, seeing that early sequence where they had first and goal, went shotgun 4 straight times, wasted a timeout because the play clock was running out on 4th down, and then came out of the timeout with a horrific play call that failed miserably was like saying hi to an old friend.

Florida State looks really damn good right now.

He's so damn good that it's disappointing when he only drives in 1 with the bases loaded

Philly just took the lead in Milwaukee

Massive win if they can close this out.

Madrigal has gone a long way to make me stop hating him this year

Edwin is forever the standard for me because I disliked the signing from the jump and he never once even came close to making me reconsider, but Taillon is threatening the crown

Derek Law rocketing up my list of favorite non Cubs these days

Ugh.

No idea what adjustments Spiers has made but feels like we're getting frozen by a lot of strikes all of a sudden.

Fantastic hustle by Taillon to get to first there (am I doing this right)

Cubs fans get mad when Cubs have lost 2 tough games in a row in a playoff race and have a season-long human gas can on the mound, film at 11

Something about him immediately shutting opponents down after he's surrendered the lead somehow annoys me even more.

Lmao I left the room for 3 minutes and he gives up another one.

Good recovery by the offense. Should be in the Reds bullpen before long. Hope we've got 4 or 5 more in us today

The RB who scored 4 TDs flipped from Notre Dame right after Deion went there. Hard to complain about what they have at that position, but still a little sobering.

It's malpractice to have this horsefeathers on the mound in a playoff race.

Oh look, another one.

horsefeathers Taillon is the worst signing in the history of this franchise. At least Heyward brought defense.