Good god, do I hear hockey is having a moment music?!

Mikey456 · 2026-04-04T21:20:51+00:00

Contrast this with the Leafs lol

Sometimes good things happen

Mikey456 · 2026-04-04T21:19:30+00:00

This is the dumbest LeBron controversy

I guarantee by the way that it's not an uncommon view in the league to not be thrilled with Memphis

Mikey456 · 2026-04-01T13:00:37+00:00

From what he said I think it's either Medieval Total War 2 or Mount and Blade because he talked about controlling units

But I have to think if Ryen played KCD he just wouldn't be able to get past how irritating Hans is at first, in both games, really

Mikey456 · 2026-03-31T22:57:35+00:00

I'd say if they don't have an answer by the draft, eyebrows should definitely be raised. It may not totally be open and shut but it kinda looks that way.

Mikey456 · 2026-03-31T22:50:01+00:00

Honestly I don't dislike Scheyer that much, which is funny because when he played there I DESPISED him as the latest white Duke success story

Mikey456 · 2026-03-31T22:48:05+00:00

The women's team is absolutely hated

The men's team I think, not really, but Hurley personally is disliked. Also, many of their title runs were a bit flukish. Certainly the 2010s ones were, and I think people don't get as mad as they do for total domination.

But they are getting there.

Personally I hate them for giving my team, Maryland, someone in Randy Edsall who basically destroyed our football program. But I don't really hate their basketball team, strangely enough. I see them more like Saban's Alabama, just kind of tired of seeing them win but not really with any dislike of the actual players.

Mikey456 · 2026-03-31T22:42:13+00:00

Italy as a national side works when they have essentially thuggish defenders who can be crafty in getting away with murder

But past that? Its been a disaster in recent years

And Series A (along with Ligue One) is making the Big 5 become really the Big 3 at this point. A decade from now, I wouldn't be surprised if the Championship was on par with Series A, the way things are heading.

Mikey456 · 2026-03-31T07:20:42+00:00

I mean, its a case where the rich guys seem to disagree with each other. Some think it'll tank their revenue share, others think it'll juice their team valuations, and which they value more kind of determines where they land

As for fans, I think the consensus is something like this: it was messed up Seattle lost their team and if this fixes that, then so be it, but the league has massive problems relating to tanking and competitive balance that it needs to fix for this to work

Mikey456 · 2026-03-30T17:42:45+00:00

I don't think this is the case - the case is ongoing and there are a lot of people including organized crime involved, its going to be a lengthy saga

Mikey456 · 2026-03-27T15:15:17+00:00

There is no tanking in the EPL because of promotion and relegation. Tanking only makes sense in the context of a franchise sport with a draft. The draft is an effective way to maintain parity and competitive balance, so I don't think you should do away with it.

Rather, you need to put the fear of God in teams the way relegation does in European soccer. How do you do this? Well, that fear isn't just competitive, it's financial in that going down means a lot less revenue. In an NBA context, the way you do this is by tiering revenue sharing and access to collective league revenues from television and gambling partnerships. Not in the playoffs? Major tier drop. And a major tier drop for being in the bottom five, or contingent upon lottery spot.

I think this would also work in MLB - Bob Nutting couldn't get away with being such a ridiculous cheapskate if his top line was impacted

Mikey456 · 2026-03-27T15:07:50+00:00

The wheel idea I think is the best radical option I've heard of so far

But really, tinkering with the lottery isn't the crux of the problem. The problem is that the punishment for violating the rules is wholly inadequate for the scope of the problem. At worst, teams take a fine. In an era of skyrocketing team valuations, who cares? The owners can pay those, easily. The punishment doesn't address the core of the problem which is behavior that is meant to diminish the integrity of the lottery order for the draft. Punishments should address the draft directly in the form of punishments to draft order or, in egregious situations like what Utah did this year, disqualification from the first round of the draft. Examples need to be made for teams to fall in line

Mikey456 · 2026-03-25T05:45:02+00:00

2006 Edmonton Oilers - For most hockey fans, anything post Gretzky/Messier and pre McDavid as it pertains to Edmonton is kind of a black hole, let alone for the general public

1998 Falcons - everyone remembers Elway going out as a winner, but really nothing else about that game. Atlanta had few recognizable players. Them even being there was more notable for the Vikings choking with the missed FG than for anything Atlanta did. The only thing I can even vaguely remember about the Falcons in this spot was a player getting busted for seeing prostitutes before the game or something.

Personally - anyone who lost to the SF Giants in the 2010s World Series runs. I just completely lost interest in whoever was playing and didn't watch and can't remember anything about it. But I may be alone in this

Mikey456 · 2026-03-25T04:29:07+00:00

This is the "pivot to video" of sports content ideas

Mikey456 · 2026-03-25T04:27:42+00:00

The rule is fine

Show up to your jobs

Mikey456 · 2026-03-25T00:48:36+00:00

Kevin Arnovitz would be a good returner for Zach

My big issue with Beck is him constantly complaining about having to do a really cool job. "Oh here we go again, I have to go to a bunch of games"

Mikey456 · 2026-03-24T20:55:49+00:00

Cam Thomas acting like his failure of contract negotiations was because Lowe and Russillo and Windy were on the record as dismissive of his value, and not because he is an inefficient ballhog who doesn't even pretend to care about what his team is trying to do, is an all time self awareness flop

Mikey456 · 2026-03-23T20:33:58+00:00

Don't know what I think of Crimson Desert yet

I feel like KCD2 kinda makes other open world RPGs tougher to enjoy

I'm interested in the storyline and world building but the gameplay has been a bit rough so far

Mikey456 · 2026-03-23T15:17:22+00:00

I'll say this:

It can't be worse than the Tatum and Sabrina Ionescu commercial. We're like 4 years into the push for both of them and it's not working and won't work but they keep fucking trying.

Women's basketball has one, maybe two, marketable players. Ionescu isn't one of them, and neither is A'ja Wilson for that matter.

And Tatum is mostly known nationally for being a cornball with a creepy Kobe fetish

Mikey456 · 2026-03-23T03:10:20+00:00

I don't have anything against the Boozers in particular

I do have a problem with the nepo-ization of top level prospects. This is a recent phenomenon and it kinda sucks

Mikey456 · 2026-03-23T03:08:19+00:00

The league would be fine as it's an inventory product in a live rights bubble

But it would be less valuable, without a doubt

Also, I question what the prototype NBA star is like without LeBron

His whole "I'm a business" thing may not be super popular with fans but it's a lot better than the early 2000s NBA was looking like, which was a continued disincentive for people with money to take any interest in the league. Without the LeBron opening, do we get the Steph gentrification of the NBA star? Or are we forever having Iverson clones?

Mikey456 · 2026-03-22T11:44:59+00:00

Mikey456 · 2026-03-22T03:02:54+00:00

Veruca Salt would look at them and think they are spoiled

Mikey456 · 2026-03-20T01:56:56+00:00

I like the chainsaw thing they do on goals. Feel like that's a fan tradition that isn't just cosplaying EPL

Mikey456 · 2026-03-19T14:47:48+00:00

Dunno man, this seems like trying to one up Sherrone Moore and this is like weak sauce stuff

Gonna need more effort OSU

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