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Two things: 1. rumblings are that they're going to be going with the cannon look full time with a matching white sweater in the next season or two so that might be why they didn't do that. 2. The original third jersey used black* so that's how they got away with it here. *and it looked dynamite I was hoping they would just flip around the navy and black parts, but nope, too easy. It's a let down.

I was just happy to finish out of last place, but a playoff appearance with a playoff win was very fun. Maybe next year they'll actually beat Columbus!

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Sorry to get political, but the Blue Jackets look is a pile of warm farts. It's poop from a butt.

Yo somebody I know went 6-0 in the first round. Suck on that and eat farts, soccer nerds!

MOD EDIT: No politics.

I just meant a scenario where there's a single table, identical schedules, and the champion of the league is determined without a postseason would be the closest way to get to total fairness, which we don't really want. We like the unpredictability of postseasons - I saw the dang ass Bengals nearly win the dang ass Super Bowl. I'm not well-versed in the Premier League. Are teams built with the goal of winning the league or are they built with the goal of winning the Champions League? We have this argument a lot in hockey about the President's Trophy not meaning anything and my contention as always been that if that was the only determined prize at the beginning of the season then the regular season would play out much differently, teams would be built differently, games would be approached differently, etc. But since the playoffs and Stanley Cup are the main goal then the President's Trophy is almost always won accidentally and it's silly then to say something, like, "the 2019 Lightning were actually the league champions".

Some people were saying the bye was actually unfavorable to the higher seeds because they got rusty, but again, the Yankees and Astros pulled through so it worked for them in some way. The Dodgers got to play a team who had just played a 3 game series in New York, flew across the country, and got to set their rotation. They even won game 1 against the Padres. If they let the Dodgers pick their path to the LCS they would've likely chosen the Padres. The Padres just went out and beat them on the field and I bet every member of the Dodgers would tell you it's no one's fault except their own. The Bill Plaschkes of baseball media griping about it are the problem. The only way that would be perfectly fair to determine a champion is you Premier League it - Everyone plays the same schedule and the best record at the end of the season gets a trophy with no postseason. I know our man Ferdinand would love it, but it would be dreadfully boring for 27ish out of 30 fanbases in any given year.

I think the handwringing over the playoff format resulting in the demise of the Braves, Dodgers, and Mets is both stupid and annoying, especially because the other league produced an LCS with 205 combined wins. I get that short series create a greater chance for randomness to factor in, but also the Dodgers and Mets shoulda just beat the Padres if they were so clearly superior. The Braves shoulda just beat the Phillies if they were so clearly superior. It's baseball and this has been going on since the advent of the LCS. Look at 1973 - the Mets won 82 games, would've been 4th in the NL West, and beat the 99 win Reds in a best of 5. Why's the stink about it been so loud this year? I'm just glad it wasn't some dog**** cardinals team full of boring rando plugs pulling off the upset like usual. At least the Mets got the chance to play more than one game. The 2015, 98 win Pirates didn't get that opportunity. Hell, the 1981 Reds had the best record in baseball and didn't make the playoffs. What I'm saying is all those teams had their chance on the field. Also, Padres and Phillies are two of the like 5 ballclubs who actually tried to improve their teams by spending money in the last few years. We should be encouraging that behavior, baseball media. And it's not like both squads aren't loaded with stars. That series is going to be a party, Yankees-Astros, on the other hand? I'm calling that the A***ole Bowl. I'd welcome another strain of COVID just to cancel that series before it gets started.

Blue Jackets get their first win. Canucks blow a multi-goal lead for the 4th straight game. That's an NHL record. I'm enjoying the Johnny Gaudreau experience so far. Also this happened and they didn't score.

