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They canceled some London series, not the season.

At least not yet.

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Mets.

That is all.

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The Islanders are announcing tomorrow that all playoff games this year and all home games next year will be played at the Coliseum.

The Brooklyn Nightmare is over.

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28760766/fans-heckling-astros-spring-opener-get-signs-confiscated

This might be the single most tonedeaf act I have ever seen in sports. Baseball seems to be trying super ultra mega hard to look at bad as possible.

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So yeah the Islanders aren't even in a playoff spot right now after that road trip

"lol"

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Honestly at this point right now I'm more interested in the proposed changes to the playoffs never happening than anything else.

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Another pair of alarmingly noncompetitive road games by the Islanders. Their spot in the metro top 3 feels up for grabs for any team that can get it together and run a streak of 5 games.

Varlamov may as well have been the #1 star of this game despite being the losing goaltender. Tripled in shots, and the only goal he gave up was on a turnover that may as well have been right in front of his net.

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I didn't think it was possible for the Astros to make themselves look worse than they already did before today.

"Oh"

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The Lightning spotted the East 20 games.

They're going to be leading it by the end of 60 anyway.

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28673912/sources-mlb-weighing-major-changes-postseason-including-growing-number-teams-14

I think I dislike everything in this proposal, which is pretty impressive.

The #1 teams getting byes is a pretty clueless gesture especially since byes are usually death in baseball. Teams that sweep the CS have a very bad record in the WS against teams who won it in 6-7, and are usually out within 5 games. Washington just won this way, but they are not the norm. The extra days off generally hurt more than help.

Most teams aren't going to want the loss of rhythm that comes with that bye. It's a punishment for doing too good.

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KCF0107 posted...

I didn't realize that we had two Latvian goalies. I feel like that is two more than the rest of the league combined lol.

You guys know what's up

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Does part of you secretly like it

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Doesn't that team excel at fan torture almost every season

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The Islanders have been going downhill for weeks and this feels like the trigger that can slide them right out of a playoff spot.

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Calgary leads a division with a -9 goal differential wtf

Also the start of Islanders Capitals

Refs call a penalty on Cizikas when he didn't even touch the guy

Realize they goofed, then called one on Ovechkin where he didn't do anything either

MAKE UP CALL

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P.S.

At least give Showalter a call

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Should've done it a couple of days ago but got it done way sooner than I expected them to.

I'll commend them for that much.

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I actually went to ESPN to confirm this because I couldn't imagine Vegas of all teams firing their coach

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WiggumFan267 posted...

Mets should fire Beltran takes are hilariously awful. Whether or not you agree, MLB absolved all the players and none are being punished. Why should the Mets punish Beltran in light of MLB saying they are not at fault? Further I'd you think the Mets should do something despite MLB saying they're ok, then it follows that you think every other former or current Astro who may or may not possibly have been involved should also be punished no matter what team they're on right?

Like this is absolutely brutally bad take to think he should be fired as a Met for something he did as an Astro when MLB already cleared it. Feel free to not like the fact he, or any Astro participated in the scheme cuz it sucks that this happened but it makes literally 0 sense for him to get fired over it unless you are going to suspend or "fire" every Astros player which is stupid. The coaches and higher ups are the ones at fault here. The players were likely just following orders

The MLB repeatedly namedropped him in a way that is begging the Mets to punish him themselves because the MLB doesn't want to go through the union to do it. He was clearly one of the people who originated the concept.

Beltran should've been out before Cora.

The Mets will spend all year under massive negative scrutiny if they keep Beltran and it will make them the butt of the league like they've never been before.

Honestly I'd prefer they not win with him. Any success they have with Beltran comes with a giant asterisk. I'd be far more comfortable with them losing 100 games than with the taint that comes from winning a world series under Beltran.

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So the Sox did the proactive thing and fired Cora

The Mets aren't firing Beltran until its hilariously too late because Mets right

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Hinch will be employed in 370 or so days

He gets vacation time!

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KCF0107 posted...

Astros fired Luhnow and Hinch

Astros are a PR dumpster fire and thought this would help

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Astros got blasted even worse than I expected.

Good on the MLB to exceed my expectations.

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IT'S PIZZA TlME COWABUNGA

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I get the feeling Titans/Pats is going to be the definitive game of the first round

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I didn't consider a game complete unless I've done it without a save state at all or unless it's Battletoads tier. Like I beat TMNT1 without them and that's probably worse than all the NGs combined.

It primarily makes it much quicker to learn a game first before you go through it later, as such, for me it's mostly just a convenience tool that shaves potentially several hours off of a game that I can then put to better use.

I'll take having that five hours of my life to do other things with!

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Save states are absolutely a valuable way of training though, especially for boss fights that are either annoying to get to or have multiple parts. It just makes it significantly faster to achieve.

