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3 hours ago, HOOVER said:

Absolutely cannot stand defensive backs wearing numbers between 10-19.  Makes me want to :censored:ing vomit.

also single digits.

Not that I have any Fs to give over Kenny Pickett, but he can't keep his #8 because a safety that they just brought back for a second stint chose 8 over his previous number with the team (23) which was available.

So a safety is blocking a QB over #8.  Goddam ridiculous.  And even though he's never worn it, he's not giving it up because it's a tribute to Kobe

So again, while I couldn't care much less about Kenny Pickett, his only options are 7 (which just became available), 13, and 16 (also just became available.). A week ago, only 13 was available.  It's absurd that a QB has lieterally one number to "choose" from, because DBs, DEs, and other jabroni-ass jabronis are hogging all the QB numbers.

To be fair, the Eagles have retired or removed from circulation 5 (retired - McNabb), 9 (out of circulation - Big Dick Nick Foles), 12 (out of circulation, sorta - Cunningham), and 15 (retired - Steve Van Buren.)

21 hours ago, GFB said:

if anything, making the logo less complex at smaller sizes is typically the best solution.

I totally agree, I just think that in that one specific example, the tiger would be indiscernible without an outline since it's stripes would blend with the navy and the shape of the body might not be distinct enough.

32 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:

Bills should trade Josh Allen & the 28th pick to the Bears for the 1st & 9th picks and a 1st rounder in 2025. Bills draft a QB & WR. 

lol no way in hell the bears would make that trade. That’s silly. 
 

The orange outline is unnecessary, but at that scale, the tiger might look weird if not bounded by the white outline.  It’s not really an issue at the lager scale version used on the jersey

Some jabroni that I've never heard of, who hadn't pitched in the majors in 5 years, just got a 4-inning save for the Phillies.  I had no idea that was even possible.  What's even weirder is that the call-up didn't even get to the ballpark until the 4th inning!

I think the save stat is ridiculous to begin with, and has had a very negative impact on the game.  But it's just odd that there's such a thing as a 4-inning save.  But it's a stupid stat.

22 hours ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

So if the Phillies wear the new City Connects on Fridays, that means the only time you will see home pinstripes for a weekend home series is on Sundays. In return you get whatever the garbage they're releasing + the new yellow Saturday alternates...

most Sundays they wear the cream throwbacks, as that’s their “day game” alt. They’ll only wear home pinstripes on Sunday if it’s an espn night game. 
 

they’ll also wear the pinstripes on Saturday night games. 

3 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

80s Royals, but same idea.

Not sure if it was all the coke (or if he even did it), but George Brett used to get nasty-ass (fully intended) hemorroides.  I knew a guy that worked the hotel they stayed at during the 1980 WS, and one of his jobs was to discreetly get medication for Brett's butthole, and they'd hand it from person to person to avoid any direct contact with the purchaser and Brett.  Apparently they didn't want to give the Phillies a competitive advantage by knowing he was having flare ups in his hole.

Or maybe it was a primitive form of Barry Bonds' "The Cream", administered anally for quick absorption.  IDK, but I feel like I've thought way too much about George Brett's hall-of-fame butthole.

2 hours ago, Red Comet said:

At least with our team, it's the fans who commit crimes, not the players. 

And (now-former) coaches, mascots, Bam Morris, Tyreke Hill and half the 2020 Super Bowl team, Justyn Ross, and even one or two of the assistant trainers and ball boys have multiple fellonies (maybe... I didn't actually fact check that part.)

Hopefully that was a tongue-in-cheek comment

On 2/20/2024 at 11:58 AM, GrayJ12 said:

Boomer Esiason playing for the Jets and the Cardinals feels very cursed.

With Boomer's work in New York sports media and the national things he does out of NY, it almost feels like he's a New York guy... specifically a Jet.

His right uniform is obviously a Bengals one, but I do associate him a little more with New York now that he's been working there for so long.

Phillies releasing their City Connect on Friday, and will wear it for all Friday home games

https://www.crossingbroad.com/2024/04/the-phillies-are-releasing-the-city-connect-jerseys-this-week.html

10 hours ago, Walk-Off said:

(2) vote to leave the A's colors and name in Oakland,

This is probably what should happen, though it would likely mean the permanent end of the line for the brand.  It's a shame that he has such little equity at this point, but it's time to retire "Athletics" and move on.  It's a lousy fit for Vegas anyway.

Has there been more of a "coming back with tail between their legs" situation than this in the past 30 - 40 years?  It was basically announced as "done", they had renderings, a welcome presser, and all that jazz, now they're in the awkwardest of awkward spots.

I can think of in-market moves that collapsed on the brink of construction (Sixers move to Camden, for ex) but nothing that was to a whole new market since the teams that played Tampa for fools and the SD>DC move that resulted in the actual "Washington NAT'L League" baseball cards.

