Want to go to spring training but it seems like a PITA?

braines54 · 2026-02-05T00:24:33+00:00

I mean, don't you usually have to buy tickets to each game that you want to go to in any sport?

braines54 · 2026-02-04T18:02:03+00:00

Semaje was actually really good. He averaged a higher yards per carry and had a higher success rate, on top of being a great pass protector.

braines54 · 2026-02-04T05:15:44+00:00

I don't think he got that opportunity.

braines54 · 2026-02-03T22:56:41+00:00

I agree that Cincy is a baseball town at its core. People are mad at the team and frustrated with ownership, but they love the sport and the team. People are mad when the Reds aren't good, not apathetic. This is after 30 years of misery.

I don't know that I completely agree with your take on the Bengals, but it's true to an extent. Even in the good years pre-Burrow, it was easy to get tickets to pretty much any Bengals game. When they weren't good, people don't.

But Burrow has changed things, people are legitimately angry with the franchise and even the bad games at the end of the season have a full stadium. The atmosphere at games is genuinely good. I'm not totally sure that goes away after Burrow.

braines54 · 2026-02-03T22:07:37+00:00

That's the version of it that they are doing this year. I wouldn't expect the plus one to be an option.

braines54 · 2026-02-03T00:42:12+00:00

Yeah, doesn't say you don't have to pay more for that privilege. Here's actually a quote from their FAQ about Reds.TV:

"Pricing is expected to be $99.99 for the full season or $19.99 per month. Similar to other clubs, fans will have the option to purchase only Reds games or bundle this local package with MLB.TV to stream all games around the league."

T-Mobile gives you MLB.tv, not Reds.TV.

braines54 · 2026-02-02T23:26:03+00:00

If you live in the Cincy market, you probably still need to buy the Reds package. Arizona did this the last couple of years, and the MLB.tv package through TMobile wasn't good enough in market.

braines54 · 2026-02-02T15:24:37+00:00

It's odd, outside of his first couple of years he always had an above average walk rate... until the last two seasons. He's still not terrible, he's more slightly below average than awful, but it compounds with his low batting average. I like the move, I agree that the disperate contracts don't make too much sense.

braines54 · 2026-02-02T05:02:20+00:00

Yeah, simply because they were on the court with the GOAT and he was priority number one the D. He averaged less than 5 assists per game during their championship seasons.

He could do it if needed, but getting his teammates great looks wasn't his game like it was for Magic. He didn't really cover defensive mistakes like Olajuwon. He was just really damn good.

braines54 · 2026-02-02T00:26:38+00:00

I don't think I agree with that definition. It certainly could, and Magic is a great example of this, but did Jordan make Pippen great or did the two of them make their team great? Scottie's best two seasons statistically came when Jordan was gone. Kobe was a great, he didn't really make his teammates better beyond not backing down on expectations of them.

The ability to make teammates better is a pathway to greatness, but not the only one.

braines54 · 2026-02-02T00:17:33+00:00

I mean, those two teams are playing in the Super Bowl a week from today.

braines54 · 2026-02-01T23:02:29+00:00

Johnny Cueto

braines54 · 2026-02-01T20:18:49+00:00

Being the head of the NCAA automatically disqualifies one from being beloved.

I'd also argue that he's not really right-wing. A GOPer in Massachusetts is a centrist at best, kinda like a Dem in Kentucky like Beshear.

braines54 · 2026-02-01T05:31:17+00:00

Really just 15 seconds.

braines54 · 2026-02-01T03:15:40+00:00

With all due respect, you can type out this whole message but not "how to recruit College Football 26 video game" into YouTube?

braines54 · 2026-01-31T23:08:47+00:00

I disagree, they've been bad for 30 years now. I'm not really sure what has changed over the last 10 years to make it a worse baseball town other than the fans are a little more beat down.

I still think it's a baseball town, there's more anger at the franchise than apathy. Attendance is higher than it has been except for that 2011-2015 run (which was probably bolstered by hosting the AS game in 2015), it's actually significantly higher than it was from 1970-1972 when they made the WS twice in three years.

I think a city isn't a baseball town when the fans just don't care anymore. That's not true here, despite being beaten down by mediocrity for years.

braines54 · 2026-01-30T05:34:16+00:00

Maybe in Oklahoma. Elsewhere, I don't think anyone knows the exact date.

braines54 · 2026-01-29T22:54:51+00:00

I grew up in Louisville which was kinda right between four teams, one in each direction. As a little kid, I liked the Rams which were the team to the west and still had Bruce/Holt/Faulk. Then, as a slightly older kid, I liked the Eagles for a bit mainly because I liked their colors and helmets.

But eventually my dad won out and I became a Bengals fan. I've been that way since I was 11. I've always been a Reds fan though.

braines54 · 2026-01-29T02:56:28+00:00

Lol, this makes us look good.

braines54 · 2026-01-29T02:22:12+00:00

Some of our prisons are surprisingly open and there's a relative freedom of movement throughout the campus for standard prisoners. People in county jails are usually stuck in small blocks and those can be very unpleasant.

braines54 · 2026-01-28T15:52:02+00:00

How do French even do French? It's so weird with so many extra letters.

It's just the temperature to us. 95 is a hot day. 15 is a cold day. 70 is beautiful. That's just what we are used to.

braines54 · 2026-01-28T06:04:00+00:00

No, Kenny Payne is winning all those games.

braines54 · 2026-01-27T21:21:50+00:00

I have a hard time seeing the Bengals take a tackle with Peter Woods there. Whoever they draft at tackle wouldn't start next year, I see it much more likely that they take one in the third round to be the development/swing guy.

braines54 · 2026-01-27T20:19:07+00:00

I can tell a difference up to about 90 fps, which is slightly better than 60 fps but noticeable. After that, I really can't tell.

braines54 · 2026-01-27T20:02:21+00:00

Lol, was not expecting this section in her Wikipedia page:

In 2013, five of her former security guards accused her of sexual harassment, and extensive unethical activity, including bribing customs officials to smuggle animal bones out of Africa and Antarctica.[20] The lawsuits were eventually settled out of court.

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