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Can’t remember where I heard it but I always liked the idea of tying the DH to the starting pitcher. When the SP leaves, the DH is gone too. Pretty much eliminates pitcher hitting but still includes the late game strategy. Plus if you really wanted to be strict with it and tie it to the SP regardless of how quickly the SP gets pulled, it would put a big damper on the opener unless a team just wanted to sacrifice a position player immediately.
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I’d be fine with Castellanos also.
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Men’s short track 1000 meters. In both semi finals, a South Korean skater got DQ’d on questionable calls allowing a Chinese skater to advance instead. So the final ended up with three Chinese skaters and two Hungarian skaters. Oh and the two Hungarian guys are actually Chinese. Then in the final a Hungarian guy wins the race but gets not one but two penalties allowing a Chinese guy to win. Nothing fishy about that at all.
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On another note, apparently Harden was picked last among the reserves in the ASG draft. Durant even took Gobert with his last pick instead of Harden. That’s some good stuff.
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I'm not a sports psychologist, but I'd have to imagine that's almost by definition a mental health issue. Nah, that’s being incapable of handling criticism.
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i don't follow the simmons situation too closely, but it could very well be that his mental health issues are real and also exacerbated by the situation in philly, for whatever reason. like it's pretty clear that guy has some stuff going on. Is it possible he wasn’t making it up? Sure. But based on all of his actions since the summer and the timing of when he claimed to have mental health issues (he returned to the team so he would stop getting fined, then got suspended for conduct detrimental to the team and then claimed to have mental health issues) I think it way way more likely he did it to keep getting paid. It worked because the Sixers stopped fining him for a bit before resuming the fines, though not fining him nearly as much. Is refusing to shoot because you can’t shoot a mental health issue? I suppose to some extent it is, like a baseball player having the yips. But quitting on your team and refusing to even try to get better all because they criticized you after the playoffs isn’t a mental health issue.
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Cue Ben Simmons’s mental health issues magically going away.
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Can we get Jokic to take out this Morris twin also? The Clippers don't play Memphis again otherwise I'd suggest Steven Adams do it. [tweet] [/tweet]
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ManU just had a goal ruled off for offside but it was a weird one. Harry McGuire essentially set a screen on the defender who was watching Varane, who ended up scoring the goal. McGuire was offside when the ball was kicked and was judged to have been involved with the play even though he didn’t go after the ball at all. Therefore no goal due to offside. Never seen that one called before.
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Blazers trading McCollum to the Pelicans. Pacers trading Sabonis, Jeremy Lamb and Justin Holiday to the Kings for Haliburton, shield and Tristan Thompson.
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[tweet] [/tweet] Good work, US Soccer.
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I wish outside of Mexico and maybe Costa Rica, we’d just play these games in the best conditions possible. Warner weather, better field, field size you prefer. As TT said, the worse conditions favor the underdog and even things up. That’s why the other teams play us on awful fields all the time. Mucking it up gives them a better chance at a result. well, the panama game is in Miami . . . supposedly this was all about shorter flights . . . which is asinine. Yeah, that's a BS reason. Every window we've had more travel than this. In September going from El Salvador (Sept 2) to Austin (Sept 5) to Honduras (Sept 8). In October, we had no issue going from Panama City on Oct 10 to Columbus on Oct 13 for Costa Rica. They're trying to be too cute with how they schedule the home venues.
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Can’t blame the Giants for not wanting Flores. They’ve had so much success the last decade hiring white coaches that it makes sense that they wouldn’t want to deviate from that strategy.
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Caveat that I don’t think Jim Caldwell is a good coach, but he coached Detroit for 4 seasons. He had three winnjng seasons and two playoff appearances and won 11 games in his first year. Prior to Caldwell being hired, you’d have to go back 15 seasons to get two playoff appearances, 17 seasons to get 3 winning seasons and their last 11+ win season was 1991. Since he was fired they’ve won 17 games total in 4 years.
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I wish outside of Mexico and maybe Costa Rica, we’d just play these games in the best conditions possible. Warner weather, better field, field size you prefer. As TT said, the worse conditions favor the underdog and even things up. That’s why the other teams play us on awful fields all the time. Mucking it up gives them a better chance at a result.
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No idea where to find that exact info, if you can find it. But we can get an estimate. Bengals we’re 150-1 and Rams were 12-1 to win the Super Bowl before the year. You can roughly halve those odds to win their respective conference. So 75-1 for the Bengals and 6-1 for the Rams. Parlay those and a $100 bet would return $53100.
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to be fair, you could have placed just about any of the names you think of as all time great QBs into that situation and they could have pulled it off. it's still impressive as hell that it actually happened, though. Kind of an exclamation point on his career. At age 43 though? Pretty much every all time great QB was retired at age 43. Dude threw for 4600 yards and 40 TD and win a Super Bowl at an age virtually all QB are a shell of their peak selves. The age part of it is what makes it impressive. Removing the age makes it much less so. They went 7-9 the year before with a quarterback who threw 30 picks including 7 pick 6's. They clearly had the talent, they just needed a QB who wasn't awful. And everyone remembers the Super Bowl beatdown of KC but it's not like they rolled through the whole postseason. They trailed a 7-9 Washington team entering the 4th quarter. They should have lost to the Saints in the next round if Brees was even halfway competent. Manning went into Denver and they went from 8-8 to 13-3 his first year. But they lost their divisional round game despite scoring 35 points.
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There’s a 25 second serving shot clock that Nadal pushes to the limit. Not sure if you have to toss the ball before 25 seconds or just bounce it off the ground where you serve. Novak also plays loose with the rules with his “bathroom breaks” between sets. Oh yeah. When those two play each other it’s always a slog.
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13 goals in 10 qualifying matches is awful. Not like it’s some issue just in this window. We can’t score with any consistency.
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Nadal is a great player but he’s just unbearable to watch serve. All of the tics he has, his routine before each point and then bouncing the ball 75 times just makes his matches take forever. When I can fast forward 30 seconds after a point ends and he still takes another 5-10 seconds to actually serve, he’s taking way too long. Just get the ball and serve it like 99.9% of the other players do.
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2 1/2 months later, still relevant because it happened again.
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So from a purely results based perspective and ignoring the rivalry, we want Mexico to win their next two games against CR and Panama, right? Not only do Mexico have 4 of 5 remaining games at home but their one road game is against Honduras, who is bottom of the group. Ultimately it shouldn’t matter if we just win our two home games. That would put us on 24 points. Panama would have to pick up 10 points from their other 4 games just to tie and Costa Rica would have to pick up 9 points from their other 4 games (assuming they beat us). So in the scenario where we win our home games, Panama would have to at least tie Mexico and CR would either have to get a result in Mexico or win their other three games.
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Just guarantee each team a possession in OT and if it’s still tied, it’s sudden death after. The second team can decide how aggressive they want to be, whether that’s going for it on 4th down and bypassing a tying field goal or going for 2 to win if both teams get a TD.
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I get that and a lot of people will go back to this, or the choice to kick deep. To me, you can (and should) take the entire game into account and not just one 15 second blip. It ended in a tie. The OT rules should be based off the fact that the first 60 min resulted in a tie. What was wrong with kicking deep at the end of the game? If the squib, can’t the Chiefs just kneel with the ball or do I have the rule wrong? It’s not like the Chiefs had a big return on the kickoff.