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hobbes2702

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  1. 22 minutes ago, Derka said:

    there’s no unfair advantage for the attacking team whenever some random defender’s shoelace keeps you offside on a play where you need slow mo instant replay and a computer system to actually determine whether or not you’re onside. this will get rid of those asinine instances and will make being offside by a half an inch 100x easier to stomach. it’s a way better idea than what we’ve currently got.

    It’s exactly the same. There are still going to be extremely tight calls regardless of where we draw the line.

    All this does is change the way the game has been played. And like I said, this will lead to fewer high defensive lines which means more shitty low block games.

  2. 10 minutes ago, Derka said:

    it’ll make it to where goals are no longer disallowed after the fact because a defender’s big toenail was a quarter inch offside, which i think everyone would enjoy.

    I don’t see how it does that. It will just be the other end of the same issue.

    What I think it will do is force back lines to play deeper and deeper which makes for shittier games. It might make more goals but it will make play less exciting overall

  3. 8 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

    Considering how bourbon distillers/retailers etc have been fucking buyers for years on pricing/allocation etc I have little empathy for them. Also this is tied to reduced drinking in the younger generations as much as anything. Happy to blame Trump for lots of shit, I think this is a sign of over capacity being reduced in face of a market decline in spirits. 

    They can’t sell anything in the second biggest market because of tariffs. This is entirely trumps fault 

  4. 33 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

    Hard to say a guy is limited that can legitimately hold down 6 maybe 7 different positions and be ok. He's not a gold glove shortstop but he's a better hitter than the other team's shortstop. I think his defensive potential is Marwin Gonzalez 

    Again, he’s awesome at the plate and an elite talent there, but he was a straight up bad defensive infielder and a clearly inexperienced outfielder. I assume he will get better but there is a lot of room for growth on that side of his game.

  5. 7 hours ago, WBT said:

    #1 seems aggressive.  Here's hoping he lives up to that.

    Seems wild for such a limited defensive player. But he hits from both sides of the plate and was a 315/410/515 with under 40k while being hurt basically all year. There’s def potential for him to be one of the elite offensive players in the NCAA next year 

  6. 2 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    People need to stop saying that.  We should all hope to the very core of our beings that Trump lives out his term for exactly one reason: 2028.

    A mentally declining Donald Trump will be little more than his malignant narcissism.  People may explain to him why he can't have a third term and that he has to smooth the transition to a new Republican standard-bearer, . . . but this is Donald Trump we're talking about.  The notion that the Republican Party--much less the United States--could move on without him is more than he can possibly bear.  There is simply no way he can gracefully hand over the Party and his support to someone else.

    So starting in 2027, and in ways small and large, he will undermine and diminish whoever is leading the Repubican primary--essentially trying to position himself as the only only possible nominee.  If it comes down to a contest between Cruz and Vance, for instance, he will switch his supposed support at least a dozen times.  Someone will come into the Convention with enough delegates to secure the nomination, but it probably won't happen until late.  And even then, it will be after a bitter primary contest.

    And even after someone gets the nomination, Trump will subtly (and not so subtly) undermine the nominee.  Until somewhere around October 10 he'll drop the idea that people ought to write him in.  And a bunch of his idiot supporters will.  It won't be a huge number.  But it will be enough to make a material difference in anything approaching a swing state.

    And ultimately, that's what Trump wants.  He wants to be the last Republican president.  Because the notion that the party can exist without him is noxious to his ego.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Gaffords said:

    It will always be subjective. But 3 of the five champions are likely to be pretty good most years...  

    Playing a weak schedule based on "tradition" shouldn't be rewarded *cough* ND. There have been many rivalries that have gone by the wayside and ND shouldn't have special treatment just because...  Let them get left out a few times because and I bet they aren't near as attached to the armed services as they act.

    Or like others, buffing your schedule with the Holy Mary School for the Blind of the world should cost you instead of rewarding you for a *win.

    Two G5s this year was ridiculous, plain and simple. 

    And the list could go on, but you get the point.

    It’s not subjective if it’s conference winners or some sort of top however many from each. No teams chosen by a committee is what I want.

  8. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    Sixteen teams. Top five SEC. Top five Big Ten. Top three ACC. Top three Big 12. Everyone follows the same tie break rules.

    No at large bids.

    Let's roll.

    I’m good with that too even though I think it’s too many teams. You and I are in complete agreement though that there shouldn’t be a committee or at large bids.

  9. 8 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    People often talk up the hypothetical about whether they would get in the ring with a pro boxer for a million dollars. 

    Still want to do it now? (nb he earned LOTS more than that)

    Despite what happened I thought it was pretty clear that AJ was holding some back. He could easily have put Paul in a coma if he threw the uppercut 

  10. 26 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Which are dictated, again, by the rules that everyone agreed to. For the 10000th time, the anger at the committee is misplaced. They are placing teams based on those rules.

    100%. I don’t have any issue with the committee. They are morons picking teams by arbitrary judgements. That’s why we need to get away from committees and make teams win to get in. If the conferences are unbalanced, so be it. Win your conference and then go from there. If the SEC and big10 are the best conferences they shouldn’t have issue with that system.

  11. 15 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    Fucking dumbass thread. Problem isn't the playoff. It's the teams these morons pick. And the inclusion of the minor league teams.

    You’re always going to have morons picking teams if you have to go through a selection process instead of automatic qualifiers. That’s why it needs to be conference champions or something like it.

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