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8 hours ago, Volt said:

 

Would this very smart and likely very handsome concept-maker like to share where another very smart and likely very handsome concept-maker might be able to download the template in .psd format?

It’s an ai file. I’ll look and see if I still have it. 

20 hours ago, Cujo said:

Imagine if the Lions just did this and left them alone for more than 5 years

 

Whoever made this concept is very smart and likely very handsome. 

I never grew all that fond of Gavrikov's game and he was going to leave after the season anyways so whatever. Korpisalo is the one that is hard to watch leave. He was one of the last ties to the good teams and he's a better goalie than Elvis Merzlikins . It sucked that whenever he got hot he would then get injured, but he can be a solid goaltender if he's healthy. Middle to late first rounder? Sure. 

The pitch clock enforces a rule that was already on the books and was in desperate need of enforcing. I watched some of a game yesterday and it was really nice. Reminded me that during early quarantine, jeez, 3 years ago(!) I watched a lot of old baseball games on Youtube. Games in the 70's and 80's used to FLY even with players trying to steal more often and the pitch clock sort of resembles that again. The OCD gloves adjusting that Nomar elevated to an artform is a relatively new development to the game. The pitch clock also demands some level of actual physical conditioning as a 10 pitch AB will tire both batter and hitter more than if they were allowed to step out/off to take get more breathes. It'll be interesting to see if any injuries come as a result. 

10 hours ago, the admiral said:

Because baseball's design language only really called for one sleeve patch, I always liked the idea of changing that patch for handedness. I liked it for the ball-in-glove, not :censored:ing Kroger.

The only time I liked it was for the all star game patch. Aside from that I feel like every player's uniform should be exactly uniform. 

Another reason I don't like it is that to flip the Mr Redlegs logo for the right sleeves they have to move the C to the right side of his chest. It's like how the Ravens logo on the left side of their helmets looks silly because you can't flip an asymmetrical letter like B or C. This is also one of those logos that can't be mirrored without some alteration that looks dumb. 

Flipping logos depending on handedness so that the jersey ad is more visible makes this even more shameless. 

Portland shouldn't ever wear anything else besides plaid. That looks fantastic and also fitting for the team. How did it take them this long to find that? 

15 minutes ago, officeglenn said:

FC Cincinnati primary:

 

14 minutes ago, hendocfc said:

That looks like someone's coffee got spilled all over the first brief and the designer said ":censored: it"

Was gonna say I could spill so many beverages on that at a game and nobody would notice. LOL

Once I warmed up to it and got used to the Adidas ad visible from space on the shoulders I ended up loving the half navy/half royal look they had in 2020. If they wear these new ones with navy blue shorts it'll have the same look and be really sharp. 

I liked these, but a little too navy heavy for me to ever love them. 

The pitch clock is going to help with the pace of play, but the shift ban resulting in more hits by lefties might offset any time saved. It'll be interesting to see what our game length numbers are when we have a good sample size by the middle of the season. 

To me the extra innings runner is a solution in search of a problem. Very few games actually ever reach the 13th or later innings. I wish they'd at least let them go through the 10th, 11th, and 12th innings like normal before resorting to the Random Variance Creator.

Minor nitpick: It's not a "Ghostrunner". Stop calling it that. A ghostrunner is when you don't have enough players for a full game or practice so you have empty bases function as if an imaginary runner was there. This is a guy who starts on second for no good reason, but he is a very real human baserunner. 

21 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

The only one that's surprising is Lions.  We know about Eagles, and the Colts and Browns have logical throwback elmets to pair with existing uniforms.  I guess the Broncos is a bit surprising since they currently don't have a throwback jersey to go with a pale blue helmet, so maybe they're doing the "icy" thing (god please no).  In fact... oh know... that's probably what Detroit is doing

Gotta match the "clean" all white pants. I'd bet money that's what the Lions are doing.

We will have gone full Big 12 if the Lions come out with something like this for real. 

BUTT!

Mahomes threw it long on purpose to sell it too. The bad throw gives the optical illusion that the hold was worse than it really was. 

Lou Anarumo stinks, players hate playing for him, and I once saw him steal an ice cream cone from a sick kid. True story. Trust me, you don't want him, Cardinals fans. 

Hopefully that defensive performance by the Eagles last night doesn't deter Arizona from hiring Gannon.

5 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

Brady didn't really become the NFL's "darling" until at least that 3rd Super Bowl win that cemented them as a dynasty. 

You keep saying this and it's just not true. The second they beat the Rams he was the NFL's darling because the sixth round pick turned Super Bowl MVP was too good a narrative to not drive into the ground. And drive into the ground they did. After they beat Carolina for the second championship is when people started to ask "Is Brady actually good?" It certainly did not take until the third championship for him to become the NFL's darling. 

Fawning over Brady happened WELL before the third championship and claiming anything different is pure uncut revisionism to bend over backwards to make some weird point about Mahomes. 

