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I don't know if you have some sort of hack and were able to do it anyway, but that discount is no more. The MLBPAA site does not list it among the benefits of your membership.
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There have definitely been fewer marathon games. LA and the Padres went 16 innings in 2021, but a CBS Sports article about this said that only 7 games have gone past 12 in the 3 seasons with the rule whereas 2019 alone had 37 games go past 12. So the rule's stated purpose is being fulfilled, just at the cost of surpassing the NBA's 'time-warp the basketball to half court because reasons' rule as the dumbest in sports.
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It was so obvious they were going to do that that they should've just announced it 2 years ago.
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I think the US cap logo has been the same for every WBC.
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That was probably my favorite. The Netherlands is pretty nice too although I'm not crazy about the color scheme. Great Britain's hat is freaking awful. What the hell is that font?
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None of those players seem like they would matter but you almost have to do a deal that gives you three 1s for a guy you clearly aren't going to get past round 1 with, right?
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I think we discussed last year that Marquee only doing home spring training games was pretty silly considering it's supposedly the all Cubs network but maybe it was just lingering COVID precautions. They announced today that they're doing every spring game except for 2 that will be on MLBN and two split-squad games, so seems like that was indeed the case. There are 4 times they will simulcast the opposing team's feed for road games but they will be on site for most of them.
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The Ringer is projecting Carolina to trade up to 1 using the 24 and 25 first rounders (in addition to #9, obviously). That seems more realistic to me but I wonder if the Bears would want to move down that far.
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Reich leaves me a bit cold. I'd rather have given the job to Wilks. That said I'm sure I will convince myself between now and September that Irsay was the sole problem in Indianapolis.
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The White Sox Thread: 2022 Will Be the Last Call for TLR (P. 11)
Andy replied to Banedon's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Because why the horsefeathers not? lol Because people are at work and unable to watch? Well, if they played in Paris when we could watch it would be at midnight over there.
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He's going to go at least 11-1 next year too and I'm sure we'll do this same song and dance again.
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I think that was Summerall. Al Michaels wasn’t part of that broadcast Oh, that's right. It was Summerall/Madden And Summerall sounded like that literally all the time so there was nothing unusual about his underplaying the winning FG.
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I didn't see the game, but believe I saw that he thought he had been fouled and was going for the continuation. Apparently replays showed the Wizards guy also thought he had fouled him because he was motioning for the ref to call it a non-shooting foul. The Bulls were down 3. Why was he shooting a 2 in the first place? The Wiz had a foul to give so LaVine knew they'd be trying to foul before a shot went up. He was trying to get an and-1 out of it.
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I didn't see the game, but believe I saw that he thought he had been fouled and was going for the continuation. Apparently replays showed the Wizards guy also thought he had fouled him because he was motioning for the ref to call it a non-shooting foul.
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I think the expansion to 12 teams in the playoffs will help - more schools can credibly claim to have a shot. I think NIL keeping more kids in school longer will also help - fuller rosters will trickle some of that talent down to more programs. We won’t see actual parity. But instead of maybe 2 or 3 schools with a legit title shot every year, we might get 5 or 6. I don’t think 12 teams does horsefeathers for any sort of parity. There’s always going to be like 2.5 teams that can win and that’s it. 12 teams just drags out the process and we get more blowouts. It will just be UM beating Tenn by 30 then losing to Bama by 30, OK beating UCF by 30 then losing to OSU by 30, USC beating ND by 30 then losing to Clemson by 30, LSU-Wisc winner losing to UGA by 30 then we get a Bama-OSU-UGA-Clemson final 4 a month later. I think there will be fun games outside of the ones matching up an interloper with a death machine - think LSU/Penn State, ND/Oregon, Texas/Florida State, what have you, and maybe the G5 team gets a good matchup here and there that turns into a fun game. That's probably the selling point of this new CFP. But the final 4 is gonna be a whole lot of Georgia, Bama, Ohio State unless those 3 schools suddenly stop being good at recruiting and developing star players.
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I think the expansion to 12 teams in the playoffs will help - more schools can credibly claim to have a shot. I think NIL keeping more kids in school longer will also help - fuller rosters will trickle some of that talent down to more programs. We won’t see actual parity. But instead of maybe 2 or 3 schools with a legit title shot every year, we might get 5 or 6. Alabama just signed the #3-rated recruiting class in the Internet era and that came a full year after it became obvious the CFP would be expanding beyond 4. NIL/transfer portal, not the CFP format, is the best chance to create some semblance of parity. That seems to be helping on the margins - TCU wouldn't have made it to the title game without the portal, for instance. But any sports league that isn't run by owners who care more about profits than winning isn't going to have a meaningful amount of parity. The same teams pretty much always win at the high school level and the same teams are going to keep winning at the college level.
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They keep trying to legislate some form of parity into this sport but it ain't happening. I don't know if Georgia has fully usurped Bama but they're definitely at least 1A to Bama's 1B right now.
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Less than a year after an extension. Bet he has some coaching offsets, so it will be interesting if he hits up the media gigs for a few years (could do ncaa as well as nfl) Saban will get someone to hire Bill O'Brien and then bring Kliff in as Bama OC. It might as well already be done. He majors in this (no pun intended).
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I like to picture Damar's internal monologue thinking after the doctors said that, "OK very cute. Seriously who won the damn game"
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Jimbo, Petrino and DC DJ Durkin. Quite a crew. Not that this is anything new for Petrino, but he just accepted the UNLV OC job three weeks ago.
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I've had a similar thought, my guess is at a certain point the NFL starts dinging you for doing so given how they tend to evaluate players, maybe excepting for players a true cut above the rest. I also think this will probably have some tension with NIL stuff going forward too. Boosters paying big sponsorship bucks probably aren't going to be too jazzed about recipients skipping games that matter. That's a good point. Are there restrictions on how NIL can be structured? Can NIL be a per game basis or contingent on something like participation in bowl games? Not that any of this is being policed at all, but there are rules against direct pay-for-play that I imagine would preclude anything like "if you skip a game the checks won't clear" from being kosher.
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Can't blame the guys at all for sitting the game out, but it's really hard to win when a team goes in without their star offensive player and possibly two best defensive players. The offense was clearly not the same without Chase Brown. I was considering earlier today whether there is something the NCAA can do to better incentivize (financially) players to suit up for bowl games, but then we see what happened tonight in Cincinnati and there is no amount of money that is worth taking that risk. Bowl games can and probably will start offering some sort of NIL package (the two Cheez-It bowls already did) to some players, but like you said, for the true stars there is really no amount of money that could make it worthwhile. I also expect it not to be too long into the 12 team CFP era when some star player (this will likely be on a team seeded like 10 or something, that everyone knows will not win it all) opts out of the playoff.
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I had a very angry Carolina Panthers missive waiting to be posted yesterday if there had already been an NFL thread (wasn't gonna start another one). Seems very small to think of now
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I had never heard of this until tonight but after seeing what it is described in a tweet that seems very likely.
