Soul

Day games for sure. If you are vacationing in Greece, sitting out by a pool or restaurant on a beach, watching Cubs playoff baseball? Yes please.

I’ve followed MLB from overseas before, it’s kind of fun. Not sure if they block it now but years back MLB.TV let you get the games internationally with your subscription.

Still no starter listed for the game this afternoon.

Yikes. This is not fun.

I love ChatGPT for what it can do in terms of crunching a ton of info and putting it all together. RE: Caleb Williams being hated on sports talk radio. Here's what people were saying about Josh Allen after he was drafted: Absolutely—here’s a solid cross-section of what “sports talk” voices were saying about Josh Allen during his 2018 rookie year (and right around his selection), with direct quotes and dates. Colin Cowherd (FOX Sports Radio, Aug 31, 2018): “He’s got the tools, but he can’t put it together against an elite defense when the game speeds up.” FOX Sports Radio Rodger Sherman (The Ringer, Apr 27, 2018 — day after Round 1): “I would consider any team that used a first-round pick on Josh Allen to be the biggest loser of the first round.” He added, “There are just so many videos of him missing easy passes so badly.” The Ringer Riley McAtee (The Ringer, Apr 26, 2018 — draft night): “The Bills Paid a Premium to Take a Massive Risk on Josh Allen… the draft’s most volatile passing prospect.” The Ringer Kevin Clark (The Ringer, May 1, 2018): “Buffalo’s decision to trade up for the unproven Josh Allen sent the league in the other direction.” (contrasting Allen with Mayfield as an “analytics” pick) The Ringer Danny Heifetz (The Ringer, Dec 10, 2018): On Buffalo’s offense with rookie Allen: “The offense flirted with finishing as the worst unit adjusted for era in NFL history… [with] 8 passing touchdowns and 20 interceptions” to that point. The Ringer Local Buffalo sports-radio snapshot (WGR 550 context), Jun 6, 2018: A WGR producer, Ryan Gates, followed through on a public vow to quit if the Bills drafted Allen, underscoring how polarized local talk was at the time: “A Buffalo radio producer said he’d quit if the Bills picked Josh Allen. So he did.” SB Nation Dude actually quit his job because the Bills picked Allen. That's got to be the king of all fails.

These “sports talk” clowns are almost universally worthless. Nobody should care what they say because there are a ton of topics where their take was completely wrong. They just move on to the next controversial take and everyone forgets the previous discussions. It’s like market “experts.” They make 10 doom and gloom predictions. 9 are wrong. 1 is correct and they trumpet how awesome they are at predicting markets. Nobody’s keeping score so they don’t remember the 9 wrong ones.

Yeah, just felt like they shut him down way too early in the game for it to be a precaution. Always hoping for the best outcome, but I can't say it's surprising.

Just the disappearing offense syndrome. At least put up a fight and post some crooked numbers.

Small sample size but this dude doesn't give up many runs 🙁

Fair. Prior to that he was a mess, but those numbers suggest he had come out of it.

I don't know how you can make a blanket, all-or-nothing statement like that when there are guys like Barkley out there, and typically those kind of special players are known before the draft. First 3 games of Jeanty's career should be indicative of nothing. Sure, he could bust but the same is true of all high first rounders. What I would say is: overall I'm leery of drafting an RB high in the first round, unless it's a guy who most people think is an exceptional, game-changing type of RB.

In fairness they did spend a good portion of the 4th Q in prevent. But I agree they weren’t as good as the scoreboard showed. Timely turnovers.

Unknown on Tucker, but I like the idea of bringing him back after a good rest. He was all kinds of jumbled.

There’s been an inordinate amount of cray cray for sure.

Because there are other teams clearly better on a lot less money.

Here we go again 😢

Maybe it’s not unfortunate. Maybe it’s what should be done.

Oh man that must be miserable 😀

For some reason this made me think of Major League “no, it’s too high. Too high.”

Big assist from the Crew. Please win tonight

Bad, new pitcher = baffled Cub hitters. Cubs < 3 runs.

And I feel like it would be a success if they just went 3-3, given what we thought after that Detroit disaster. After this stretch of games it really does get hard though.

For me it's just about results. Last year we won 83 games. This year at least 88. This is what he did with Milwaukee (he went 73, 86, 96 in first 3 years). As long as we win more games next year, it will still be a trajectory of improvement. There are things that annoy me about him but he's here to guide the team to win games and the early returns are he's doing it.

It is what it is. The team that were world beaters up until Summer is gone. Tucker gone. PCA tanked out, Suzuki forgot how to hit. Boyd tired. Shota fading. Blah blah blah. At least they made the playoffs. That's a tick better than last year. (yes I'm writing them off as a 1st round ouster)

It's an entire half of the season.