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No lie, I’ll be talking to my friends/associates whom I know lean Dem, and if I hear any of them talking about staying home, I’ll be knocking on the door with a pizza and a beer and I’ll drive them there. And if the pizza doesn’t work, I’ll make ‘em an offer they wouldn’t / couldn’t / shouldn’t refuse. 😎

My Final Mock Draft 1. Carolina Panthers (from CHI): Bryce Young, QB, Alabama 2. Houston Texans: Will Levis, QB, Kentucky 3. Arizona Cardinals: Paris Johnson, OT, Ohio State 4. Indianapolis Colts: CJ Stroud, QB, Ohio State 5. Seattle Seahawks (from DEN): Tyree Wilson, EDGE, Texas Tech 6. Detroit Lions (from LAR): Will Anderson, EDGE, Alabama 7. Philadelphia Eagles (Trade w/ LV): Jalen Carter, DT, Georgia 8. Atlanta Falcons: Devon Witherspoon, CB, Illinois 9. Chicago Bears (from CAR): Darnell Wright, OT, Tennessee 10. Las Vegas Raiders (Trade w/ PHI): Christian Gonzalez, CB, Oregon 11. Tennessee Titans: Anthony Richardson, QB, Florida 12. Houston Texans (from CLE): Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR, Ohio State 13. Detroit Lions (Trade w/ GB): Bijan Robinson, RB, Texas 14. New England Patriots: Brian Branch, DB, Alabama 15. New York Jets: Peter Skoronski, OG, Northwestern 16. Washington Commanders: Emmanuel Forbes, CB, Mississippi State 17. Pittsburgh Steelers: Joey Porter Jr., CB, Penn State 18. Green Bay Packers (Trade w/ DET): Michael Mayer, TE, Notre Dame 19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Nolan Smith, EDGE, Georgia 20. Seattle Seahawks: Hendon Hooker, QB, Tennessee 21. Los Angeles Chargers: Lukas Van Ness, EDGE, Iowa 22. Baltimore Ravens: Jordan Addison, WR, USC 23. Minnesota Vikings: Deonte Banks, CB, Maryland 24. Jacksonville Jaguars: Zay Flowers, WR, Boston College 25. New York Giants: Dalton Kincaid, TE, Utah 26. Dallas Cowboys: Darnell Washington, TE, Georgia 27. Buffalo Bills: O’Cyrus Torrence, OG, Florida 28. Cincinnati Bengals: Jahmyr Gibbs, RB, Alabama 29. New Orleans Saints (from DEN thru SF): Kelee Ringo, CB, Georgia 30. Philadelphia Eagles: Myles Murphy, EDGE, Clemson 31. Kansas City Chiefs: Jaelyn Duncan, OT, Maryland Lions 2.17 (#48) - Jack Campbell, LB, Iowa 2.24 (#55) - Quan Martin, DB, Illinois [3.18 (#81) - Traded to Green Bay Packers, along with 2024 5th round pick] 4.28 (#130 - Trade w/ BUF in exchange for D’Andre Swift) - Max Duggan, QB, TCU 5.17 (#152) - Michael Wilson, WR, Stanford 5.24 (#159) - Riley Moss, CB, Iowa 6.6 (#183 - from DEN) - Antonio Mafi, OG, UCLA 6.17 (#194) - Zack Kuntz, TE, Old Dominion

Greene and Tork need to average the elevation on their swings between them and they'd both be about right.....Problem sovled.

Greetings from beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Not a hint of irony here I love seeing McKinstrey, Maton, Carpenter, Vierling and Baddoo all in the lineup on the same day. We may still get shutout or something but I rather see them than Cabrera, Schoop Haase etc.

Others have made this point, but, yes, Biden's age in a vacuum might be a detriment; but when you get down to the binary choice and compare him to Trump and the MAGA craziness, his age will become an asset. Do you want constant chaos? Or a boring old man? We made the right choice in 2020; I pray we do again.

