NovaBull

Gold, goldfinger…figured I’d just go for it as something different.

Idk, I’d kill for someone to not confuse USF with our brethren to the east in the swampland of central Florida. On the bright-side, most of the clients I deal with out of the Northeast, Midwest or West Coast don’t differentiate between USF and UF/FSU/UM, so we got that going for us…which is nice.

To sweep or get swept?! …that’s the question.

That’s just big city living...the more people around, the more chances there are for homicides - it’s simple statistics. Besides, have you been to Clemson, SC or College Station, TX on a non-game day weekend?! I’ll take Tampa, Philly, NoLa, Houston, Orlando and Cincy every day of the week.

How about baseball?

obligatory chair throw...

No worries, great minds think alike!

To even have a remote chance, Cincy would have to go undefeated and absolutely blow the doors off of Indiana and Notre Dame in back to back weekends on the road - and then pray that both of those schools go on to dominate the rest of the way (max two losses, but maybe not even). Plus have the SEC and ACC beat each other senseless with a one or two-loss school coming from both. Then and only then, would the committee even think of including Cincy in the playoffs and quite frankly, there’s just too much money at stake to let a non-P5 school participate, so I’m guessing they’d still be left out.

With the Rays and its treatment of young talent, it’s financial repercussions mixed with in-depth analytics. The organization is certainly going to do everything in its power to keep Shane and other young studs (looking at you Wander) under team control for as long as allowable by keeping them in the minors - even when they should/could be getting those same innings in the majors. That said, you can certainly see the advanced analytics coming into play as well with the young pitchers (SM, Glasnow, etc.) being limited to 60-70 pitches in the beginning and then lengthening then to 80-90 as they progress. My guess is they’ve discovered that once a guy gets over 60 pitches then he’s not as effective (makes sense, as the third time through the lineup you can usually see a spike in batting avg, runs allowed, etc.) and then they go to the pen. This allows the young guys to put up artificially skewed better numbers, thus driving up their value to the rest of the league once they become trade bait. Only within the last year or two prior to free agency/trade time do you see the pitchers get stretched to 90+ pitches per game and 150+ innings for the year, to prove these guys aren’t a fluke - which usually happens (look at Snell and Archer) and results in big contracts for the guys leaving and good young talent in return for the trade. TL; DR...the Rays know exactly what they’re doing, but as a fan, I’d like to see the young guys develop in the majors rather than the minors, as it’s more exciting and better for the players careers financially.

This could be huge for the five states allowing athletes to begin making money from endorsements. Think it helps us or only the blue bloods? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/sports/ncaabasketball/ncaa-endorsements-mark-emmert.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Never gets old!!!!

Perfect, arguably our two (former) best guys going to top 25 schools. Why didn’t we win more again?

Ummm, 2029 and 2031?! GTFO with this schedule. We’ll all be dead by then and this game will be played by the AI that’s replaced us through a simulation on a computer...can’t wait!

Think we can get Yetna back?

I miss those days.

They call that the Covid 19!

Pretty good article that will tell you all about how free agency works...it’s a pretty short read too. Learn About Major League Baseball's Free Agency Rules An overview of the free agency rules in baseball, including the history of free...

100% contract related. MLB needs to lower the free agency requirement as guys who should be playing in the pros aren’t - which SHOULDN’T be the case ever. Just one other way that owners are ruining the game based on protecting their own profits and turning new generations away from the game itself.

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