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The standard practice is to have cars not on the lead lap pass the safety (pace) car and circle around to the back of the field before the safety car exits and the race restarts. Doing it by the book would have reached the end of the race before being able to restart. The decision was to have just the cars between the 1st and 2nd place cars pass the safety car and then restart the race with one lap to go. In a vacuum, it sounds like a good idea to not have the championship finish without restarting the race, but in reality, it was a huge advantage for Verstappen because he had newer tires. Of course, if any one of the long string of previous decisions hadn't gone in Hamilton's favor, some very questionably, then this decision wouldn't have even mattered.

213 return yards in one half. Unreal. Packers ST coach may be looking for work before Nagy is.

Best punt return I've ever seen. Who even catches a punt at the 4? He's supposed to let that bounce into the end zone for a touchback.

I can't stand this song. It hurts my ears. I will change the station any time this song comes on.

I 100% believe it.

Kimbrel can't get traded anywhere until probably February at the earliest. How far off the rails is this thread going to get by then?

Minnnie got in!

If you have an offensive line that can dominate the line of scrimmage, the weather doesn't hurt you so much.

He falls in the category of people I didn't realize weren't already dead.

There could be some debate about how the four get matched up against each other, but the four are definitely going to be Alabama, Michigan, Georgia and Cincinnati. My guess is we get Alabama-Cincinnati and Michigan-Georgia.

Losing an entire season damages the game long term, and players are only in the game a few years whereas owners make money for a lifetime. Plus, if the players hold strong, they will more than make back in a new deal what they lose from one season.

Cincinnati is better than people think. I'd give them a fair chance to beat anybody except Alabama. I know Michigan destroyed Ohio State but I'm not 100% sold on them and Georgia looked absolutely awful today. Notre Dame is honestly probably one of the best four teams right now but they lost to Cincinnati and all the other teams on their schedule that were highly ranked to start the season (Wisconsin, North Carolina, USC) all underperformed and finished the season unranked so ND's resume just doesn't stack up.

Assuming no miracle happens in Atlanta: Alabama, Cincinnati and Georgia have spots locked up. Last spot is Michigan's if they beat Iowa and Notre Dame's if they don't.

Your ticket sales staff and stadium staff, sure, but KW and Hahn and the personnel people under them still get paid.

One thing the players hopefully realize is that the owners get hurt far more by the loss of a season than they players. Yes, the pre-arb players might have a challenging year without a salary, but the owners will each lose millions upon millions of revenue, while still having to pay non-player staff.

Wrong thread

He couldn't be much worse . . .

Unless they get a couple more relievers after the lockout ends, they're probably going to need Lopez strictly as a reliever.

My guess would be yes since drafted players aren't part of the players union.

I would bet a good amount of money on later than March 1.

If the players want to get anything substantial in this, they're going to have to be willing to give up a significant portion of the season. The owners won't start making any concessions until April. They can afford to wait and see if the players blink first.

I didn't look up the details. Did OKC have a bunch of guys out for COVID or something?

So Memphis beat OKC by 73.

Giving Rodon a QO doesn't preclude signing a longer deal.

My idea for an optimal plan is to sign Rodon and have Rodon, Kopech and Keuchel rotate through the 4th and 5th spots and being skipped.