I took some risks to go after first place that didn't work out and got roasted for it. Lesson learned. Saints Ravens Bucs Bengals Cowboys Giants Packers Titans Raiders Jets Chiefs Chargers Dolphins Patriots

WOOOOOOO! I watched the game on a TV in my neighbor's backyard and we were astonished at 12 minutes of stoppage time. I'm less educated about soccer as this guy and he was saying he'd never seen that much stoppage time in his life. Conspiracy Hat on - that felt like MLS trying to help out the New York team as much as possible. The 12 minutes felt like 45 minutes and I was certain an equalizer was coming. Yeah WTF was that crowd at Red Bull Arena? That was half-full, at best. There's not 25,000 people in all of theNew York/New Jersey market wanting to see a playoff game on a beautiful Saturday afternoon? We all should have the conversation about the Northeast corridor's support of Major League Soccer.

The urban legend is the Bengals opened the field level gates in the tunnels of Riverfront stadium when the Chargers had the ball in the Freezer Bowl so it was windier and colder when San Diego was on offense. Funny this topic came up here because I work with this guy who grew up in rural Alabama and played college football at West Alabama and just last week he was telling me in high school they played a road game at a school who released fire ants on the field and then sprayed themselves with repellent so only the visiting team would feel them. I don't know how truthful that is, but if it's real that's the most dastardly home field scheme I've ever heard.

Yeah, but it still looks 97% like the original Hurricanes where black pants wouldn't. Surely you understand the difference between closely resembling the original uniform intended for an anniversary night and wearing something entirely different from what the team wore in 1997?

It's not the lazy route. It's the controllable route. Example: the Flyers for decades have gone into MSG and broadcast road games that give free ad space to Wells Fargo's competitor Chase Bank. Now the Flyers can show Wells Fargo ads and whoever else they want for every road game and don't have to worry about competitor's conflicts or advertising for businesses outside of Philadelphia. The thing I don't like about the super-imposed board ads are they cover the lines on the boards.

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I think this looks better and is an improvement, but it's also weird and will take some getting used to.

Always bothered me that the socks didn't just repeat the stripes from the sleeves. That seems like such the obvious move and then allows the sleeves and socks to work together in concert while the hem stripe gets to stand out as the star that it is. Instead they used three different sets of stripes so it feels messy.

That is why I chose that as the final.

I'm saying I don't know anything and I had a friend win a grand in a March Madness pool because he went to Kentucky and they made the title game as an 8 or 9 seed that year. I think it was the year UConn won as a 7 seed? The lesson there was just be a homer and eventually some year you'll be right. I'm also rooting for the two rival matchups in the second round in the West so that's why I picked those games that way.

Galaxy over Nashville Dallas over Minnesota Austin over Salt Lake LAFC over Galaxy Austin over Dallas Austin over LAFC Cincinnati over Red Bulls NYC over Miami Montreal over Orlando Cincinnati over Philadelphia NYC over Montreal Cincinnati over NYC Cincinnati over Austin in penalty kicks

Maybe the Flames black C isn't more popular, maybe it's just that a lot of fans haven't yet felt the need to drop a couple hundo on the new jersey yet? This is just me, but I still wear a CBJ third jersey from 2004. It has the same primary logo on it as the current unis, but they haven't worn this particular sweater since 2007. I take a "ehh close enough" approach.

The Blue Jackets are practicing this morning in their blue pants, which means they’ll wear them opening night at Carolina. The red pants with white jerseys looks to be a preseason only thing.

Nobody ever says the inverse of “shouldn’t have let it come down to the officials.” You never hear a coach/player/fan say “well we were happy to keep the game close so that we could make the game come down to a bad call and luckily we benefited.” unrelated: starting to think Zac Taylor is the worst coach to ever make a Super Bowl.

FC Cincinnati Officially clinched a playoff spot! I’m very happy for the diehards who watched every game going back to the USL days and during the back-to-back-to-back last place finishes. I caught a few games in those days (mostly as a quarantine distraction), but I can’t say I was really invested. This was the first year I really keyed in and watched 90% of all games and attended four. If you’d told me after that first game in Austin ended in a bloodbath that they’d make the playoffs I wouldn’t have believed it.