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Me to, think he ran out of gas, so many unforced errors = tired, to his credit, Medvedev did execute also, looked good and had far more in the tank. I know Novak's in great shape but I wonder if the matches caught up with him. Medvedev only dropped one set in the tournament and his longest match was 2:23. Novak had 4 longer than that, three of which were over 3 hours and the 4th was 2:59. Four successive matches too (3rd round through the semis). He's not old at 34 but he's also not 27 anymore. Then couple that with the pressure of going for the calendar Slam. It's a lot.

That was some impressive stuff from Medvedev. Outside of serving at 5-2 and then the double fault at 5-4, 40-15, he didn’t falter. Just steady throughout and a fully deserved win. Glad to see one of the young guys finally break through and get one. I don’t count Thiem at the Open last year since only Djokovic played and he defaulted.

Now down two breaks in the third set also.

Toronto scored 11 in the 7th inning of the second game yesterday, then scored 16 runs in the first 3 innings today. So that’s 27 runs in 4 innings. In all, they put up 11 in both ends of the DH yesterday and 22 today, so 44 runs in 23 innings.

Well OSU has always gotten the benefit of the doubt with the committee so this checks out. Neither is getting in over an undefeated SEC or Big 12 team. The most likely unbeaten Pac-12 team just went to OSU and won so neither of those two would get in over Oregon. So you’re worried about them getting in over a random Group of 5 team?

So what you’re saying is Texas isn’t back?

Yep. Just going to be happening more and more often now.

boy, gotta think 7 is the minimum there - win both home games and get a point on the road. Can't be dropping points at home to the two bottom teams and need to at least hold Panama. How good is Costa Rica? All I know is they’re typically right up there with us and Mexico. Hope they win the first two and then whatever happens in Costa Rica is gravy. You could definitely convince me 7 should be the minimum though if Costa Rica is nothing special.

Boy that was a much needed second half turnaround. I probably would have expected 6 or 7 points from the first three going in (win at home, win one road game, draw/lose the other), but 5 isn't the end of the world, especially after tying the first two. Next three in October are home Jamaica, road Panama, home Costa Rica. Get 6 points please.

lol, I pay for like 20 different streaming/subscription services. The only thing I found worth watching on Paramount+ during the trial was the Dream Team documentary. I'm not going to pay just to watch the 2-3 WCQs that are exclusively on the streaming network. champions league! That’s what I do. Sign up for 3 months, cancel until the spring, sign up for 3 more months and cancel again.

How the hell does Salvador Perez have 41 home runs? Previous career high was 27 (twice).

What a lousy result. I’m not going to overreact and say Wednesday is a must win but we really need a win in these first three games.

In the previous 6 Hex's, it took an average of 15.2 points to finish 3rd and 13.2 for 4th. Extrapolate to 14 games and you've got 21.2 and 18.4. I'm guessing it will be a bit more since we're bringing in two worse teams, so we've probably got to get to 22 or 23 for 3rd. Could obviously be less though.

Or, it could be the fact that nobody cares what Kevin PIllar has to say. These are terrible takes. Three players made the thumbs down sign and one of the most prominent baseball reporters out there calls out the two minorities but doesn't mention the white guy. That's bad for a number of reasons but the main one is a racial bias. That doesn't mean Olney had a malicious intent in what he tweeted or is some horrible racist. But the difference in how minorities are described vs how whites are described in sports is most definitely a thing and affects how people view minorities in sports and in life. So while this one tweet might seem innocent, it's actually yet another data point in a larger issue with how we speak about minorities in this country. Olney should know better and should have done better. All he had to do was include Pillar in the tweet. I get why Baez was mentioned first. While Lindor is the better player, he's set contractually. Baez is a FA while Pillar has a player option for next year, and Baez is the better player and younger player. But you can't just ignore the third player here. If Pillar was, say, a back end reliever who has gone up and down this year and hasn't pitched much, it would make a bit more sense (though he should still be mentioned). But Pillar is a regular for the Mets. He's played 97 games and had 269 PA's. Just because he's worse doesn't mean you don't have to mention him.

Welp this settles it. Molina officially has no shot at making the HOF. [tweet] [/tweet]

Mets can’t even tank at the right time.

We still have Heyward for 2 more years. That counts.

It's been 22 PA's.

Poor Chris Davis has to be in the running for worst contract of all time right? Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the time, he had the most pronounced 'old guy' skills of anyone ever, and then they gave him the GDP of a small country and he folded as a productive player immediately. There are other contracts that maybe garnered less value-to-money ratio, but this was like watching a train ram into a car from 5 miles away and the conductor being like "yes, lets do this". Prince Fielder? He wasn’t a FA but the Ryan Howard extension was horrible also. He was worth -4.8 bWAR for the deal. Chris Davis was -2.6. Prince was actually worth 7.1 over his deal, including a 4.7 year.

And if you consider the Cards a playoff contender, since they're only 2.5 back of the Reds, the Cards have only one less game remaining against the Brewers (13) than the Reds do against teams that are over .500 (14).

[tweet] [/tweet] That’s pretty incredible.

Was obviously happy with the result but the performance was good also. They let City have the ball but defended well and actually seemed willing to attack when they did have the ball, which is a big difference from the Mourinho era. Last year too often they didn't seem to want to even try to attack against the big clubs. So while the possession today was basically identical to when Spurs beat City last year (66-34), this year they took 13 shots in the game as opposed to only 3 in the win last year. In fact, in 3 games against City last year, Spurs took 13 shots total. Of course it's only 1 game and they could easily crap the bed on the road against Wolves next week.

Only 1 game out of 5th now.

Clearly he meant it’s the quality of a Single-A minor league game.

First ML start ever and only his 4th appearance in the majors.