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Well we're probably gonna be pounded against LA, but, 3 straight NLCS!

Okay I guess split screen was pretty clear.

Not enough to overturn Edit- well I'll take it.

Alright alright

Well horsefeathers

Not if they don't put anyone on.

It's what got us to this point that was a bit questionable.

I had no idea Contreras was involved with a porn star, but is it Mia Khalifa? I"ve heard her on LeBatard and I think she's a DC area sports fan Yep thats her. Also "involved" isn't exactly the right word.

Bahahahahah

His backswing hitting Wieters. Let me try to post the image from my phone. I'm pretty sure there's umpire judgement involved in the rule. What exactly is the judgement regarding? Either way let's put up 20 more so there's no doubt.

At least 229.

YASSSSS

Addy Dong pls.

We aren't going down this easy. Our big inning is coming still

Counting on Meredith to be a legit 1 based on partial season production was already a risk, but then zero other decent receivers was insane. When you intentionally go with no depth you can't blame injuries for ruining a season. Oh for sure, it’s still ridiculous to me they didn’t franchise tag Alshon. Unless there’s some big time personality issues they had. Just awful roster construction/helping out a rookie. You mean a second franchise tag? I guess they could have, though FYI his market value ended up being 8m less than that. A long term deal would have been best, but it seems Alshon never got a long term deal he valued (from anyone).

Counting on Meredith to be a legit 1 based on partial season production was already a risk, but then zero other decent receivers was insane. When you intentionally go with no depth you can't blame injuries for ruining a season. Agreed. The only way this was going to be a good WR group, even with health, was a breakout Kevin White. Wheaton and Wright were decent "upside on a slot receiver" gambles, but it was never really enough. Health (projecting what a healthy White and Wheaton look like) make this, what a bottom third WR group as opposed to the worst WR corps in the league?

Might as well just reach an injury settlement with him and go find some other young fringe WR that we can try to strike lighting in a bottle with.

Special teams. but thompson was the main return guy, so it's gotta be more about them just not liking what he brings to the table than just being useful on special teams. Thompson was a KR, but Bellamy plays on most the special teams units I think. They have other guys like Cunningham who can catch a kick and kneel 80% of the time.

Special teams.

not all... but a bunch. when people pop up on the suggestions i add them if i have any idea who they are. i don't even know why but occasionally something interesting or fun comes of it. or a lot of times another cubs twitter person will like/retweet and it'll pop in my feed as well. bleep-bleep bloop-bloop... accessing data "russell lady friends"... loading... 1.5 billion results... loading... That loaded pretty fast. Must have gotten the same server upgrade as NSBB got.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/blackhawks-score-five-in-first-period-slam-penguins-10-1-as-saad-gets-hat-trick/amp/

This is bonkers.

The idea that somebody would want to watch a playoff game after it happens is crazy to me. I've DVRd some games, especially when my kids were younger and putting them to bed interfered with the start. So I could catch up what was happening and not miss anything. But when the game is over, if I missed it, just tell me the score. This is so weird. I couldn't even begin to comprehend the change to routine I'd need to watch a game 24 hours after it happened with no spoilers. Just realized this is about the Bears game. are you stopping yourself from watching both? I'm guessing he's assuming he'll be able to watch the Cubs on TV before the hockey game, since the Yankees are expected to get the late slot. But yeah, if the games overlap, I'm going to try to avoid the Bears game updates so that I can watch as soon as I get home, but I don't think I'll be able to. Well the hockey game is part of a larger trip that was planned in advance of the schedule being set. But I am actually pretty pumped to watch the game in Toronto. Yea, I may be able to catch some of the Cubs game live but it's also just likely to be harder to ignore, even during the hockey game if it overlaps. Also I do have a weird logic with playoff games sometimes in that I figure I'll either a. have more important games to watch later or b. That was it and I saved some elimination heartache. I especially feel this way for early round playoff games. Not that i miss them on purpose, but dont go crazy with other obligations. As for why I care at all about the Bears. I just was looking forward to fully immersing myself in the rookie QB hype train. Some vague game outcome of the game wouldn't spoil it as much as having anything in detail about Trubisky's performance. But to that point, seeing a final score of like 41-3 would deflate some of the excitement and buildup.

So I'm gonna be in Toronto on Monday night, watching the Hawks-Maple Leafs. Driving back 8 hours on Tuesday morning. So can I make it almost 24 hours without spoiling the game and getting home Tuesday afternoon and watch the DVR? I think I can stop myself from looking, but making sure I kill all phone notifications will be tough.

The problem with your argument is that it's possible that some superteam wins 100+ games and the second place team (WC#1) in that division wins like 98-99 games. That second place team is clearly the second best team in the league. Their win total is higher than the other two division leaders... What I'm describing is basically what happened in 2015. The Cubs, Pirates and Cardinals were probably the 3 best teams in the NL that year. A shame they all play in the same division. Look, the WC teams should be penalized, but in some years the WC teams are legitimately good to great teams that deserve better than a single elimination game. Since divisions promote an unbalanced schedule you can't exactly say that even by win total that's the case. The point of the regular season is to win your division.