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  1. On 3/23/2024 at 10:59 PM, Dynasty said:

    There is talk around Calipari, but what about Izzo? What has Michigan State done in the past several years? They haven't been an elite program for quite a while and just seem to be an easy chalk for early-to-mid tournament exits. Their last title was 2000.

    They went to the Sweet 16 last year and the Final Four in both 2019 and 2015. They were also a top ten team in 2020 when the tournament was cancelled.

     

    Something separate:

    I hate when people use the tournament to gauge how good conferences are as whole. The SEC is not a weaker conference than the ACC because of how tournament results play out. Literally anything can happen in the tournament. Dan Hurley saying the Big East deserved more teams because the Big East is 6-0 is so dumb. They'd have a worse record if they let the worse teams in.

     

    It's a dumb as using the bowl season to say whatever conference is better than the rest.

     

  2. 16 hours ago, Lights Out said:

     

    Was anyone complaining that they were too big before? I certainly don't remember it.

     

    The smaller names make the uniforms look like how they'd be rendered in an old video game.

    People weren't complaining about because it wasn't part of a larger problem and there wasn't momentum in people having to say something about to keep up. I'm not sure I really noticed it either until now. Given the choice between these and last year's, I'd 100% choose last year's name size. But it made me realize that those weren't all that great either. I don't need to see the leftfielder's name from an airplane. I know we've been shown these two options, and this is likely the only two we have, but sometimes a third option of something in-between is best (I promise this is not a metaphor for anything else). If we had something smaller for our entire lives then they switched to the large names, we'd be losing our damn minds, too. We like it because it's what we're used to and there's no fault in that.

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  3. 43 minutes ago, burgundy said:

     

    I think the smaller letters are made more noticeable because they also lowered the numbers to accommodate the extremely tight arc radius. So players with shorter names have a vast open space that looks comical. If they had kept the previous arc and number placement, the smaller letters might work.

     

    Oh the new letters are definitely look worse (still can't wrap my head around why the Verlander letters look so big still).

     

    But I don't think they need to be as big as they used to be. I know we all fear change but holy :censored: they looked awful last year too.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, BBTV said:

    As predicted, but now credible reports (i.e. not Josina Anderson) saying that Howie/Lurie told Sirianni that he could keep his job, only if he fires both coordinators and other coaches and either goes with their list.  Supposedly, the DC hire (Desai) was his choice as a sort of flex, and he sold them on it, even though they recommended promoting the DB coach, who was promptly fired (and is now in line to be Baltimore's next DC, go figure) 

     

    The funny thing is that they haven't fired any coaches yet, but Howie has already made calls to agent of the guys on his list to set up interviews when it's time.

     

    Sirianni is mulling it over, but there's no way he doesn't do whatever they tell him to do, even if it means Howie sleeping with his wife.  Fortunately for him, Hurts' professional relationship with his homeboy OC seems to have deteriorated over the year, so maybe firing him won't cause as much of a riff as previously thought.

     

    TL;DR

    Eagles are a complete dumpster fire and it's not going to get any better.  There's no way they finish higher than 3rd in the division next year.  

     

    They went from winning 30 of last 35 regular-season games (30 of 33 if we only count Hurts' starts) and two playoff games over the past three seasons, to a complete disaster over the course of two months.  Give me another example of a turn like this - you can't.

     

    I'd be willing to bet a hundred dollars they finish at least 2nd. They literally just finished 11-6. it's not like they went 2-15.

  5. 11 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

    Expect more excited Romo if the Bills win today, he seems to do it all the time with the Bills lol

    This is what every fan says about an announcer when the opponent has good players.

    Guarantee Bills fans will say Romo's too excited about Patrick Mahomes because football fans are too soft to hear positive things about a player wearing a different shirt.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

    Jason Benetti goes from White Sox PXP man to Tigers PXP man 

     

    As someone who can only listen to their team on the radio, I also found myself listening to Benetti and Steve Stone because they were a great pair and fun to listen to. I'd say Benetti might be my favorite broadcaster across any sport (along with Kevin Brown and Adam Amin). I feel like Detroit needs a whole new both based on reviews from last season so we'll see who he's paired up with.

  7. On 11/3/2023 at 6:04 PM, BBTV said:

    HIM is the dumbest of all the dumb things that kids today say.  I was watching one of the NFL shows and they had the "Him" award.  That's just stupidly stupid.

     

     

    Is there "her"?  After some gymnast sticks the landing, does anyone in the crowd yell "Biles is HER!"

     

    It's not cute.  It's dumb.  It'll age just as bad as "swag" did, and I'm already as tired of it as I am with "goat" and all the various ways that people work "goat" into other words.

     

    ESPN just wrote a whole article on the "Too Small" gesture, which I feel is equally as dumb.  NBA players seem to be the most unoriginal people on planet earth and they're so damn corny all the time.

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  8. 9 hours ago, BBTV said:

    EDIT:

    Why does MLB hate their fans?  Thursday's game is 2:00 local time?  Half of my friend group will be there since it was cheaper to fly Frontier and buy a ticket than to go to a game here, but I imagine for anyone local that blows.  It blows for us just to watch it while either in rush hour or on transit after work, but for AZ locals to have to use PTO just to go to a game in the penultimate series of the year is just not fair.

