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  1. There were definitely mistakes made by both teams, but holy cow the quality of the baseball played in that entire series was just so fucking good. I haven't had that much fun watching baseball in a long time. And credit to the umpires - I don't think there was a single egregious call that directly affected an outcome.
  2. Hook 'em, Scott. Legend.
  3. It's going to be absolutely bananas. The Jays have some great storylines on their side, too. Gibson finally making it to a WS. The Yesavage kid, who started the year in single-A ball, making the Game1 start. First WS for the club since Joe Fuckin' Carter. The only MLB team from Canada, energizing yet another entire country. This WS could be really, really fun. I'll have it on tonight.
  4. It's this. It's ALL this. Arch has missed easy, cakewalk chunk yardage in every single game. These are throws he's been making since he was 12. If he connects on even HALF of the obvious ones, we likely beat Florida, we maybe beat Ohio St., and we put some distance between us an UK. His stats move up into the "average P5 QB" range, and the narrative shifts completely to the OL. The "The Film Guy" breakdown of the UK game highlighted some really, really terrible mechanics from Arch. Even the good throws were more a result of raw arm strength than execution. I don't know enough about football to really dig on potential causes, but Arch is doing absolutely nothing to help himself, and it's honestly baffling.
  5. That's completely disingenuous debate ... you have to compare players to others of their era. It's also completely dismissive of the impact Ruth had on the game. The entire philosophy of the sport changed when he was done as a player. Ohtani is executing at a level never seen before, that is clearly true, but until we see a legion of guys suddenly playing both ways, his impact won't ever be as great as Babe Ruth. (Shoehei is fantastic. What he's doing is CLEARLY the most out-of-this-world thing since Ruth ... I'm not ready to annoint him yet, but I'm also enjoying the debate.)
  6. This is completely fair and I agree with it completely ... BUT ... Arch also missed wide-open throws without pressure and with his feet set against OhSt.
  7. This guy, as good as he is, hasn't ever hit more home runs in a season than every other TEAM in his league, like the other guy did in 1920. As Shoehei is to playing both ways, Ruth was to the homer.
  8. it's almost as if you can't stop the foibles of human behavior on the supply side. Has it EVER worked? (don't look too hard, the answer is no). But dammit, we're gonna try again, and the right will keep voting for it because it means they get to blow things up, victim-blame folks for being actual human beings, and then go home at night at huff the paint fumes, or get drunk off our gourds, or high as a kite on Oxy while we blame "them damn Mexicans" for everything that's wrong in the world.
  9. Point of order. There's been ONE guy like this guy, and that guy has historically been considered the best to ever play this game.
  10. I've got some good video of a few posters here at Penick and Hancock.
  11. Goddamn, those HOCO's were fun as fuck. I have zero interest in planning one, but i'll damn sure play!
  12. It's not a coincidence that when our OL play rises to the level of "passable P5 team," our RB and WR performances got miles better too. No drops. Topped 100 yards rushing. No INTs. It all starts with the OL.
  13. ahem ... "heil yes."
  14. I agree with this as well. I'm just saying that with "D1 starter a ANY P5 school" level of output, these challenges in our offense are far less 'the world is falling' and far more 'we might not be able to beat UGA and then tOSU b2b to win the natty, but we're in the conversation with just a few fixes like OL run blocking.' Everything feels worse because we can't even make the easy plays, and there's so little that Sark can do to scheme around the OL gaps without getting SOMETHING from his QB to help.
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