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Obviously the main concern during the bye week is to get Sam healthy, but the bye week is timed perfectly because Ingram has been getting more involved on offense, but Herman has said he's still dealing with some nagging injuries so two weeks for him to get well is incredibly ideal right now.

Why does his shirt smell like balls?

Some coaches have defined ceilings which is fine. Perhaps Mike Leach's ceiling is going to places like Lubbock, TX and Pullman, WA and taking bad programs and making them respectable. Perhaps Mike Leach wouldn't do well at a place with a tremendous level of expectation. He was 2-8 against Texas when he was at Tech and both wins were close games that Texas had every opportunity to win. In the SEC he's recruiting against Alabama and Georgia. In the Big Ten he's recruiting against Ohio State. He can definitely coach, but he's not a recruiter and you aren't winning conference championships and national championships in those leagues without a strong recruiting presence.

If there's a god in heaven Sam Elliott will get the Oscar for this that he should've gotten for Big Lebowski

In fairness, he was close, their combined winning percentage is almost .500.

This is hilarious to me. There was never a time where it looked like Conor had a shot except maybe the third round where Khabib was a bit gassed from whipping his ass in the 2nd round that he stood with him in the 3rd. Even then Conor's punches weren't fazing him at all. If Khabib is even allowed to fight again Conor should have to climb the ladder a bit to get another shot, but Dana White is such a pussy he'll probably give Conor a rematch.

Kansas State cannot beat Texas. By that I mean if Texas plays the way they did the final three quarters of the game last week Kansas State cannot compete with them. The only way Texas loses this game is if they're full of themselves coming off two big wins, not ready to play and Snyder pulls off some of that voodoo dark magic bullshit he always pulls against Texas in Manhattan. That's all totally possible which I why I like this as another good test before OU but this is a team Texas should handle.

Fuck both of them. We can beat them, the Cubs, the Brewers or the Cardinals. Fuck em all. We're in boys. Lets go to the ship.

Braves fall down 4-1 in the 7th inning and battle back for 5 runs in the bottom half and hang on for a 6-5 win. One more win this weekend and it's over. Simply incredible.

WWE has a hard on for doing these super shows overseas all of the sudden. They have a WWE network special in Australia coming up so to drum up interest they're dusting off Undertaker vs Triple H so he's just promoting that match although there's rumors of an Undertaker/Kane vs Triple H/Shawn Michaels match in the works.

I'm off the first day of the Mets series in New York. I'm definitely going if they have a chance to clinch the division. I will not be upset in the least if the division has been clinched for a few days by then.

Folty was an ace, Chuckie Clutch came through again off the bench and a week after the Braves suffered as agonizing a loss as a team will ever suffer in the regular season the Braves have grown their lead from 3 games to 6.5 games and feels like they have the Phillies on the ropes. They have to keep the pressure on them. Go out and get the sweep. Turn around and take care of the Nats. Hang on with the Cards and finish this damn thing off.

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If he really said he thought Mack would've been fired around 2005 if he didn't land Vince is an amazing statement of bullshit. For one, no, it's highly unlikely they would have. The donors loved Mack. Mack would've been given significantly more rope than that. Secondly it's making a statement that's not rooted in any reality that you're using to support a thesis which is really dumb. There's no way to know what would've happened if Mack hadn't gotten Vince. It's making a blanket statement and supporting it with an iffy hypothetical. It's best just to tune out the media types. I know you guys get a rage hard on every time anyone says anything bad about Texas but the reality is the college football media traffics in Texas' misery. They love cracking jokes and taking shots at the program when it shits the bed and then wonders why fans are so unhappy. It's all intellectual laziness on their part. It's low hanging fruit to rip on Texas when they're down and then easy to rip fans because we're incredibly loud and unhappy that we can't beat the 10th best team in the Big Ten and can barely beat Tulsa.

The bullpen was good today too. Tonight was just the 6th time this year the Braves pitching staff did not allow a walk.

If I'm using pro football reference right he's just the second punter since 1950 to average at least 59 yards per punt with a minimum of six punts in a game. It's undoubtedly one of the greatest debuts in NFL history.

The Braves have starting pitcher they can count on to go more than 6 innings, no relievers they can count on to get outs and a manager who has no idea how to manage his pitching staff and yet they keep clawing and scratching their way to wins. It's incredible to watch in every sense of the word.

This team has played three incredibly dumb games in the past 5 days.The ending last night was absurd.

The bright spot is the only way they're getting into the playoffs is to win the division which is good to avoid the Wild Card game (fuck the infield fly rule forever). The future is bright if the young pitchers can pitch at the major league level. I'm about done with Newcomb. Given the relative youth of the top pitching prospects in the organization I'm willing to give him part of 2019 to prove he can be consistent, but we're no longer dealing with a limited sample size. He has yet to prove he can throw strikes consistently at the ML level. With Soroka, Wright and Touki breathing down his neck for a spot (and Allard and Gohara too even though nobody knows what the hell is up with them right now) the clock is ticking on him. Since the start of July he's been non-competitive against good teams save for the near no-hitter.

Anyone excited for this, or even aware it exists? In effort to do away with non-competitive friendlies UEFA is starting a new competition this week and there are some pretty tasty matchups. It's convoluted as fuck to explain, but the simple way to explain it is all 55 UEFA nations are put into four leagues. League A is the top 12 teams split into four groups of three. Each group plays home and away matches with the group winners advancing to the Final Four next summer. There's also Euro 2020 qualifying implications and ways for teams to get promoted and relegated to different leagues. There are some intriguing matches this week starting with France vs Germany on Thursday. Italy and Poland is mildly intriguing Friday. England vs Spain on Saturday should be fun and the headliner Sunday is France vs Netherlands. These aren't B teams either. France is basically bringing the World Cup winning squad and everyone else is bringing their A rosters so these games could be really fun. Groups can be found here https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/season=2019/standings/ This event airs mostly on ESPN+ so if you have that you can watch the whole thing and some matches, like France vs Germany Thursday, will be on TV (ESPN2)

After the interceptions that cost us the USC, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech games, the fact that Sam Ehlinger is allowed to continue to start after throwing that pick at the end is as big a reason to doubt Herman's competency. Protecting the ball is the most important thing for your quarterback and Ehlinger has proved time and again he can't do it. It's a joke.

Tom Herman has been head coach for 647 days. The idea that he can change the culture in the next 81 while having to game plan each week and get ready for a game is comical. He had a year to start building things and then an offseason to re-enforce it and we saw the same poor preparation, poor in game coaching and mental mistakes we saw last year and under Charlie. If Tom Herman hasn't figured things out yet he likely isn't going to. He'll be here through next year so fretting about it won't matter. If he goes 6-6 again this year or worse the big money donors will blame it all on Charlie Strong. You can mark my words on that.

Sitting in 100 degree watching Isner play tennis has to be miserable. Like, yay, he's American, but I don't like watching him.

It's weird that with a young pitcher his secondary stuff is better than his fastball by a wide mile but that's the scouting report on Touki. He also only started pitching like 6 years ago or something like that so for him to get a call up to the majors already is indicative of his raw potential. Hopefully he can reach his ceiling because it is quite high.

Score today made the game look worse than it was. Braves had a million scoring opportunities and couldn't deliver, but the Phillies lost to the Marlins so it was a wash.