Everything posted by Bartles
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ESPN GAME DAY
"How do you listen to these stories and not feel pain, not want to help? You can't relate to that if you're white but you can listen and try to help because this is not okay." -- is the part where he started breaking up. Guess a lot of people have such visceral reactions to the guy they can't accept that at least in this case he said something meaningful. Even if it was pre-planned, I disagree that it "sucked ass". I will say it is possible Kirk did more harm than good today because his crying has attracted like 1,000 times the attention than the really cool segment with the players. Especially drawing out the mouth breathers like on the LSU thread. Maybe the whole panel should have just said we're gonna shut up and let the players have the last word here.
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ESPN GAME DAY
I thought Kirk was genuine, even if maybe he knew he was going to choke up beforehand and just let it happen. The real question is, does it fucking matter if he faked it? Can we maybe listen to their words this one time? That whole segment was really good, as was the "should we play" discussion at the top. Wish we could save the hate for every other episode of this show this season.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
They don't have to tell us. SMU is a non-conference game so the threshold doesn't apply. As some people posted earlier, this may have a lot to do with TCU realizing what was gonna happen on the field vs a solid Pony squad that will have already played a game.
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Dallas Stars 2019-2020 Season Thread
Congrats Stars! Fun team to watch for those of us not overly invested in them
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2019-20 NHL
Maybe they didn't want one team to have an extra day rest before conference finals, given both west series went the same length. And I assume the 5-hour gap between games is to allow for overtime(s). I'm no expert, but I think the quality of play looks the same as past years. It sucks not to have fans, but it might help that the teams' practice and lodging has been consistent for weeks.
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I just want to make a thread about my dad
Great job on that! Your dad should have invented TikTok It's wild looking at all those old, crappy SWC arenas and then realizing, wait a minute we still basically play in one of those
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Tyrone Swoopes doing well in Seattle
Oh well... waived by the Eagles
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Wolken knowingly smacks the beehive on a regular basis, especially the stereotypical SEC fan base. But I would argue that's more his personality rather than some football-related agenda. None of these guys are robots. Tony Barnhart is another great journalist who is kind of an anti-Wolken...he tends to assuage the SEC folks. I trust both those guys when they report something, even just "from a P5 source."
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Just like people promoting Clay Travis bullshit is a "tell" about them as a poster, so is shitting on Thamel, Mandel, Wolken and other national writers. The latter group are actual journalists so they sometimes have to update their reporting with new info, and sometimes their sources turn out to be off base. But none of them have an agenda. They may be complete assholes irl (I think we hate Thamel from some long-ago OU reporting), but you won't find them taking black/white ignorant stands on important issues like COVID.
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2019-20 NHL
The Isles give up a lot of shots, but hardly any really good scoring chances. Then they force a handful of turnovers with their forecheck to score 2-3 per game themselves and that's enough to win against most teams. It's impressive, but Tampa has enough talent to finish their chances and also better discipline to not turn it over. The Flyers can't seem to put away enough of their decent chances. Big injuries last night on both sides, Couturier for PHI (looked like knee-to-knee contact) and Barzal for NYI (stick blade to the eye area). Probably won't know their status until game time.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
There are a ton of reasons the B1G presidents can't just reverse course. It was never as simple as getting rapid tests for the players, though that is a big deal and needs to happen either way. There would be an uproar about prioritizing publicly-funded tests. And they've already planted their stake about myocarditis and other unknown complications. This is another flesh wound for Kevin Warren either way. He looks silly for capitulating to Trump after a single phone call, and/or he becomes even more of a pariah to fans if it doesn't work out.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
This will probably fizzle like everything Trump does, but if he got them on the field in time to be CFP eligible, it could legitimately gain him several points in the WI, MI and PA polls (he's already safe in OH, IA among others)
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The Minister of Culture
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
The best would be 9-0 Cincinnati in the Rose Bowl semifinal the same weekend Ohio State trashes Michigan to improve to 6-0
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Starting on Thanksgiving would be in line with what NCAA basketball is looking at...most campuses are set to empty out at that time, so conditions would possibly be safer. But we've seen over and over that COVID doesn't respect anyone's timeline. It's a good move in terms of maybe keeping some NFL candidates on the field, since they could still hit the combine on time. It won't do anything in terms of influencing the playoff. No one outside Ohio and Michigan will care if those teams are playing opposite a CFP semifinal on Jan. 1. The by-the-books AP poll would probably go ahead and rank them once they kick off, so everyone would cry, "The No. 2 team in the country isn't in the playoff!" But CFP isn't putting a 5-0 team in over an 8-1 team that started in September.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
RE: Big Ten breakthrough Red October guy at desk: Let me understand...Abbott Labs developed ANOTHER 15-minute test?
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Black Lives Matter
Between COVID denial and the police, we've lost a lot of sports this year because white people don't give a fuck when black people are killed
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Actual College Football 2020 Schedule Thread
- FBI vs. NCAA Coaches
We may as well keep using this thread even though the FBI is technically on the sidelines. As expected, the NCAA is using the FBI evidence is pursuing various cases such as LSU. They want to use the new "IARP" penalty system, the one you can't appeal once it rules on the case. ESPN: Wade part of impermissible payments to recruits, others- College Football in 2020 in danger?
Again, "little birdies" means it's complete bullshit- College Football in 2020 in danger?
VT-NC State might win the prize for first game that has to be bumped to the scheduled open date- I'm here to vent about Sirius XM Radio
I kind of understand why they repeat stuff...a lot of listeners probably aren't on a station day & night so if there's a track they want to feature, they need to drop it in multiple times over a week or so in order to reach the widest audience. You could argue, who cares as long as the station is true to its format, just mix things up. For some reason they really pimp certain songs in a given time...can't count how many times I've heard the same song on 80s then First Wave on the same day. I also think they are beholden to certain artists, presumably for some financial reason. Just like in the days of terrestrial radio, you gotta pay to get airtime. It frequently pisses me off when XMU pounds us with Grizzly Bear and Deerhunter. I've grown to dislike those acts just due to repetition. But I assume they have a deal with Sirius for bonus airings.- College Football in 2020 in danger?
Note Riley said it was the test that wiped out the players, not being sick. Presumably asymptomatic and thus just have to wait until they test negative a couple times. If they had more frequent testing capability, that could be pretty soon. The fact it was all the same position would indicate they infected each other, though.- Tyrone Swoopes doing well in Seattle
Welcome to Philly! Swoopes signed with Eagles, whose 3rd string TE is banged up at the moment.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
I hate to agree about media agenda but in this case it's true. They like positive stories like people getting off ventilators and finally coming home, but they won't report large hopeful trends. They constantly paste the year-long stats on screen with no context, so viewers have no choice but to think everything is awful. My only thought is TV news (and legacy newspapers) knows its audience skews older and those folks are skeptical of good news. - FBI vs. NCAA Coaches
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