Re: mds, Harrison, and a thrilling sports blog/picks challenge - Ver. 2.0
September 1st*With Danny Salazar using wizardry to shut down the Blue Jays, the Yankees had a golden opportunity - and golden opportunities within their golden opportunity - to pick up a game on...
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Clutchiness is clearly the most important skill in baseball, so I'm not sure why guys like Jack Z are being canned after building their clubs around awesome intangibles.American League- Blue Jays...
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September 2nd* U.S. Open: Watching all of your favorites get picked off in short order is so much fun...- Women's bracket 3: In fairness, the carnage in my official "bracket of rooting interests"...
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Please be better than the tennis results.American League- Orioles (64-69) 7, Rays (66-67) 6 (11 innings). It had been a while since we last saw a real Brad Boxberger blowup, but the "all-star"...
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September 3rd* U.S. Open: *Sigh* Why can't we have nice things?- Women's bracket 1: Want proof that we can't have nice things? Simply look at the way that the Williams sisters' matches played out....
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September 3rd*So the Yankees got homers yesterday from Stephen Drew (.211 BA <3), Didi Gregorius, John Ryan Murphy, AND Greg Bird in the same game and still wound up using Dellin Betances AND...
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Too funny to hear college football fans/media about the NFL rigging things to steal their thunder (because a judge who annihilated Roger Goodell truly cares about giving the NFL attention...) when...
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September 4th* U.S. Open: It's good for a major tournament to see player after player withdraw due to heat-related illness and injury, right?- Women's bracket 3: Say, was there more carnage in the...
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Man, if only the baseball season could extend through September and October instead of ending on August 31st, right, ESPN?National League- - Nationals (69-65) 5, Braves (54-81) 2 (10 innings). Ugh,...
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September 5th* U.S. Open: Number of nice things that we're allowed to have: 0.- Women's bracket 1: It's so brutal when you can predict how matches will finish. Such was the case yet again when it came...
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September 5th*Luis Severino pitches into the seventh inning for the first time in his career (and then is lifted after he allows a weak grounder that was misplayed by Greg Bird, because that's the Joe...
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How will the NL's terrible managers blow games tonight?American League- - Rays (67-68) 3, Yankees (75-59) 2. Whither Nathan Eovaldi's customary level of ridiculous run support? Despite New York's...
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Will I truly care about football at any point this season? Magic 8-ball says "Outlook Not Good."- - Not only did #9 Georgia easily cruise past Louisiana-Monroe, they also screwed me out of a cover...
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September 6th* U.S. Open: Worst. Tournament. Ever.- Women's bracket 3: Remember when this bracket was nothing but my favorites? Well, it's the round of 16 and the closest thing I have to a rooting...
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I might've missed out on pre-tournament picks and have little feel for anything this tournament other than the reality that we can't have nice things. But that can't stop me from trying to pick every...
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September 6th*Yanks gave back the ground they gained in the AL East yesterday due to their inability to get a big hit - most notably in the eighth inning, in which they loaded the bases around three...
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Had some Mets fans get annoyed with me last night for not asserting that I thought that "we" (meaning NYM...) were doing just fine. I mean, have they not seen the stupidity surrounding Matt Harvey,...
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September 6th* U.S. Open: Clearly I picked the right day to see basically none of the action, as there was no real intrigue on either side of the draw. After #23 Venus Williams blew Anna Kontaveit off...
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Abbreviated picks because I have to get to the hospital. Spoiler alert: good players are good.US Open PicksMen's Fourth Round (4-0 yesterday; 4-0 overall)*Stanislas Wawrinka (5) def. Donald Young*Andy...
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I know that I should be happy that the Mets keep receiving gifts, but given the ridiculous string of ineptitude that seems to come out of every game involving the division leaders, I'd be just fine...
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