Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #182: The Road to the Super Bowl

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...is long and pointless. I mean, when you think about it.

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It wasn't pointless in 2010-2011!

Hey I just realized that I made the kneel for the cross topic title just in time for the new Kaepernick controversy. Thanks Nike!

it's funny how worked up the redneck pieces of trash are getting about about Nike/Kaepernick.

I named my fantasy team 13 Reasons Ajayi. It's kinda funny because there are 13 games in the fantasy season, and each game is one of the reasons why...you know

I need help for my team name. So a guy in my league has had the name Arian Nation because he had Arian Foster one year. Foster's not in the league anymore but he still has that team name. I want to come up with something for a retired Packer but I'm uncreative.

I've used Multiple Goregasms for like four years in a row now. Sometimes you have to steal other people's creativity and run with it

Reggie White Nation

How goddamn stupid is that Eagles player for getting in there

I truly don't know what he was thinking

I'm only mad because I have the Eagles defense and the Falcons are already in scoring position

It looked like that ball hit the ground and moved on Sanu. Whatcha got for us, REFS?!?!

Gym Shorts is so disappointed in his defense

I bet Gym Shorts is proud now

Woohoo thanks Matt Ryan

football

this Vikings writer I follow on twitter is in a league where missed extra points are worth -25 and he has Matt Bryant

I have Matt Bryant as my kicker, can't believe he missed that extra point.
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MNTwins1991 posted...

this Vikings writer I follow on twitter is in a league where missed extra points are worth -25 and he has Matt Bryant

What a cruel league. I love it.

I mean they make like 94% of extra points now I think, there's a 6% chance every score that you get fucked

He said he drafted Matt Bryant because he had the best xp percent the past few years or something too

and you have to start a kicker or it's an automatic loss

Aw yeah get it Ajayi!

Nothing like burning a timeout after a touchdown because your guys got too into celebrating.

I am a god of fantasy football

And we get two points for that conversion.

at least I do, but I am assuming you get two points in your league as well

Julio Jones is good at football

this is exciting

I autodrafted Julio and Ajayi in my work league lol. I really hope the Falcons win tho

Oh, is a sportsball happening?

one play

the sportsballers are sportsballing all the sports

lmfao illegal contact!!

yay fuck Matt Ryan

Fuck Atlanta. And by that I mean the Braves, who have choked against the D-Backs but maybe they can still win in extras

STLCards1991's post reminded me of this...I like it when some random person comes here and says something like:
Sports!
Handegg
Sportball
We like sportz and we don't care who knows!

The NL is so bad this year. They are so bad that gausman who was pretty bad in the AL east can come over to the Braves and dominate. I feel like the Cubs are the only national league team that deserves to wina division this year

Also, the Falcons are unsurprisingly still embarrassing in the red zone... or should I say matt ryan is terrible in the red zone?

The Cubs are overrated too. Their rotation is legit bad and it'll show in the playoffs

They've got a bunch of pitchers who used to be good

The top three of the Rockies rotation has been legit good. The 4 and 5 guys aren't so great but at least they can drop one out if they make the playoffs. Their hitters have sucked, but playoff hitting ends up being such a crapshoot anyway that I'd rather have good pitching. Of course, the bullpen is not so good and with how the playoffs are managed nowadays you might expect to need to pull your starter after two innings

The Cardinals were awesome in August but they were obviously kind of faking it with their rotation. I like our rookies like Gant and Gomber but it's obvious that these aren't like 2.50 ERA guys or whatever they were that month. The bullpen clearly lacks talent as well but wasn't giving up runs and now that's turned. It's hard to know what to think about their chances when I can only guarantee that Flaherty and Mikolas will make the playoffs rotation and that Mikolas seems to really be on the ropes while Flaherty actually is improving but he's also just 22.

Who exactly does have a good bullpen? Seems like I'm always hearing about how various contenders have bad bullpens. Which is funny because it's as big a part of the game as ever

The Yankees and Astros do. That's about it for really good ones I think. Then like the Red Sox have Kimbrel and a bunch of alright guys. Really just having some alright guys plus 1-2 studs seems to be the goal these days

The twins have a great bullpen. Lots of WAR

They have the 20th most fangraphs WAR and the 7th highest ERA. That makes it seem like their bullpen is probably pretty terrible.

The Giants have a great bullpen if you like seeing your team score a bunch of runs

Also, please everyone enjoy this sports related music video "Party with the Reds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxS2Q_N9WYM" data-time="

It just came on my shuffle at work and it is a GROOVE

I thought that was going to be like the Scott Stapp song not some Tim and Eric shit

I mean "shit" in the nice way. Kind of. It was funny but I don't get it at all

CaptainHammer posted...

They have the 20th most fangraphs WAR and the 7th highest ERA. That makes it seem like their bullpen is probably pretty terrible.

Stats can be a neat tool, but they only show a small part of the big picture. You clearly don't watch a lot of twins baseball do you? The bullpen's intangibles are off the charts.

MNTwins1991 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

They have the 20th most fangraphs WAR and the 7th highest ERA. That makes it seem like their bullpen is probably pretty terrible.

Stats can be a neat tool, but they only show a small part of the big picture. You clearly don't watch a lot of twins baseball do you? The bullpen's intangibles are off the charts.

Your so freaking obvious of crap dude.

No ur obvious of crap

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/999484-green-lantern-rise-of-the-manhunters/59325467

This is even better than I remember