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Where did I say that local TV weather hairdos are good at forecasting weather? I said weather forecasting is better and it is.

Weather forecasting is much better now than it was in the "old days." For example, last week a meteorologist I follow on YouTube said that Minneapolis was going to get blasted by snow this week. Guess what happened in Minneapolis this week. It snowed. A lot. If the forecast says there is a 99% chance of rain and the radar shows that it's 99% going to rain, what exactly are we waiting for? I like that teams are being proactive and not making fans waste their time sitting around for 4 hours in the rain to see if the game gets called.

Works for me.

We gotta get the gorilla involved in this somehow.

It actually happened on the first day of Spring Training, but it's not official until tomorrow.

That's already happened, my friend. In fact, the Pirates are currently eliminated from playoff contention through 2027.

CCSLC lesson #2: Know when someone is joking.

This your first day here? We don't do calm in these parts. Those WTFs were heard in Antarctica. Good lord, those new Falcons uniforms were awful. They still are, they just don't elicit the WTFs any more.

Narrator: They weren't excited. In fact, they thought it was all very stupid.

And weed. And fentanyl. And too many soccer moms rolling around in Chevrolet Tahoes. "The joint the horse is smoking represents the indomitable free spirit of the frontier that still lives today in Colorado. The sandstone and icy blue highlights on the pants stripes are a tribute to the Xanax addicted soccer moms who populate the Denver suburbs. The sublimated 5.2 at the top of the left pants stripe recognizes the miles per gallon they get in their Chevy Tahoes."

You're expecting rational behavior where none exists.

The old "looking forward while respecting the past" bit. The next time that approach results in a great looking uniform will also be the first time. On the bright side, the Nike-speak will be glorious. "The horse stomping across a snow covered mountain sleeves signify that Broncos Country has never lost the pioneer spirit of the 1850s. We ride in all weather. The icy blue stitching you can barely see represents the battle tested craftsmanship of the frontier. The arrow stuck in the horse's neck honors the brave wagon trains that were attacked by the Commanche. " I hope I'm wrong, but I think this is going to be a disaster. You have our sincere condolences in advance, Broncos fans. Signed, Browns fans in 2015.

Probably not, but one can hope.

Yeah, I don't like to draw a lot of attention to that one. I much prefer people going with "you were born on 420? That's so cooool!" In a related story, Don Mattingly and I were born on the same day and we were both scouted by Major League Baseball teams. He did a little better than I did with the baseball thing.

For example, Easter is on April 20th next year. (Nice of them to have it on my birthday. Wonder how they feel about the weed thing.)

Exactly. Easter is the one mainstream Christian holiday on the calendar that is actually more about Christianity than it is about selling stuff. I'm not at all religious and I'd still find a sports tie-in with Easter to be pretty weird and uncomfortable. That aside, Easter doesn't fall on the same day every year so your tie-in would always be changing.

Yeah, I can see where NIL is a problem because this is the first time Calipari or Kentucky has had to deal with paying players. Before NIL there wasn't a cleaner coach or program in all of college basketball. (I somehow managed to keep a relatively straight face while typing that.)

The first thing any lawyer is going to tell their client is to shut up and don't talk about the investigation or the case. Period. Anyone who doesn't understand that is either an idiot or a talk show host. In the case of talk show hosts, it's generally both.

That'll teach Cronenworth to wear a Wilson glove. No way that happens to a Rawlings.

I could not agree more. Instead of running 500 qualifying laps, we actually had a race that rewarded driver skill. As you said, we saw that with the top three finishers in the race. The top five were all drivers who know who to properly run at a short track. The gun it and run it guys never really figured it out. Yesterday was good lesson for everyone on how important the drivers and crews should be in a race. Horsepower isn't the issue. Trying to fix what has been...I'll be generous here...a problematic car has been the issue all along. If I had my way, the Cup Series would dump the NextGen car and make a Cup car based on the current Xfinity car. (For my money, Xfinity has the best racing in NASCAR these days.) In its quest to make Cup racing less expensive and create more parity, NASCAR left out the main ingredient - good racing. Finally, to the fans who think anything short of an Atlanta finish every week is an abject failure, a good race is way more than just the final three laps. Do you get upset when you watch a baseball game that didn't end on a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th? Do you expect every football game to end on a last second go ahead TD? Point being, there's a lot more to this than "go fast, turn left." Bristol showed you why yesterday.

If we're lucky, Goodyear will see all the positive reactions to the race and do just enough tweaking that we're not running on cords after 40 laps.

I'd argue that it's more a matter of the Steelers consistently being stuck in the dreaded middle than it is poor personnel decisions. It's hard to grab elite players when you're always picking in the lower end of the draft. The last time the Steelers had a top ten pick in the draft was 2019. It was pick #10. I think the Steelers were a decent QB away from being a real problem for everyone in the playoffs last season. Could they have made a Super Bowl run? Who knows, but I know a Mike Tomlin coached team isn't going to wilt in the spotlight when they see Mahomes like other teams usually do. If Tomlin can crack the code with Fields or find a way to resurrect what's left of Wilson, they'll be in the hunt for the AFC North. Again.

That race was old school short track stock car racing. It would have been better if the teams had known going in that tires weren't going to be indestructible (like they usually are with the NextGen car), but other than that, it was a good race. Record amount of short track lead changes and they could actually pass...for once.

Exactly. Tomlin has made the playoffs with teams that have 5-12 talent. That's not luck or getting all the calls. What's funny is he'll do it again next season and people will be right back here wondering how it happened...again. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you. Mike Tomlin is a great coach.

Sure do. He brought the Steelers back from deficits of 24-7 and 33-21 to beat the Browns in the 2002 playoffs. The Steelers scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. I still can't believe the Browns let Tommy ing Maddox do that, but they did.