So the Phillies and Braves don't play each other again until... July?  Godsdamned July?  How the hell can two divisional teams go more than three full months without playing each other?  Screw this schedule.

1 minute ago, ManillaToad said:

At least one of the cars used their hazard lights. Safety first

That's a good point.  Maybe I'm being a little too hard on them.

Would have been great had they tried to hitch hike their way off of the highway and it got caught on the cam.

Jesus.  How do you think you can just casually walk away like it didn't happen?  I'm guessing none of their IQs is higher than the speed they were going.
 

The only thing better would be if they were whistling.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/31/first-photos-rashee-rice-car-crash-site-dallas-occupants-leaving-scene/

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1 hour ago, Cujo said:

Henry Ruggs 2.0

 

It’s a little premature to say that, but was just checking TMZ… and these dudes just casually got out of the Lambo and other car and walked away as if nothing had happened and nobody was watching. There’s not evidence that the actual player was there, but photos of other guys just walking away like “Crash? what crash? That was like that when we got here.”

Somehow nobody was hurt. 

11 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

I don't think we are.

 

You're saying that the Angels' lack of pennants should diminish Trout's Hall of Fame case (even though you acknowledge that it will not). I consider that argument to be without merit.

OK, you win.

3 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

I'm sorry, but that is not a sensible position.  If the Angels have made the postseason only once during Trout's career, that's not on account of any inadequacies of Trout's contributions — just as the Cubs' lack of pennants was not down to anthing that Banks failed to do.  To punish Trout for the failures of other players is illogical.

 

This guy is a three-time MVP; that alone would qualify him as a legit Hall of Famer if he retired today.  The expected 500 home runs will only make him ridiculously overqualified. Nothing can diminish all of that.

I think we're arguing different points.

3 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

But once a player gets to a certain level of accomplshment, there's no longer any argument.

If you mean that once you hit the magic numbers (and weren't on steroids) that you're a HOFer, then by every historical precedent, then you're right.  I'm not arguing that he'll be in the HOF.

I just think that while you say other factors can supplement overwhelming numbers in a way that gets a guy in, I think that the opposite can be true too, and "other factors" should negate the overwhelming numbers.  Key word "should", because they don't.  But in the BBTVHOF, they do.

Let's really stir stuff up (because there's about two more posts before these all get moved to a newly-created "pointless HOF debate" thread:  Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins are more deserving of being in the HOF than Mike Trout (as of now.)

4 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

Per Paul Lukas, the Royals were forced to switch from normal-sized player names in Spring Training to the new tiny ones for the regular season, due to an unknown entity demanding "consistency."

I read that too.  I assumption is that they wanted for the replicas to better represent the on-field jersey, and if they even sell "on-field authentic" jerseys, they wouldn't come with the larger letters and people would be pissed (not that they care, but maybe they consider it like an unauthorised design change.)

23 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

You called Trout irrelevant. No one with 500 home runs and well in excess of 2000 hits (both of which he will almost certainly reach) is irrelevant. 

I've made my case.  Yours is simply "a guy with numbers matters."  I don't think it's that binary.  

I guess we just disagree. 

1 minute ago, ruttep said:

 

That's taking it way too far. Gray is a great facemask color, but putting it in the official color scheme and using it for other uniform elements would look horrible. The only time gray is an acceptable uniform color is in baseball.

I don't think they need to add it, I'm just saying that since one argument was that it didn't appear anywhere else, it would look nice if they did.  I'm perfectly fine with it just being the facemask color.

They're one of about 2 or 3 teams that I think can get away with gray as a facemask-only color.

Didn't the coolbase material wick too?   I don't recall them looking like that.  I suppose this means that these jerseys wick more, which Nike would say is a feature not a bug, but sheesh - that's hard to look at.  Even if he's dry on the inside, it looks like that'd be very uncomfortable.

Also - is "Wet-Ass Yankee" an acceptable user name?  Asking for a friend.

2 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

Bad take.

 

See: Ernie Banks.

That's the literal definition of taking something out of context.  You cut off the rest of the sentence, and everything else, where I clearly stated that winning a championship isn't necessary to be a HOFer.

It looks like he's holding someone else's phone, based on the purse-ish thing, but if that just happens to be his style, then it's lame for anyone to bash him for it.  I don't think his phone case is going to affect his ability to throw TD passes or be a leader on the team.

Read an ESPN article that graded the Eagles "haul" for Hassan Redick (a 2026 conditional 3rd rd pick) as an A, which blew my mind.  The reasoning was because the Jets will likely be pretty good this year, but who knows if Rodgers will play for them in 2025 (if at all), so they could drop significantly.  So the 2026 pick might be worth a lot more than a 2025 pick of the same slot (and I guess nobody was trading a 2024 pick.)

I still think it's ridiculous to trade a guy like that for a pick that's two drafts away, but I guess it sets them up to make some kind of package deal to move up in 2026, when they could potentially be done with Jalen Hurts.