BobbyWhioux
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1 hour ago, Tabe said:
5 fights and 8 ejections 2 seconds into tonight's Rangers/Devils game.
Happy Line Brawl Day to all those who celebrate
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Since the New Stadium Shakedown is the real business of pro-sports, the Chiefs (and Royals) teamed up to try and shake down the county for new stadiums at the same time, but the people have just voted 58/42 YES on overturning the
launderingfunding bill.Gonna be a real hoot when the Chiefs -- Winners of 3 of the last 5 Super Bowls, btw -- start claiming they "need a new stadium" to be competitive.
Or that they need to explore other locations due to alleged
On 3/8/2024 at 7:28 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:A Missouri hospital is reporting that they've had to do multiple amputations for fans who attended the Miami-KC playoff game.
lack of fan support
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24 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
The fact that it's the Yankees doing it too... jeez.
seriously, what good is it even having the Yankees be The Yankees if they're not even going to be so full of themselves as to consider this shit beneath them?
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2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
CBS Sports noted the "announced attendance" (their quotation marks) in Oakland was 13,522.
Yikes.
Included in that number all the season tickets that have been cancelled since the announced intention to relocate that the A's are not putting back on sale (presumably so they can count them as "sold" for the above purpose). Funny, you'd think they want to put out honest low numbers to continue to rationalize
sabotagingmoving the team.Guess they don't want to admit the Opening Day [more conventional] Boycott out drew the actual game, despite Fisher & Kaval trying to throttle that number as well by not opening the parking lot gates until an hour before game time (it's usually 4 hours)
Despite Fisher/Manfred's best efforts to kill the territory and proclaim it dead The Oakland Territory Is Not Dead, merely in wont of a competent promoter operating in good faith.-
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7 hours ago, RIPPA said:
- And the "fun" replay one - The replay assistant will now be allowed to correct "objectively" incorrect calls for intentional grounding and roughing the passer.
Invest in tinfoil futures as thousands of fans reinforce their hats for this one
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20 hours ago, Zimbra said:
Well, the important thing is that some cash-strapped city gives a billionaire a pile of free money.
Cross-post to all sports subforums
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Bob Nutting really needs to keep John Fisher around so he doesn't win the Most Dogshit MLB Owner championship belt.
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5 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Also approved - a team now needs to just win one instant replay challenge to get a third one (it used to be you had to win both to earn the third)
cold comfort when the bad officials and even worse rulebook can still bleed you dry of even three successful challenges in one quarter (hell, one drive)
4 hours ago, Tabe said:If you're right when you challenge, your challenges should be unlimited.
indeed. really the whole thing is oriented backwards, teams should get to challenge early and often and should basically never be "out of challenges"
"BUT THAT WOULD TAKE FOREVER!"
Just run more split-screen commercials or do more live ad reads, don't tell me the NFL wouldn't love to have more commercials.
Maybe if they actually streamlined the rulebook instead of letting it be an ever-sprawling byzantine bunch of reactive and contrary counter-clauses hinging on micro-minutae that's beyond the capacity of the human eye to legislate, there wouldn't be 30 calls a game that need challenging.
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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Oh, also the NFL did *not* ban the Tush Push.
I'm sure they will once someone gets injured, but til then...
well of course not, tush push helps the offense
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it would almost be preferable if we found out Angel Hernandez was fixing games all this time instead of actually legitimately being this incompetent.
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30 minutes ago, Tabe said:
I guarantee you he was not alone. But you already think that way, too.
And it wouldn't shock me if Eric Gregg was on the take during the Livan game.
funny, even as cynical as I am I never thought Eric Gregg was doing anything more than punishing the Braves for some perceived disrespect of his authority.
standard bad umpire shit.
or in this context, the perfect alibi.
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2 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Slightly off topic but to me its been beyond crazy seeing all the major leagues go from "betting is bad, absolutely not" to sponsoring gambling, talking about the lines and having players advertise for gambling sites. They couldn't prevent it from being legalized in some states but there is a big difference between "its legal" and "its legal and now you can bet in the stadium during the game with ads on how to do so." It all happened so much faster than I expected.
Now that the 1910s-1920s are firmly gone from living memory, a lot of people sure are dead set on forgetting a lot of the lessons learned the hard way during those years. Baseball is in prime position to follow suit.
