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What in the actual F indeed.

Felix officially moved to the 'pen. https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2018/8/10/17673704/felix-hernandez-moved-to-the-bullpen-for-first-time-in-his-mlb-career

I read it earlier this morning. Really good stuff from Dirk per usual. His long form pieces are always top notch.

I don't mean to speak for @Danimal but his comment was made most likely because if Jackson wants to play in the NFL, there is an established route that Nate Boyer built. Boyer is a former Green Beret that walked on at Texas and became the long snapper for the team. The Seahawks gave him a look in 2015 and he was able to get a little bit of run in preseason but was unfortunately cut before the season started. I've included a link to his wiki bio as Boyer is a really cool story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Boyer I'm a big Seahawks fan so I watched the Boyer story with quite a bit of interest to see if he would be able to make the team. When I saw that Jackson mentioned he was training to be a long snapper, I immediately thought of Boyer.

I've deliberately been holding off on watching Succession until the season wrapped up so I could blow through the season in a week. Will report back once I've finished up.

Dominick obviously called this guy to help him study for the ACT

I'm not sure if this tongue-in-cheek or not but I had some fun going down the rabbit hole for 15 minutes on Sports Reference to see if I could find the answer to this. It appears that no team has won a national title with a defense averaging 80+ plays. The closest I could find was 2003 USC whose defense averaged 76 plays/game. I was a little surprised to see that since USC under Carroll ran a pretty traditional pro style offense and not a nuclear hurry up. Granted, that USC team had some bona fide big plays studs in Bush, White, Mike Williams and Kerry Colbert.

Holy smokes Barry is all yoked up.

That curveball was pure filth. Unfortunately his pitching after that was no laughing matter. KF was out there looking like a slow pitch softball pitcher. The Rangers were squaring up seemingly all his pitches. Need Marco to come up clutch to secure the bag and get the series dub. Thursday's Astros game pits Paxton against Verlander which will be awesome. More awesome is the game is at Houston so I'll actually be able to watch more than a few innings before falling asleep on my couch!

Holy crap Goldberg looks terrible!

Feels a little strange that tonight might be one of the last times I see Felix Hernandez as a starting pitcher for the Mariners. I still remember him coming up as a 19 year old wunderkind in '05. While it's highly unlikely he would pitch in the postseason should the Ms make it to the divisional round, I hope he gets a chance to experience it.

Bet DSI has Nebraska still with a win total of 5.5 -105 which is a full game lower than a lot of other books. That is absolutely nuts to me. May have to load up big time for a possible delicious middle opportunity.

Poutine is good for lots of things...catching baseballs, unfortunately is not one of them.

Oh Colorado, why do you make it so easy to make fun of you? As for Lynn, glad to him in the fold. He is a large human.

Ugh, this is just so gross. Toronto stinks! C'mon Ms, get it together. Goodness gracious the offense outside of Nelson Cruz absolutely stinks right now. Cano coming back will obviously help things but it's unfair to expect he's going to come in and immediately light it up. The Ms have a critical 10 game road trip coming up at Texas' launching pad, Houston and Oakland.

Just when I think this story can't get any more delicious good 'ol Urbs goes and drops his statement!!! Live look at me with the thought of Urbs/Gene Smith anyone surviving this... Live look at Urbs after dropping his statement knowing that he just torched Gene Smith and company Pretty damning stuff there. Brett McMurphy has all the receipts! Also, McMurphy is trying to challenge the reigning champ Dan Wetzel for his title of 'Media person most likely to cause an AD to go to Defcon 1'

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Gotcha. Didn't pick up on the sarcasm element.

I personally would like to see one guy win the job and run with it fwiw as well. Especially given the fact that whoever wins the job will conceivably be the starter for the next couple seasons and you'd like to get as many 'growing pains' out of the way.

It would be really fascinating if Vedral becomes eligible immediately. NU could in theory rotate all 3 guys to see if someone separates or try and play each guy 4ish games each to maintain redshirts.

Gotcha. Yup, nothing would show up on a background check then.

I feel like Nebraska is kind of like a hot shooter at a craps table. KEEP ON PRESSING BABY!

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't recall if Smith was ever charged/convicted for any of his domestic violence instances. If he wasn't ever charged, those things wouldn't show up on a background check.

Holy smokes can you imagine the feeding frenzy that will take place if that happens? It would be the PSU situation times 5.