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  1. Phil Plantier

    Bills game ball thread

    Mac Motherfucking Jones Julius (lol) Jabril Peppers Bill Belichick
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    MLB playoffs suck (at picking the best team)

    I missed this article when it was posted last year. Apologies if this was discussed here at the time. That was when the top 2 teams were eliminated in the first round. We have a bigger problem now. Money graph is here (bad quality from original, for some reason) The article recommends going...
  3. Phil Plantier

    Mavs give up

    So the Mavs decided that they'd rather have the #10 pick than try to make the play-in. This seems like an escalation of tanking/load management. The Mavs had a chance to win the championship: not a good chance, certainly, but can the NBA allow a team to opt out of the play-in? I don't remember...
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    Do I have to buy the 2005-06 Pro Basketball Forecast?!

    I'd like to learn more about PER. Pro Basketball Reference has the raw formula. A couple folks try to approximate it. I'd like to dig into it and read the justification. But it seems like the only printed version of the rationale is one of the old Pro Basketball Forecasts. Is there some other...
  5. Phil Plantier

    The WNBA: Thread II

    From the ESPN thread: Challenge accepted.* Would love to talk about the WNBA here, as of now I've relied on Reddit and some mediocre podcasts. Playoffs start tonight! And they've upgraded the playoff structure. First round is best of 3, with the higher seed having the first two games. It...
  6. Phil Plantier

    Um, who's going to play tonight?

    Brown, Tatum, Horford, and of course Timelord, are all out tonight. I figure that means we're starting a super-small lineup of: Pritchard Smart White Grant Williams Theis Who do you think will come off the bench? Nesmith, Hauser, and Kornet?
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    Coyotes moving to ASU's rink. Capacity: 5,000

    Don't normally post on this forum, so apologies if this has already been covered, but the Coyotes are getting evicted from their arena (which I've never heard of before). Their solution? Play at ASU until they build their own arena, which is not even at the planning stages yet. From The Athletic
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    Let's Rummage through the Bargain Bin

    From now until training camp, there will be some older free agents looking for work. Here's a list (every list has an annoying amount of ad clutter): https://overthecap.com/free-agency/ (you can click on "2021 Team" to sort by available FAs) Anyone catch your fancy? I wonder if Melvin Ingram...
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    wtf is the Davey O'Brien Award and how did Mac Jones win it?

    I'm starting Dane Brugler's Big Guide, because that's a thing to do on a Sunday morning. There was a note that Mac Jones won the Davey O'Brien award. I had never heard of this award. But how did the 5th best pro prospect win the award? Was there an outcry? Or does no one care? I figure one of...
  10. Phil Plantier

    My dumb idea about the Pats trading down

    OK, you talked me out of Kyle Trask. Now I, as a rank amateur, have another prediction: The Pats trade out of the first round and maybe the second, too. Here's why: This year's draft is much more uncertain than ever before, for obvious reasons. Would you trade the 15th pick for 4 3rds this...
  11. Phil Plantier

    NFL Announcer Tiers: All-time & Current

    I'm officially on vacation in a few hours (my vacation spot looks a lot like my office, and I'm wearing the same clothes, but it's the principle of the thing), and @Van Everyman and others had some good reflections in the Jim Nantz thread, so I thought I'd use some of my work time to expand...
  12. Phil Plantier

    Dick Stockton retires

    @ifmanis5 had the news first, but I think Dick deserves his own thread. It's hard to imagine now, but he was so good in the 80s: one of the announcers that meant this was a Big Game. His NBA games with Heinsohn are what I remember first. But he was a very good NFL announcer too. Like many, he...
  13. Phil Plantier

    My dumb idea about Kyle Trask

    I am very much not a draft expert. The last college football game I watched was in 2017 (Rutgers lost to Eastern Michigan). Apologies for my speaking without any knowledge. All that said, every day I become more certain the Pats will draft Kyle Trask. Probably in the late first round. Why...
  14. Phil Plantier

    How Many Top-Market FAs Will NE Sign?

    Will Belichick go for some high-priced free agents the next few weeks or will he only go bargain-hunting due to the cap constraints of other teams? Obviously this is a vague boundary but let's say 10 million average annual value or more, or something above the spotrac free agent predictor. I'm...
  15. Phil Plantier

    Deadspin defectors debut

    They're starting their own media company. Congrats to them for getting their kickoff into the New York Times. https://nyti.ms/39AMfBu Sounds great! But their price point is $8/month (not including annual discount). Not sure I'd pay more for snark than I do, currently, for the Times and the...
  16. Phil Plantier

    Welcome to Football Island

    Edit: credit to the original idea by The Grey Eagle Now that the Marlins are in trouble, I do think the NFL is working on (or already has ready-to-go) a Football Island solution. So let's carelessly speculate! A football bubble would need to hold approximately 2,500 players 1,500 team staff...
  17. Phil Plantier

    Upgrade laptop to WQHD: how much would you pay?

    It's time to replace my 2014 Alienware 14, the best laptop I've ever owned. Also the heaviest. I'm intrigued by the new AMD laptop processors, and the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is getting rave reviews like this one...
  18. Phil Plantier

    Fouts is out

    Reports from Richard Deitsch and Andrew Marchand that CBS has fired Dan Fouts. I've always liked Fouts, first as a player and then as a broadcaster. I think he has a gift of treating the game like a game, without getting campy about it (like Paul McGuire used to do). View...
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    home assistant/ifttt

    I'd like to take some cautious first steps into a smart home setup. I'd like to do presence detection, but I'm not keen on giving that info to Google/Amazon (which is a silly line to draw, I understand). Does anyone have experience with the open source Home Assistant and/or smart home apps...
  20. Phil Plantier

    What are you paying for?

    I'm moving back to the Boston area, so I wanted to subscribe to the Globe. The digital rate for the Globe is apparently $360/year?! I'm not paying that. This leads me to ask a larger question: what sports journalism do you pay for? Do you pay for the Globe? Do you subscribe to Sirius? Do you do...