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  1. soccer10k
    So in the LDS there’s no off day between G4 and G5 and in the LCS there’s no off day between G5 and G6 which means they play 5 straight days. That’s definitely odd. Has to be to get the WS games played on specific days, right? Plus there’s a weird off day between G1 and G2 of the ALDS.
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    Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I found a pair yesterday that I think will work but we'll see when they arrive. I tried on the same shoe in a different color so I assume it will be okay but you never know until you actually put them on. Normally I can get by with a size 13 for regular shoes but the soccer cleats I tried on tended to be a bit tighter. A couple I tried I barely even laced them up and I could tell they wouldn't work. My wife is going to Minnesota in a few weeks so I might try to find the Copas in a store there for her to pick up for me since I know a slightly larger size will work just fine in those. They're supposed to be tight! Where do you play on grass? The couple I tried were hurting my feet before I even laced them all the way up. I know they can stretch a bit but that didn’t seem like a good sign. We’re out in Roseville now so it’s at a field out there.
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    LOL ManU.
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    Just this years playoffs I think.
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    I think they assumed that since Peter Crouch retired it wasn't necessary anymore. More seriously, it looks like Eurosport has a handful of options that go up to 15 if that helps: https://www.soccer.com/shop/products/footwear/mens-cleats-shoes?order=0&page=1&filter=price__11-250&filter=footwear_men__15 Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I found a pair yesterday that I think will work but we'll see when they arrive. I tried on the same shoe in a different color so I assume it will be okay but you never know until you actually put them on. Normally I can get by with a size 13 for regular shoes but the soccer cleats I tried on tended to be a bit tighter. A couple I tried I barely even laced them up and I could tell they wouldn't work. My wife is going to Minnesota in a few weeks so I might try to find the Copas in a store there for her to pick up for me since I know a slightly larger size will work just fine in those.
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    It's 2022 and yet pretty much every soccer cleat only goes up to size 13. And the one major one that you can get in larger sizes - the Copa Mundial - I can't get here because California banned the shoe since it's made with Kangaroo leather.
  7. soccer10k
    MLB giving themselves a 1 year timeout after realizing how horrible of a mistake it was to make this year's game Cubs-Reds.
  8. soccer10k
    LOL they’re ranked 18th. That’s got to be by far the lowest team to get a 1st place vote right?
  9. soccer10k
    I quite enjoyed waking up this morning to see ManU trailing 2-0 at halftime at home to Brighton.
  10. soccer10k
    Also, placing a couple parlays on games you’re not even playing in is apparently 3 times worse than sexually assaulting 30 women.
  11. soccer10k
    [tweet] [/tweet] Hell of a finish in the final of a major tournament.
  12. soccer10k
    Not when ownership is straight up lying about how much money they have to spend. It's all part of the equation. If I clearly have the income to spend X on a new car and could do so without overextending myself at all or preventing myself from making other significant purchases by doing so, but instead I choose to limit myself to 60% of X as what I want to spend, my budget constraint isn't 60% of X. It's still X. I'm just choosing to limit myself to 60% of X to spend on a car. yeah but he's talking about the constraints that ownership puts on the GM. you can spend whatever you want on a car, but if you tell your kid they can only spend 60%, they can only spend 60% He said the Cubs as an organization shouldn’t have budget constraints but they do. The Cubs as an organization don’t have budget constraints. The owners are being cheap and don’t want to spend. We’re not the A’s or the Rays. They have budget constraints. EDIT: Regardless, the Ricketts suck and I know we can all agree on that.
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    The Cubs don’t have budget constraints. They’re choosing not to spend money. There’s a big difference there. We’re splitting hairs right? Ownership directives is a budget constraint to me. I try to do whatever I can to remove them from the equation. Not when ownership is straight up lying about how much money they have to spend. It's all part of the equation. If I clearly have the income to spend X on a new car and could do so without overextending myself at all or preventing myself from making other significant purchases by doing so, but instead I choose to limit myself to 60% of X as what I want to spend, my budget constraint isn't 60% of X. It's still X. I'm just choosing to limit myself to 60% of X to spend on a car.
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    The Cubs don’t have budget constraints. They’re choosing not to spend money. There’s a big difference there.
  15. soccer10k
    Stupid Schwarber shit the bed against Pujols in the Derby.
  16. soccer10k
    I'm sort of in the same boat. I mean, I get why people who love baseball would want to watch their favorite team play baseball, especially now when there's literally nothing else going on. But I just can't bring myself to watch. I just have no interest in this team right now.
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    Josh Hader in the ninth with a 3 run lead: HR Flyout HR 1B HBP 1B HR Brewers lose 8-5.
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    Willy’s PA was awful there.
  19. soccer10k
    That type of play has always bugged the crap out of me and yes it should definitely be banned.
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    I don’t know what the final deal was. They said $8 mil and add ons. His salary is like 300/w so I doubt inter is paying all of it They're for sure not paying all of it. Similar to when Bale was loaned to Spurs by Real. I just mean if the transfer fee is paid up front, it's a lot easier to pay, say, 2/3 of his salary to play for Inter rather than 2/3 of his salary plus 1/5 of the 100M transfer fee as well. Though they might not care about that anyway as much as they care about him having a good year so they can sell him next offseason and recoup some of the transfer fee.
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    Are transfer fees paid up front or spread out over the length of the deal? If they’re up front, that would make more sense why they’re willing to do the Lukaku deal. I’m guessing Inter is paying at least some of his yearly salary also.
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    I mean he should be barred from being an agent if that’s true. That’s negligence regardless but especially if the player was wanting to sign/stay somewhere and he never was told about an offer and guided to a different spot. What would be Close’s motivation for doing this? Some sort of collusion with LA? The two offers were pretty similar (I’ve heard when factoring in taxes, Atlanta’s was more) so it’s not like he’d get some sort of huge bump in commission for the deal.
  23. soccer10k
    Strasburg signed a 7 year, $245M contract before the 2020 season. He's thrown a total of 31 1/3 innings since signing the contract.
  24. soccer10k
    It's even better if you expand it a bit. In 2009 they pick Tyreke Evans 4th, Steph Curry goes 7th. They were also unlucky this year as they had the best odds of the top pick and an 82.3% chance of a top pick but got 4th. Blake Griffin went 1st and Harden went 3rd. 2011 Kawhi also went 15th (this is a stretch since 5 picks later but I'm including it). 2012 Harrison Barnes went also 7th 2013 they pick Ben McLemore 7th. CJ McCollum went 10th. 2017 they take DeAaron Fox 5th. Fine on the surface. Except they should have picked 3rd but dropped to 5th due to a pick swap with Philly. That pick swap was included in a salary dump of Nik Stauskas, Carl Landry and Jason Thompson in 2015 so they could sign ... wait for it ... Rajon Rondo, Marco Belinelli and Kosta Koufos. The third pick in 2017? Jayson Tatum. Also 2017! They have the 10th pick. They select Zach Collins but trade him on draft day for Justin Jackson (15) and Harry Giles (20). Donovan Mitchell goes 13 and Bam Adebayo goes 14. 2019 they didn't even have a 1st rounder because it was included as part of the 2015 trade. It's hilarious how inept they've been. In the last decade plus, despite a string of top 5-7 picks, they hit on Cousins and Fox and that's about it. Their next best move is acquiring Bogdan Bogdanovic in a trade but even him they let walk for nothing two years ago despite him averaging 18+ ppg the previous two years and being a decent 3 point shooter.
  25. soccer10k
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