You cannot say the Chiefs didn’t get some degree of help in their last two games. It’s not rigged, it’s just extremely lame. 

2 hours ago, BBTV said:

Stars fan with a bizarre bowl cut mullet gets clocked for using the n-word at a game.  Posting link vs video due to profanities.  Kinda fun to watch the dude get what was coming to him.

 

Between Cowboys fans (mostly female!) beating themselves up so much over the past few years and now this, I think Dallas has taken the title from Phila for most fan-on-fan violence (though bay area may actually be #1 since people literally get stabbed and beaten to death at games.)

 

https://www.crossingbroad.com/2023/02/bowl-cut-mullet-an-early-nominee-for-sports-fight-of-the-year.html

I like the "yall saw it. He hit me first!" thing. No, dude, you threatened him with violence first, then called him a "dumbass n*****" and got your scrawny ass rightfully popped. In my day there was this expression that went like "talk :censored: get hit". 

14 hours ago, the admiral said:

I don't know. Kobe fans always seem to get unhinged pretty fast. 

 

https://www.vibe.com/news/sports/kobe-bryant-meet-me-in-temecula-beef-248382/

The famous "meet me in Temecula" twitter beef was a fight about Kobe. A guy actually got in his truck and drove to Temecula to defend Kobe's honor. To my knowledge Lebron has never inspired that level of psycho. 

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

Yeah, I knew that was the distinction. But if the logic is you want MJ for one game more than anyone else, and he lost in six, then that means something, doesn't it?

I wasn't the one who said I would take MJ if I had to win one game. I was just citing what I think is a cool stat that every full season he played from 91-98 ended in a championship and there's nothing incorrect in that statement. Just saying as a kid Jordan felt inevitable during those years in a way that Lebron maybe only did with regards to reaching the conference finals. 

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

We're splitting hairs. And LeBron/MJ will never be definitively "solved," which is silly because it's not actually a problem.

 

It's interesting to see Kobe in these conversations. He was generally hated throughout his playing career for a variety of reasons. I remember hearing him as a top 5/10 guy when he was alive, but not better than MJ/LeBron/Kareem/Russell.

I don't think I'd put Kobe in the top 5, let alone above Lebron. 

13 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

True, but he also got his ass rocked by the Magic in 1995. Like, he did play in those games. That series might be the most memory holes in NBA history.

 

That's why I said full season. He came back from baseball and only played 17 games with the Bulls that year. I feel like if he's in basketball shape the Bulls probably win that series, they probably beat Indiana, and then who knows against the Rockets. 

29 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

But is it really hate or discrediting to simply say, as good as he is, he’s still second place to MJ?  Doesn’t feel like hate to me.  
 

 I don't think that's what we're talking about. Talking about people who whine about Lebron because of stupid superficial off-court stuff like "he takes up too much space at his son's AAU games". Okay, get over that, weirdo. Like they're just not into his dorky vibe so they go looking for reasons to discredit him as a person. 

29 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Here’s how I always think of it…. If my life literally depended on the outcome of a single basketball game, and I mean literally, and I could choose any player in his prime as my one pick, I’d say Jordan before the question was finished. 
 

Watching MJ play you always felt he’d cut your throat in a second to win a game.  I never got that feeling from Lebron. 

I heard someone say Jordan was the better basketball player, but Lebron had a better career. I think it might be reversed. Lebron is a better natural basketball player, but Jordan is a better competitor who I think willed himself from a good basketball player to a great basketball player.  There's been loads of guys in the NBA who were more physically gifted than Jordan, just his evil superpower was he wanted to murder you to death via embarrassment. Lebron is a competitor, but he's also way more friendly on the court. 

I was like 4 years old when Jordan won his first championship so for my childhood if he was playing that season felt pointless for every team except the Bulls. From 1990-1991 through 1997-1998 , if Jordan played in a full season he ended the season with a championship. That's amazing. I even remember kids on the playground kind of all agreeing that the Rockets championships weren't real because they didn't have to play Jordan*. "The Last Dance" makes it seem like that sixth championship was in question and maybe it was, but as a kid that sixth championship, and 96, 97 before it, felt inevitable. Except for maybe a Heat year or two I never felt like Lebron was inevitable. 

I think I'd still take Lebron in a 5 Lebrons vs. 5 MJs game, though. 

*which is silly in hindsight, but that's what we thought as kids. 

