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It took five seconds on Google to find Blake Snell (two time Cy Young winner) threw 43 pitches in a first inning last year. Daniel Norris of the Tigers threw 54 in the first a few years ago. Bartolo Colon once took 61 pitches to get out of the first inning. Steve Trachsel threw 61 pitches in an inning. Those are all major league guys. Yes, it's rare. But it does happen. And, with the overall game being pretty average, it seems that there were probably other factors that we more of the cause.

@Mavric Brecht throws 39 pitches to get out the first. He's undoubtedly the most potentially sound pro prospect pitcher in the B1G because he uses his insanely good fastball to setup his even nastier slider. This umpire was stupidly overmatched. I watched the game. Against the 2nd and 3rd batters Brecht had to start his slider inside and let it break across the heart of the plate to get a call. It was terrible. That ump doesn't deserve to be in the B1G and in your post above you're talking about majors where the box is slightly different and still, very rarely do you see a starter throw nearly 40 pitches in the first. Sure it happens but not nearly as often as your statistical argument leads one to believe. Mr. Harris needs to stay the heck out of D1 baseball. He's horrible!! Absolutely Horrendous!! The Box following the "11" inning game of Arky vs TAM is an example of good pitch count numbers.

College football in 2024....

Eh .... the BEST pitchers in MLB last year averaged about 15 pitches per inning. From my anectdotal watching pitch counts during games, if they keep it under 20 they're doing OK. This is about 19. I'm not sure it's that far out of the norm. FIU was about 2:1 strikes to balls so it doesn't seem that they had a tiny strike zone.

And my feelings towards Illinois perfectly expressed here. Let's hope they walk out and see this too!! https://youtube.com/shorts/M-0qQ9zOTJY?si=OusNEppORko6OI1X

i can still remember the video of his interview at the police station after the shooting and him saying that he "thought" that guy going to aim his weapon at him so he shot him before he could.

Don’t know. But I do know I was told he wouldn’t be attending graduation because of a Minnesota dinner and he was lying to the Court

for the first time in his life he was shamed into attending one of his kids high school graduations. or maybe he just never cared about his other kids?

What was the actual outcome of this graduation attendance

I can't wait for Jerry "The King" Lawler to loose his ever loving mind when RFKjr slides in in his belly out of no where.

Lots of media supporters and dems here. Also and equally lots of republican haters here. (well in their thread) This video could and probably should be posted in both threads but because its Nancy getting owned I placed it here but it easily could be Lindsey Graham getting roasted too because they are both guilty of the destruction of this country. https://youtube.com/shorts/pli5QktQVeE?si=HJjNv8ZfUio2HqZO

That doesn’t seem like something a SCOTUS Judge should be doing no matter the reason. I do wonder why this is just coming out now though.

And...big dip. Oh well! CB stock is still making some slow and steady gains.

It's Utah and I expect to see Nebraska when the more detailed trailers come out. This was just a hype video, there will be more detail trailers come out revolving around different aspects of the game i.e. dynasty, road to glory, etc.

What on earth is wrong with today's strike zone. Just look at the number of pitches called in this 9 inning game ending with a score of 2 - 1. Brecht was pulled after the first. The umpire (Wayne Harris) is a joke. The B1G has to do better umpire scouting.

South Stadium will be standing for a bit longer. But those in East/West might get displaced unless they pony up big $$$ to sit with the new chairbacks, as the grandfathering in of donations will be gone.

A boy named Lucy. One of my favorite Johnny Cash songs.

Fwiw I believe that’s Utah or Texas Tech maybe. But yeah I thought we were in there for a brief second when I watched on a small screen but it ended up being Wisconsin. Doesn’t look like we are featured at all.

Purdue threw their Friday starter (Morales) last night and took and L. Illinois has their ace on the mound today (Omans) as Husker fans, let us hope Indiana can return the favor in today's game. On another note, MSU has it's best stats pitcher still available. (Dzierwa) today. Nick Powers is scheduled to face McConaughey. We'll see if MSU puts Dzierwa on the mound. (He was scheduled to throw yesterday, not sure why he didn't). Edit: I wonder if MSU is saving Dzierwa's arm for the tourney. Can't imagine they are. 3 teams (MSU, Maryland, Penn St.) are tied for the 8th spot. Maryland & Penn St are playing each other this weekend. Series winner eliminates the loser from the tourney. Maryland has the tie breaker on MSU. MSU has the tie breaker over PSU. So you can bet all MSU fans are huge PSU fans this weekend. 2nd Edit: I'm posting my thoughts, not making predictions. In looking at the final to games in the Illinois vs Purdue series, I just don't see a Purdue victory thereby Illinois winning the crown and even if Purdue can win one of the two remaining, Nebraska needs to sweep and I lack confidence in that too. Sadly, I think the season ends with a second place finish for the Big Red. That horrible weekend series at Rutgers will be their downfall. That or the 9th inning implosion against Indiana.

Is Nebraska's only appearance having Travis Hunter catch a TD on them? lol

Some of my childhood friends and I are planning to take a day or two off from work to play. I'm so excited. We always had kind of a fun/unique way of playing, too. Instead of going 1:1 against each other, we would have two people play one game. One person plays each quarter and only on offense. At the end of the quarter, the other person takes over. Made the game more chill without it always being competitive against each other.