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Post by Action Ace on Aug 20, 2014 20:12:29 GMT -5
Giants win their protest and last night's Cubs 4 1/2 inning victory is turned into a suspended game that continues tomorrow afternoon.
It is the first successful protest of a Major League Baseball game since 1986.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 22:20:43 GMT -5
Garrett Richards suffers a ansty knee injury covering first in the Sox Angels game. I saw the aftermath on the TV at work, but not the actual injury until I got home and looked at a game recap. Ugly ugly stuff. You never want to see that happen to a guy. Richards has been the Angel's ace, so this will have playoff implications in the AL West.
-M
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Post by paulie on Aug 21, 2014 9:17:40 GMT -5
Garrett Richards suffers a ansty knee injury covering first in the Sox Angels game. I saw the aftermath on the TV at work, but not the actual injury until I got home and looked at a game recap. Ugly ugly stuff. You never want to see that happen to a guy. Richards has been the Angel's ace, so this will have playoff implications in the AL West. -M I was at the gym and saw him writhing in pain. Missed the actual injury though. |
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Post by paulie on Aug 21, 2014 9:19:15 GMT -5
So... since you are no longer allowed to play defense in the NFL anymore I'm expecting this season to suck.
If I wanted to watch 49-44 games I'd watch college football. But I don't.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 21, 2014 22:26:21 GMT -5
It looks like the Sports Illustrated cover jinx works even on 13 year old girls.
Chicago plays Las Vegas for the US Little League title on Saturday with South Korea and Japan facing off for the International title.
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Post by berkley on Aug 23, 2014 20:20:27 GMT -5
Wicked rugby union match between NZ and Australia today, even though the score was a bit lopsided (51 to 20, or something like that). It's special to see a first-rate - in this case the first-rate - team firing on all cylinders, particularly when its playing a side that is not far behind them if at all in quality.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 13:21:13 GMT -5
I'm debating getting up at 2:30am to watch Waikato vs Taranaki I'm kinda interested in rugby, but know nothing about it.
I watched a SPFL match last night (Caley Thistle vs Celtic) and it was the fastest, most aggressive and wide open match I have seen in the short time I've watched footy.
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Post by paulie on Aug 26, 2014 13:27:12 GMT -5
Logan Mankins for Tim Wright and a 4th rnd pick from a team that is going 6-10 this year. In Bill we trust.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 26, 2014 13:31:52 GMT -5
College football starts Thursday. Finally...sports starts up again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 13:46:47 GMT -5
College football starts Thursday. Finally... gambling, steroid overdosing & rampant brain damage start up again. Fixed. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 26, 2014 13:49:30 GMT -5
College football starts Thursday. Finally... gambling, steroid overdosing & rampant brain damage start up again. Fixed. Baseball has been going for quite a few months now. |
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Post by The Captain on Aug 26, 2014 13:55:51 GMT -5
Baseball has been going for quite a few months now. Yeah, but boxing is on 12 months per year. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 14:01:10 GMT -5
Baseball has been going for quite a few months now. The next time everybody & his brother makes a big deal about what the line, the over/under, etc. is for a baseball game, please let me know. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 14:10:55 GMT -5
College football starts Thursday. Finally...sports starts up again. College football is the only sport I know of where 98% of the teams participating will not even have a chance to play in a playoff/championship game that counts because they were't selected among the chosen few in a pre-season poll. Where the pool of championship eligible participants is predetermined and every other game played is simply an exhibition game, including every "Bowl" except the National title game. I have no interest in any league/sport where performance on the field matters less in determining a champion than the politics of the coaches and media choices of their favorites does. If you get to make your own schedule and schedule a bunch of patsies to ensure you have a winning record so you can fulfill the wishes of those who want to see you in contention because you earn them the most money, it's not really a competitive sport. Major league baseball teams cannot overstuff their schedules with series against the Astros and the Cubs if they want to to improve their records over the course of the season...they have to play who others choose for them and earn their records on the field, not set up their records at a bargaining table by paying other teams to be their patsies...that's what the Globetrotters do, not competitive sports. If you want to see a football exhibition on the level of a Globetrotter's basketball exhibition, then college football is the thing for you. If the NCAA/BCS required all those top 25 pre-season teams to play each other over the course of the regular season to determine who actually is the best teams and should play for a title-then I might give college football some consideration, until then, I have no interest in it. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 14:17:54 GMT -5
Supposedly, the new playoff system has reduced the preseason poll to the trivial level that it always should have occupied, but I can't say I've paid any attention to the alleged whys & wherefores of this, since Arkansas has dropped its football program, AFAIK. (And a good thing, too, since competing in the SEC with a Big 10 coach is tantamount to surrendering before a shot is fired ... hell, before the guns are loaded, even.)
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