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1 hour ago, BBTV said:

Can someone explain to a non-college sports fan why those two schools were so unattractive to any of the major conferences?  Is it just on-field performance? Or that they’re not worth anything from a TV market / revenue standpoint?

Wazzu is legitimately in the middle of nowhere almost in Idaho and an 80 mile drive from the closest airport in Spokane.  Other than Ryan Leaf and Klay Thompson (and the late Mike Leach using it as a rebound gig) it has nothing going for it.  Plus the athletic facilities aren't great.

OrSt is closer to Portland than Oregon but other than just having its football stadium renovated it's not really much of anything.  Sure, there's a small Nike connection but not in the same galaxy as that down in Eugene.

So, both schools were definitely lower echelon in the PAC and not exactly what a Power 4 conference would covet.

That Philly-Billings rivalry is going to be one for the ages.

I wonder how much the rights to the league’s IP were going for on Wish.

5 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

What I don't get is that you have to not only be fat enough to have large folds, but those folds have to be able to actually hold the gun.  Like, imagine a large breast holding a pencil under it.  That's kind of what I'm (unfortunately) picturing, just with a gut and a gun.

 

And to be large enough to pull this off, are you really agile enough to pull and use the gun in any situation in which you'd need it?

The other thing to wrap one's head around... how is it that metal detectors can pick up artificial knees and pacemakers and yet somehow a fully loaded gun tucked under a few rolls of fat doesn't trigger anything?

14 minutes ago, Shumway said:

 

Okay, maybe no more hope. Arte just had to duck that luxury tax.

 

 

 

 

And yet poor CJ Cron is stuck on the sinking ship as the lifeboats fade over the horizon.

The Wolves have always been known for disregarding the wishes of their affiliate club when it comes to roster management hence why they've always had a revolving door situation.  It sounds like the Hurricanes were just the one club push back and with so many other AHL clubs being owned and operated by the parent club for development purposes the Wolves saw that their act wasn't going to fly anymore unless they went independent.

Every time you think the Angels can’t get worse…

Another reason for the White Sox to bolt…

41 minutes ago, BBTV said:

What I meant was that Harper kept hitting in the same season, even with the tear, knowing he’d need TJ. Something about the UCL allows you to do the swinging motion without much pain, even though you can’t throw. 
 

Two key differences:

1. Harper fields right handed and bats left, so his right elbow needed TJ and that’s his bottom arm when batting. 
 

2. Phillies were competing for playoffs / championships. Angels aren’t. 

It's the same scenario as 2018.  He'll keep hitting until he gets surgery in the offseason then be back out there as a DH next season.

On 8/22/2023 at 3:26 PM, GDAWG said:

 

They recently added the Omaha Beef 

Paging @infrared41 @CS85 @IceCap

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

It’s possible they knew there was some damage there and it would come out when his new team did a physical, so they kept him rather than go through the trouble. 
 

I hope like Harper, he can at least hit through it before going through TJ, though it would make sense to do that ASAP. May have cost himself $100M or more. Terrible luck. 

He had TJ in 2018 and was able to hit the next season.

But, I can't shake the feeling that Ohtani and Trout are just sacrificial lambs to the cosmic karma that is coming due for Moreno.  The way that he runs the organization, as best described by an ESPN article, is buying a McLaren and taking it to Jiffy Lube.  For years, Moreno has made it habitual that he had to make a stupid big money free agent signing out of ego to try to overshadow whatever signing the Dodgers made.  Zack Greinke leaves for the Dodgers, Josh Hamilton, come on down!  And other cases where he overruled his general managers for stupid reasons: Gary Matthews Jr., Justin Upton, Albert Pujols, Vernon Wells, Anthony Rendon, etc. etc.  

But, what do you do when you blow all your money on stupid acquisitions?  Gut the scouting department!  Make GM after GM commit seppuku!  Force your minor leaguers to live with 8 roommates in a two-bedroom apartment and survive on gas station mini mart hot dogs!  

And why stop there?  Let's also for good measure bribe the mayor for a sweetheart stadium deal and allow a drug ring to function under your roof.

I used to be an Angel fan.  I'm so glad that I jumped off that train years ago.

(Also, the pessimist in me fully embraces the theory that Ohtani wasn't traded due to the fact that 75% of the in-stadium ads at the stadium are from Japanese companies and Moreno, being a billboard guy, wasn't going to risk losing revenue with all those companies pulling out.  I mean, come on, they even have stadium billboards for Japanese cat treats.)

13 hours ago, BBTV said:

obviously the situation in CA is more important,  but I think this eliminated my chances of seeing Ohtani pitch live next week. 

Can’t blame the weather now.

But wait, there’s more!

Karma is coming right for Arte Moreno. He let his ego torpedo the sale and now that the reports are coming out about the corruption with the stadium deals you can’t help but see something cosmic at play here.

Major League 2

That and them replacing the sock patch with another SOX monogram.

A big issue is that New Comiskey/Guaranteed Rate pretty much opened immediately obsolete due to the Camden Yards renaissance and that stadium has been repeatedly tweaked for thirty years just to cling to being a top 25 ballpark.  So, I could see why there's interest in cutting bait at this point.

1 hour ago, tBBP said:

 

All these years and Phoenix is still rolling out Berthold City??

Am I out of touch?  No!  It's the children growing majority of our former clients who are wrong!

Tale as old as time. Pitcher repeatedly imploding then thrown on the 60 day with surprise but not really a surprise injury that they should have been shut down weeks prior for.

RE the Xwitter issue... if you replace X with Twitter, copy the link as text, then paste that should fix the issue.

2 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

I do not think Brewers will go anywhere. MLB does not want headache of yet another tean trying to relocate after the multi decade A's and Rays sagas

The headache wasn't the actual relocation part.  The headache was with the teams trying to get new stadiums in their home markets despite decrepit infrastructure and lengthy leases.  If the A's and Rays were allowed to explore relocation years ago we wouldn't be in this situation either by the teams already being in new markets or the home markets acting due to relocation threats that actually had urgency to them.

Suspension has been set at one year.

As a theory, which I'm not sure would be possible, could the entire Mountain West theoretically disband and immediately join the Pac-12?  Unless the NCAA/CFP takes action it would give the MWC teams access to the CFP automatic bid and Pac-12 network infrastructure while retaining their current TV deals.

5 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

Pacific Coast teams are about to be in the Atlantic Coast Conference because why not 

It’ll be like the ECHL being changed from an acronym to not actually standing for anything.

So, pointing out statistics from club-issued game notes with on-screen graphics prepared gets you suspended apparently.