To recap 🧐 Jim KELLY being a dingus and Jim HARBAUGH being a violent psychopath helped lead to...... Peyton Manning going No. 1 to Indianapolis instead of San Diego (Ryan Leaf, the Colt!). And the punch was thrown in San Diego. There are too many levels to this.
Question for baseball people ⚾️
Ohtani's WBC performance will almost certainly be a factor in his case for HOF years from now. Perhaps a small factor, but still a factor.
Historically, have any non-MLB games like the WBC influenced HOF cases for MLB players?
Reducing non-cons means that every team won't visit every city. Bad for the product in an 82gm league that sells superstars.
Could reduce non-div (same conf.) games to 3x each and make it 5+ div games, but I don't think it makes much of a difference in the big picture.
I have a clear memory of the Yankees clubhouse (on the road) using Spotify in the summer of 2014. And they were listening to the ads in between songs.
I went to journalism school so I could provide you with this exclusive exposé: The Yankees charge their players for internet on the team plane.
“It’s your fault,” they tell one another. “Your contract is too big, so they can’t pay for the Wi-Fi.”
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While the Big Ten and SEC are likely going to land on the same 🏈 scheduling model (3 protected "rivals," 6 other conf. opponents cycling through), I think the B1G should seriously consider a different approach from its counterpart. Here's why. 🧵
This is what the "flex" handcuffs could look like, with each team having 0-3 such games on the schedule every year. Rutgers will visit every other campus in < 3 years, while Iowa & Penn State will still get to every campus within 4 years. USC/UCLA barnstorm all over.
Throw of the year? ~70yds in the air. Tied the game with no timeouts left and 0:12 on the clock. Panthers still blew it.
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Alright, if the SEC goes with a 9-game 🏈 schedule and 3 protected opponents per team, this is probably what I'd be most excited about.
🌕 = imperfect fits, but each one still makes a decent amount of sense.
The only school that would absolutely "need" two locked matchups instead of one is Auburn (vs. Alabama and vs. Georgia). But even then, who would really cry if AUB-UGA turned into ~2/3 years instead of 3/3? This is a new era. Additions of TEX & OU should disrupt in a good way.