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On 11/28/2023 at 6:32 PM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

I am always in favour of independent leagues. So my first reaction was: good for this team for starting up.

 

But a home run derby to decide games is absolutely embarrassing. Indeed, I thought that the post mentioning that was a joke mocking the league.  To know that this is really the rule is nothing short of shocking. How any baseball fan could approve of this is far, far beyond my understanding.

 

I'm not fundamentally against alterations of the rules, even radical ones. But this is bad. If they wanted to take something good from soccer, then they should have borrowed the acknowledgement that a draw is a legitimate result. A regular-season game tied after nine innings should go into the books as a draw; save the extra innings for playoff games that have to have a winner.

 

This is a case where the flaw is so big that it overshadows everything else. Very disappointing.

"They" didn't do this. MLB suggested it as they are a "Partner League" and MLB wanted to try it out.

The idea being they wanted regular season games over at a decent time. This way everyone knows it's nine-innings. And you get a few minutes for a home run derby if tied. Better than Draft League that just ends it in a tie after 9.

The USPBL uses a rule right out of the Savannah Bananas for their games. All four teams play at the same stadium. On game nights, the have a cutoff for how late games take. They have a 9/2.5 rule. Game is 9-innings. But, the rule is an inning can't start after the 2.5 hour mark. Whatever inning they're in, the team leading wins. In the event that the inning ends in a tie, then they'll play extra innings from there. This is to ensure games are over in 3 hours as much as possible. Especially for fireworks nights.

I'm not entirely thrilled with the idea. But it did make for a quick night the one time I went to a USPBL game.

On 11/27/2023 at 9:28 PM, LakeShow24 said:

This Bears-Vikings game...

 

ugh

3 hours ago, ORLMagic86 said:

It sounds like a name for a basketball team.

 

Right? This appears to be more of a publicity stunt than a serious attempt to start a baseball club.

And Athletics sounds like a baseball team name? 

2 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

"Powderheads," huh?

 

 

Yeesh, that "B" is hideous. Why not just go with a stylized Old English "B"?

I like the little home plate in the B. Would've been cool had they put 2nd base diamond inside the top of the B.

Also, the Pioneer League's Missoula PaddleHeads have an alternative identity that is the PowderHeads:

https://www.pioneerleague.com/sports/bsb/2023/releases/20231128g5j6bw

Pioneer League adding the Oakland Ballers for 2024. A bit outside their footprint, but it is what it is.

1 hour ago, Germanshepherd said:

Past precedent suggests they’ll go for 1-loss Ohio State. 

BCS/CFP has always cared about ratings more than legitimacy.

38 minutes ago, throwuascenario said:

 

I'm done going in circles. You win. He definitely did it because a lawyer rounded up a bunch of women and sued him with 0 evidence. Happy?

 

By the way, the "not guilty" vs "innocent" thing doesn't even apply here. This case didn't even make it to criminal trial because their evidence was so weak.

 

The only reason he wasn't found innocent is because the case literally didn't even have enough evidence to go to trial.

Innocent is a statement of fact. 

Guilty is statement of fact. 

Not guilty is not a statement of fact. It's implicitly stating you don't have enough proof to go either way. 

That central division is basically AF2. Or the MAC. Existing mostly to play the other bigger teams and to boost their numbers.

Didn't see this mentioned. 

4 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Those two were not found innocent, they were found not guilty. It's an important distinction.

It's aggravating that so many people confuse the two. THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE in the two statements.

1 hour ago, pluggerplugger1 said:

 

I loathe that name -- but as a Twin Cities resident, if they actually take the field, I'll be there. 

Now I'm wondering where they'll play. I can't imagine they've managed to make a deal with the big arenas in town.

Wonder what suburban rinks are big enough to at least 'pass' as a full size stadium. Anything in the 4k+ range?

Just now, GDAWG said:

 

Tucson already has a team in the IFL, the same league as the Rattlers, owned by the wife of Kevin Guy, who coaches the Rattlers.  

 

Tucson Sugar Skulls - Official Website

Hmmm... doubt they'd go to Prescott. But you never know.

2 hours ago, GDAWG said:

So apparently on Tuesday the AFL is going to announce a team in Arizona.......in the same metro are where the Rattlers have a 30 year head start.  

