BillThompson

Yeah, they aren't trading Castillo. Unless they pick up Ross, which really depends on Lester, they are going to platoon Castillo with Montero moving forward.

They've proven time and again that not only can they hang with major conference teams, but they can beat them. Should they join a major conference there would be growing pains, no doubt. But, it's naive to think that the major conferences don't look at Boise and say, "Is it really worth bringing them in and possibly knocking off some of our already established top teams?" That's not to say the lack of a TV market doesn't play a role, it's probably the main factor, but there's also a healthy amount of not wanting to lose face to a team that the casual fan still, misguidedly so, thinks of as inferior to every major conference team.

Another good match-up for Boise. I think we can take this one, but at the very least it will be a competitive game.

My joke meter is broken, does this imply the Big 12 thinks they are better than Boise, or that Boise is better than the Big 12? I think it implies that they want to add to cream puffs(or as close to it as possible) and not a team that could fuck some of their team up. . . That's what I was hoping, but I'm out of touch with what the rest of the nation thinks of Boise.

My joke meter is broken, does this imply the Big 12 thinks they are better than Boise, or that Boise is better than the Big 12?

I disagree, football would be huge regardless, it's pretty much an institution of college life and a playoff wouldn't kill regular season interest to any degree that effects the money being made by those who care. And, it would make the playoffs matter more and have more interest when you have the football equivalents of St. John's or Bradly going deep into the playoffs and giving the more causal sports fan someone to cheer for.

As a Boise St. fan I wholeheartedly support this idea. I get that the Mountain West isn't a well respected conference, but winning is winning and year after year that's what Boise does. Giving teams from the smaller conferences a shot in the playoffs will only help college football. And in the case of a team like Boise they've proven repeatedly that they can hang with and beat teams from the big conferences, and I would never be surprised by a Boise team doing well in the playoffs, knocking out a heavy favorite, or even winning the whole thing.

I don't have any problem with the videos themselves, and I've never had an ad play in the middle of a video. However, the fact that playlists just randomly disappear, videos all of a sudden are gone from playlists, and that my watch later list will revert to no videos for no freaking reason whatsoever is very annoying.

That's most likely the role they are hoping he'll fill. That or be another trade piece for Hamels if they go down that route.

I see this criticism a lot but it comes off as people wanting to see nothing but mindless action or comedy and limiting what topics should be explored in film. Nah, it can be, and often is, a legitimate criticism. There are plenty of great philosophical films, that broach on a number of topics. There are even more that are not fully fleshed out, barely touch upon the topic, or present an aura of depth where there is none. Of course, it's all subjective, so your deep philosophy may be my shallow dreck.

Boise won again, which is all that really matters to me. Petersen leaves and we keep winning, and that makes me happy.

I still think it's an awesome spot.

I watched it sans imax and it remains a great film. I'm not going to bitch Nolan, or any director, out for not properly presenting physics, astrophysics, history, or some other real life element. It's a movie, it doesn't need to be real, just consistent within it's own created universe. Back to Gravity though, not only did it look amazing, but it was terrifically filmed, and I felt the meta narrative was well done.

Rizzo not winning the silver slugger award is a joke. He topped A-Gon in every batting category save for RBIs. Add this to him losing the Golden Glove for the second year in a row despite being by far the best fielding first basemen in the NL for the past two years and Rizzo has some bad meaningless awards luck.

Realistically they have too many prospects to put on the field, it's always been there intention to trade a few of them for veteran talent at some point.

Thanks dude I will. Go the direct route and send TABE a PM here, he's the guy who made the comp that everyone else is selling and making money off of.

Second year in a row where Rizzo is snubbed for the GG, but that's the way that award goes I guess. Did Kyle Hendricks not qualify for RotY? Looking at his overall states I'd think he'd be a lock for at least a nomination, maybe even winning it.

My daughter's favorite animal has always been raccoon's, but now that she's seen Rocket it's raccoon's all the time and everywhere with her. I'm glad my daughter is growing up now, just turned 8, because she's just starting to get into comics and I can share these movies and some of my favorite comics with her while she forges her own comic book identity of sorts.

Personally I think whomever the Cubs get Arietta will continue to prove he's the #1 guy on the staff. Bringing in a Lester or a Shields to compliment him and form a bridge between Arietta and Hendricks with Wada and Wood holding down the bottom of the rotation makes for a pretty good rotation.

It was pulp Americana storytelling at its finest.

I'll pop in just once to offer my opinion and then let his fans have their fun. I think he's a terrible director who has no grasp of human emotion, female characters, how to film action scenes that make sense, and much more. Basically if you were to ask me to describe the characteristics of a shitty director Nolan embodies them all, and his filmography consisting of nothing but bad to mediocre films bears that out.

No one said carry job, but she did call the match, she was visibly the lead, and she was the one guiding the greener Charlotte through the match. That doesn't mean she carried Charlotte, but that via taking the lead she deserves the lion's share of the credit for the match being as good as it was. It also means she deserves the blame for the terrible Figure Four reversal sequence. Like I said, Charlotte has lots of potential, but I haven't seen anything from her, especially on the mat, yet that leads me to believe she's better than someone like Nattie.

Really? Charlotte/Nattie and Charlotte/Bailey rank pretty much higher for me. Don't watch NXT. But Nattie is fucking awful. Awful. Yes she is, but that match was still great. I'm sure it's mostly because of Charlotte. Nattie called that match and was clearly leading Charlotte through most of it. Charlotte has a lot of potential, but she's not there yet. Nattie can be great, she's just on the main roster which means 90% of the time she can't be great. Nah, she's really awful. One of the worst on the main roster. I disagree and the Charlotte match is all the proof one should need that she is far from awful.

Really? Charlotte/Nattie and Charlotte/Bailey rank pretty much higher for me. Don't watch NXT. But Nattie is fucking awful. Awful. Yes she is, but that match was still great. I'm sure it's mostly because of Charlotte. Nattie called that match and was clearly leading Charlotte through most of it. Charlotte has a lot of potential, but she's not there yet. Nattie can be great, she's just on the main roster which means 90% of the time she can't be great.

I made the mistake of talking about this with someone over Twitter. He's a Cardinals fan, I'm a Cubs fan, but we're both pretty easy going and accepting of other opinions. Then the flood gates of Cardinals fans opened and the ignoring of the racism and bashing of the Cubs began. Way to stay classy Cardinals fans on Twitter, because clearly the Cubs not making the playoffs is the same as certain members of your fandom being vile racists.