UMFan83

MLB prefers to reward teams who get public money to complete stadiums/renovations. The Cubs took no public money and then spent 3+ years crying poor and fielding less competitive teams using the excuse (among others) that they took too much debt on. The Cubs will get one eventually but can't help feeling like they are being punished. Boob reports that the Cubs along with the Jays, Orioles and Braves are the leading candidates for 2025.

Another ASG not at Wrigley: Cubs have hosted 1 ASG in the last 62 years. 2026 is spoken for already, so if the Cubs don't get awarded the 2025 game, it will be 2027 at the earliest.

To give them a little credit, it didn't seem like they thought Ball would miss half the season at that point and thought LaVine's issues would be cleared up. But yeah the offseason made no sense even with JR concerned about lowering his massive profits by going into the luxury tax. The 2 biggest solvable issues the Bulls had were 3 point shooting and interior defense (IMO) and they solved neither. Don't get me wrong Dragic and Drummond when healthy have been fine but they are still 28th in the league in % of points from 3 pointers and have no plan to stop the Embiids and Giannis's of the league. If there is one positive its that the Bulls struggles are 90% tied to offense. They are actually ranked 6th in defensive efficiency this year. Maybe that's a fluke but if its not that's huge. On offense they are something like 22nd and sliding. Given the amount of offensive talent on the team and their performance last year you would expect that to improve. I'm not sure where you go from here though and I'm very skeptical of AKME at this point. Not that he took over a team with a lot of talent but they had one of the youngest teams in the league, owned all of their 1st round picks, had very low payroll obligations. Fast forward 3 years and we have one of the oldest teams on the league, do not own 2 of our next 3 1sts, are up against the luxury tax and our team is kind of bad. Like what are we doing here? I hate to go tank again, but with an ownership that refuses to pay the luxury tax, we don't have a lot of choices to acquire the talent needed to compete for championships.

Yeah I’ve tuned them out. The least enjoyable type of basketball team to watch is a veteran team that is not good. There’s no point in watching.

Here is how ESPN is predicting our group/knockouts (Yes I'm bored): England 2-0 Iran USA 1-1 Wales Iran 0-0 Wales England 2-1 USA Wales 1-1 England USA 2-0 Iran R16: USA 2-1 Netherlands France 2-1 Argentina (aet) Denmark 1-0 Poland England 2-0 Senegal Spain 1-0 Canada Brazil 2-0- Uruguay Germany 3-1- Morocco Portugal 1-1 Switzerland, Portugal advances on penalties QF: Brazil 2-1 Spain (aet) France 2-0 USA Germany 2-1 Portugal Denmark 2-1 England (aet) SF: Brazil 2-1 France Germany 3-2 Denmark Finals: Brazil 2-0 Germany https://www.espn.com/sports/soccer/insider/story/_/id/35034039/world-cup-2022-predicting-every-game-again

Chase Strumpf, Cam Sanders, Kohl Franklin, Riley Thompson, Luis Devers

Herbert went on IR....

Riz back to the Yankees

Can't discount Fields' motivation this week for his hometown Falcons passing on him in the draft to take Kyle Pitts. This is probably a game he really wants to ball out and win.

I started AJ Brown, Miles Sanders and Taylor Heinicke (emergency SuperFlex QB with Kyler out) last night down 11 points. They were projected to score 40.88 points and all 3 were projected to score at least 13.5 points. Yahoo had me as a 98% favorite for the week going into the game. They ended up combining for 12.04 points. Such a really weird night..happy to get the win but I was hoping to take 1st place by winning the points scored tiebreaker and I fell short by 2 points.

DePaul wins at Minnesota for the 2nd time in 4 years

PFF grades:

Javy is probably my favorite Cub ever and I'm probably high on Fields right now but definitely Pace leaving the Bears Fields. Franchise QB is that important. Javy was very good at his peak and easily the most entertaining baseball player I've ever gotten to root for but his peak was not as elite as what Fields is hinting at.

