Andy

Be ready to be driven crazy by Oakland/200-K season

8/9 today, Angels/CWS tripped me up.

Having like 5 pitchers you can feel remotely comfortable with on the mound seems like an issue

I think everybody here understands who you don't want to start but you haven't come horsefeathers close to saying who should. Throwing Drew Smyly in a pennant race seems pretty damn stupid too given evidence at hand.

They must have taken back the error they gave to the Royals CF on Happ's Little League triple in the first inning of that one.

The Harbaugh saga continues.

I only got 7 today because I whiffed twice on the Cubs/. 300 square. Ernie Banks was one wrong answer and I forget the other one.

I was at the game and just now found out Ben Zobrist was there and shown on the LF board. Minor complaint maybe but I wish they'd show this stuff on the RF board too. I was in the LF bleachers and had no idea what the ovation was for.

Others have pointed out that he was catching Stroman a lot, and that does not appear to be needed the rest of the season.

On my phone so I can't hide the results but got 9/9 with an 87 score. Third best I've had, so pretty pleased with that.

Good lord, literally everything had to go right to get Nico and of course it all did

Jose Cuas is a bit of an adventure out there, huh?

Oh look, we pitched to their only good player again

Couple really nice plays by Candelario this inning

I had no idea he won an MVP, so kudos. Hilariously, enough my pick was and the rarity score was even better for him (0.2%). I only got 6/9, though. Being 10 years older than I am (or at least getting into baseball sooner than I did) seems to be a huge advantage in this game

As has been discussed here, his lack of defensive value makes him a less good player than Javy (and also gives him fewer chances to do cool stuff like Javy did) but he's as close as I've seen to someone as fun to watch.

All this time later it still doesn't feel right to hear Len so dejected when the Cubs do something awesome.

What an awesome scene. Everyone there has great stories forever.

So we're just not gonna score anymore huh

Elvis Andrus hasn't hit for crap as far as I can remember so of course 2 RBI and a run tonight

Cincinnati and Miami both lost, so at least there's that

When did Yasmani Grandal become Pudge damn Rodriguez, what fresh hell is this

How the heck did that happen? I thought the whole reason Atlanta was cool trading him is because he supposedly sucked at that.

Welcome to the final season of the not-superconference era of college football. "Week Zero" (Aug. 26) San Jose State at (6) USC (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) Navy vs (13) Notre Dame - in Dublin, Ireland (2:30 pm, NBC) UTEP at Jacksonville State (5:30 pm, CBSSN) UMass at New Mexico State (7 pm, ESPN) Ohio at San Diego State (7 pm, FS1) Hawaii at Vanderbilt (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Florida International at Louisiana Tech (9 pm, CBSSN) Top 25 games ------------------------------ UT Martin at (1) Georgia (6 pm, ESPN+) East Carolina at (2) Michigan (12 pm, Peacock) (3) Ohio State at Indiana (3:30 pm, CBS) Middle Tennessee at (4) Alabama (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (5) LSU vs (8) Florida State - in Orlando (7:30 pm Sunday, ABC) Nevada at (6) USC (6:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) West Virginia at (7) Penn State (7:30 pm, NBC) (9) Clemson at Duke (8 pm Monday, ESPN) Boise State at (10) Washington (3:30 pm, ABC) Rice at (11) Texas (3:30 pm, FOX) Virginia vs (12) Tennessee - in Nashville (12 pm, ABC) Tennessee State at (13) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) Florida at (14) Utah (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) Portland State at (15) Oregon (3 pm, Pac-12 Network) SE Missouri State at (16) Kansas State (7 pm, ESPN+) Colorado at (17) TCU (12 pm, FOX) (18) Oregon State at San Jose State (3:30 pm Sunday, CBS) Buffalo at (19) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, FS1) Arkansas State at (20) Oklahoma (12 pm, ESPN) South Carolina vs (21) North Carolina - in Charlotte (7:30 pm, ABC) Mercer at (22) Ole Miss (2 pm, ESPN+) New Mexico at (23) Texas A&M (7 pm, ESPN) South Alabama at (24) Tulane (8 pm, ESPNU) Utah State at (25) Iowa (12 pm, FS1) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Thursday Kent State at UCF (7 pm, FS1) Elon at Wake Forest (7 pm, ACC Network) Rhode Island at Georgia State (7 pm, ESPN+) St. Francis (PA) at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPN+) NC State at UConn (7:30 pm, CBSSN) Nebraska at Minnesota (8 pm, FOX) South Dakota at Missouri (8 pm, SEC Network) Missouri State at Kansas (8 pm, ESPN+) Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Tulsa (8 pm, ESPN+) North Carolina A&T at UAB (8 pm, ESPN+) Southern Utah at Arizona State (10 pm, Pac-12 Network) Friday Howard at Eastern Michigan (6:30 pm, ESPN+) Central Michigan at Michigan State (7 pm, FS1) Miami (OH) at Miami (7 pm, ACC Network) Louisville vs Georgia Tech - in Mercedes-Benz Stadium (7:30 pm, ESPN) Stanford at Hawaii (11 pm, CBSSN) Saturday TV Fresno State at Purdue (12 pm, BTN) Louisiana Tech at SMU (12 pm, ESPNU) Ball State at Kentucky (12 pm, SEC Network) Northern Illinois at Boston College (12 pm, ACC Network) Bowling Green at Liberty (12 pm, CBSSN) UMass at Auburn (3:30 pm, ESPN) Towson at Maryland (3:30 pm, BTN) Wofford at Pittsburgh (3:30 pm, ACC Network) South Florida at Western Kentucky (3:30 pm, CBSSN) California at North Texas (4 pm, ESPNU) SE Louisiana at Mississippi State (4 pm, SEC Network) UTSA at Houston (7 pm, FS1) Army at UL Monroe (7 pm, NFL Network) Washington State at Colorado State (7 pm, CBSSN) Texas Tech at Wyoming (7:30 pm, CBS) Toledo at Illinois (7:30 pm, BTN) Old Dominion at Virginia Tech (8 pm, ACC Network) Northern Arizona at Arizona (10 pm, Pac-12 Network) Sam Houston at BYU (10:15 pm, FS1) Coastal Carolina at UCLA (10:30 pm, ESPN) Idaho State at San Diego State (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming (All ESPN+) Long Island at Ohio (12 pm) Western Carolina at Arkansas (1 pm) Northern Iowa at Iowa State (2 pm) Akron at Temple (2 pm) East Tennessee State at Jacksonville State (2 pm) Eastern Kentucky at Cincinnati (3:30 pm) Gardner-Webb at Appalachian State (3:30 pm) Colgate at Syracuse (4 pm) Bucknell at James Madison (6 pm) The Citadel at Georgia Southern (6 pm) Albany at Marshall (6 pm) Monmouth at Florida Atlantic (6 pm) South Carolina State at Charlotte (6 pm) Maine at Florida International (6:30 pm) Texas State at Baylor (7 pm) Alabama A&M at Vanderbilt (7 pm) Central Arkansas at Oklahoma State (7 pm) Stephen F. Austin at Troy (7 pm) Alcorn State at Southern Miss (7 pm) Bethune-Cookman at Memphis (7 pm) Northwestern State at UL Lafayette (8:30 pm) Western Illinois at New Mexico State (9 pm) Incarnate Word at UTEP (9 pm) Sunday Northwestern at Rutgers (12 pm, CBS)

This is easily the dumbest successful grid I've completed. Each of my last 3 guesses were completely without merit and I expected to get each of them wrong.