I can’t remember where I read it yesterday, and I’m too lazy to look for it, but it seems to have held true through three games of the World Series: four-hour games are the result of analytics. Because everything can be broken down into statistics, managers are using numbers to determine when pitchers are pulled at specific points in the game. NOT LIKE IN MY DAY when he’d simply walked the bases loaded or wasn’t considered man-enough to pitch his way out of a jam. No sir – the second the stats say so, he gets pulled and in comes a fresh pitcher for as few as one at-bat. This is all Billy Beane’s fault.
MLB is confused as to why people stop watching their product? NFL games might be long, and the rules somewhat arcane, but football is positively scintillating when compared to the drudgery that is trying to follow a four-hour, nine-inning game these days.
And I say this as a guy who loves baseball & makes a goodly sum of money off it each summer.
But as long as the Not-Expos lose, then I’m a happy boy.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Game 4: Astros at Not-Expos – 8:00PM | FOX / Sportsnet
- NHL:
- Leafs at Habs – 7:00PM | CBC / Sportsnet1
- Blues at Bruins – 7:00PM | NBCSN
- Flames vs. Jets – 10:00PM | CBC / NBCSN
- the outdoor Heritage Classic from Regina (“rhymes with ‘fun'”), SK
- CFL:
- Roughriders vs. Eskimos – 7:00PM | TSN3
- NCAA: (games of note)
- Arkansas at Alabama – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- UCF at Temple – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Texas Tech at Kansas – 7:00PM | FS1
- Notre Dame at Michigan – 7:30PM | ABC
- Colorado State at Fresno State – 7:30PM | ESPNU
- California at Utah – 10:00PM | FS1
- Washington State at Oregon – 10:30PM | ESPN
- Rugby World Cup
- Semi-final:
- Wales vs. South Africa – 5:00AM | NBCSN / TSN
- Semi-final:
Please enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m having company for the games tomorrow – all my friends who tried dying during the summer. There’s the guy I went to Ohio with that has cancer, and the old beer vendor from Nat Bailey Wakezilla might remember – he had an octo-pass in August. If I can get them out to a bar later on, I’ll look like the best catch of the bunch!
Michigan players playing like they were all molested by Catholic priests when they were kids.
Ha ha, joke’s on them, those “priests” were actually evangelicals!
Wilson typed in the God Mode cheat during the huddle.
Yay, Lesser of Two Evils!
Once again, as an Irish Catholic, quintuple fuck Notre Dame with a rusty chainsaw.
They deserve every race, religion, etc., etc., etc. scorn.
SELF SACK
WAX.
Brian Kelly is an Irish disgrace.
Turns out he’s not very good in bad weather.
That is banner worthy.
This series needs more Rodney.
“Finally, I get some RESPECT!” — R. Dangerfield
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!”
Moose is doing a far better job of getting things done tonight with regards to scoring position than the Washington Nationals.
Missed a spot.
There’s going to be a few more in a minute.
Tying run comes to the plate!
#Natitude
“WHAT??”
Donavan M., Lacrosse.
Target acquired.
Loni needs some sperm.
Easy big boy, that just quiets the voices in her head for a bit so she can have some time in between kills.
Worth it.
Male black widow spiders apparently can keep going after decapitation.
I probably should stop watching.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deadly_Women_episodes
Okay, that’s a bit dark, it is not Halloween yet.
https://gfycat.com/EmbarrassedFoolishIberianlynx
BONK!
Refs taking control of ND-MI game.
That’s one of the best pictures you’ve ever posted.
Is that your way of telling Balls to add “gigantic cocks” to his search terms?
That’s shooting fish in a barrel.
That might be another term.
Cluckerfield
Too bad that can’t be bannered.
Matthew McCaunaghey’s Lincoln Aviator has more horsepower than Melba Toast, the badass big block Chevelle SS he drove in Dazed and Confused.
Alright, alright, alright.
Alright alright alright
You owe me a beer.
I’ll pour you one at the moon tower beer bust.
SOOO close.
Ah, Flyers with the traditional “Score 4 goals in 5 minutes to come back from 2 down” as I expected to happen the entire time
last funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIo0V1Gfoo
Some guys have all the luck.
Are we still looking for search terms for balls?
Debating whether or not to go over to the Moonie church for free tacos and Toy Story 4.
free tacos
Yeah but I’m not that hungry.
Would they be vegetarian tacos? Agreed; not that hungry, unless it is the porn parody of that movie.
Boxing on ESPN+ tonight. Shakur Stevenson fights his girlfriend’s brother, and the entire family hates him and talks publicly about it. Should be good.
Presumably no one will be rendered brain dead tonight.
Tyreek Hill just fights his girlfriend.
Golden Tate vs Jalen Ramsey next?
Getting out of that nightmare inning with only two runs given up was a miracle.
Iu football is Bowl eligible in October.
I legit don’t think that’s happened in my lifetime before
Autoerotic asphyxiation ……..
FEELS GOOD MAN!
found a funny:
my goth girlfriend says she likes me for who i am on the inside (a skeleton)
Reedley College traveled to San Jose today to take on San Jose City College.
Reedley destroyed San Jose with a final of 61-13.
My nephew didn’t make the trip and we’re dealing with a really dynamic and horrifying family situation.
Go Reedley fucking Tigers!
Anyone else need a drink while I’m up?
I took an eight hour nap today, no shit.
thats legit
Excellent work. I only got an hour in.
Mine was only about two. It was getting too hot.
Sexy dream, then?
“Come back zinc! Come back!” – Rikki, moments before waking up
Also a direct quote from Antonio Brown.
That is a full night’s sleep, You needed it; you were looking tired, beat down.
At least that is how it looked through his window.
I can’t take naps. Haven’t for years. They do more harm than good in my case.
I took an eight hour shit today, no nap.
But you did it with love.
When I am elected Evil Overlord for Life, anyone who throws a beer party on a boat that is not on water, forfeits all ownership to the boat and must swim the Hudson River from New York to New Jersey.
So, what you’re saying is
Hail fellow troglodytes.