Andy

It's like the zombie 00's Cardinals. Old players revitalized out of nowhere, players coming to St. Louis and suddenly becoming elite players. Do they have a little gritty dude who has no business being good but somehow is decent? I was about to introduce you to Tommy Edman (all these guys always have names that make them sound like 13-year-olds) but I guess his numbers are still pretty bad. However I'm sure he'll pull a 2012 Pete Kozma and hit 6 home runs in the playoffs or something.

Seiya isn't currently on your roster/bench. Your bench consists of: Witt Jr, William Contreras, and Trout. Huh, must have dropped Seiya already. Never mind, then.

Be more fun if they were spoiling the right Central team, but hopefully they can keep this up.

Matt Corral done for the season with a Lisfranc injury, so that about ends his Carolina career since they'll draft a QB next year for sure. Cam Newton's career essentially ended with a preseason injury in New England too so I'm good with never going there again.

Why didn't I think of this first Drop Seiya, add Pasquantino to bench.

That was the last time his OBP or his SLG was as high as it is this year except for when he slugged one point better in 2015. Who could've seen that coming besides literally anyone who follows baseball.

Officially official:

The NFL can do whatever they want, MLB Network is partially owned by all the cable companies, and the two other ones are owned by their leagues. That's probably what it comes down to.

It legit seems like he's destroyed the ball every single time up. Including twice in one AB earlier (a foul ball).

Nelson Velazquez smashed a run-scoring double 18 inches or so short of a 3-run homer. Naturally, because nothing fully good ever happens, the Cubs left 2 RISP with 1 out after that.

Welcome to the final season of the status quo as we knew it before the Big 12 gets weird next year, the B1G gets even weirder the year after that, the SEC gets weird the year after that, and the CFP turns the whole thing upside down again the year after that. "Week Zero" (Aug. 27) Austin Peay at Western Kentucky (12 pm, CBSSN) Nebraska vs Northwestern - in Dublin, Ireland (12:30 pm, FOX) Idaho State at UNLV (3:30 pm, CBSSN) UConn at Utah State (4 pm, FS1) Wyoming at Illinois (4 pm, BTN) Duquesne at Florida State (5 pm, ACC Network) Charlotte at Florida Atlantic (7 pm, CBSSN) Florida A&M at North Carolina (8:15 pm, ACC Network) North Texas at UTEP (9 pm, Stadium) Nevada at New Mexico State (10 pm, ESPN2) Vanderbilt at Hawaii (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Top 25 games ------------------------------ Utah State at (1) Alabama (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (5) Notre Dame at (2) Ohio State (7:30 pm, ABC) (11) Oregon vs (3) Georgia - in Atlanta (3:30 pm, ABC) (4) Clemson vs Georgia Tech - at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (8 pm Monday, ESPN) Sam Houston at (6) Texas A&M (12 pm, SEC Network) (7) Utah at Florida (7 pm, ESPN) Colorado State at (8) Michigan (12 pm, ABC) UTEP at (9) Oklahoma (3:30 pm, FOX) Albany at (10) Baylor (7 pm, ESPN+) Central Michigan at (12) Oklahoma State (7 pm Thursday, FS1) (13) NC State at East Carolina (12 pm, ESPN) Rice at (14) USC (6 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Western Michigan at (15) Michigan State (7 pm Friday, ESPN) Bethune-Cookman at (16) Miami (3:30 pm, ACC Network) West Virginia at (17) Pittsburgh (7 pm Thursday, ESPN) Illinois State at (18) Wisconsin (7 pm, FS1) (23) Cincinnati at (19) Arkansas (3:30 pm, ESPN) Miami (OH) at (20) Kentucky (7 pm, ESPN+) Troy at (21) Ole Miss (4 pm, SEC Network) VMI at (22) Wake Forest (7:30 pm Thursday, ACC Network) (24) Houston at UTSA (3:30 pm, CBSSN) (25) BYU at South Florida (4 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Thursday St. Francis (PA) at Akron (6 pm, ESPN3) Ball State at Tennessee (7 pm, SEC Network) Bryant at Florida International (7 pm, ESPN3) Long Island at Toledo (7 pm, ESPN3) South Carolina State at UCF (7 pm, ESPN+) Penn State at Purdue (8 pm, FOX) Louisiana Tech at Missouri (8 pm, ESPNU) Alabama A&M at UAB (8 pm, CBSSN) Eastern Illinois at Northern Illinois (8 pm, ESPN+) New Mexico State at Minnesota (9 pm, BTN) Northern Arizona at Arizona State (10 pm, Pac-12 Network) Cal Poly at Fresno State (10:30 pm, FS1) Friday Virginia Tech at Old Dominion (7 pm, ESPNU) Eastern Kentucky at Eastern Michigan (7 pm, ESPN3) William & Mary at Charlotte (7 pm, ESPN3) Temple at Duke (7:30 pm, ACC Network) Illinois at Indiana (8 pm, FS1) Tennessee Tech at Kansas (8 pm, ESPN+) TCU at Colorado (10 pm, ESPN) Saturday TV South Dakota State at Iowa (12 pm, FS1) Buffalo at Maryland (12 pm, BTN) Rutgers at Boston College (12 pm, ACC Network) North Carolina at Appalachian State (12 pm, ESPNU) Delaware at Navy (12 pm, CBSSN) Richmond at Virginia (12:30 pm, Regional Sports Networks/ESPN3) Bowling Green at UCLA (2:30 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Arizona at San Diego State (3:30 pm, CBS) Tulsa at Wyoming (3:30 pm, FS1) North Dakota at Nebraska (3:30 pm, BTN) UC Davis at California (4 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Memphis at Mississippi State (7:30 pm, ESPNU) SMU at North Texas (7:30 pm, CBSSN) Louisville at Syracuse (8 pm, ACC Network) Colgate at Stanford (8 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Idaho at Washington State (9:30 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Boise State at Oregon State (10:30 pm, ESPN) Kent State at Washington (10:30 pm, FS1) Saturday Streaming SE Missouri State at Iowa State (12 pm, ESPN+) Norfolk State at Marshall (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Nicholls at South Alabama (5 pm, ESPN3) Morgan State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3) Middle Tennessee at James Madison (6 pm, ESPN+) Florida Atlantic at Ohio (6 pm, ESPN+) Grambling at Arkansas State (7 pm, ESPN3) SE Louisiana at UL Lafayette (7 pm, ESPN+) UMass at Tulane (7 pm, ESPN+) Liberty at Southern Miss (7 pm, ESPN+) South Dakota at Kansas State (7 pm, ESPN+) Elon at Vanderbilt (7 pm, ESPN+) Mercer at Auburn (7 pm, ESPN+) Army at Coastal Carolina (7 pm, ESPN+) Georgia State at South Carolina (7:30 pm, ESPN+) Murray State at Texas Tech (8 pm, ESPN+) Sunday Florida State vs LSU - in New Orleans (7:30 pm, ABC)

