UConn James

I don't think the situation is helped by McD's man-love for undersized guys at DL & LB. LBs here are ~ 215-220. I mean... 💁‍♂️

I went the whole first page of this thread looking for Tre White and I was like... wait... did I see an entirely different play?! Yes, Tre had to drop coverage bc he just can't keep up with anyone. And he handed coverage off to... no one .... and dropped backward and away toward a guy who was already covered. Just... It was like 'if I close my eyes, Rice is not there!' I can't even anymore.

Post-game drug test incoming.

Josh had a smelling salt package in his mouth on the outro shot.

Merry Natal Anniversary, mead!

Yeah. EA shut it down last year. I played til the bitter end. 🥺 That was a user named Ed something, right?

Been around since the early days and every version & host of this board. We've built up quite a community here in the last coming up on 30 years. Unbelievable when I say out loud... 30 years. Miss a lot of the old regular posters. NJ Sue. Homework. IYKYK. The LOST (tv show) discussion thread after each episode. We had a user here tgreg who worked at that Bad Robot production company but did not work on the show. The thread had a really huge page view count because people everywhere came to read it here on TBD. Truly a cultural touchstone time that has not & will not be repeated.

Achieving greatness is not as difficult when you literally buy all of the best available players and have a $415M payroll. But does this even include all the put-off Bobby Bonilla style deferred payment schedule they gave Ohtani? Red Sox fan here. Clearly spend more than a lot of teams. But have spent a lot less in the past 5-6 years of penny-pinchin' (despite having the highest ticket prices in the league) and shed a bunch more with the Devers trade. Nice that we've rebuilt the farm system and a bunch of those players have now come up and done well. There absolutely needs to be a salary cap. And a salary floor. Having 8-10 competitive teams and 20+ that spend less on their entire operation than the Yankees spend on sunflower seeds is just terrible. The cheap owners don't re-invest what they get in ticket, concessions, parking, media deals, and just pocket millions. I see what you did there! 😉

It's 2:30 a.m. and it's going to the 18th inning. Soon they're going to be getting pitchers from out of the crowd. Wow.

Which... is saying something. Storm is just parked on them and not moving anywhere. 🙏

It also helped that we were playing against Andy Dalton. Not exactly great mobility at QB which has burned our asses this year and, well, every other year. Let's not start thinking this D is fixed or anything near just bc McD grabbed a playcall sheet and turned on his radio. It's still undersized, oft-injured (probably in no small part due to being undersized), and slow. No amount of a slightly different configuration is going to turn chicken ***** into chicken salad.

Re: Hailee's anxiety having any bearing on Josh.... I really do hate to dismiss other peoples' struggles bc you can't know exactly what another person goes through in this life. But. With that said.... If it's something that can be helped / fixed with 10 minutes of a bit of solitude or a blanket and warm cup of tea.... that's a Hollywood version / privilege-class anxiety. ... It's not crying on the floor, wondering howTF you're going to make ends meet, 99 problems and the car broke down is one, mom's been in cancer treatment for two years, the world these days just feels like a complete poop show, insomnia is an old friend, and you don't know what the next step is or whether you even want to take a next step... kind of crippling anxiety. A NSFW (language) extraordinary poem, ~3 minutes. "My dad says therapy is a rich person's thing -- poor people've got ***** to do!"

Oh man. 🥺 That's far too young. Scientists have been growing organs in labs for quite a while now. And "organs on a chip." Yet it's like we're forever "10 years away" from any kind of advancement for any kind of treatment for any kind of disease.

Well... if he can stay within 10 yards of his assigned receiver during a play he'll be doing better than Tre White.

Apparently from yesterday. Grass has had its first mow, in baseball outfield diagonal pattern (it's better for the grass to mow it in different directions each time). Wondering why the right sideline is the same shade as the real grass versus the left sideline artificial turf (which is still incomplete) being so much lighter green. 🤔