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I need to bite the bullet and stop engaging with ESPN slop content
It wasn't enough to me that they think they Cowboys are ever relevant
But their recent MLB power ranking has the Cubs 6th / 30 and the Brewers 19th / 30, even though the Cubs are up in the standings by one game, the Cubs just lost their ace for the season, and the Brewers won their (shared) division 3 of the past 4 years.*
I get the Cubs have had a super hard schedule** so far and have done great given that. But like. Can we have some big picture perspective.
Maybe what's worse than the Cubs being high is the Brewers being so low despite having 3/4 of the past division championships, including the last two years. They're below the Reds and Royals, who they won their series against head-to-head, and who have worse records (the Royals below .500!)
*Also the Cubs didn't win the division in that exception year
Their last division win was the 2020 bubble season, 2017 if you don't count that
It's been seven years since the Cubs won one playoff game (not series) and ESPN still thinks every year is their year
**Their schedule is ridic but like the Brewers' is legit too. Including @ Yankees, vs Detroit (my congratulations AN that y'all appear in this section), and @ Arizona in the desert. Colorado in Coors is no joke either)
Even including their two easier series, the Brewers have only played teams above them in the PR, and the Rockies in Coors (3-3), who are obviously a different team from than the bottom-ranked Road Rockies (0-7). The Brewers are 4-2 in those series, 10-9 overall.
It wasn't enough to me that they think they Cowboys are ever relevant
But their recent MLB power ranking has the Cubs 6th / 30 and the Brewers 19th / 30, even though the Cubs are up in the standings by one game, the Cubs just lost their ace for the season, and the Brewers won their (shared) division 3 of the past 4 years.*
I get the Cubs have had a super hard schedule** so far and have done great given that. But like. Can we have some big picture perspective.
Maybe what's worse than the Cubs being high is the Brewers being so low despite having 3/4 of the past division championships, including the last two years. They're below the Reds and Royals, who they won their series against head-to-head, and who have worse records (the Royals below .500!)
*Also the Cubs didn't win the division in that exception year
Their last division win was the 2020 bubble season, 2017 if you don't count that
It's been seven years since the Cubs won one playoff game (not series) and ESPN still thinks every year is their year
**Their schedule is ridic but like the Brewers' is legit too. Including @ Yankees, vs Detroit (my congratulations AN that y'all appear in this section), and @ Arizona in the desert. Colorado in Coors is no joke either)
Even including their two easier series, the Brewers have only played teams above them in the PR, and the Rockies in Coors (3-3), who are obviously a different team from than the bottom-ranked Road Rockies (0-7). The Brewers are 4-2 in those series, 10-9 overall.
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Remember last year when they had the Jets in their top five strongest NFL rosters, above the Lions squad that had just made the NFCCG and gotten 30 minutes of decent play away from the Super Bowl? Theirs is a machine built entirely on empty hype of big-market teams and whoever has had the flashiest offseason acquisitions. They fixate on the Cowboys and Lakers every year because those are the big fanbases they want to pander to, and it's probably the same for the Cubs.
Shit was astonishing. Their top five was the four Championship Sunday teams (Chiefs, Ravens, 49ers, Lions) and the goddamn Jets. If ever there was a time to stop taking mainstream sports media seriously, it was after their embarrassing hype over Aaron Rodgers to the Jets.
hurl enough slop at the wall and something is bound to stick though!
example: I think it was yesterday First Take had a segment about whether the Eagles were a more prestigious franchise than the Cowboys and as a birds fan I really liked how much they shit on the boys lol because over the last 30(!) years it's not even close
example: I think it was yesterday First Take had a segment about whether the Eagles were a more prestigious franchise than the Cowboys and as a birds fan I really liked how much they shit on the boys lol because over the last 30(!) years it's not even close
Low bar, to be fair. This century, the Giants are a vastly more prestigious franchise than the Cowboys.
The new best football rivalries:
Vikings v. Lions
Saints v. Panthers
Titans v. Jaguars
Spartans v. Wolverines
Gators v. Hurricanes
Badgers v. Golden Gophers. But because the winner gets an axe
the two main reasons american football don't appeal to me are both how esoteric the game rules are, but the actual tournament system. I'm used to footballs two systems of everything being playoffs or everything being league.
so like what the hell is this.
this is also the reason ive been unable to care abt most smogon tournaments that arent the wcup: the systems come from american sports which are kinda stupid to me. why the hell would i watch that
so like what the hell is this.
this is also the reason ive been unable to care abt most smogon tournaments that arent the wcup: the systems come from american sports which are kinda stupid to me. why the hell would i watch that
to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand American football…
shitposting aside, idk why the season format is so hard to “get.” Preseason are mostly meaningless games to warm up essentially. Regular season is like league play for the football you’re familiar with. Top x teams qualify for playoffs, which you are also familiar with. What’s not to get about the format? Game rules I’ll give you, not the easiest to figure out. But the format literally is just playoffs after league play
shitposting aside, idk why the season format is so hard to “get.” Preseason are mostly meaningless games to warm up essentially. Regular season is like league play for the football you’re familiar with. Top x teams qualify for playoffs, which you are also familiar with. What’s not to get about the format? Game rules I’ll give you, not the easiest to figure out. But the format literally is just playoffs after league play
I think the problem for me is that on top of this you have the east/west divide. which as stupid as it sounds its hard to keep track if youre not familiar which states and if theyre west or east states (and it doesnt help that most fans prefer to use the non state names from the teams in general). double because I have memory issues so I'm often scratching my head about it LOL
Listen I don't know much about football, but I have to bring up that I find it really funny that the butt fumble has a big ass wikipedia article lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Fumble
Also laughed at this quote here, it's such a clinical way to describe it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Fumble
Also laughed at this quote here, it's such a clinical way to describe it!
Wikipedia said:
iirc there isn't much of an east-west divide (outside of 4 teams in a given area competing for their spot in playoffs which is determined by geographic location) but nfl teams are split into 2 conferences (NFC and AFC) who pretty much go at each other willy-nilly during regular season and then have individual championships leading to the super bowl which is the #1 NFC team vs. the #1 AFC team.
yeah it's convoluted but so is pretty much everything in this damn country because we built this whole place from the ground up based almost entirely on half-assed unnecessary compromises instead of actually fighting tooth and nail for the things we want to happen
You don't need to give a shit about conferences/divisions and the playoff format unless there's a particular NFL team whose exploits you want to follow. Just watch the big men hit each other.
honestly thought this was some kind of new variant of guess who
Reading about the author of One Piece and why he chose to write certain things is hilarious
It's either "Yeah this thing that I established in chapter 1124 was something I wanted to do from the first draft of my story" or "this plotline that's been driving the story for 300 chapters came from a spontaneous decision. I didn't expect it to go so deep"
Like the driving characters for the last ~600 chapters were made in a chapter 15 years ago and exclusively came up because Oda wanted some side characters. Introduced them from one week to the next on a whim. They just happened to become extremely important
It's either "Yeah this thing that I established in chapter 1124 was something I wanted to do from the first draft of my story" or "this plotline that's been driving the story for 300 chapters came from a spontaneous decision. I didn't expect it to go so deep"
Like the driving characters for the last ~600 chapters were made in a chapter 15 years ago and exclusively came up because Oda wanted some side characters. Introduced them from one week to the next on a whim. They just happened to become extremely important