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I was so accurate with the first round (1-3) I’m sure you’re all anxiously awaiting this round’s predictions.
I’ll go ATLANTA, CLEVELAND, SEATTLE and LA.
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I went 3-1 missing the Cards vas Phillies. I’m going Pads all the way against the Stros and will picks Braves and Yankmes for the other two…
Meanwhile, J Poole got 25 with 6 assists in preseason opener, scoring from inside outside and midrange, starting while Thompson didn’t play. So question is, how long will GS hold Green out? League opener at home, with ring ceremony, will be one week from tonight. Can’t imagine his reception from fans would be too good.
Would they go beyond that? He does have to be in shape and in sync to start and play usual 30 minutes. Even Looney said things are awkward right now.
He deserves the cold shoulder from fans and his teammates…
easiest way to fix the roughing passer problem is to just make it reviewable.
Far as I heard there will be no suspension.
At this point in the NFL, everything should be reviewable. It would suck, but there are so many awful game-altering calls on any given game. I mean, KC overcame that awful call on Carr, but the Falcons lost on that roughing call as they would have gotten the ball back and had plenty of time.
I remember a few years back, not sure who was coaching, but the 49ers lost 3 games in a row on terrible calls. All near the end of the games that we were leading, would have forced punts, but didn’t. That turned our season from 10-6 to 7-9. Unreal. Throw in all the betting money and you really have a giant question about integrity.
Remember one season a few years they used replay for pass interference, but the refs and replay officials made a total mockery of it and didn’t even pretend to hide their disdain for it, so it got scrapped.
Yep. Rams/Saints game a few years back was ludicrous. Saints WR got steamrolled 2 seconds before the ball got there and no call. I think that got the competition committee to install the replay review. It didn’t go so well as the refs simply stayed with the call on the field and didn’t change anything.
The biggest problem is illegal use of hands. You can pretty much call that on every pass play. There was one called last week, Bus/Falcons, on 3rd and 14 the WR runs directly into the safety, and they call it on the safety. 5 yard penalty, automatic 1st down. Some of these penalties need to have the auto-1st-down aspect changed. It’s just too fucking easy to get calls like that.
Another thing that has gone away is the ‘uncatchable pass’ aspect. Used to be if the WR had no chance to catch the ball, it wasn’t a penalty. That has gone away. As we saw yesterday, if you underthrow a deep pass 9 out of 10 times the DB isn’t looking for the bal and the WR gets the call for a nice 35 yard penalty. The 49ers had about 10 of those calls last season.
honestly, it’s starting to seem like QB’s are underthrowing the ball on purpose just to get the call.
I was wondering what happened to the uncatchable pass thing last night…
Yep. Galling last year was the fucking Colts game where Wentz threw 4 dogshit passes the DBs overplayed and they got 3 deep PI calls in their first 4 series.
previously:
St. Looie takes Philly – St Looie takes Atl
Mets beat Pads – Mets take Dogs – Mets take Atlanta
Rays over Indigards – Rays take Yanks
Mariners over BJs – Houston take Mariners – Houston takes Yanks
Houston and Mets – Mets win!
Wow. I suck. 1-3 as well.
Braves over Phillies
Yankers over Guardicles
Astros over Mariners
The Pads finally figure out the flea-bitten Dogs
Why the fuck not? Is Tatis gonna play? Stupid fuck.
Shit didn’t even realize the Phillies Braves were already playing. Phuucking Phillies are pumping hits out like Motown records.
Castellanos is killing the Braves, 6-1 Philly.
3 hits, 3 ribbies. didn’t have a great year, but they are loving him now.
It’s hard to have much faith that the Padres will put up any kind of resistance to the Dodgers. We’ve watched the Dodgers steamroll the Padres our whole lives. Someone from the Padres needs to rise up and have some kind of crazy unbelievable series, like Scutaro in ’12, or Bum in ’14, or Ross in ’10. Someone needs to seize the moment for the Padres.
It has to start sometime.
Pads 16-35 vs. the Dogpile the last three seasons, including 3-game sweep in ’20 playoffs. They were 5-14 this season, outscored 109-47, every bit as overmatched as the Giants were. So yeah, I don’t have a lot of confident in the Friars, which is why I was rooting for the Mets. But here they are, so Let’s Go San Diego!
Only way the Pads hang in against The Dogpile while they’re Under Seize is Casey Ryback the cook(Steven Segal) kicks all Dodgers asses in clubhouse pregame..
Good for the Mariners they have jumped on Verlander for 4 runs on 6 hits 4-0 Seattle
Phillies hang on after Olson 3-run bomb in 9th, helped by Castellanos great catch for 2nd out.
Wow. Missed it.
Atlanta ( even though I see i just spotted the Phils game one!), Cleveland, Houston, LA
Dusty Magic. What a shot!!! Really hope he wins this…
what a moment. I heard Alvarez somehow got his whole family in town too. Love this for Dusty.
Beast. Be thankful Dogs traded him away years ago.
The fucking Dodgers have traded away twice the talent we have.
Wow unbelievable Yordan Alvarez is a BEAST!
3Run Bomb walkoff with 2 outs down 7-5 off a lefty as well Robbie Ray the greatest moment for a hitter right there! I don’t know if Mariners will be able to recover from this loss, just one game but what stab thru the heart.,
Wow. Got busy at work and missed both happy endings. Damn.
Alvarez was signed as amateur FA from Cuba by Dogs just before he turned 19, in June of 2016.
6 weeks later he was traded by LA to Houston for reliever Josh Fields.
Ironically, Fields pitched against Stros in 2017 WS in one outing…where he faced 3 batters, all of whom got hits and 2 scored. Last pitched in ML end of 2018 for LA. Since then he’s been released by 2 other teams beside them.
What a dumbshit. Donaldson shoulda been at 2nd standing up.
Kimbrel left off Bums LDS roster…
My hunch is this has got to be something Mariners have a hard time recovering from. Likely will be down 2-0 going back to Seattle on fumes.
Yqnks win. Dogpile winning. This night sucks.
Clevenger looks like a guy you’d score shrooms from in the parking lot of a Ted Nugent concert.
perfect
First 2 games were great. These last 2 suck. Done-zo
“I’m surprised at what’s happening in the Dodger/Padre game,” said literally no one on planet Earth.
They knocked Urias out in 5th and put 3 runs on board to close gap to 5-3. We can only hope, Zum.
Because of WC, Pads had to go with #4 Clevinger, who sucked.
Darvish tomorrow.
Come on Pads! Getting a little interesting
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft.
huh 3 of 4 home team higher seeds won. Only phils broke through. AL gets day off today, NL tomorrow.
D Green’s days off to end today, per Kerr. will practice tomorrow, play Friday and be on floor for home opening ring ceremony next Tuesday vs. LAL.