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Is it looking like Foley?

And yet they still haven't met in the tourney in 21 years. Most kids on the 2 teams weren't even alive then.

They had 9 pitchers on the team. Koufax was the 2nd leading vote-getter amongst pitchers.

A 4.3 WAR player vs a 0.9 WAR player is a pretty significant difference in a division as competitive as the NL Central.

I say no. I just don't see anyone on that list that I could remove for him.

If that's the case Schebler, not Winker, should be the extra outfielder. Winker will be a much better offensive player than Schebler if you can live with his horrific defense.

It isn't about people that are already fans. They're trying to grow their product and attract new fans. They feel in that in our ADD-filled society that new fans don't have the attention span for the long stretches with no action.

It was 1998. For all the complaining from UK fans about the selection committee making sure that UK and Duke end up in the same bracket, they haven't met in the tourney in 21 years.

But that hasn't actually happened since 1998, right?

So only in only 1 season out of the 7 in the current format has produced a Wild Card team in the World Series, right? 10 of the 17 seasons under the old format had at least one World Series participant that was a Wild Card team. 14% vs 59%, that's a stark contrast.

I think that only 2 of those teams, however, made it to the World Series in the current one game play in mode, correct?

Jared Goff was just overmatched by Darth Hoodie all night long. Fitting, the Saints should have been there anyway.

Oh I'm not disagreeing on the moves. They were solid. To this point, however, I think all they have done is give themselves a 1 year window to compete for a wildcard.

Wasn't Malik Monk a 2nd team all-American? That's pretty elite.

Maybe because they've given up a couple of really good prospects and, thus far, have only opened up a 1 year window in which they are still solidly no better than 3rd in the division. They're improved, sure, but they are no better than a wild card team with this roster.

But won't Michigan/Michigan State take care of itself since one of them will beat the other? And I don't know that Virginia keeps a 1 seed if they lose to Duke and again in the ACC tourney. I don't think UK wins out with only a loss to Tennessee in one of 3 potential match ups either though so there's that.

Now that the unanimous barrier has been broken maybe the ones that deserve that honor will get it from now on.

Rivera should have gotten 100% off the vote. But like you said, he shouldn't have been the first to do so.

Again, they didn't feel brave enough to respond like that to the African American group did they? The Native American wasn't with them was he? And in this era of social media there is no way that those students did not know that the tomahawk chop and chants were racially offensive.

I must have missed the part where they were brave enough to racially mock and taunt the African American group like they did the 70 year old Native American.

At $7 million he's worth the gamble. He could be a good number 3 if he returns to form.

That would definitely help.

And it could be considered a war drum, so there's that.

Or maybe it's because the African American group was a little more "scary" to the group than a 70 year old Native American with a drum. They probably didn't want to chance their reaction to taunts.

The administration of the school has acknowledged that the students were wrong. It's a shame we have people continuing to justify or defend their actions.