Has to be Tucson. There's no way they're starting  a team on short notice for the arena the Rattlers just vacated.

If they really wanted to be funny they should've done this at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philly. 

7 hours ago, McCall said:

 

Way to skim over the post without understanding it's not minor league or summer league baseball

On 11/2/2023 at 9:11 AM, MJWalker45 said:

Apparently his glasses had recording capability as well. You can see the small blue light by the top right of the glasses.  Even if you get invited to sit on the sidelines, he should not be wearing CMU gear if he's not serving in an official capacity. 

That's the thing. He wasn't invited. He snuck in. There's no proof it's him even as CMU doesn't know who they are, apparently. It just looks like him. And would make sense that he was there just to steal MSU signs.

I think the argument about the throwbacks is funny. it's moreso that fans feel THOSE are the teams real identities. Either from nostalgia or some specific era of the team they enjoy the most.

However, if the NFL had just kept their regular team identities and gone with one-off combos the way NCAA has done, fans probably would like them and have favorites but still keep going back and wanting the regular uniforms most of the time.

Eagles colors, Browns facemasks, Bucs orange, Pats Pat the Patriot, Seahawks 70s style, etc... nobody would question it if once a year Eagles wanted a BFBS uniform while still normally being Kelly Green. Or the midnight green.

Same with Browns. The biggest reason fans don't want and didn't like the last rebrand was because it was the 'new identity' rather than some couple-times-a-year futuristic version that fans could maybe appreciate. The same the Browns have now down with the all-white look. It's a cool break from the usual, but not something they'd want full-time.

On 10/31/2023 at 4:36 PM, MJWalker45 said:

If this is Michigan staffer Stalions on a Central Michigan sideline, both schools should be in trouble here. Not saying it's him, but that would be really strange that another school would let him on their sideline, with accreditation. He does have appear to have a play sheet as well but with the Chips losing 31-7 it apparently didn't work if it was used. 

 

 

It's not believed he was there to help the Chips. H was there to steal signs from the Spartans. He was just trying to fit in. Coaches generally don't wear passes or nametags. So, somehow he convinced his way in as part of the coaching staff and then just hid in plain sight.

37 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

 

Champaign is more Western Indiana than Missouri. Going from the Blue and Orange of Champaign to the Cream and Crimson of Bloomington isn't that much of a shift.

The real move in 2002 would've been to play in South Bend, which Chicago has always treated like their team. But the Bears and Fighting Illini have a connection because of Halas and Grange, plus I bet it would've opened up a political can of worms to play out of state.

Illinois state officials would've been apoplectic over them playing in Indiana for a year.

7 minutes ago, GriffinM6 said:

Just checked this out on my phone, and wow, hahahahahaha that SD is so damn tiny. I even have perfect vision and it's barely noticeable on mobile. It looks like it belongs to some team from Detroit instead. This is such a colossal brand failure. Thankfully, they still have time to fix it by 2025. 

You mean... they have time to stubbornly insist that it's a great logo and identity and hope to wear their fanbase down into acceptance before 2025.

10 hours ago, McCall said:

If this IS indeed the final roster of teams, wouldn't it make more sense to do a North/South division alignment?

SOUTH	NORTH
Arlington	Canton
Birmingham	DC
Houston	Michigan
Memphis	New Jersey
New Orleans	Philadelphia
San Antonio	St. Louis

 

Probably be better (schedulingwise) to do a 3-Division format:

WEST	CENTRAL	EAST
Arlington	Birmingham	Canton
Houston	Memphis	DC
New Orleans	Michigan	New Jersey
San Antonio	St. Louis	Philadelphia

 

 

One thing I do hope the USFL does, if indeed, they are calling the shots, is change the Renegades back to "Dallas".

City of Arlington aren't going to let that happen. 

2 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:

It looks like for merch the crest won't have all that s**** on the grey parts, and the name and swirly thing will be white.

 

 

If they can't reproduce the logo shown online and in video.... They shouldn't have used that logo. 

2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

How bout those Jaguars?

Count me as someone not expecting it after their start. 

11 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

I loved the California Redwoods name from the old UFL.

 

If they could find a way to resurrect AAF names, the Apollos and Hotshots should be the front runners, but out of sheer hilarity bring back the Iron and put them in Erie.

Hotshots was a great name I thought with a reason behind it.