Reports are that B1G is splitting its B package between CBS and NBC and being paid out the ass for it; CBS will be paying more for their package than ESPN will for the SEC's top game. Also talk that Amazon or Apple will receive a piece of the action. I know they will have 16 schools so a ton of content but that's a lot of different places.

Obviously the correct move. Money aside I do feel kind of bad for him. The Cubs broke him trying to unlock more power and couldn't unbreak him.

He's credited as a pretty revolutionary DC and won a title as a head coach. He's not the top of the top by any means but that seems pretty noncontroversial to me.

How charitable of our shitty relievers to walk 2 straight guys in the 9th to help STL win a game. God I horsefeathering hate those assholes

Wilmer Flores comes to mind, but I can't remember it ever happening with a player as accomplished as Contreras, and certainly not with a team with no incentive to keep him like the Cubs this year.

Trading Happ never made a ton of sense but I'm floored that Contreras is still here.

Oh god, it's bad enough I'm gonna be stuck with his bobblehead Saturday now I might have to actually see him play

The Cubs just released a lineup for tonight's game with both Contreras and Happ in it, which seems like a complete waste of time

Really strong numbers, but I know basically nothing about him Here I know literally zero about him, but Phillies fans are flipping their lids about giving him up in the comments to this Tweet, so that's probably not a bad thing.

"Hey, I'm old" story: In the days before cell phones, I went to work at my summer job at the movie theater that day after the deadline assuming the deal hadn't occurred, then my friends drove over just to tell me that not only had we gotten him, we hadn't given up Matt Clement (which I was very determined we not do). Good day.

Groshans has a .296 slugging percentage in AAA. Wow.

It felt awesome to be in the stadium to give Willy 2 standing ovations. Just love the dude. Hate to lose him.