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Bout to be Snaketober up in this :censored:.

I know this is probably dumb, but I’m really starting to pull for Wilson. Dude has been absolutely :censored: on this season. A lot of it is merited, no lie there, but a handful of it has been kind of outta pocket (Joe Namath should NEVER have anything to say about a qb). Also, he has undoubtedly shown a pretty big improvement, and it feels like he’s growing up a lot. They should for sure bring in another experienced guy, but I’m starting to think it would be a mistake to abandon him at this point.

Yeah pretty weak field this year. I think the Astros are probably gonna walk to another title.

Man, if I wasn’t already sick of the Chiefs before, I sure am now with all of this Taylor Swift stuff. That’s legit the very last thing I want my football coverage inundated with. It’s straight up creepy to me that people care so much about this.

I’m not really for robot umps, but this kinda stupid :censored: makes me want to reconsider. Joey Votto ejected for arguing balls and strikes (he was right) in his final game.

Meh, it’s ok. I didn’t hate the old logo like some of you seemingly do (although, after looking at it closer, I do understand the complaints), so I’m glad it’s not too drastic of a departure from the old logo. I was thinking they were going to swap from the Space Needle to an orca, and I wasn’t too thrilled with that. I’m glad the new orca logo was just left as an alternate.

Yeah I’m not expecting them to be Super Bowl contenders, but it would be nice if they remained competitive. All you can really hope for is that they beat the teams they’re supposed to, and maybe catch a game or two from the better teams. So far, they’ve done at least that. As long as they’re not embarrassing, I’m happy.

They kinda had it right with the first changes they made. The uniform itself was still one of the best in the league. All they us to do was remove the logo and change it to a W or something (hopefully something better than that, but even that would’ve been fine). I get the whole “separate from the bad wholly” mentality, but what we got still didn’t really do that and is bad.

The Bengals all white look is less intriguing the more they use it, but it’s fine once or twice a season. Rams all blue looks bad, but I don’t really like any of their looks all that much.

Bucs are still the Bucs. Just dreadful in prime time. Joe Burrow isn’t healthy and it’s showing. Still football, though!

It’s really kinda lame how these new Super venues have just turned into satellite facilities for a lot of road teams. I was half paying attention to the game while cleaning and I thought for a chunk of the game that it was in Pittsburgh with how the crowd was cheering. SoFi has been the same, with basically the entire crowd in red when the 49ers play there. It even happens in places like Dallas, which is wild to me.

Only thing better than watching the Cowboys lose is them having sky high expectations and watching them lose.

How the :censored: is this even possible? Whose idea was this?

I absolutely HATE watching the Bears play. Why are they always on TV?!

Weird start for the Cowboys since they’ve already won the Super Bowl in the minds of their fans and the media.

Holy :censored:, Dolphins. I’m so happy this is happening g to Sean Payton and Russell Wilson.

Everyone except Disney does.

Yes. 100%. All of this. The last four markets MLB added were basically the last four “holes” they had left, and all of them had extenuating circumstances for why they were holes in the market in the first place (as you said, inclement weather, transplant population, Spring Training, etc). Now, 25-30 years down the line, we’re seeing the consequences of those risks play out in real time. It was already stretching things too thin to add all four in the first place. Now people want to take markets that have all of those same issues, yet a third of the population at best, and give them expansion teams? That’s insane. It’s NHL levels of stupid. And the scary thing is that Manfred is probably somehow even more of a moron than Bettman is, so of course he’s going to throw his weight behind this stupid idea

“Do you want to keep the NFL in Jacksonville?” Is a question I don’t think they’re really gonna want an answer to. Lol, the gall. Who the are the Jaguars to make threats to anyone?

Chicago: The graveyard of Quarterbacks. Ngl, that actually kinda slaps

All you really have to do is look at the two most recent rounds of expansion to let you know how it’ll probably go in places like Nashville, Portland, or (lol) Orlando. 1993: Denver and Miami 1998: Phoenix and Tampa/St. Pete You could very easily make the argument that at least three of those are the three weakest markets and most precarious situations in MLB (I’m not including Oakland/the A’s in this because their whole situation requires a lot more nuance to understand why it got so FUBARd. Plus, it sounds like that’ll be moot because the A’s are now moving to a market that’s… Somehow even worse than Portland, Nashville, or Orlando. I’ve gone over my skepticism on Vegas a million times here though, so I’ll spare the details on that for now). Miami: A market that, despite the team having some early success, has NEVER worked, and is only currently viable because the previous ownership group absolutely fleeced the city for a new park. Denver: Easily the best of the four, but still tempered due to the Rockies almost always being unwatchable. Tampa: Disaster of a situation and the team has had talks of leaving the area basically ever since they began play. New stadium is great, but they’re probably going to have a lot of the same problems they had before drawing a crowd. Phoenix: just a huge area with a ton of baseball history, and it’s still one of the most anemic markets in pro sports. And the worst part is all four of those cities have the same thing in common. They’re absolutely enormous. Despite that, the success has been pretty limited. So with all of that, I have a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea of MLB putting an expansion team in a city that has like 1/10 the population, basically zero history with baseball fandom (I’m sure Nashville has a nice minor league history that had a good following, just as every other moderately sized city in the US does. And I’m sure they think their history is “special”, just like all of those other moderately sized cities do, too), and has enough markets close enough that they’ll compete for eyes with teams that have a century and a half head start on them. I’ll even go this far. If a team decides it has to move, Nashville may be a somewhat decent market for them if they play that situation perfectly. It’ll be the weakest market in the league and everyone will know that, but at least in that circumstance they’ll have a chance, albeit far fetched. But an expansion team? Lol, come on. Can we at least try to keep things realistic? And I say all that not meant as a put down, but as the guy who thought (foolishly) for DECADES that Sacramento would be a viable market for a MLB team. There’s a reason we haven’t had expansion in nearly 30 years. It’s because there isn’t anywhere left that actually makes sense. There’s currently two or three markets they already have that don’t make sense.

Lol no it doesn’t, because truth of the matter is there isn’t ANY city left that fits that category. This is a sport that’s been actively hemorrhaging fans for around the last four decades. We really don’t need any more MLB teams. Especially when the only “viable” (and I use that term loosely) locations left are places like Nashville and Portland.

I’m sure you’re right about the players union not being for it, but it doesn’t change the fact that we actually have a team or two too many, rather than too few. Like, expansion for Nashville? That’s your big fish? Yikes. That’s bleak. Who’s next? Oklahoma City?

NFL has been :censored:ting horseshoes lately. We’ve had quite a few excellent prime time games so far already. I’d say the league has the Midas touch, but there’s no way I’m giving them that much credit.

Very surprising that he has such an issue keeping his hands to himself. Seems so out of character for him.