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  1. If you're going to try and reignite the Pirates-Phillies and Jays-Tigers rivalries they need to be in the same division, even if MLB would go back to the old style of inter league play those rivalries shouldn't be cast off to the gimmick series, they should be fighting it out for the division or playoff spot.

     

    When MLB would schedule the Pirates and Tigers series on a summer weekend there was a large number of fans who'd make the trip to the other city for the games, plus as someone who's lived in both, the cities are very similar. Not everyone realizes that Detroit and Pittsburgh are a 5ish hour drive apart, PNC Park is actually closer to Comerica Park in Detroit (286 miles) than it is to Citizens Bank Park in Philly (310 miles).

     

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  2. 48 minutes ago, ManillaToad said:

     

    Didn't the Braves throw a fit about not wanting to be in the Central? I may have imagined that because of how much I disliked them in the 90s

    If I remember right the Bud and the Braves excuse was that they wanted to form a rivalry with the new Florida Marlins, but the main reason is they didn't want the Central Time starts that came with being in a division with the Astros, Cards and Cubs.

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  3. 23 minutes ago, ManillaToad said:

    The Cardinals, Cubs, and Pirates have all been in the same division since divisions were created in 1969. I think Cincy (was in the West until '93) would be the better team to separate from the pack

    The Pirates should be in the East, the Phillies, Nats, and Mets are all in the same time zone, geographically closer and there was a stretch when the Buccos and Phillies were one of the fiercest rivalries in baseball. It was malpractice by the Pirates ownership at the time to allow them to be moved to the Central.

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  4. 1 hour ago, The_Admiral said:

    Aren't all the other Sox owners a bunch of octogenarian Jews from the Old Neighborhood? They're not gonna kill their team. 

    They're not moving anywhere, this is just blackmail to get someone else to pay for the stadium. Plus the other owners would rather get expansion fee money from Nashville instead of relocation fee money from the Sox owners.

  5. 32 minutes ago, BBTV said:


    Tell me you’ve never ever seen Terry Bradshaw play without telling me you’ve never seen Terry Bradshaw play. 
     

    Come on dawg.   If Mahomes never played another down, no sane person would rank him equal or below Bradshaw. 

    It's about winning not stats, Bradshaw won 4, was MVP in 2 of them, and beat historic defenses in 3 of them.

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  6. 20 minutes ago, BBTV said:

    I'd say right now, Brady has his own tier, and Mahomes is clearly in that next tier, with the likes of Joe Montana, Ken Anderson, and... well I'm not sure anyone else is in that next tier.

     

    After that we're talking about the Elways, maybe the Staubachs, the Foles', and some of the early-SB era guys.

     

    EDIT: Regarding everyone's favorite IT admin Brock Purdy, he's got some early-Brady vibes.  Early Brady was winning titles without being the star - just making great decisions and not making dumb plays.  I'm not saying Purdy is going to have that type of career - especially if there's a coaching change at any point - but he's proven me wrong.  He's the kind of guy that I think will be able to make plays even if their offensive talent declines.

    Ummm Ken Anderson is no where near any tier Joe Montana and Mahomes is in, he's in the bottom end of the tier of QB's who made 1 Super Bowl and lost.

     

    Right now Mahomes is on the level with Bradshaw and Montana, even though he has one less ring than them. 

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  7. 9 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

     

    I was more puzzled laying up for the field goal going into the half. 4th & 2.5 yards to the endzone...that screams "go for it" in Campbell-ese. "It was just a little too far"...bull :censored:

     

    Having said that, there's making a decision and then there's the way the play works out...the first 4th down attempt that backfired - the first Reynolds drop - was a perfectly called and executed play, the receiver :censored:ing dropped it. Backbreaker. They never recovered from that.

    The play on the drop wasn't perfectly called or executed, Bosa got around the edge fast, which forced Goff to hurry the pass, which then caused Reynolds to come back to the ball. 

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  8. 10 hours ago, BBTV said:

     

    I see this all the time, like "he's some loser that paid for his checkmark", but a lot of legitimate media people do it because it allows them to make longer posts (instead of the "photo of words" post or a whole thread) and edit them.  For the news reporters I follow, it's really beneficial for them.

     

    It's not just a way of posing as someone important.

    But this guy doesn't seem to be a normal/legit media person, he's posting click bait conspiracy theory nonsense. 

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  9. 16 hours ago, GDAWG said:

     

    I think the USFL thought they could get Acrisure, due to Fox's ties with the NFL.  New Jersey and Philly at least had options.  Now whether those tenants at those other options had any interest is another matter entirely.  

    The Field formally know as Heinz was way way too big for the USFL and all of the empty bright yellow seats would have looked way worse than playing in a small stadium. The modern spring leagues are purely a tv product, they should have gone with unique smaller venues for their games, instead of playing in big stadiums that are 1/4th full.

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  10. On 1/1/2024 at 12:29 PM, GDAWG said:

    With the defunct teams, Vegas and Pittsburgh are unlikely to ever come back unless Vegas gets an MLS team with a 25.000 seat retractable roof stadium (MLS to Las Vegas is inevitable at this point, but they will probably have to play at Allegiant).  I am not sure this league wants to pay an expensive price to have the Maulers at Acrisure.  

    They made a huge mistake by not having the Maulers play at Highmark Stadium(the Pittsburgh one), they would have filled it up, 5,000 fans in a 5,000 seat stadium in Pittsburgh looks way better than a 500 people in a 25,000 seat stadium in Canton, Ohio.

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  11. 6 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

    Barring upsets/changes of fortune, this would be roughly how matchups and scheduling of the finals would have went this year. But, it's interesting to see how the first round at higher seeds would work. Not sure I feel good about quarterfinals being held at bowls as opposed to at home venues. Curious how many fans are showing up to a quarterfinal spot hundreds or thousands of miles from home, if they think their team will be traveling again just ten days or so later.

