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Cool Hand Lucroy
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Just me, or is Devin's FB velo down a bit tonight? -
Take 3 of 4, all good. Frustrating to watch another lefty dominate the offense, but picking up 1.5 on the Cards while they played the Reds is good, to say nothing of the ground gained on PhIlly and SF. Two tough ones coming before the off day, but the pen should be pretty rested, especially Williams.
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I know the thread is about balks, but I nominate "guy beat throw but came off the bag for a femtosecond while the tag was still applied (and maybe the tag helped direct him off) and is now out" for "dumbest call in all of sports." I am going to beat this horse until both it and I die on this hill.
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Not too worried yet. If Burnes pitches, you probably don't want him starting Friday, and he should get as many starts as possible down the stretch.
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Is this team really bad at situational hitting? Do the numbers bear this out? Genuinely asking.
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Taking stock. I think this team is pretty lucky to be in playoff position at the break. Injuries and an unproductive offense. This team needed to ride Woody, Peralta, and Burnes, and only one of those guys has been in form. I'm a little disappointed because we probably should be 4 or 5 games up at this point, but the Cardinals are saying the same thing, I imagine. Edit to add: the difference between winning the division and not is home field for a three-game set. Not a big deal, I don't think. And if you can't even make that round, you weren't good enough.
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I mean...yikes. Sometimes the bar eats you.
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Such an easy fix. Stop making a fetish out of the base itself! Spirit of the rule, friends. Spirit of the rule.
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I am going to yell about putting a safe zone above the bag to distract from that ridiculousness.
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Like, seriously. Instead of trying to nibble on the edges with fake ways to speed time or make the game more exciting (no-pitch IBBs, 3-batter min, fake second-base runners), do you think we could save the 3 minutes it takes to see if a runner came off the bags for a fraction of a second. Dumb.
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This is the dumbest rule in sports. Baseball needs to eliminate these kinds of challenges. I cannot emphasize this enough.
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I feel like the Brewers always play some nightmare games right before the All-Star Break. Seem to recall blowing a five run lead to AZ way back when (2008, maybe?AZ gets 6 runs in ninth; Crew doesn't record an out), losing to the Yankees on a Clint Frazier (or Adam Frazier) walk off after a 3-1 ninth inning lead (in a series the Crew won), the debacle in Pittsburgh in 2018. The Reds last year. Holy crap just listing all of these is spine-tingling (if also a little cathartic, especially since those teams ended up pretty good).
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Me too...using a Wisconsin login. Baseball is bad at television.
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I gotta feel like Yelich's on-base skills will get him past Braun by a decent margin. Plus, he'll benefit from being a lefty at MP (I know, I know). It's a good question for a late-night game.
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Incredible. Never faced a player that inspired more fear as an opposing fan. Even among ridiculous numbers, Bonds' numbers are ridiculous. These right field line pop ups are fun to watch...
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Both of these teams are the best in a bad division. That's really my takeaway. The Twins can really hit. Baserunners all day today, even in a game where they struggled. If you could merge these rosters, you'd have a World Series favorite.
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Josh needs two days off. I was hoping CC would go Box, Williams in 8 and 9. Hope Harder settles in.
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Good D keeps it at 1. Let's hope those two ABs end up big ones in the game. Gustave looked in deep, deep trouble.
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Quick game so far. Offense indeed looks overmatched. The Cubs pen is both bad and worked hard, so Gustave needs to keep this close. It would help if strikes were called strikes. Ump has had an awful and inconsistent zone all day.
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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/football-drove-usc-and-ucla-to-the-big-ten-but-could-eventually-mean-big-changes-in-college-basketball-too/ GP is onto something here. And this is the worry from the basketball side. We're talking years down the line, but it's this thinking that has me concerned, and it's also why I really dislike how much football drives college athletics. It creates a lot of bad incentives across higher ed. institutions.
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Yeah, I agree with most of this. Football is a runaway train dictating terms to everyone, and that's bad for a lot of Wazoo and Oregon State (and, yeah, maybe even Illinois Rutgers) types too because, as you say, they're stuck in an arms race. Alumni want/need football at those schools, but the resources it generated often stay silo'd within the football program. This is probably the crux of the matter. Do basketball schools with football programs (Kansas, North Carolina, etc.) seek to apply a football model (and super conferences DO make sense in football) to basketball? It's, in my view, undeniably good for MBB that the Big East exists. That Gonzaga exists. That Murray St. and Belmont and Dayton and St. Bona and Davidson and the whole A10 (and a few other schools that either don't offer football or only play non-scholarship) have the chance to build a national profile by making the NCAAT. It's also bad for the Big XII because, the more of those smaller teams that make the field, the more they eat into the moneypot the whole conference shares when it's teams advance. What's good for CBB then, isn't good for the conferences themselves. So, how much do they pursue self-interest? I think, to keep the NCAAT status quo, you really do have to make a more values, "social responsibility" argument. Like it's some sort of duty as a basketball citizen to allow those small teams to compete on the same level. Maybe that'll happen. But since I do believe college sports is all about the $$, I worry they won't care much about the emotional glory of the NCAAT.
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The problem as I see it is this: The NCAA and university presidents have different interests. Sure, the NCAAT is great for the NCAA. But you give big conference ADs and presidents the chance to avoid sharing with the MEAC, they would do it. That's my worry. The end point of this is a breakaway org. Hopefully it doesn't get there, but that's the economic logic at work here. Kentucky makes more money not worrying about getting dropped by a MAAC school. That kind of tourney, one with only big conference schools, likely draws less interest from the casual observer, but I bet CBS would still pony up HUGE to guarantee their March schedule features only massive brands every year. Again, maybe sense prevails at some point. But if college sports become all about the $$$ and the TV deals, the NCAA is just in the way. And one negative consequence of that (and there would be positive too) is that you lose the best sporting event of the year.
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I totally get this. And it makes sense for football. Obviously, it completely revolves around football. The part I don't buy is the basketball will be fine part. Well, it isn't even that I don't buy it. Probably, yeah. Fine. But worse off. Football is driving the bus at all these places, and this will increase the separation between haves and have-nots in MBB. Super conferences make sense in football. In basketball, they mean an NCAA tourney without St. Peter's.
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From a BE perspective, assume the B10 goes to a 22-game conference schedule. That's two fewer opportunities for Marquette to play Ohio State. Even if they stay at 20, you're going to have more of the super conference teams playing each other and more emphasis on easy guarantee games to fill out home court schedules. I think it makes life harder and brings less balance to hoops side.
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An MLS franchise may not be far off if USL play goes well. That was Minnesota United's route, and I think FC Nashville's too?
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