BBTV

This is true. If she turns out to be really good, it always helps to have a foil. Also, I've thought that the women's game should lower the hoop by around a foot, just to get more dunking and power-play. I've never understood why women have to play on men's dimensions rather than something more proportional to them. Obviously women can and do dunk, but maybe lowering the hoop would add more to the game. OR... raise the men's hoop by a foot. I'm not sure Naismith ever envisioned a league full of 7'2" Camaroonians, 7'7" Congolese, or all the giant white guys from the former Yugoslavia.

Every post in this thread NEEDS to be written by AI:

I don't know how funding works for the WNBA (like if they are self-funding, or do they get "grants" from the NBA) but I can only imagine that Clark is leading to increased revenue, which in theory should trickle down to all the other players. If it's the NBA where it doesn't need any one individual to fund it, then sure - kill a guy that you're jealous of. Want to kick Kevin Durant in the nuts every night and try to break something? Whatever, it's not hurting anyone (besides Durant.). But trying to injure her seems totally counter productive since she's the player that (I think... I could be wrong) that any increase in revenue can be tied to. If anything, opposing teams should be instructed to let her be a star, even if that's unethical.

Watching Sunday Night Baseball for the first time all year. I really hate listening to Eduardo Perez' voice. It's almost painful to me. I'm not sure if it's nasaly or what, but I really hate when he talks. Along the lines of what I hate, I hate that Taijuan Walker is being handed a spot in the Phillies rotation just because he has a huge (wasted) contract, rather than either DFA him or turn him into the "long" guy in the 'pen that only pitches in blowouts. Spencer Turnball was on fire to start the year, and was demoted to the 'pen when Walker came back, and it's 100% only due to money. Just write it off as a loss and put his overpaid worthless ass on the bench. I keep reading stats and columns that say the Phillies have the best statistical rotation in the league right now, and one of the best (through 60ish games) in history, but this goof is going to ruin it all. And they have better options that they just won't use. Sometimes you just gotta eat a bad contract, or trade the guy for whatever you can get and hope that the other team picks up 1/4 of his salary.

which means you're on the right side of the debate.

The wordmark looked really low on those, probably a combination of it's extreme angle and also to keep some distance between it and Jerry West.

replace "represent" with "market to" and it's more accurate. If teams "represented" communities, then we'd have to paint everyone in the KC area as rapists, drunk drivers, child abusers, life destroyers, misogynists, animal abusers, and whatever other lowlife they seem to love having.

midnight is typically associated with dark-navy blue. The Eagles green has blue in it, making it a very dark blue green (albeit it looked darker on the original uniforms than on Nike's). "Midnight Green" is a very logical way to describe this color, even if there's other ways too. Calling it "pine green" is not accurate, as I haven't seen pines with blue in them. The Packers or Testaverde-era Jets are closer to "pine" green, even if they're more like a "forest green". Anything with green in it is going to look very different under different lighting, and is hard to match across different materials, so there may be some angles where Eagles look like a true "green", but I'm not sure there's anyone that wouldn't acknowledge that it's a blue-green, which is more evident in Nike's interpretation (which might not warrant the modifier "midnight", even if the helmet still does.)

For the right price, anyone here would let themselves be flown to various ballparks to embarrass themselves. Speaking of figures, he actually looks like he's lost weight. Good for him. Hopefully he's avoiding the spicy chicken wings.

Which invariably means you're right.

Gonna get blasted for this one, but there is nothing less interesting and more space consuming than full-season uniform predictions that serve nothing but to exercise the poster's fingers and make the thread pages and pages away from any legitimate discussion. I suppose this post is somewhat the same thing, but i'm sticking to it. Since this is about reality, maybe there could be the "pointless full-season uniform-prediction outpost."

Umpires are like offensive linemen*, in that you should only hear their name if they blow it. Of course, given that their names are called out repeatedly on the broadcasts and announced before the games means that we have some familiarity with them, but I think I could only name two current umpires, and it's because they both blow. *unless they're next-level guys that actually get noticed for doing good things, or on "your" team.

lol at the “human error is part of the game” crowd that’s anti tech when it comes to officiating. Is there anyone on the planet that would rather have Hernandez or Buckner than a machine with a 99.9% success rate? These buffoons cost (and probably made) players money because of messing up their stats, changed the outcomes of games that impacted playoffs and cost (or made) teams millions of dollars, and really tarnished and put a black cloud over the sport and its legitimacy. I’m not a gambler, but I have to imagine that the gambling “partners” were pressuring MLB to figure something out here, since it’s super sketchy when one of his awful calls can impact millions of dollars worth of bets. I also don’t get how the whole time, mlb had been saying “well, by our rating system, he’s actually right 99% of the time and is fine, so stfu” (or something along those lines). There’s still a few more of these guys that need to go, and it’s a shame they can’t be fired.

