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Rocco Baldelli! That guy was on everyone of my terrible fantasy baseball teams in high school.

We don't really know but Cashman has been incredible with trades so I don't think we should take the price for granted.

No one will let it be an excuse because it clearly shouldn't be, but the d line looked completely gassed starting in the 2nd quarter. It was 100 degree heat with no wind and that d line that pushes oline into the QB was gone, and they were often just standing up and playing run. That shouldn't be an excuse because they are professionals, but I love akiem hicks and it was hard to watch his effort and he was on his knees between every play.

It seems that independents/moderates have platforms that are a mixture of surprisingly liberal along with surprisingly conservative views. They are catered to by the democrats with candidates that offer policies that don't particularly fix anything but make you feel like they are supposed to. "Like you, I think it's terrible that college tuition is skyrocketing year after year. To fix that, I propose a federal savings vehicle that will let families save up to $200, tax free, in order to help mitigate that costs. I believe EVERYONE deserves a chance to go to college." But realistically if you want to get pegged as a moderate you need to just be publicly idiosyncratic about one thing across policy lines. Justin Amash is very conservative, but extends that through positions that put him at odds with his party on foreign policy and it lends him tremendous credibility. All that centrist dems offer is "Hey, don't worry, I won't do that much, so please don't blame me if the party does something you don't like".

yeah, that team was good. That San Diego game the team was on all cylinders and then we had the worst qb ever play rest of season. That denver loss...ugh.

Who is "you" in this scenario? Me, the fan, has no ability to hire a smart ownership. And it is because I'm aware of how the front office of the team I work for has to be progressive that I know the team is not set-up for success in the year and possibly not forward without great luck. And while your NBA analogy is solely based on championships, there is a gigantic difference in leagues in that 16 teams make the NBA playoffs, and only 8 do in baseball, and 1/4 of that group will only have one playoff game. Playoffs are fun! Sure, some moan after years of playoff appearances as "useless" without a championship, they are in face much more fun as a fan than a decade without a playoff appearance. I am not a front office, and it is unlikely I can veer into becoming either an owner or GM in baseball. So it is because I am so aware what is needed to win that it takes a lot out of pre-season excitement knowing that the the team with great luck would probably only get 80-82 wins, and 6-7 teams with much worse luck could still probably hit 84 wins. 2010 was a perfectly fine season for the white sox. 2012 too. They would have been immensely more fun with even just 1 playoff series.

I think one area where it has absolutely had an effect is just overall season excitement. In other sports there just feels like "maybe they can put it all together this year and make playoffs and have a run". The predictive analytics in baseball are not gospel, but they drive home how far off and how lucky your team has to be to make a leap. Baseball seems freakin impossible to win at.

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou on his investigative work on Theranos is a highly entertaining, great read.

A few weeks ago it was decided the bears would only go as far as Trubisky would take them. He has back to back 300+ yard, 3 TD or more games with 40+ yards rushing, while the D has an atrocious game and they go 1-1. Now the narrative is actually the D is terrible and the team is bad. While it's true dink and dunk has been effective on them, that's not why they've lost. They've lost games from their defense because they've given up big plays, something they didn't do last year, and something I think they can do better at preventing. The big plays were not "coverage" issues, they were tackling issues, so the idea that they can't cover unless they have a pass rush is unfounded. And if the Patriots drop 30 on them, that's because the patriots drop 30 on pretty much every team. If you haven't noticed, they've been in the super bowl like every damn year.

Jags defense is trash, as I have just watched a game where they were bad.

That game sucked and it may end up pushing bears out of playoffs. But in one of those games where bears played bad on road in outlier weather it took 4-5 horrible plays to also cause them to lose. Any one of them not happening means bears probably win. Updating your priors dramatically from that being dramatic. Trubisky was pretty good. The d is not this bad. It’s just a bad game. it may be two bad games. But sometimes the NFL is dumb: the John fox bears beat the Steelers last year.

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Don’t forget Tarik Cohen fumble, and a 3rd and long that osweiler threw into the back of a bears player and I to the hands of a dolphin for 35 yards.

Lol. Give me a break.

It’s funny how certain they would be if they threw it for an incompletion that a run would have gained yards.

If he gets sacked they lose, if you throw a screen and lose yardage you miss fg position. There’s no reason why that play should fail.

And we are gonna lose now. Defense should be absolutely embarrassed.

That was a trrrible part of field. Any lost yardage meant you lost your chance.

It wasn’t. This is the epitome of just criticizing based on outcome.

I don’t know if you have heard how tall Brock osweiler is... BUT (he is 6’8)

Teams ought to hire me.

This game is drunk.

I think by far the most painful way we are about to lose is a brock osweiler QB sneak

I mean. Hard to know what to do. So much incredibly dumb crap happened in this game.

The world has a sense of humor.