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Mbappe wants to leave PSG reportedly because his relationship with the club has broken down. It’s really too bad these guys are stuck at clubs with no option to leave OH WAIT he was a free agent less than 6 months ago and chose to stay with PSG.

Lowest amount of yards in a 4 TD game? 25 yards with 4 TDs is hard to do.

Messi's 2011-12 is the gold standard for goal scoring. He had 50 goals in La Liga, 3 in the Copa del Rey, 14 in the UCL and 6 in the Super Cups/Club World Cup. In total he had 73 goals for Barcelona in 60 appearances. I hope Haaland stays healthy this year for the same reason I wanted guys like Messi or Trout to stay healthy. I want to see what kind of numbers they can put up at their peak. Messi scored 91 in 2012 calendar year. 91. Previous record, as best I could find, was 85. Wikipedia has the single calendar year top-3 since 2011 and the joint second place is Ronaldo (2013) and Lewandowski (2021) with 69. Like you said ... 91.

There’s also this [tweet] [/tweet] So Willy’s coming back then. Thanks for the info, Bob!

I’ve heard this story before about Bama. They’ll win by 14+

Pujols’s line this year was completely propped up by him destroying lefties and yet the Cards batted him 2nd against Wheeler and Nola. That’s obviously not what cost them the series but it’s a baffling decision.

Messi's 2011-12 is the gold standard for goal scoring. He had 50 goals in La Liga, 3 in the Copa del Rey, 14 in the UCL and 6 in the Super Cups/Club World Cup. In total he had 73 goals for Barcelona in 60 appearances. I hope Haaland stays healthy this year for the same reason I wanted guys like Messi or Trout to stay healthy. I want to see what kind of numbers they can put up at their peak.

Florida St down 2 and in FG range and they try to throw a corner route just short of the end zone from like the 20 and it got picked. Don’t know if WR ran the wrong route or if the QB overthrew it but WTF are you doing throwing the ball in that situation? Just run it or throw safe passes.

The Broncos gave up 1st and 2nd rounders in each of 2022 and 2023 and guaranteed Russ $161M and Russ might not be good anymore.

Two of the players the Cards gave up for Marcell Ozuna were Sandy Alcantara and Zac Gallen. Ozuna was coming off an age 26 season of 5.6 bWAR and a .924 OPS and I have no idea how Alcantara and Gallen were regarded as prospects so this isn't an "LOL Cards" type of post (because the Cubs have Cease/Eloy for Quintana) but I just didn't remember who they sent to Miami in the trade.

This year was the fourth time we've had 4 teams lose 100+ games. Three of those were the last three full seasons (so 2019, 2021 and 2022). Prior to the 2017 season, there were only 5 seasons where 3 teams won 100+ games in the same season. It's happened each full season since then with two of those (2019 and 2022) where we had 4 100+ win teams. We nearly had a record 5 100-win teams but the Yankees lost their last two games and finished with 99 wins.

Mike Trout missed 43 games this year and still hit 40 home runs. Really sucks he hasn't been able to stay healthy. He played 157+ games each year from 2013-2016 but has maxed out at 140 in the 5 normal seasons since. Only played in 120 games twice in those five seasons.

Somebody should let Jorge know that someone just compared him to Haaland. Huge W for him. Haha. I just meant the line rather than how Soler’s career went compared to Haaland’s current trajectory.

Cubs lose...

Counterpoint: I'd say anything about a city/team if they paid me $184M over 8 years. Joking aside, him buying a suite for Ross on the road for all of the 2016 season (or whatever it was) because of all Ross did for Heyward when he was a rookie made me think higher of both guys.

Watching Haaland destroy the EPL reminds me of when Soler hit 2 HR against the Cards in his third career game and Deshaies goes "there's not a higher league, Jorge". 14 goals in 8 games now. If he plays 25 league games this year he could get the record.

Immediately thought of this tweet. [tweet] [/tweet]My favorite thing today was looking at the week after this one's games and seeing ranked Kansas at unranked Oklahoma. Last time both were unranked I think was the end of the 2014 season when OU went 8-5 and Texas was 6-7. I didn’t check each year but OU hasn’t lost more than 2 games in a season since then so they were probably ranked every week after that.

Immediately thought of this tweet. [tweet] [/tweet]

Yep. Will be interesting to see how long he stays there before jumping to a bigger job.

[bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo] Thoughts on the red card? It's at the 9 minute mark of the video. I think first of all it was a dumb and unnecessary challenge to make at that spot in the field. No need for it. It was also more of a clumsy challenge than anything. I thought it was a borderline one where sometimes you see a yellow given and sometimes you see a red. My main issues was that the ref didn't even go over and take a second look at the monitor. A big decision like that, unless it's something super obvious, I think they need to take a second look. However I think if that same play happens against Spurs, I would be annoyed if it was just a yellow which tells me it should be a red.

I could if my employer was paying me $22M that year.

Dolphins need to be fined and lost draft picks for this. And the doctor who cleared him last week should be fired. It was absurd he returned last week and is absurd he played today. Of course the NFL probably won’t do anything because they don’t care.

The thing I'm worried about is the unintended consequences of robo-umps. I'm absolutely deaf ears on "the human element" but some pretty smart people have voiced some valid trepidations about jumping over to the automated strike zone in one fell swoop. - The super-imposed zones on TV aren't actually totally accurate, getting the actual calls takes a little bit of computer processing time - Umps don't actually call the rulebook zone. It's more oval than square, if we jump straight to the rulebook zone what does that do? Or do we want to codify a more practical zone? - Relatedly, the zone expands/contracts based on the count and the score. Does eliminating that all at once break anything? - Does completely eliminating framing do weird/undesirable horsefeathers to the catcher position? We definitely need to move towards automation. But I think an intermediate step is a good idea. Though I 1000% agree it needs to be fast. No sauntering over, putting a headset on, waiting 90 seconds, disseminating the info, etc. Just like flash something on the scoreboard or give the 2B an earpiece and appeal to him a la check swings or something. I don't watch tennis but my understanding is it's pretty quick and painless there? It will undoubtedly take some adjustment but look at tennis. It's not even a thing anymore. All the stuff you mentioned is not relevant. Tennis is also a stationary, two dimensional zone with clear in/out lines that you can see. It doesn’t adjust based on who is playing. The width of the zone in baseball is the same but the height is different for every batter. I’m firmly pro robo-umps but it is more complicated than tennis.

Dude has 295 1/3 IP in the majors and hadn't been called for a single balk before tonight. That's an ump show plain and simple and Bleier was remarkably restrained considering the circumstances. He should have come to a complete stop, flipped the ump the bird, and then thrown the next pitch.

B-R lists them as having 0 sacrifice bunts this year. Dodgers are second with only 3. Arizona leads with 28. Cubs have the 4th most with 19.