It’s non exclusive other than for college bb (he can’t license it to cbs for college bb while fox has it, but he can license it for pro bb), he can license it to AEW, but not also to wwe, etc. https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/john-tesh-roundball-rock-nba-media-rights.html The re-recording was already in motion regardless (according to awful announcing). I hope he doesn’t George Lucas the thing

If someone pays for an exclusive license, then the rights are theirs until that period is over, as long as they’re adhering to the terms of the agreement. Tesh can’t simultaneously license it to someone else, unless the terms say he can. Maybe it’s not an exclusive license, or maybe it’s over.

I thought NBC no longer had the rights and would have to acquire them from Fox.

I heard this live on the broadcast, and couldn't tell if the ump was accidentally caught on a live mic, or was somehow being interviewed by the announcers after a crew-chief review. Context - Rangers guy hits what appears to everyone to be a HR, but it's close - especially since it hit a fans food right over the wall. But it was definitely a HR.

On field and over pads, the 6, 8, and 9 of the “fix” could be indistinguishable, which is an issue the Eagles currently have. I don’t care for any of those sets, but for as bad as it was, the original was very legible. It still sucks though.

It’s a great idea, but having a fat-green-feathery mascot on the field during game action would make the sport seem bush league. If they want to be taken seriously, they’ll stick to the gorilla. They’re on a major-league field. Gotta act like big leaguers.

Dude... I'm not sure if there's enough commercial-break time to play a few minutes at a time in between innings and get more than 30-mins of game-time in, but - hear me out - what if they played while the Phillies were playing? I'm not sure the exact specs, but I'm fairly certain they could put the lines for a regulation-arena-sized field in the outfield (or close enough - who really cares how big an arena field is?) The field-goal posts could be either 1) in play, and an obstacle that the outfielders have to deal with (not to mention the obstacle of 22 players throwing and kicking a ball around and tackling each other) or 2) built into the walls, so all of the field goals and extra points go into the stands. If they really wanted excitement, they could also put the arena barricades up (since it's not really arena football without the barricades) and outfielders would not only have to run into a live football game to catch a ball, but they'd have to hurdle the barricade too. Also - arena football players would be allowed to swat balls out of the air if they were getting too close to them, so a visiting-team outfielder could be going for a ball, and a Philadelphia arena player just swats it away... or tackles the motherfluffer! The best part? Not every city has an arena team, so some stadiums would be straight-up baseball, and others would be complete mayhem. Talk about a home-field advantage! EDIT: and since it's football, you know what rule could get invoked - but now, a baseball game is going on while the gorilla is deployed! You're a goddam genius. An absolute genius.

This thread is absurd, but so is the the mention of Liacouras Center, which isn't even remotely large enough for an arena field.

Seeing the Nationals' new roads for the first time tonight. WTF where they going for here? If they wanted to ditch the script and go with a more plain look, they could have at least used a more traditional narrow-block font rather than the thicker (or maybe it's just shorter?) one they used that almost looks bubbly. IMO they'd look better if they went simple like what the Yankees used to use (navy outlined in white), or if they used the same font as the old Mets roads, but with a navy number outlined in white and then red. The way it is now, with the red outlines touching each other, looks awful. Not to mention the BREAK IN THE GODDAM "I". What the hell? How the hell did nobody think to shift things just a few mm to avoid that?

Last year, Michael Lorenzen. It ruined him, and the manager said he kept extending when he was getting hooked, and that he would have been hooked after the final batter regardless. As a fan I hate it, but I get it. Most of today's pitchers (more specifically, their arms) aren't made to throw a ton of pitches at 100MPH. A guy like Ranger Suarez who tops out at around 91 and pitches to contact could probably go 130 pitches, but the way he pitches, if he's anywhere near that then he certainly doesn't have a no-hitter going.