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  1. soccer10k
    Yeah, they’re definitely getting to 70 games. If they were at 55 games, they wouldn’t but being so close, they’ll make sure they do. I’m sure the players want a few games to get ready for the playoffs considering they’ll be going 3-4 months without games.
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    Unless there’s someone sooner, Gallery.
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    Of course the Raiders take the super fast wide receiver even though there are two better receivers on the board. Idiots.
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    So I knew about Brenly leaving Randy Johnson in to throw 104 pitches in Game 6 of the 01 WS even though Arizona was up 12-0 after 3 and 15-0 after 4. But on today’s Effectively Wild, they mentioned that Byung-Hyun Kim threw 61 pitches in Game 4. This wasn’t crazy since he had thrown 50+ out of the pen 3 other times that year. After each of those other appearances, he got 3, 3 and 2 days off. However, in the WS, Brenly horsefeathering brought Kim back out for Game 5 the next day! As I’m sure everyone here remembers, it did not go well.
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    Knicks fans have hope. Dolan has the coronavirus. Of course it’s the Knicks so no chance he dies.
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    Since I just watched Game 7 again, friendly reminder that KB scored on a sac fly to short LF and scored from first on a single in that game.
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    Yeah, the Phillies and Astros were weird also. Those three teams all have WS runs in their history (Arizona’s game is 2001 G7 so they could have picked an Angels game from 02) but they go with random regular season games. Best one though is the Reds. They picked opening day last year. Not a great hitting performance, not a great pitching performance, not a great walkoff/comeback. Just last years opening day.
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    Anyone watching Game 7 right now? Contreras just doubled to make it 3-1.
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    Mavs, Hawks and Cavs have all announced plans to compensate arena workers who aren’t able to work. Hopefully more teams follow suit. Kevin Love also pledged $100K for arena workers. Would be good to see stuff like this continue. Even if an athlete doesn’t give a horsefeathers about the workers, it seems like an easy PR win to donate some money.
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    I’m assuming they just mean that’s the earliest they would hold games. In a month when this likely hasn’t gone away, I’m assuming they’ll postpone further.
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    Arteta has the virus and Arsenal’s game this weekend has been postponed. Have to think the same will happen for the rest of the league tomorrow. Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive also.
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    Just cancel the tournament. We’ll survive. that we will. selfishly this sucks because the tournament is easily my favorite sporting event each year and have been looking forward to this for awhile. Again, in the grand scheme of things that is so unimportant, and i understand and agree with the decision to cancel everything, assuming it is, but it suuuuucks on a smaller scale that this is happening. My thoughts are the same. It’s 100% the right thing to do but boy am I going to miss watching basketball next Thursday and Friday.
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    B1G, SEC, AAC, Big 12 have wiped out. MAC pushed back tip time of the first game today by an hour, and I'm guessing that ends in cancellation. ACC hasn't yet, but I'm guessing everybody will be called off by the end of the day. Just cancel the tournament. We’ll survive.
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    So Gobert has the coronavirus and the season is suspended.
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    I'm happy to see Lonzo doing what he's doing this year. He caught a ton of flack in large part because his dad's a horsefeathering lunatic. Was always a great passer and a solid defender, just his shot was abysmal. He's up to 38% from 3 for the year and while he's only at 58% from the line, that's still way up from the 44% he was at in his first two years.
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    I didn’t think they’d actually do it but I was starting to entertain the idea that Liverpool could actually go undefeated this year. But I didn’t think the first loss would be to Watford by 3 goals.
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    Looks like he should have stayed in the pen. Walk Single Wild pitch Single Strikeout Walk
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    He had forearm tightness last week so this isn’t the least bit surprising. Yankees injury luck apparently carrying over from last year.
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    hahaha - it happens so easily. I also enjoy laughable english headlines like "can leipzig upset Spurs?" or "Lampard: Chelsea is underdog against Bayern Munich." - you think? The English remain so arrogant. Champions league games conveniently start at noon here in California . . . I saw the Chelsea headline but hadn’t seen the Spurs one. That’s hilarious.
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    So 1, 2 and 4 all lose today.
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    If it’s ridiculous, that says more about the culture of baseball than anything. I’m giving Fiers credit for calling it out. He should have. As I said in my post, better late than never. But Fiers overlooked it when he was there, he overlooked it in 2018 and he overlooked it in 2019. He waited until after he got another $20M guaranteed after making only about $5M total through the 2017 season. He also waited until after he got a ring. I’m not saying it would be easy to stand up and call them out for it, but if all you’re risking is your baseball career, well, you’re not really risking that much. Sometimes doing the right thing requires some sacrifice. I understand your point, but I can't quite get behind it. If he had waited to report on some form of sexual/child abuse, etc., then I'd absolutely agree. But to risk his future in the game (and setting himself and his family up for life) over the cheating scandal...not sure I can feel any indignation about the timing here. I definitely agree that it was a tough decision for him. I probably would have stayed silent if I was in his position also. I didn’t mean to make him seem like the bad guy because he definitely isn’t. I also hadn’t seen the stuff about Fiers telling Lucroy in 2018 and them telling MLB about it and MLB doing nothing. Just makes Manfred look even worse.
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    If all you're risking is the one thing you'll be able to make money doing in your life you're not really risking much? Ortiz is a known PED user and all around terrible person affiliated with an organization that also got caught up in the cheating. Screw him for whining about snitches. I wasn’t aware that Fiers is completely incapable of doing any other job in life other than playing baseball. Good to know. I have no idea what this means but okay, it's still ridiculous. I wasn’t clear on what I was referring to here, so that’s my fault. It means it’s ridiculous that the culture of baseball is such that a player can’t speak out about other players blatantly cheating without fearing his career probably ends if he does so. This is obviously a much bigger issue, and is something that isn’t just limited to baseball. Fiers shouldn’t have to choose between doing the right thing and losing his job. That needs to change.
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    To be fair to Ortiz, he specifically called out Fiers for not saying anything while he was on the Astros and waiting until after he got the title to do so. Fiers shouldn’t be criticized for speaking out (better late than never) but I at least understand what Ortiz is saying here. Any other pitcher or the hitters who didn’t participate could have spoken up but didn’t so credit to Fiers for doing so. This is a ridiculous take, imo. If a guy actually called out the team while he was on it, even more people would cite his snitchiness. It's ridiculous to expect some mid-roster nobody to make that move while on the team. If it’s ridiculous, that says more about the culture of baseball than anything. I’m giving Fiers credit for calling it out. He should have. As I said in my post, better late than never. But Fiers overlooked it when he was there, he overlooked it in 2018 and he overlooked it in 2019. He waited until after he got another $20M guaranteed after making only about $5M total through the 2017 season. He also waited until after he got a ring. I’m not saying it would be easy to stand up and call them out for it, but if all you’re risking is your baseball career, well, you’re not really risking that much. Sometimes doing the right thing requires some sacrifice.
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    David Ortiz played the 'snitches' card with Fiers, too, so horsefeathers him. To be fair to Ortiz, he specifically called out Fiers for not saying anything while he was on the Astros and waiting until after he got the title to do so. Fiers shouldn’t be criticized for speaking out (better late than never) but I at least understand what Ortiz is saying here. Any other pitcher or the hitters who didn’t participate could have spoken up but didn’t so credit to Fiers for doing so.
  25. soccer10k
    So again, why should the Cubs make this deal? They're pretty certain Bryant is leaving in FA in two years and either don't want to trade him for prospects or they think this is the best deal they'll get for him? Obviously we don't know the answers to any of these questions.
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