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37 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said:
I don't think, at least in the major money sports leagues, a Black Sox scandal is likely to ever happen again. The players, especially the ones that are good enough to be counted on to consistently effect the outcome of games, make too goddamn much money to need the extra cash or risk the rest of their 9 figure deal getting cancelled.
No, the real issue is the people who are just as important but make low to mid six figures. The ones that certainly make a good living but not "ten good years and my family have generational wealth now" money. The ones that have a job that's impossible to do and constantly being called crooked when they probably aren't. The ones that dictate the strike zone, call fouls or not, throw the pass interference flag...
Hence the breakneck speed with which the NBA moved to
convince usestablish thatLee Harvey OswaldTim Donaghy Acted Alone.
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I don’t want Ohtani to be guilty of anything serious but I do want baseball’s getting in bed with gambling to absolutely blow up in its face and there would be no bigger explosion than having to suspend Ohtani for gambling
Outside of literally, like, Black Sox 2.0
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5 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
I did get to use Eddie Cicotte in the Immaculate Grid today because of the Ohtani translator news (a bunch of other people also used it, so I just conceded trying to get a low rarity score on IG today)
now that MLB leadership is apparently cool with gambling and associating with bookies it is time for Cicotte to get his posthumous due and be remembered for being the first [white] master of the knuckleball instead of for The Other Thing.
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I will not be changing my avatar anytime soon, it seems
20 minutes ago, TimLivingston said:This has all the makings of a story that won’t go away.
Manfred will try his best.
But his best isn’t very good and it sure ain’t good enough for this one
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two words come to mind right now
Hoo and Boy
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Me, seeing several (NL) teams repped by pitchers on that list, and shedding a wistful tear for what once was
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10 minutes ago, Craig H said:
“That living embodiment of cringe, Seth Rollins.”
Damn. The Rock says some nasty stuff about Cody, but it’s kinda couched in pro wrestling stuff. With Seth though, the Rock goes in on him so fucking hard every time. Like, damn dude, he’s already dead.
I will never forget the living embodiment of cringe though. I don’t know if anything tops that. It’s also how he says it, with just total disgust, like @Brian Fowler was the one saying it.
Billy Gunn "It Doesn't Matter What Your Name Is" level destruction by Rocky
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On 2/29/2024 at 6:23 PM, Kevin Wilson said:
With the XFL, if a ball was kicked directly into/out of the end zone the return team got it on the 35 to discourage it. Maybe the "onsides kick" would take the same rule as the XFL, which was having to make a 15 yard offensive play. Admittedly I'm not a big a fan of that but they did have the rule you could only do it in some situations so teams didn't just do an "onsides kick" after after score.
Steal the rouge from the CFL, if you put the kickoff through the goalposts you keep the ball. That way 15 yard penalties “enforced on the kickoff” actually mean something
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well, last year they poached Kinlaw after losing to the Eagles, maybe they can poach Steve Spagnuolo this time around
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the organization's team building philosophy in this generation is to begin with building a Killer Pass Rush and despite all the sexy additions the killer pass rush, in the last couple months, did considerably less killing than advertised and so often seemed less than the sum of its parts, especially in the 4th Qtr. Personally I think the Super Bowl loss was due mostly to the predictable and easily thwarted offensive play selection in the 3rd Qtr (three straight 3 and outs including one after the INT that should've been a game changer), and course due to Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are really fucking good at their jobs and didn't Belichek and Brady just spend 20 years teaching us that when a team has both the best QB and the best coach there's not a hell of a lot you can do about it? But I digress.
Bosa just got his bag and Chase Young's a mercenary anyway, so the coach becomes the most expedient scapegoat.
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the best overtime system is Basketball, wherein they employ the radical pie-in-the-sky idea of... just playing more basketball.
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1 hour ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Then, at some point, Gorilla Monsoon comes out and forces you to keep going even though you played for 60 minutes and nothing happened.
Enduring that bullshit betrayal once (and I never fully forgave Gorilla for that first Bret screw job) was enough, I suppose I’m relived I at least didn’t have to go through that “this match must continue until HBKC wins” mularkey again
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MLB 2024 - March/April 2024
in BASEBALL
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as much as I would love to blame anything that's been vomited out of Rob Manfred's Brainstorm Bin in the last 7 or so years, including but not limited to the pitch clock, I really have to figure this is far more due to The Pitching Motion Is Bad On The Human Body and The Pitching Motion Is Especially Bad On The Body When You Expect Everybody To Throw 99mph Over And Over Again.