    Yeah, they're expecting fans to do a lot of traveling and will act shocked when there's empty seats. 

  12. 1 hour ago, pmoehrin said:

     

    They've been in the Big Ten for 30+ years now, so they've definitely made some inroads in terms of establishing long-term rivalries, especially when it comes to football.

     

    But they were the most geographically isolated team in that conference until Rutgers and Maryland came aboard. Hindsight being 20/20, they should have been admitted to the Big East when they applied, and instead, they got big-leagued, and that wound up being the original sin of Big East football.

     

    If Penn State had joined that conference from the start, the Big East would probably still be fielding football today.

     

    In the grand scheme of things, I can think of far more egregious conference alignments than having Penn State in the Big Ten.

     

    The more I think about it, I think what should happen is football should be allowed to do its own thing, much like ice hockey is, and every other sport can make sense.

     

    14 college teams in a conference is insane. You can barely play half the conference in football. Any larger, and you might as well split it into two conferences again. The only reason not to would be for conference title game money.

     

    But I digress. All these schools bought the ticket for all these crazy realignments, now they have to get on the ride. And it's not going to go how any of them expect it will, because I'm still hearing music playing, which means the game of musical chairs is still on.

    If Penn State would have joined the Big East in the early 80's they would have still left when the Big 10 came calling at the end of the decade, there's no way Penn State is turning down the money the Big 10 was offering. Everyone seems to forget or doesn't know that the main reason Penn State tried to join the Big East was so they could get cut in on tv money from basketball while being able to keep all of their football tv money, they had no real desire to be in a conference for football in that timeframe. Also Big East Football was a reaction to that first round of conference expansion and the Catholic schools keeping BC, Pitt and Syracuse from leaving for the proposed Raycom Super Conference.

  13. 17 hours ago, sportsfan7 said:

    Really the only way this made sense was for college sports, but now thanks to NIL anyone in position to rig a high-profile game is certainly already making money. Part of the reason the Bama baseball scandal was caught quickly was bc there were only 4 total bets on the game iirc. Again this was on an SEC baseball game, not anything super obscure. If your profit is only a couple hundred bucks at most, you're not convincing a college pitcher to throw a start for $100 a risk his entire future.

    Yeah, the amount of money needed to get someone to throw a game or shave points will drive up the amount that's betted by the gamblers, big money bet on a random Bama-Florida regular season baseball game is going to alert the sports books and law enforcement that something is up. 

  14. 52 minutes ago, RoughRiders99 said:

    So I saw an article where the NFL was entertaining the possibility of having a 4-team division in Europe to help with the travel costs and all that. 

     

    But my question is - assuming all current NFL teams stay intact - how would the logistics work? 

    What would the schedule look like? 17 or 18 games? 2 byes or just 1?

    How would the division fit into the NFC or AFC? Or is it just an "unaffiliated' division? Where would their playoff teams go? 

     

    I know it'll probably never happen in real life, but just for the sake of discussion, let's just assume it'll happen. What would the logistics be like? 

    Maybe that's the point the NFL ditches conferences and goes with just divisions, they'd most likely expand the playoffs to 16 teams.

  15. 2 hours ago, the admiral said:

    I believe this has sports media implications: apparently no cord-cutter is paying for Peacock, because Comcast is taking it away from cable subscribers who had gotten it bundled and making us pay for it. I'm annoyed but not surprised: "Hey, you know the broadcast network that for the better part of the last 25 years has done everything wrong? Let's build a streaming service around them" was never really a winning play. 

    Peacock has a $19.99 for a year sale going on right now and has them throughout the year.

  16. 9 minutes ago, Gary said:

    If we’re talking about domed stadiums, I can understand Vegas and Phoenix, or snow areas. But when is the last time I’ve ever seen it snow in Nashville?

    They want a Super Bowl and to get into the Final 4 rotation, need a dome for those. They can also use it for country music stuff and other big events.

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  17. 23 minutes ago, McCall said:

    Big 12 is not below the ACC. Basically the two conferences are on par with each, both below the Big Ten/SEC. (The Pac-12 is either on par with the Big 12/ACC or at least close to being a step below). Obviously, this is all relative to Power 5 conferences. None are on the level of Group of 5.

     

    So if Louisville, who technically sued when the Big 12 passed them up for West Virginia, ended up in the Big 12, I think they'd be willing to do whatever it took if it appeared the ACC was on the verge of dismantling.

    Once Texas and Oklahoma leave the Big 12 is a step below the ACC, it's the Island of Misfit Toy's of conferences. The ACC isn't anywhere near "dismantling" and it's more likely the ACC would raid the Big 12 if schools like Clemson or FSU left.

  18. 11 minutes ago, Geoff said:

    Basically. The only part of that that's true is the 8 teams. You basically need more than half to dissolve the GOR. The current consensus in the media and fans is that the GOR is rock solid without the 8 teams all agreeing but there's always someone willing to try and billable hours are undefeated.

    Schools like NC State, Pitt, VT and Louisville aren't going to dissolve the GOR to downgrade the conference they're in, the only way they'll reach 8 is if the B1G and/or SEC take 8.

  19. On 4/15/2023 at 6:55 PM, Dilbert said:

    Hearing more rumors of the ACC falling apart now.  North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia Tech and Miami to the Big Ten. North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Louisville to the Big 12. Florida State and Clemson to the SEC. I can see a few of these happening but not all.  Its hard to get out of the ACC but If I heard correctly if 8 or more schools bolt that ACC deal becomes null and void. These realignment rumors are getting crazier.

    There are no rumors, just bs thrown out by fanboys of Big 12 teams.

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