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Facebook and Twitter just illuminates that fact.

Yes, I like these charts & graphs later in the season. Its just such a small sample size right now. Golden State is 3-6 and Utah is 6-3 right now, but its tough to put much stock into it.

Speaking of coaches and controversies, when is Popovich going to publicly speak about Primo?

I'm good with combined accomplishments as a player and coach/executive as qualifiers for enshrinement. Just a cheap snippet of his baseball career. 19 years as a player, he was an all star in 1981 and 1982. I would argue that his 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, and 1980 seasons are darn close to, on par with, or better than his all star seasons. Alas, we have timing of the all star votes & nominations which don't necessarily reflect the entire season and team representation quotas and roster sizes working against him. On the flip side, 19 seasons is quite lengthy and doesn't really prop up his WARs, JAWS, etc into the neighborhood of LFs. So, he's got some rather pedestrian seasons on his resume. I don't know if this is a fair comparison, but Joe Torre strikes me as a bit of a comparison. Torre was the better player, but got in as a manager. Torres has a lengthier managerial career and more postseason success. But all of his success comes with only the Yankees, and in a time where there were fewer postseason bids.

We can all agree that between the Phillie Phanatic and Gritty, Philadelphia is by far the best pro sports mascot town in the world, yes? Because if you disagree, you are just flat wrong here and in all possible alternative universes.

Yeah, there is this issue, he's had issues prior, there will be other issues. Earlier on, ok, the earth is flat, that's kind of funny dumb. Several years later with all of the tread off those tires, its no longer such a charming kind of dumb.

I agree with you about the timing part. Generally I'm in favor of seeing the better team throughout the season winning it all. These teams aren't close along those lines. 106-56 vs 87-75, almost 20 games difference, winning percentages of .654 vs .537. I also would like to see Dusty Baker get a ring as a manager. He has one as a Dodger player in 1984, so his baseball career wouldn't be incomplete necessarily. He's had his chances for sure, he's taken all 5 of the clubs that he's managed to the playoffs. He has a winning regular season record and a winning postseason record as a manager. But this would be the cherry on top of his career. Heck, looking back at his stats, I didn't realize he started managing at 44 years old. I think a lot of us here probably know this, but Baker was on deck when Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run. That was in 1974. That's damn near 50 years ago. That's a helluva lot of baseball in between. He seems like a quiet guy, but I'd bet he has some yarns to spin.

Cleveland Cavaliers vs Detroit Pistons

Irving has made nearly $200M in just salary. He has a ring. It’s obvious he doesn’t care what others think of him, he’s going to do what he wants to do. $500K as a penalty? So what, cut a check, and send someone else to get on the zoom call to take the heat. A 5 game suspension? So what, that gives him time to hit up some birthday parties. Going forward with this, the NBA and the Nets are just going to have to make decisions to protect themselves rather than worry about punish Irving. Obviously there’s a bit of both elements in situations similar to this. But it seems like Irving has the attitude about him where he is above his team, above the league, really above everybody else. It’ll be interesting to see what the players’ union responds with.

That’s nicely done, a good combination of professionalism, eloquence, and stern WTF Kylie?

We’re past Halloween. ‘Tis the season.

That was a fun at bat. 11 pitches? Harper on 2nd as the tying run with two outs. Surprisingly neither cracked a smile. I thought his outing was ok. 4 walks and 4 hits in only 5 innings. I know reliever roulette starts early these days, but Houston could have used a more efficient and longer outing.

If you hold out another day, they may pay you the $2 to show up.

Just remember to use the finger air quotes when you speak for me.

Yeah, makes sense. There is the benefit of the day off tomorrow night and probably added adrenaline on Saturday & Sunday (although that could work both ways).

Good call. I was thinking Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, but that Arizona pitching staff was a different than what Houston has.

Didn't Houston do it successfully? Granted they only scraped bottom for 3 seasons.

Now that its best of 3, you can still have different philosophies at play. If either starter is going well tonight, do you ride them with, say, a 3 or 4 run lead later than normal to preserve those other arms for games 6 and possibly 7? Do you ignore that and go to the bullpen as normal, and maybe add the game 5 starter to the bullpen mix for an inning in game 7? The stature of relievers has grown so much in the past decade that the theories of how to handle these kinds of World Series questions has had to have changed as well. I would imagine tonight's starters are due to empty their tanks on their personal seasons tonight, but that might not be the case necessarily. Verlander was known to be quite the grouch on his game days. Can you imagine his temperament today?

I agree, do not watch that and underappreciate the pass.

I watched the Pistons rather than this game. Maybe I should'of watched this one instead? Welp, 2-2 with Verlander on the bump tonight. I s'pose I'll watch this one.

Yeah, sure, throw some money at this and hope it goes away. What a clown.

Its kind of unfair. The way the schedule is set up, the Bucks were able to figure out the Pistons on the back end of the back-to-back. On the bright side, tankathon odds improved.

The Tigers had the worst record over the last seven years and now have a farm system in the lower third of MLB. It was an absolute debacle.