SFGiants58

12 minutes ago, Sport said:

 

Honestly I'm not ranting. This is just something to pass the time while on zoom calls.

 

I care about justice and can't believe any sports fan supports what is clearly a business decision going out of the way to spit on competitive fairness.

 

I also care about the injustice of an undefeated team getting shafted, but I also don’t commit the energy to effort posts anymore. Maybe I was being a little too jestful.

Adding in Bama just made me wish for the fall of college football, the elimination of national champions in the sport, and for people to disengage with a truly rancid sports product.

As I said, revenue-earning college sports are the worst ones we have.

29 minutes ago, Sport said:

 

Explain. 

 

 

Long-winded ranting and a growing madness regarding the bizarrely-blessed nature of a person/thing. Sometimes it’s better to back away and realize that it’s an entirely optional part of your life.

College football is the most awful sport we have for a variety of reasons that are well-documented (and I can’t quite say here because forum rules). The sooner it dies, the better.

Also, the one dude complaining about the NIL and transfer portal? Those are good additions to the game. Anything to give the players any kind of above-table compensation/agency is a good thing. 

Is Sport having his Frank Grimes moment? Because this is a textbook Frank Grimes moment.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

Is there nothing in between? 

Gen X, according to five seconds of Google, was ‘65-‘80. Boomers were ‘46-‘64 and Millennials were ‘81-‘96.

There need to be sub-generations, because there’s a lot of separation between people born in the first and second halves of each of those generations. Like, I’m firmly a Millennial (born 1993), but I didn’t experience things like Nirvana being an active band or the Eagles using kelly green. I believe what I am is a “Zillennial,” not unlike the “Generation Jones” that marked the ‘60s born boomers and Gen X.

Here’s an idea:  no more national champions. You get conference titles and bowls as reward for winning a conference. That’s it.

Every method for finding a national champion is bafflingly stupid and we are better off without them.

3 minutes ago, the admiral said:

 

 

More proof that Cox was a better central character to the show than J.D. ever was. He was funnier, had more character development, and could carry a dramatic scene far better.

16 hours ago, the admiral said:

 

"don't sic the online army on a small child"?

I just feel like sic-ing the online army on people is in bad taste after 07/30/2021. Those who know that date know what I’m talking about.

54 minutes ago, henburg said:

How can you not love this?

 

It’s the Sharks of 2023-24, there’s a lot that’s unlovable about this franchise. Teal helmets are something to love though, even if it’s an adrift team.

Seattle vs. Dallas

Indianapolis vs. Tennessee

Atlanta vs. NY Jets

Detroit vs. New Orleans

Denver vs. Houston

LA Chargers vs. New England

Arizona vs. Pittsburgh

Miami vs. Washington

Carolina vs. Tampa Bay

San Francisco vs. Philadelphia

Cleveland vs. LA Rams

Kansas City vs. Green Bay

Cincinnati vs. Jacksonville

Face painting is always the sign of a stable person.

2 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

In Belichick's defense, he coached the '94  Browns to an 11-5 record and a playoff win over...you guessed it...New England with Vinnie Testaverde at QB. That has to count for something.

I go for the idea that Brady/Belichick was an equal partnership at first, but Brady overtook his coach in significance somewhere around 2007-10.

1 hour ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Or maybe we’re all just still insecure about their confidence?

That too! It takes a lot of confidence to build a hype factory. 
 

I’m just rooting for Jim Harbaugh to go back to the NFL and stink at this point.

Just now, oldschoolvikings said:

Remember when that was all anyone could talk about?  Seems like it was forever ago. 

Indeed - it’s hilarious how their season imploded and all the sports media dropped them like hot garbage.

On 11/23/2023 at 8:07 AM, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Josh Giddey is sure happy Pop is today's lead story.

Giddey even looks like a Warped Tour creep, so this isn’t surprising.

