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Post by LankyLefty17 on Jan 21, 2019 4:21:16 GMT
Well fuck me, I guess. I can't keep doing this to myself. Closest we've gotten during my 28 years of fandom and it's still not it. I really hope that I'm done for good this time but I'll be missing it again by draft time. It's the most fucked up thing. Weeks' worth of my life wasted on something that ALWAYS ends in heartbreak. What's the damn point? You got a stud young QB and a seriously great offense. You guys will be back at it next year, and Brady has to retire at some point haha. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 12:52:56 GMT
Well fuck me, I guess. I can't keep doing this to myself. Closest we've gotten during my 28 years of fandom and it's still not it. I really hope that I'm done for good this time but I'll be missing it again by draft time. It's the most fucked up thing. Weeks' worth of my life wasted on something that ALWAYS ends in heartbreak. What's the damn point? Because your a sports fan Marsh, you've followed your team through thick and thin. Trust me the day the win the Superbowl will be a very happy day for you. And that's coming from a life long Liverpool FC supporter, who at this moment in time are 4 points ahead of Man City with 16 games remaining. Will they win their first ever Premier League? I don't know, Man City are too good. Will the games from now till May be hell to watch? Of, course but that's why we watch sports and follow a team. Sport is drama of the highest quality. |
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Post by Timberwolf on Jan 21, 2019 16:00:15 GMT
Second straight final featuring a team from Los Angeles and a team from New England.
The World Series had the Dodgers and Red Sox. Now we have the Rams and Patriots.
I doubt it will be 3 in a row as neither the Lakers, Clippers, or Celtics are having a good season.
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Post by spiderfab4 on Jan 21, 2019 22:11:19 GMT
Second straight final featuring a team from Los Angeles and a team from England. The World Series had the Dodgers and Red Sox. Now we have the Rams and Patriots. I doubt it will be 3 in a row as neither the Lakers, Clippers, or Celtics are having a good season. NHL hockey though. The Anaheim Ducks still have a good chance to sneak into a playoff spot. :P |
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Post by Timberwolf on Jan 21, 2019 23:52:12 GMT
Saints fans can whine all they want about the non call on the PI. But the fact of the matter is this-
1) their defense didn't stop Goff and the Rams from driving down and making the game tying FG in regulation.
2) Drew Brees threw a pick in OT that allowed the Rams to simply kick a FG in OT to win the game. Tom Brady never let his opponents have the ball in OT while Drew Brees did. That's something to think about.
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Post by Severla on Jan 21, 2019 23:57:25 GMT
The no-call basically voided that whole drive is why.
Also if the NFL turns around and makes something that can directly prevent that from ever happening again, you basically just openly admit 'yeah we fucked you, sorry.'
Same as the Dez catch, or the tuck-rule.
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Post by Professor Voodoo on Jan 22, 2019 0:11:31 GMT
Feh, despite all that's happened, I'm definitely going for the Rams (Saints fan btw).
I assume the guy who used the H2H hit is being fined accordingly, and the refs are being swarmed with negative heat.
Too many Brady victories are dull and same ol'-same ol'....
Plus the news stations will have a field day if the Rams pull it off.
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Post by Firehawk on Jan 22, 2019 23:30:23 GMT
The Baseball Hall of Fame announced their inductions for the year: going into the Hall in 2019 are
Edgar Martinez
Roy Halladay
Mike Mussina
Mariano Rivera
Rivera goes in with a unanimous vote, the first ever to get that honor. (I'm not salty at all that they did this for Rivera but not Griffey. Nope. Not annoyed at all.)
Besides, who cares about that, EDGAR MARTINEZ FINALLY GETS THE HONOR HE GODDAMN WELL DESERVES.
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Post by El Marsh on Jan 23, 2019 0:36:44 GMT
EDGAR!!
FINALLY!!!
Waited way too long but at least he gets in while he's alive and well enough to enjoy it.
Moose took longer than he deserved as well but I'm glad he got the call.
Sadly, Halladay's induction comes posthumously but Doc really was the man, being the best pitcher in the AL for almost a decade P.P.P. (post prime Pedro).
