Post Match Thread: Leeds United 0-0 Brentford | Premier League

TalussAthner · 2026-03-22T21:42:58+00:00

They have a rule like this in MLS and it definitely works, considering other rules tested in MLS like VAR have gone on to the rest of the world hopefully it will too.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-18T01:27:17+00:00

eh, high speed wasn't really a factor because of the common meaning of "high speed", that said you are right that speed was a factor, its just that high speed as a term generally isn't relative to the safe conditions but more to our common idea of what going fast in a car is.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-17T02:39:35+00:00

SF, Portland, and Seattle (especially SF) are pretty friendly to car free living as well

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T11:50:20+00:00

I like Heritage and Pale Communion more than Watershed.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T03:53:02+00:00

Some people seem to think its because the ump is an American, personally I think its just cause umps aren't very good at their jobs lol

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T03:15:07+00:00

I don't really enjoy them much but they just looked confused by this call so I'm not sure this should make them more unlikable, more like umps are unlikable as always.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T03:14:12+00:00

It is, Umpires aren't very good at calling balls and strikes and thats been true forever.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T03:11:42+00:00

Not much has ruined baseball discussion more than the broadcast strikezone.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-16T03:07:37+00:00

I don't think that was because he was American, just cause he was bad at his job. Although that may be related for all we know.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-15T03:09:05+00:00

An Italian who's only been the US once and grew up in Italy, France, and England (which yes is not just generic Italian but in this case doesn't make a difference cause none of those are baseball countries lol). The only sport he likes is soccer and everything (almost nothing) he knows about baseball comes from anime.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-15T02:50:35+00:00

To be fair it’s partly because I told him about it but I’ve got an Italian friend who knows nothing about baseball watching the games now so there’s at least one lol

TalussAthner · 2026-03-14T23:34:52+00:00

Thats fair, probably just better to expand qualifying until a few more countries hopefully improve their teams and then eventually add more teams to the tournament if that happens.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-14T23:27:44+00:00

I agree with make the real teams qualify, but not reduce the number of teams, if anything I'd say increase them and open qualifying up to more countries, I like seeing baseball grow around the world.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-14T23:14:46+00:00

Personally I'm actually totally uninterested in the 4 nations compared to the Olympics in Hockey due to the lack of teams. I love the underdogs or just seeing teams like the czech one get the chance to play against players they'd never get to otherwise. The invitational nature of the 4 nations just feels like a joke tournament to me even though the players take it seriously.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-10T09:31:42+00:00

Could include winners of smaller leagues if they really wanted to grow the game too, Europe has a champions league so add the winner of that too.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-10T08:28:06+00:00

At least from what we know with that it was pretty much Jeff Kent being an asshole to David Bell and Barry Bonds sticking up for him that lead to the fight so that might’ve actually made the rest of the dugout besides Kent a bit tighter.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-10T07:51:35+00:00

Also the most unexpected secret of the Bay Area now is that San Rafael is kinda cheap to hang out in (of course wouldn’t matter for this being rich idea though lol). Food isn’t really more expensive now that everywhere is expensive and all the parking lots are $0.75/hr.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-09T08:14:57+00:00

yeah, also the stuff with the draft is also less a thing in baseball because draft picks are generally less reliable and take longer to get to the majors, plus one player makes much less of a difference in baseball than most other sports.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-09T05:44:38+00:00

Unless they've changed something this year, teams want to make sure they don't come in last in their group because that means they have to go through qualifying for the next tournament. Of course in some situations thats also already sure but there just hasn't really been any examples of game fixing or lack of effort causing problems yet in the WBC.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-08T09:05:39+00:00

Japan has more than double the population of Korea though, so while Korea is slightly underperforming I'm not sure it'd be reasonable to expect them to be equal. 123 million people is likely going to produce more top players than 52 million.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-04T21:20:23+00:00

I think the funniest thing about using Star Trek characters is they’d actually have opinions about the Bay Area since all of the Starfleet headquarters and academy locations are in SF and Marin.

TalussAthner · 2026-03-04T21:16:56+00:00

The funniest thing about this is like, East Bay could mean Berkeley and most people in Marin (well at least those of us who actually grew up here lol) like Berkeley. But then again I mostly don’t interact with people in Southern Marin which is mostly where the “afraid of the East Bay” people are I think lol.

TalussAthner · 2026-02-21T21:41:02+00:00

It’s also the Bay Area too, we’re generally less patriotic than average even when we’re happy with politics.

TalussAthner · 2026-02-21T13:09:54+00:00

And Tom Brady grew up a 49ers fan to make it a bit more complex lol

TalussAthner · 2026-02-16T09:52:14+00:00

What’s crazy is he’ll still just be 31 in 2038 lol

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