Green Bay vs. Detroit

Washington vs. Dallas

San Francisco vs. Seattle

Miami vs. NY Jets

Tampa Bay vs. Indianapolis

New England vs. NY Giants

Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati

Carolina vs. Tennessee

Jacksonville vs. Houston

New Orleans vs. Atlanta

LA Rams vs. Arizona

Cleveland vs. Denver

Buffalo vs. Philadelphia

Kansas City vs. Las Vegas

Baltimore vs. LA Chargers

Chicago vs. Minnesota

10 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

 

personally I think the significantly larger issue is the fact that they willingly hired something called a Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator but that might just be me.

Even more importantly, they still have no o-line. A Rodgers comeback could just as easily end after one snap.

28 minutes ago, the admiral said:

The Bay Area territory issue never made sense to me. The Dodgers and Angels have the same territory. So do the Cubs and White Sox. The White Sox almost moved to the near western suburbs and would have been, though farther from Wrigley itself, closer to the Cubs' suburban base than to the Sox' own base. The A's shouldn't have been in the position to sell San Jose to the Giants because it should have been both of theirs all along. What a stupid situation.

Blame Horace Stoneham for only claiming San Francisco and San Mateo counties, when he should’ve claimed the whole Bay Area region (North to Napa, the East Bay, and Santa Clara County). The A’s could’ve done what the Angels did and pay a fee to share all the counties of the region. That’s how it should have gone down, but it didn’t happen that way and it was stupid.

On 6/16/2023 at 6:48 AM, SFGiants58 said:

So yeah, while the granting of rights was intended to be conditional, at no point did the A’s insist that agreement’s conditional nature be put into the MLB Constitution or anything beyond the 1990 minutes. You can’t do much legally over that if it’s not in an overtly-official document.
 

 

Also, if we bring the later revisions of the constitution into account (before the Santa Clara exploration the A’s made), the A’s could have disputed the conditions of the territory’s ownership and chose not to make any such claim. You can blame the Giants all you want, but the A’s share in the responsibility for not doing their due diligence with the constitutional revisions and with disputing the claim in between 1990 and ~2005, when they had ample opportunity to do so (and without their franchise’s venue at stake)

Quoted for its relevancy to the above post. The A’s had ample opportunity to dispute the conditional nature of the territory claims before they looked to San José, including the 1992 sale of the Giants, but they just never bothered to do their due diligence and it bit them in the ass. 
 

Seriously, how hard would it have been Haas to object to the San José part of the sale in 1992? 

3 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Yeah I guess. I still think it’s inferior to the updated version. 

Completely inferior, but more appropriate.

I never thought I’d miss the ‘07-‘15 set, but I do kind of miss it. It was an “A” on the home jersey away from being a good set for them. The “db” and the Arizona wordmark were pretty nice.

The old one is more in keeping with the 1998 A logo, in that Factory Pomo-adjacent style. I wouldn’t say it’s the best “D-snake,” but it’s the one that fits the set.

16 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

That's gotta be a record.

TomTucker still holds the record.

JasonFromMiami, Rays, Angels, CapitalPunishment, Westside, Thomas, Almighty, and Surf were all his dupes.

NVM, I don't want to escalate the situation and get in trouble here.

OJ and Casey Anthony were found innocent. Would any sane person argue they didn't do the crimes for which they were accused?

28 minutes ago, throwuascenario said:

Also, rape isn't even what he was "alleged" to have done. It's funny how you put alleged in quotes for something that didn't even have the evidence to go to criminal trial.

It was inaccurate, but it was still a sex crime accusation. When it's enough accusers gathering their stories, it tends to project a far more guilty look than only a few accusers.

27 minutes ago, throwuascenario said:

 

The Broncos trade for Wilson was far worse. They gave up just as much for a much older player who has played far worse.

Wilson isn't an "alleged" rapist like Watson. That's why Watson is so much worse.

If this is Draymond without CTE, I’d hate to imagine what he’d be like with more blows to the head.