Health code? In the land of brats, cheese curds, and beers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

That's gonna be my nickname for him now. Game Day Foley.

When pitchers come back from TJ surgery, their arms are stronger than before and the breaking pitches will break differently and it takes time to adjust. I wouldn't worry too much, Spence was kind of expected to go through this.

Is Bill Belichick really the best coach ever? I'll make the case that he has not done anything without Tom Brady, even in mid career, when Tom went down in the first game for the season, that was the one year when they did not win the division (in Bill's defense they did go 11-5 with Matt Cassell, but finished in 2nd place). Plus there is another thing to consider. The cheating. We know he's been caught a few times, but to me, I think he was a serious cheater. I believe this because he got caught taping Bengals practices...........the Bengals were the worst team in football at the time. If he's cheating against the worst team, wouldn't it stand to reason he's cheating against the good ones? Plus there has been an issue with communications devices (QB headsets) failing to work at Foxboro. If the visitors devices go down, they have to cut off the home team's as well. But don't you think that the Patriots would have some sort of plan for that, a contingency because they KNOW this will happen in certain close games. Teams have talked about their headsets malfunctioning at that stadium and it always seems to happen in close games, too. You could say Bill & Brady needed each other, but Brady kind of showed that wasn't really true as he won a Super Bowl with a second-level head coach and offensive coordinator that might have been overrated due to Brady. Plus you look at the Bill Belichick coaching tree. Not very successful, in fact, wrought with failure, as we know all-too-well ! Bill is being watched now, he can't get away with the crap he used to and wouldn't you know, the Patriots haven't been very successful. Was Bill's genius his coaching or his scheming? (and I don't mean game-plan scheming). I am shocked he hasn't walked away yet. He's like an SNL skit, running on long after the joke was over. He's looking like Miggy last few years. The AFC East is licking their chops right now, ready to bury them in last place. It would take an epic failure by one of those teams to not have that happen. I think he's a good coach, but I think he's a bit of a fraud too. I think Chuck Noll was probably the best coach of all time. Tom Landry's up there too. Vince Lombardi's name is on the trophy, but his brief stint in Washington wasn't very successful. Noll took over the Steelers at a time when the Steelers were a very Lionesque joke and turned them around in 3 years and put them on a permanent path of relevance, long after his departure.

Baez, Schoop and Cabrera are the guys getting paid big money to provide offense and they are failing miserably. I can't fault the young kids who should probably be at AAA. I am worried that years of control are potentially wasted right now on a team that isn't competing for anything.

I think criticism of and concern about Greene and Torkelson are warranted. Greene was OK for a rookie last year, but is bad so far this year. Torkelson has not gotten results either year. Sure, he hits the ball hard, but until he starts getting results, it is concerning.

something to keep in mind as we call for every guy from Toledo to get a chance.

Tyler Nevin is not a major league ballplayer

all good points, but goff was coming off two really bad seasons in a row. he also didnt look so hot in a few games early this year. i dont think they'll take a qb in round one but the argument would be to take the risk that one of them will be better than goff. as the game turns towards more mobile qbs, you may want to have one that provides that additional element to your offense that goff does not provide. i like goff too. the only guys i would potentially take would be young and richardson. but honestly, i go back and forth all the time.

not ground balls though. The difference between chest high and over the IF's head is probably a millimeter. Put it this way - What he is doing with the bat shows a player closer than anyone else on this team to actually being a good hitter.

If that’s true, he should have bought a house in Erie.

playoff basketball is fun because theyre actually trying. i dont really mind the playin games for the same reason (even though the playin games can be really bad basketball at times). gs sactown has been really fun to watch. jimmy butler singlehandedly beating a hobbled giannis was fun too.