I beat MM7 without a subweapon or a death (or an E Tank but I basically don't use those ever) in particular because I spent 20-30 minutes save state training on Wily one day and increased my likelihood of dodging his attacks significantly. Of course when I booted up my SNES to do it for real I still had to GET there, but when I did, I only took 16 damage the entire fight with him in part because I trained on it. Does that make it less that I spent 20-30 minutes to learn him rather than 2-3 hours? Not really.

**** Slash Man though.

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I do agree though especially on the NES that some games were designed very unfavorably, with Ninja Gaiden being one of the poster boys for it.

Don't bring fire magic to the first of three end game bosses? You probably lose, restart all of stage 6.

Ok, so you beat him, but the next boss is virtually unbeatable the first time you face him without that magic... And we just took it from you after you cleared the first boss. Have fun restarting the stage again!

In slight fairness, you can beat boss 3 in one shot without it if you're good enough, though the same magic absolutely rips it apart too. Lose here and it's back to redoing the entire stage again.

If I recall there's a bad form of magic very close to the boss room that can cripple you (commit suicide immediately if you pick it up). Part of why the second game showed you what was in orbs before you hit them.

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Never underestimate the power of stupidity in numbers. ~War13104
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Also I once beat Castlevania Adventure enough times in a row that I beat it on a mode where every attack in the game could OHKO me.

It's a game that seemed a lot harder in my childhood than it actually was.

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I did this for Battletoads because that game is true sadism.

**** Battletoads

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Garrett is finally out.

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ShadowYosuke posted...

It was Marrone's fault. "hey, let's play conservatively! That sure worked for the Falcons."

Didn't the Falcons run like 4 rushes the entire rest of the game once up 28-3

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Leonhart4 posted...

The Bears have committed to Trubisky for 2020

Good luck Chicago fans as the franchise spends the next several years thinking he's so close to making the leap so they can't give up on him yet.

Given what they traded for him it's either some bad attempt to save face, or they're still not smart enough to realize he's just not good.

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A lot of things were Bortles' fault

But the Legendary SUPER BORTLES had no faults obv.

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That was the year of the Legendary SUPER BORTLES

Then they choked the AFC Championship game and that was the end of Bortles.

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xp1337 posted...

are you ready for hc jerry jones

MY BODY IS READY

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So this means Gettleman still isn't fired I guess.

I wonder many of these computer folks are relatives of Giants' employees that got pulled out of their basements.

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Emeraldegg posted...

Well considering he's pretty bitter about how his previous owner treated him, you'd have to think that working for dan friggin snyder would be an instant turn-off, but who knows.

And he just signed up for being fired in 2-3 years for reasons that will almost entirely not be his fault.

"Why"

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I'm not convinced Tua was more than a flash in the pan that exploded for a year or so.

Combined with the injury I'd be weary of him.

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And here's a Jerry Jones reminder:

Jerry really wanted Manziel. He was determined to pick him and let nothing get in his way, because Jerry gets what Jerry wants.

He had so much backlash in his organization, and so many people tell him how big of a mistake it would be to take Manziel, that he actually listened to his people and didn't make the bad pick.

As much flak as Jerry gets sometimes, he's absolutely a better owner than Snyder and whatever puppet of a GM he's playing with at the time.

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Emeraldegg posted...

Well I saw one tweet yesterday that said rivera negotiations were progressing more slowly than expected so maybe he won't

Ron Rivera deserves better than that job, and Ron Rivera himself has to know that, right?

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In fairness all Allen was was Snyder's yes man to begin with. If he comes back it's because Snyder couldn't find another one.

No one in the organization wanted Haskins except for Snyder.

Many people inside of Washington thought he was a third round pick at best. The people actually paid to evaluate talent had Daniel Jones much higher than Haskins, as just one example. Snyder had no interest in even listening to his own staff about it.

I wouldn't take that job unless there were absolutely no other options.

Though yes, Allen's had some beyond awful draft classes one after the other, but it's a place where the coach and GM cannot properly do their jobs at all.

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Rhule, one of the lead candidates for most of the HC vacanies, declined to even take an interview with the Browns.

Good on him. Rivera shouldn't be rushing to lower himself to Washington's level either when he clearly has better options to pursue.

The Browns job is much better than the Washington job right now, too!

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I feel like we've known that for a couple of years now!

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Holy crap Arians totally torched Winston

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28397460/bruce-arians-says-buccaneers-win-qb-other-jameis-winston

When asked Monday if he believes the Bucs could win with another quarterback, Arians responded, "Another quarterback? Oh, yeah. [If] we can win with this one, we can definitely win with another one too. We're going to have this defense."

Yeah I think he's done in Tampa.

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Marrone was rumored to be out the door going into week 17.

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Doesn't mean crap as long as Gettleman is still there tbqh

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Most likely and I think he was ns it comfortably again.

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Devils lost in OT on a perfect backhand shot...

...Their own player fired said shot right on his net.

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I basically avoided most of the internet and did not get spoiled for the movie I just saw.

Anyways the only bad ones were 1 and 2. I was worried they were going to totally screw up 9 but it turned out alright tbqh.

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