    While I agree with all of this, as someone who is likely never attending an MLB playoff game, I do love meaningful afternoon baseball in the middle of the week. Makes the work day easier. The only half decent thing about the Covid sports schedule to me was that there were NASCAR races on Wednesday afternoons. It was great.

     

    More weekday afternoon sporting events*

     

    *as someone who's watching from home

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  9. I've come around on the Phillies. Outside of the Dodgers and Astros (their only redeeming quality is Dusty Baker) they were the only other playoff team I didn't want to win. Their uniforms are so blah and I find their ballpark boring visually. I routinely forget they even exist.

     

    But I've always liked Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. As someone who wanted the Braves to win the last series, it all flipped when Bryce Harper did the stare down. That was pure magic.

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  10. 15 hours ago, Cujo said:

    The ONE year people actually wanted Gonzaga to win it all.. 🙄

    I want Gonzaga to in it every year haha.

     

    Selfishly I didn't want FAU or SDSU in the Final Four because I don't like not knowing any players on the championship teams and can't remember the last time that happened for me.

  11. FAU is a fun team/story, but I can't stand their uniforms. The Navy aways have the vertical striping pattern seen on Miami FL's uniforms (one Adidas template), but the shorts have a diagonal stripe that in no way matches what's on the jerseys (a different Adidas template used by a lot of smaller schools). I have no idea how this happened and whoever was in charge of making this decision didn't see how awful it looks.

  12. 13 hours ago, Cujo said:

    Two things..

     

    Was at this game, I've never heard so many gasps. 💸

     

     

    Also, Kevin Harlan is the absolute best in the business. Jim Nantz can't retire soon enough.

     

    I run a Pool where you draw teams but the only thing that matters is if they cover the spread (gives everyone a chance no matter what team they draw) and between this and the Alabama/TXAMCC games, some last-minute buckets made a few teams change hands.

     

    Also, I don't think there's a March Madness announcer (very few in general, actually) that I don't like, but they already confirmed Ian Eagle will be taking over the Final Four calls next year on TV. It's not a bad choice, but him being younger than Harlan kinda bums me out, hopefully he can do the Super Bowl when Nantz gives that up? (Harlan doing the Masters would be something though I'd think Andrew Catalon takes that over as he's already on the broadcast.)

    On 3/19/2023 at 11:29 PM, Unocal said:

    Good luck with those Sweet 16 ratings

    Unless I have a monetary investment in the network I'm not sure why I'd give two :censored:s about the ratings. I root for basketball, not how many other people are watching the same game I'm watching.

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Cujo said:

    Off to witness Creighton vs Baylor and TCU vs Gonzaga.

     

    All four teams are LEGIT. I expect these games and this atmosphere to be 🔥🔥 tonight!

    Do you feel like when you're attending the first/second rounds (especially the first) that you're missing out on all the other games? I've always wanted and have had the opportunity to attend the first weekend but I was always afraid I'd get four duds and miss 12 exciting games. I went to the Final Four once and obviously wasn't missing any other games so that worked out.

  14. Only slightly due to the transfer portal, there's been a lot of turnover in season this year.

     

    Texas gets a new coach midway through the year and still almost becomes a #1 seed.

    Kansas gets a #1 seed then their coach has a health scare.

    Arkansas has one of their best players leave the team for a bit, and now he's back and they look really good.

    Creighton has their best player miss a lot of time early on, then they fight back through the Big East, and are, at their healthiest, a lot better than their seed suggests.

    Xavier looks great for most of the season, then Freemantle goes down with an injury. He's likely their fourth best player but the dropoff between Freemantle and Hunter isn't as big as the dropoff between Hunter & Edwards.

    Tennessee looks good all season then Zakai Zeigler gets injured.

    TCU looks fun for most of the season, then Mike Miles gets hurt. They get him back then their best big man leaves the team as soon as the Big 12 tournament starts.

     

    Also, Gonzaga, Baylor, and Michigan State have had relatively quiet seasons for their programs and they're all there in the second round.

     

    March Madness continues to be the best sporting event around. What a fun time.

    "[College] Basketball is my favorite sport." - Kurtis Blow

  15. 15 hours ago, Cujo said:

    If the WBC were as as important as some of you are making it out to be, it would have it's own thread on here. And in fact, nobody mentioned the WBC on here before last night's injury. One post about the WBC was made, and it about the drunk bros behind home plate in ringing up batters. Nothing was said about the actual games going on at all, which tells you how much of an afterthought the tournament is. So please, let's not pretend it's this grand event on the same level as the World Cup.

    March Madness doesn't even have it's own thread here.

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  16. I find it funny that ESPN pretends every year they have the bracket selection show. They used to have something the hour after the real one on CBS, but only in the last handful of years to they try to have one going at the same time that runs on like a 10 minutes delay.

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  17. 3 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

     

    Did you mean uncontested?  Actually, for Sam Howell (whoever that is) contested probably makes more sense.

     

    Isn't this the team that went back and forth between Hienicke and Wentz all year? Where did this Howell character come from?  Was he on the team all year?  And if so, and he had the least bit of a noticeable pulse, why wasn't he playing the whole time?

    Howell was a rookie last year (he had a great career at UNC). He was on the team all year. Heinicke had to play because he was the guy that got them to the playoffs that one time. Wentz the guy with committed money. Howell was just the odd man out. Rookies come along at different speeds.

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