Stupid, but still cracked me up:

Or sir Matthew hale if there's no founding fathers desires to divine

Good explanation of this new rule. I was so confused watching this live.

yeah that will play well with the rest of the country. How conservative. How after a corporation for expression. Their court clearly and explicitly told us corporations have free speech rights so I'll eagerly wait for Alito's pretzel logic when he eventually rules against Disney somehow in this.

Never would have thought this when they drafted him.

I think Draymond Green is more punchable especially after those Invisalign commercials. I would like to re-arrange those teeth again.

Everybody says Belichick is nothing without Brady but Belichick is the one who took the chance on Brady and developed him. It's not like the Patriots lucked into the 1st overall pick and Brady was the generational talent coming out. Does Belichick get no credit for developing Brady?

belichick is in the pantheon of greatest coaches of all time. top 5 for sure. who else is better? walsh? shula? noll? landry? lombardi? fontes?

Innings limits on starters during the first few weeks of the season. It's been a pattern throughout all of the minor league teams within the system regardless of start quality.

I actually like Minnesota's offer the best. I don't think Minnesota will be as good next year and possibly a mid to early first round for next year sounds very enticing. There is a lot they can do with this draft as well and move up.

If Stroud's floor was Goff or Ryan, he'd be a generational prospect. He's far from that. That's most likely his ceiling, a top 10 NFL QB but not an elite NFL QB. I'm using that pick as a trade chip if he drops to 6, have little interest in taking him.

People always get caught up on the physical attributes of quarterbacks, when the biggest separators seem to be the ability to quickly process and read the defense, and get the ball to a spot on time. Marginal athletes with marginal arms who can do that can be successful, while great athletes with cannons who can't, wash out.

Kerry Carpenter should get the win. He’s the guy who made it happen.

And inevitably a RHP will enter the game at some point. Dropping him lower in the lineup, maybe he only sees 2 PAs vs a LHSP and then its on to RHRPs.

It took us 43 games in each of last 2 seasons to get double digit wins so as long as we avoid a 10 game losing streak we'll atleast beat that mark this year!

The correct abbreviation for Quicksilver would have been Hg. 🤔

I'll take every single one of the players that Harris added over every single one of the players from last year that aren't here anymore. And no, I didn't forget Candelario.

I knew it! 😁

still hoping for carter or anderson or richardson or gonzalez. would also be fine with stroud or witherspoon. looking forward to talking myself into whomever holmes picks.

congrats to marcus smart for tackling trae young 30 feet from the basket. very heady play marcus.

Oh, yeah, he’s still just above High A so he will hit a rough patch, and probably sooner than later. But he is showing a tremendous amount of poise for a kid of his age/experience and is coming through big in some big situations. It’s an encouraging career start.

Dan Dickerson’s call of the final out. Foley Closes Out Brewers.m4a

I’m starting to come around on Englert. The kid has really stepped up to the level in a very unexpected way. Or at least unexpected by us lay people.

He made it so this will look dumb. But I hate when teams are down 1 or tied and they don't get the ball within 35 feet of the basket. He just took a 40 footer down one that you probably make 33% of the time.

I like post-benching Javy.

Stroud has a better arm, is a better athelete, and would be about 33m cheaper for the next 4 years. Slightly is understating it a bit. Plus Goff would have trade value next year as well. From 2019-2021 Goff had QBR's in the mid 20's when the talent around him was mediocre to below average. Put Goff In a situation where he has to create on his own and he has proven he cannot perform. That said there is a risk involved with drafting any QB so I understand not wanting to take a risk unless they are super confident in whom they are drafting. And at 6 it's they may not be. I think they can win with Goff In the short term, it's just when they have to start paying some of their good young players where it may be hard to sustain.

An anti-vax loonspud is not going to have any traction against Biden. Next.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream up conspiracy theories about vaccines that never were, and say why not.

Sweet we need more truth social stuff here

Zach Bryan is such a great songwriter and singer. Love his song Shivers Down Spines.

EmmyLou Harris' All I Intended To Be album is still one of my favorite albums of all time and space.