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Leicester was in free fall before the shut down. Last eight games before the break they won 2, tied 2 and lost 4. Three of those four losses were to Southampton, Burnley and Norwich. They also tied Norwich earlier in the season also. 12 wins in their first 16 games but only 6 in the last 22.
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Home Cubs activated! Hopefully we don't get 2019 road Cubs also though.
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Verlander is our for the year with an elbow injury. Could be out next year also if it’s the UCL.
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3 straight days of no Almora starting is wonderful to see.
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CubsWin11 has been MIA since yesterday morning so I'm stepping in. As mojo pointed out to me, I predicted I'd start the third game of the year when I signed up. Would be nice to get the season started on the right foot with a series win. I'm not super optimistic because Chatwood is starting but who knows. Hope the offense shows up today and puts up a big number. Go CUBS!!
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Mount just flipped you the bird. I haven’t been watching them much so he might have been crap up until now.
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his career obp is pretty locked in, I'd sacrifice walks to get extra ABs and pad my career dinger total at that age too It's not just about walks. We all know that chasing pitches is bad and his dropoff as a hitter can largely be attributed to losing patience and putting crappy pitches that he used to laugh at, into play. He really hasn't padded any stats as much as he's hindered his own path to being the HR king he had expected to be. His chase rate was sub 20 in his prime. A hitters eye is normally the one tool you can reasonably expect to maintain as age catches up. He has been over 30% for a decade now. It seems to be a pretty unique case of decline. Well he was 40 when he signed with the Angels so him seeing a drop off at that point makes sense.
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you're not wrong treat it like any late july win against the brewers in a bunched up tie for 1st and the magnitude of the win hits a little more. Yeah, just kind of weird to do it after the first game even though it makes total sense.
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Playoff odds went up by 4.3% today on Fangraphs! Sorry, had to.
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Would Maddon have pulled Kyle in the 8th? Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk Probably in the 6th when Yelich came up for the third time. He definitely brings in a lefty there.
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Of course Arcia gets another hit.
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That was a decent start from Kyle.
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Another positive, it’s one extra round of playoffs for the Dodgers to lose in this year.
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I had the same thought on PSG. Instinct is to pick them from that side but no games for 4 months will affect them somewhat.
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I can complain about how Kane was shoved over from behind and should have had a PK 5 minutes in but the main official and VAR ref didn’t give it. I’m more okay with that one being called since the ball went in directly off the arm. It certainly appeared to be on target before it hit the arm and no Spurs player would have kept it out had it not hit the arm so I think that should stand. If the ball wasn’t going in and took the same deflection and then went in, that shouldn’t count since it would have only gone in because of the hand ball. As for Jose, with how much money they’re paying him and how tight Levy is with money, he won’t be going anywhere soon unfortunately. Just one hell of a fall. To go from being a talented young team that finished 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and went R16 (16 points in a group with Real and Dortmund), finalist, R16 in the UCL to might not even finish in a Europa spot is amazing. All because horsefeathering Levy wouldn’t spend a bit on players to refresh the squad so he exiled the best coach they’ve had in 60 years.
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VAR is great. So glad we have it. Should have called the foul though. The handball rule is dumb. In any case, anything that makes Mourinho suffer is a plus. Got to catch the Werder relegation battle last night - they stayed up. Sargent started and looked like a boy against men in the first half. Came out much better in the second and should have scored after a great run. He could use to be on a better team - Werder is constantly playing long balls up and Sargent's strength does not seem to be in the air. Hopefully Werder reloads and fields a better team next season. Yeah, I probably should have just edited my entire post rather than just adding the note at the bottom. Just frustrated at the time. VAR as a whole is good. As with all replay, I think there should be a time limit on it, but it’s much better on the whole than baseball or basketball. I still don’t think somebody should be offsides for being 2 mm past the defender just because I’m not sold they can time everything up correctly. But that falls under the quicker review thing. If it takes that long to tell, just let it be. I hope they change the handball rule though. Also, totally defensible position on Mourinho. I’d love it as much as you if he was managing any other team.
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Holy horsefeathers Mahomes is signing a 10 year deal. I didn’t even know that was allowed in the NFL.
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Well I’m done with VAR. Spurs just had a goal disallowed because, as he was falling down, a defender kicked the ball off Lucas Moura’s upper arm and it went to Kane, who scored. Moura was pretty much on the ground. Oh, and the only reason Moura was on the ground was because he was fouled and the ref played advantage. Ticky tack horsefeathers like this is like the runners foot coming off the bad for 0.04 seconds or how, in basketball, if a guy gets hacked but the refs don’t call it and the ball goes off his hand, it’s the other team’s ball because it went off his hand. This horsefeathers shouldn’t be so hard to figure out. EDIT: I guess I shouldn’t say I’m done with VAR as much as I hate the way the handball rule causes horsefeathers like this to happen.
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having 762 total home runs while only hitting 50 once is unfathomable. maintaining just like 5 years of sustained excellence in this sport is extremely tough. to average 35 homers over a 22 year stretch doesn't seem possible. Which makes Hank Aaron even more impressive. He averaged 37 HR/year over 22 seasons* and only hit at least 40 in 8 seasons. And much of this during a dead ball era, let alone not the steroid era. Edit: *average based on 162 games, but still. And Aaron never hit 50 in a season either.
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80 game season with expanded playoffs, starting in July
soccer10k replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
I'll rephrase: what are the owners' STATED reasons? That they’ll lose too much money and it isn’t feasible to do 100% proration for 70+ games. Some, apparently, would lose less money by simply not playing then doing 70+ at 100% proration. They’re basically putting short term cash ahead of long term equity and thinking very shortsighted. I think they also know they have the ace in the hole that Manfred can mandate a 48 or 50 game played season at 100% proration and guys have to play/MLBPA has no input. So they’re trying to stick to that payout as the max payout for the 60-70+ game schedule since they know they can fall back on that. Which will be great for the MLB/MLBPA relationship with a CBA negotiation coming up. So what happens if they can’t come to an agreement, Manfred mandates the 50 game season and the players just say “eff off, we’re not playing”? Beyond just there not being a season, of course. -
Boogie has a terrible reputation, largely deserved, but he’s smarter than most of the people covering him and his interviews are great. Webber and Matt Barnes piled on after as well, I think before he was actually fired. I also red a story saying that when the Sterling stuff happened, Napear defended him on the radio. He also brought it up a couple years later and said Sterling couldn’t be racist because he hired Elgin Baylor and Doc Rivers. He also tried to defending himself with the good old “but I have black friends” line. [tweet] [/tweet]
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So Grant Napear is a racist apparently. He’s also been fired by the Kings.
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80 game season with expanded playoffs, starting in July
soccer10k replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
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It would definitely be different but tons of people would still watch and get enjoyment out of it and a distraction from everything going on. Just seems like it’s impossible to do anything with fans and anything more than essential personnel in arenas/stadiums if we want sports back anytime soon. If they can do it safely I’m all for it, it being different and weird be damned. i never said i didn't want to it to happen. i'll take whatever half assed sports leagues i can get right now. i'm saying it from the perspective of the players and the people running the league. i'd rather cancel the season than award some watered down championship that is always remembered as the corona cup or whatever. I think the people running the league care most about making as much money as possible.