Cobra Commander

kinda amazing how much "playing a getaway day game on June 17th" energy Cleveland has in this elimination game. Pitching Civale, who has a road ERA near 6, over Bieber, pretty much ended this game.

hoping Cleveland unleashes Bieber tomorrow just to make this whole rain clusterfuck sting a little harder

but due to the lack of uniform zoning in Houston, the saloon is next to a strip mall and a church and nobody has a basement due to the water table

Years ago, one of the KC sports talk guys referred to the Chiefs mascot as a bear, inspiring years of jokes since the Chiefs mascot is named "KC Wolf" Don't ask how a wolf got to be the mascot, just be happy that the Chiefs mascot isn't racist

so that's why the Chiefs didn't make a move for Robbie Anderson

The Nielsen DMA rankings have Philly at #4 (almost 3 million TV homes) and Houston at #8 (a little over 2.5M TV homes). Houston was ahead of Atlanta in Nielsen before the last rankings. Even with the TBS fanbase that the Braves had, I'd still question Heyman's depiction that the Phillies are a downgrade in fanbase size compared to the Braves. As for the Padres, who are one of the smallest markets with an MLB team, they averaged 37k fans a game. So Padres/Phillies has potential to come off well on TV if enthusiasm is infectious.

naming one of his kids America Rising would get him a commit with an SEC school at age 13

For the record, i'm not *seriously* endorsing Mattingly. The only upsides to such a hire is that it'd probably keep the Yankees from getting too good and it'd keep sports talk caller tier people from suggesting the Royals hire Mattingly. Anyways.. NY-based national writers aren't thrilled with the idea of baseball playoffs where the largest remaining city is Philadelphia

as for where the AFC goes through, i'm just hoping for a week 18 that's similar to the Week 17 a few years ago with Kevin Harlan calling both games where I was on a SDR site listening in on Patriots/Dolphins from a Key West radio station, which was the most effort I ever put into being slightly ahead (for some reason, my TV is like one or two plays behind other TVs so looking at Twitter during Chiefs games can spoil what's about to happen) quite a few teams have some radio affiliate out in the hinderlands that is on RadioGarden and doesn't turn their feed off during games (how I listened in on the Broncos last week), so I know where to go if I ever need to listen to the Dallas Cowboys radio network. I'm not inclined to rat out stations though.

looks like the Cowboys are first up for NFC East naval gazing/self-doubt

Josh Donaldson will have to soak in an old man hot tub after jumping like that

Chiefs are probably a 3/4 seed level team that might be a 2 if nobody emerges out of the North/South to take the 2 seed. But the Chiefs are probably pretty good for a team where the QB is obviously not on the same page as the OC. Feels like we're due for a little more optimism among Jets fans, maybe they'll beat the Bills, and then something will happen to knock the Jets back down the ladder. Like how the Dolphins best win of the season was against the Bills and now they're in the slog because their QBs get hurt every week

nice of Dave Roberts to deflect some of the heat off of Aaron Boone

yeah, just joking that there might be something worse behind the door if this postseason gets Boone axed

actually the real winner from tonight's Yankee game? people who want the Yankees to hire Mattingly as their manager

"Obviously Aaron Boone alienated the Yankee bullpen by how he treated Aroldis Chapman" - Aroldis Chapman's agent in a disguise

after that tweet, I would be kinda amused if Cleveland loses in a game where the other team scores all of their runs off of home runs

we got a run in Yankees/Guardians before we got a run in Astros/Mariners

wonder how many people took baths on OU/Kansas with the line at OU by 9 or 9.5 or 10 or 10.5, and OU winning by 10 despite people leaving them for dead after the Texas game.

Long played in the Royals system from 1989 to 1996 (Eugene, Baseball City, Memphis, Omaha, Wichita), retiring at age 30 to manage/coach in the Royals system until 2003. He directly went from being the Omaha Royals hitting coach to the Columbus Clippers hitting coach position that put him in line for the Yankee job.

the standards for roughing the passer are a bit like the whole Family Guy racial profiling joke. Although as long as they just refuse to call roughing when there's an athletic QB, they have an escape hatch.

cut to the Liberty Media underground lair where they discuss "what if we trade Acuna with $78M left on his deal to 'make up for' the money spent on other players?"

also the Lawler version of events on the night of the two piledrivers makes Andy seem a bit smarter than Lawler in knowing how to put over the business/Lawler because Andy was insisting that they call an ambulance to stretcher him out after taking two piledrivers instead of just walking off eventually. If an unathletic looking actor could take 2 piledrivers and eventually walk off, that diminishes the piledriver a little when it's used on real wrestlers. It wouldn't have totally killed it but if he walked off eventually, it's a lot harder to ever stretcher out a wrestler after that move. Plus they made Bill Watts, booker of pro wrestling for a decade before this angle, think it was legit. Which is hilarious.

Two games away from a Padres/Phillies NLCS

The Sooner Schooner starts sweating nervously