9 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

This is the thing that’s so baffling to me about a lot of the Lebron hate. The dude is just about the best example of a person as you could possibly expect to be the face of the league and a role model to a ton of young kids (even if you argue that athletes shouldn’t be role models, you can still at least understand the point in this). And yet people nitpick stuff like, oh, he comes across as too arrogant or oh he’s too much of a drama Queen. Like, ok. Sure. Even if that’s true (I don’t really think it is), what do you really expect? How perfect does someone have to be to validate their achievements? That’s the real arrogance if you ask me. That stuff all comes across as so annoyingly entitled from fans.  Like, people have so little left to hold against Lebron that they’re even roasting him on his stance on stuff like China and Kyrie’s antisemitism. Basically stuff that none of us would ever care about with any other athlete. Some of that comes with the territory, no doubt about it. It’s the cost of being in that position. But this dude has been held under a microscope forever and has mostly come out clean sans a few relatively minor issues (at least for an athlete and in the context of sports). Jordan had the luxury of playing in an era when there wasn’t that constant surveillance, and Jordan was famously a douche. But because of the “mystery” or whatever, it’s celebrated rather than torn apart like it is today. It just builds his legend. I think in that sense, how can you not see Lebron as at least on the same level as Jordan? 
 

That’s just my feeling, though. You’re right that some people are never gonna be swayed on this issue in either direction. 

I agree with you entirely. We know too much about athletes today and it feels like if a player doesn't bat 1000 on every stance, behavior, and social issue then people declare them World's Biggest Hitler. I don't even bat 1000 on every stance, behavior, or social issue. As long as a guy's heart is in the right place, isn't saying or being hateful against an entire religion or race, and hasn't committed violent crimes then I think you can chalk up their off-field stuff to being largely immaterial to their play and our analysis of them as athletes. We're going to do this again when Ovechkin breaks Gretzky's record - He's been vocally supportive of Putin, but you have to weigh that with how much the most famous Russian athlete has to do or say to protect his family and friends back home. Everything is not 100% exactly as it appears.

My dad's side of the family is from Akron and a long time family friend was Lebron's math teacher in high school so I followed his career probably earlier than most. It's remarkable that he exceeded his high school hype because it was pretty damn high. He was on the cover of SI when that mattered, ESPN was broadcasting his high school games, and Nike gave him like a billion dollars when he was like 17. That's a lot to live up to. Before he graduated and got drafted I remember his mom took out a loan to buy a new house and he bought a new Hummer and I remember thinking "uh oh. That's a bad sign." But what I remember the math teacher saying was that he was really smart and she wasn't worried about him getting sucked into all the pitfalls of fame and money. And he largely hasn't, which is again, pretty impressive. It all could've gone off the rails so much easier than not and instead he scored the most points anyone's ever scored. That's incredible. 

5 minutes ago, waltere said:

 

Off topic, but damn that is one ugly-ass uniform matchup

Whenever the topic comes up I always say it's my vote for the worst looking game in NFL history. You had the Browns in their befuddling and ill-advised Niketastic uniforms, the Bengals were still wearing their 2004 Tiger costumes, and everyone wore the most orange they could. The game was physically difficult to watch on TV from the standpoint of following which team was which. This is always my Exhibit A for why the NFL needs a Uniform Common Sense Czar in place to protect the teams from doing this. Just someone to say "No, Bengals don't wear your orange jerseys and socks against the Browns. Hey, Browns, don't wear orange pants against the Bengals."

AJ Green retired. Probably not a hall of famer because he didn't have the longevity or great playoff performances, but his peak was as good as a lot of bigger names. When he was good he was really really good and was a huge part of that Bengals run of 2011-2015. Those were some unexpectedly fun teams and he had a lot great moments.

Always appreciated how when he showed up in 2011 we had just come off of the 2010, 4-12 soap opera of Chad Johnson, T.O., and then Carson Palmer "retiring". Then he and some redhead from Texas calmly, quietly took that team to the playoffs five straight years. 

Probably my favorite AJ Green play. Linked because the NFL won't let me embed their youtube videos.

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

I think the experience of being a young sports fan is something we really lose sight of. I wonder if it's not only that we ourselves as 10-year-olds didn't consume sports by being epic on reddit, but in fact didn't consume as much sports at all. How many hours of the Bulls did I even watch? Probably a tenth as much as I think I watched.

I was thinking about this recently. My nephew consumes sports through video games and youtube highlights. When I was his age I primarily consumed sports through morning viewings of sportscenter, baseball on the radio, Matt Christopher books, and NFL Films reruns on ESPN 2.  He's probably sat and watched fewer than 20 baseball games in his life, but then again, I don't have many memories of intently sitting and watching, like, regular season baseball game even though I know my dad always had sports on in the house. I would start watching the games, get bored, and then go in the backyard or basement and play whatever sport had been on TV. I don't think I started actively watching games until I was in the 7th or 8th grade. 

Oh and I used to go into AOL chatrooms and argue about hockey. I was probably so annoying. 

At least they gave up the charade and stopped making them put on football equipment and pretend to play a tackle football game. That's progress. 

I didn't have any interest so I didn't watch. I also didn't watch the NHL All-Star Game either so I wasn't discriminating against just the NFL. I think I've just grown out of all star exhibitions, but my nephew seemed to love all the minigames. He's 10. That's who this is for. 

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