The unanimous vote thing for Rivera....I mean, you can't say he's not deserving but guys like Griffey, Ripken, etc all should have had those distinctions well before him.
That aside, I'm glad to see he quickly went where we all knew he'd end up around a decade before he retired. As someone who's always admired great pitching more than great hitting, Rivera in the 9th is the single greatest recurring frame ever. Mo really only threw two pitches, a sinker and more commonly, his legendary cutter which might be the single most dominant pitch in league history. Batters knew what he was throwing, where he was throw it, generally how fast it was going to get there yet there wasn't a rammed thing they could do about it. Gods know I'm no Yankees fan but anybody who loves pitching had to love watching Rivera work.
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Post by El Marsh on Jan 24, 2019 7:17:16 GMT
So James Harden is on a historic tear right now. He's scored at least 30 points in 21 straight games, a modern NBA (since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976) record. The only longer such streaks are held by Wilt Chamberlain (He holds the record at a ridiculous 65-straight 30+ pt games and also had a streak of 32 straight games at the mark; the 65-game streak came during the 61-62 season where he infamously scored 100 pts in a single game en route to averaging 50 ppg on the season). As if the streak itself isn't enough, Harden has scored at least 57 pts in 3 of his last 5 games, including a career high 61 pts tonight in a win over the Knicks. PPretty crazy stuff.
While I personally dislike Harden's style and consider him to be a floptastic whiner-baby who doesn't actually make his teammates better, I have to give credit to him for his consistency. It's not that he's taking a f*** ton of shots, it's that he's making just less than half of them while still leading the league in FT rate (something I believe he's done every year since joining Houston). When you have a guy who can hit 60% on 20 3pt attempts a game while also sinking anywhere from 15-30 FTs a game (no exaggeration), you get a pretty dynamic volume scorer. Those guys usually don't keep it up for a month straight.
It will be interesting to see where his scoring average is at the end of the season. Currently, it's at a ridiculous 35.7 ppg heading into the last week of January. Michael Jordan's modern record of 37ppg dates to the 86-87 season and has only been realistically challenged twice since, once by Jordan himself two seasons later and again by Kobe Bryant in the 05-06 season. Both finished around 35ppg and ended up less than where Harden is now. I haven't done the actual math but I figure he'd need to average 38ish ppg over the remaining 2 months of the season to break the record. It seems completely unfeasible that he can sustain this scoring deluge but it would be very interesting if he indeed does manage to challenge Jordan's mark.
His Rockets team is currently 5th in the powerful Western conference and feature only one other regular offensive contributor (Eric Gordon, one of my favorite underappreciated workhorses). Say what you will about all of this ridiculousness, it's working for his team and gods know where they'd be without him. I'm curious to see how the pending return of superstar/future HoF PG Chris Paul will impact this run.
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Post by El Marsh on Feb 1, 2019 23:52:26 GMT
Damn, they're not even trying to hide the pre-determined nature of it anymore
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/am6xmm/nfl_network_runs_wrong_commercial/
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Post by spiderfab4 on Feb 2, 2019 1:38:02 GMT
Eric Bischoff somehow orchestrated this! Don't be so quick to blame Tony Schiavone.
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Post by Timberwolf on Feb 8, 2019 8:44:01 GMT
Zealot and Marsh Thoughts on the NBA trade deadline moves?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 8:47:52 GMT
Lets all say one thing.
Manchester United will win the prem this year.
anyway.
The AFL Season is starting soon, I can't wait the women's AFL started last weekend and North Melbourne killed Western Sydney on there AFLW Debut. (If only North Melbourne was that good with there men's team they would dominate).
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Post by Zealot on Feb 8, 2019 11:16:01 GMT
Zealot and Marsh Thoughts on the NBA trade deadline moves? The NBA is my least favorite of the major sports, so I don't have much to say. Kind of fucked up though that Harrison Barnes was told mid-game he was traded, but business is business. At least he was classy about it. The Porzingis move will probably be the most interesting in the near future as will Gasol to the Raptors. |
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