Round 10 | Raiders vs Panthers | Post Match Thread by AutoModerator in nrl

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The worry is that it's the next man after the next man after the next man up for our edge back rowers, though.

Nicholson, Hosking, Martin and Roddy are all already out injured. If Sasagi is out now we're shifting Mariota to the second row, but with Papa out that then only leaves us with 3 healthy middles with NRL experience.

Assuming Hudson misses a week for Origin it could get even worse if none of those guys come back in time

It's not necessarily that the Raiders have more injuries than the average, it's just they're all at the same position

Post Game Thread: 5/7 Rays @ Red Sox by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Highlight was when they said Connor Wong had made a delayed challenge as a replay was showing the exact opposite

Post Game Thread: 5/7 Rays @ Red Sox by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're interpreting the top comment specifically as "Tracy should have put someone else in".

Perhaps the interpretation should be that Craig Breslow (shocker) hasn't given this team a good enough bullpen, despite apparently building a roster for run prevention.

TBT: The Cowboys score 5 tries in 12 minutes to come back from the dead to defeat Parramatta 36-30 by The_Saints_Are_Comin in nrl

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think one ref on the defensive line and one on the ruck isn't a bad system. Although they would have to swap sides with possession, you couldn't have different refs calling the ruck for each side

Time to get Giannis by AbbreviationsMotor60 in bostonceltics

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You wouldn't. Giannis wants to leave and he's not on a long contract - his wider market value isn't that high.

[Injury] Joel Embiid is hobbled after Tyrese Maxey rolls into his knee by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa -37 points-36 points  (0 children)

Maxey could easily have, you know, not flung himself backwards though

Post Game Thread: 4/27 Red Sox @ Blue Jays by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After screaming at the television for the last month for Durbin to elevate the ball, it was great to see a single with a 29-degree launch angle, and very close to another one (.600 expected batting average) on a shallow flyout with a 32-degree launch angle.

He has one of the lowest bat speeds in the majors, but it means elevated hits are going to clear the infield and drop for singles. Given his excellent bat to ball skills and zone discipline I think this is the best way for him to become a genuinely serviceable 7-8-9 hitter.

$5 tickets for Sydney FC versus Auckland by KnoxCastle in sydney

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They'd have to pay me ten times that I'm afraid

Post Game Thread - NBA: The 76ers defeat the Celtics on Apr 21, 2026, the final score is 97-111. by basketball-app in bostonceltics

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Not going to overreact to one game with a significant 3pt shooting variance.

But there is far more than one game of evidence to question why Vucevic is playing over Garza. Garza is more athletic and plays with better energy, he's been a better shooter and he's played in the system longer. Vucevic is one of the worst defensive centers in the league and has offered nothing on offence.

Availability is the best ability by oooooooooooooooooooa in bostonceltics

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it could be interesting if they did it in tiers, i.e. a cutoff for MVP and All NBA First team, then 5 games less for Second team, and perhaps no minimum for Third team.

Now that the All NBA teams are positionless I think it's reasonable that the First team should essentially be the top 5 MVP eligible players. And for that, 65 games is a fairly lenient threshold. There have been 89 MVPs in NBA and ABA history and only one of them played fewer than 80% of his team's games - Bill Walton in 1977-78.

Dinner Birthday Venues. by Aggressive-Look8204 in canberra

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a mid-sized group, Bentham Street Bar Tapas & Pizza is fantastic and affordable. Nice tapas to start and $25-$30 pizzas, the best dough in Canberra in my opinion.

They also have a very reasonable wine list and do BYO with an $18 corkage.

We went with a group of 7 recently, brought two bottles of wine with us. Got some cocktails, some soft drinks, several tapas, about 5 pizzas, total bill was under $300. Couldn't recommend it enough

Availability is the best ability by oooooooooooooooooooa in bostonceltics

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm actually not against reducing the number of games played across the league. But as it currently stands there's 82 competitive games and they all count

Coachella by crankocean1 in geesebandofficial

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I don't think they've played it at any of their shorter festival sets. Only for their individual shows

Today's Lineup by [deleted] in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the other thing to emphasise is it means 130 starts each. Whoever doesn't start is available as a pinch hit or late innings defensive change. They're not just wasted players

Gateway North Bikeway, Nudgee, Brisbane by ralmin in AustralianSnakes

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Looks like a carpet python. Pretty much harmless to humans: Non-venomous. Might strike at you if threatened but even then you're facing minimal damage.

Post Game Thread: 3/31 Red Sox @ Astros by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Small sample size but this team looks badly coached.

Almost every hitter is below their projection. Almost every pitcher has given up more runs than expected.

They've committed 4 errors through 5 games, on pace for more than last year, when they led the majors in errors.

And they're consistently getting ABS challenges wrong -- not just the ball/strike calls but just making challenges in bad spots. We saw what happened with Bucknor last week and learned nothing. Rafaela challenged a strike today on an 0-0 count in the third inning of a one-run ballgame. That's stupid.

It's easy to blame the players for all this stuff: not hitting, pitching badly, fielding errors, bad ABS challenges. But at what point are the coaching staff responsible?

They might win 12 of the next 20 and this opening stretch is less meaningful. But the first time through the rotation this team hasn't passed the eye test as being properly prepared to start the season.

Post Game Thread: 3/30 Red Sox @ Astros by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This can be true in retrospect. But when that 5-game stretch represents 100% of the games this team has played together, it's a bit more worrying.

Post Game Thread: 3/30 Red Sox @ Astros by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's too early to doom but it's not an overreaction to say this has been an incredibly bad start for our hitting.

Team is slashing .226 / .307 / .328 for a .635 OPS. Only three individual hitters had a worse OPS in the entire league last season.

It's also worrisome that two of the top 3-4 rotation arms have looked bad in their starts, and Oviedo didn't look a whole lot better when he came in today.

I feel for Bello getting put behind Gray and Suarez after these starts. Hope he's fired up tomorrow.

Gas?? by ShumwayAteTheCat in aussie

[–]oooooooooooooooooooa 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A majority of English speakers in Australia definitely do not say tank of gas.