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This story even made the local news this morning, here in a city where nobody gives a s*** about soccer. I don't know if anybody is taking bets on whether or not the 2022 WC gets moved to the US, but I'd put some money on that right now.

I guess I should have included facility specifications along with scheduling as reasons that the top seed doesn't play at home. Still, my point is that the NCAA does not arbitrarily award regionals to teams other than the top seed.

Unless you have a scheduling conflict with your home stadium, those two things are a package deal. The top seeds all get to host.

It appears as though the pitchers aren't ready to pitch in the first inning. Someone with more time could delve into the advanced metrics of pitch selection, velocity and location of pitches in the first inning compared to later innings, but it could just be a mental thing.

Sox pitchers have a 7.71 first inning ERA, with a 3.86 ERA the rest of the game. Hitters are just plain bad all game long, but do score 22% less in the first inning compared to the rest of the game. Run differential is -25 in the first inning and -22 the entire rest of the game.

ND is the #2 seed in Champaign. I know the ACC is a stronger conference, but I'd be surprised to see them give the Illini too much trouble.

Going to give this a few more days to see if anybody is interested and then I'll just go ahead and buy online.

I dragged this team up to .500 once. Can I do it again?

John Danks (LHP) 2-4, 5.11 vs R. A. Dickey (KBP) 2-5, 5.49

My wife just finished her associate's degree and got a job that started out at $40K. She had an awesome husband to provide income and help with child care while she went through school, but many of her classmates were single moms and they all managed pretty well. If you have the motivation, you can find a way to get jobs paying > $15/hour without trying to guilt McDonald's into just giving it to you.

That's the only time Belisario ever caused anybody to whiff.

If it ever stops raining in Durham, I may watch the ACC Tournament.

They should be doing it for ME as a courtesy.

Whatever happened to getaway day games? I have a rare Thursday afternoon with no meetings scheduled and I could have been filling the time with baseball instead of actual work.

I'm not sure you can be a successful politician without being a horrible human being.

I went to Sale bobblehead day vs the Yankees last year, and if it wasn't a sellout, it was awfully close.

Plenty of tickets available for this game via other avenues, but I figured if there's a STH in the lower deck that wants to unload 4 for this game I'd try to help out.

The only time the defensive 2 point rule will impact the offense's extra point decision is within the last 20 seconds of the game, when the extremely tiny odds of a defensive 2 point play finally become higher than the odds that the other team will score on offense.

I would call that an apples to oranges comparison, but it's really more of an apples to hippopotamuses comparison. 53% of NBA teams make the playoffs. Until two years ago, 27% of MLB teams made the playoffs.

That's the rule in college, and yes, if you score to go up by 1 or 2 with less than 20 seconds left, you should be taking a knee instead of trying to kick a PAT.

Agreed. This is my proposal. After a TD, the offense can just take an automatic 1 point PAT with no further action needed, or decide to go for 2 from the 2 yard line.

Trevor Bauer (RHP) 2-1, 3.67 vs Jose Quintana (LHS) 2-3, 4.39

I will watch the Gold Cup, and as much of the women's World Cup as I can as well.

ALL THE GAME THREADS!

Just drive over to Elkhart County, IN, and you're bound to run into one.