Blending the fantasy chat into this thread because it involves Fields: Over the last 4 weeks Fields is QB12 IF you only counted his passing stats. Over the last 4 weeks Fields is RB4 IF you only counted his rushing stats (and he's not able to benefit from receptions like RBs are) So you are basically starting a low end QB1 and a top tier RB1 in the same roster slot. Crazy

What a horsefeathering stupid deal. Sick of this streaming crap. The other day I tried to put a Dayton game on tv for my wife (her alma mater) and it was streaming only. Xfinity’s espn app was broken and wouldn’t play the game, so I pulled it up on my phone and attempted to cast it to my tv and that wouldn’t work either. After 10 mins of trying I gave up and decided to watch something else. You probably know this already, but the B1G's new TV deals that start next year include a handful of football games and a lot of basketball games on Peacock. Michigan specifically isn't gonna be dealing with too much of that, but that's the world we're in now. Yeah I'm aware. They also have a steady stream of basketball games that are on BTN+ only, which is a paywalled streaming service that is not available to people who get BTN with their cable package. If you only want to watch games for your school the price is $10 a month. If you want to watch everything its $15 a month. There are other non-revenue sports on there and archived games but its a rip off to me. Luckily Michigan only has 1 game on BTN+ this year. For a solid decade we were in the golden age of live sports and had access to almost everything we ever wanted if you had an inclusive enough cable package. Then college conferences started breaking off into their own networks and my cable provider doesn't carry the ACC network, so occasionally an exciting game is on that I cant tune into. Then streaming started plucking away games from all the sports onto various platforms. Now networks you already pay for are putting games on a separate paywall. shameless greed.

Am I the only one that’s irrationally upset the Bears didn’t get one of those 2 point conversions against the cowboys so the stat could be 30+ points in 3 straight games and lost? It also keeps the Bears from matching that 2020 stretch where Mitch said horsefeathers it and torched bad defenses Also who would have ever guessed the Chicago Bears would be the proud owner of that accomplishment?

I sit corrected. Jimbo has turned this program into an even bigger dumpster fire than I realized. I cannot remember the last time we had a game that wasn't televised. It's not because A&M stinks - the new ESPN/SEC deal gives ESPN the right to put one (cupcake) game a year for every conference team on ESPN+. Bama and Mississippi State also have their ESPN+ games this weekend, most of the league had them in September. What a horsefeathering stupid deal. Sick of this streaming crap. The other day I tried to put a Dayton game on tv for my wife (her alma mater) and it was streaming only. Xfinity’s espn app was broken and wouldn’t play the game, so I pulled it up on my phone and attempted to cast it to my tv and that wouldn’t work either. After 10 mins of trying I gave up and decided to watch something else.

Just for fun, if you took Fields season stats (rushing and passing) and projected them over a 17 game season you’d get: 3,805 yards, 31 TDs, 12 INT Considering how slow he started the season that’s some good horsefeathers from QB1

Lmao SIX routes?

I didn’t see this discussed anywhere: Thoughts? Would adding some extra velo help Hendricks at this stage of his career? Obviously more velo always helps but concerned that he might sacrifice his at times impeccable command to throw what would still be a subpar fastball in terms of velocity

Yeah re: Claypool I was a little surprised that he was used less today than last week. I’d have to check the snap count but it seemed like a lot of the time when he came into the game it was for a play to him. Figured with 1.5 weeks he’d be able to learn a couple dozen plays and could have been out there more often than not even on plays where he isn’t the main read. I could be completely wrong though.

Definitely would have IMO. This one goes on the list of inexplicable Bears losses. Without veering into Sulley territory, the Bears list has to be longer than any other team. It was a really frustrating way to lose, coming into the 4th with a 24-10 lead, seeing an INT overturned by iffy call and then immediately a TD, then a Fields pick 6 followed by heroic 67 yard run only to miss the XP. Than all the iffy penalties. As I’ve been saying I want them to win but don’t care if they lose. That is still true. A loss is good to some degree but when you are watching the game and know that it took like 10 things all going Detroit’s way for them to win the game it’s super frustrating.

I’m convinced there is some conspiracy where Poles has asked the NFL to help them tank (I’m kidding). Last 2 games were both wins without egregious officiating. Imagine being 5-5 with Fields playing like he has?

Pretty incredible to blow a 14 point lead and 6 point lead both in the 4th quarter at home to THE LIONS. Takes a special team to do that.

Guess it’s too much to ask the defense to stop a 3rd and 7 run play with the game on the li e