While you have my sympathies that this play ever happened, my recollection was wrong... it was not John Carney.

It was Nate Kaeding.

One fucking job.

He missed it.

He attempted 354 XPs in his career. He made 352 of them. One of those two misses cost me a fantasy football playoff game.

Bastard.

Was it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDd1HI80p_M

Several years ago, I lost my fantasy football league playoff game because an NFL kicker (maybe John Carney?) missed an extra point. A FUCKING EXTRA POINT. This was before they moved them back. And I lost a playoff game. I tweeted him and reminded him that he had ONE FUCKING JOB.

I was the asshole there.

But still. An extra fucking point.

I know I am the asshole here. I have Nolan Jones in my 162 game keeper text baseball league. I really needed him to play well this year and he hasn't.

https://www.rotoballer.com/player-news/nolan-jones-back-on-rehab-assignment/1417476?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Goddamn, any baseball player that has a kid during the regular season drives me crazy. Good work dude, bounce back will be even easier with no sleep.

(I am the asshole here.)

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=144245 time=1722962773 user_id=3]
Dreads are the worst way to style your hair ever discovered. REACTION?????
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[url=https://cbs4indy.com/sports/sports-illustrated/e6fd75e9/elly-de-la-cruz-had-perfect-answer-when-asked-whos-the-most-exciting-player-in-mlb#:~:text=34%20AM%20EDT-,Cincinnati%20Reds%20shortstop%20Elly%20De%20La%20Cruz%20has%20quickly%20become,steal%20all%20of%20the%20bases.]Elly De La Cruz says he is the most exciting player in baseball, and he has dreads.[/url]

I dont know who to believe.

Since Vladimir Guerrero Jr. cut his dreadlocks off on June 19th he has more extra-base hits (32) than strikeouts (21).

Dreads are the worst way to style your hair ever discovered. REACTION?????

He is a crowd pleaser.

And that hat is a real self pleaser.

That aint maple syrup!

Ahminna make a cartoon with Dr. Zither wearing that!

Looks like the Orioles and Yankees will be battling it out for the AL East. I can't contribute meaningfully to that.

What I can do, because gsdgsd and I were talking about it the other week, is inline the picture of the ORIGINAL Blue Jays "drip cap."

This hat looks like the designer covered it with semen. It is disgusting. It should not exist. It sold out immediately.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/kMt47JtB/IMG-20240602-103351-1.png[/img]

I feel like a beautifully haunting scene could be made for Baltimore's city connect jersey possibly depicting the silhouette of the Poe Toaster playing a lonely keen on a violin as he approaches the cemetery to lay flowers and cognac on Poe's gravestone. Or maybe they could do the part of the Baltimore skyline that has the harbor containing the shipping container of dead bodies that McNulty successfully argued was under his jurisdiction. Either one ICONIC.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/bv0JQddT/san-diego-padres-city-connect-fernando-tatis-jr-mens-replica-baseball-jersey-0-Mq4g-W.jpg[/img]

This jersey says: "Let's play baseball! and then have gay sex in a hot tub while drinking white wine!"

I'd have to move away from there just because of that jersey

The whole idea of the CCs is a bit undeveloped - something that only someone who lives there will truly get, I guess? Only someone who lives in Toronto will get a picture of the skyline. Only someone who lives in Baltimore will get block letters reading "BALTIMORE." and so on.

There are a few City Connect jerseys that I think are really cool - Seattle, Miami, San Diego, KC. Then there are a bunch that are just fine. Then a few lazy ones (StL, LA) and a few monstrosities. But I imagine they're all selling great. (On Chinese bootleg platforms.)

In all honesty, I saw other pictures of the city connects and they looked fine. ALSO I get that some of these uniform choices are not meant for me. It's ok. I'm fine now.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=143290 time=1717203996 user_id=3]the most cliched, four-seconds-of-thinking image across them (WOW, the SKYLINE????)[/quote]

Still somehow infinitely more imaginative than the Baltimore jerseys! (which has not kept me from giving the fine folks at DHGate my money for a Rutschman City Connect)

My son LOVES the Toronto CCs, calling me back in to see them over and over. So maybe there's your target audience.

Can't wait to see the jizz cap, bummed I missed that promotion.

I hate the virtual ads while watching hockey games.

At first, I found the ones on the ice (just inside the blue line) to be very distracting, because they would "float" at times. But those got less distracting.

The ones on the glass behind the goalie are stupid, but harmless.

The ones on the boards that go "in motion" and start spinning are INCREDIBLY distracting. I hate them with every inch of my being.

It just looks like trash. Aside from one stretch of time here (where I had ads for a year and Google didn't pay me for them) I've never put ads on any site I've ever owned. It just looks awful. I'd be sick and embarrassed to get to the point in life where I owned a baseball team and turned on the TV one night and saw ads on the mound. Money can't buy dignity.

This is moving the sport into a Nascar-esqe area. It's certainly taking away from the overall game experience.

So, this has been going on for a while.

https://uni-watch.com/2023/04/12/a-close-look-at-the-state-of-mlb-mound-graphics/

Awful.

Okay, it's a computer graphic because now the ad for toilet paper is gone, and there is an add for what appears to be tacos.

Ok. Wait. I haven't watched a ton of games lately, but there is a superimposed goddam CHARMIN LOGO across the pitcher's mound on the broadcast tonight. Or they actually painted it there, which may be worse.

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/zGXydPbK/dumb.jpg[/img]

How could anyone who cared about the sport allow a such a thing. How much money is enough? Why not just have all the players with toilet paper glued to their spikes? I genuinely feel disgust on behalf of the commissioner for working to make this happen, or not getting up and firing everyone involved. Goddamn that looks like trash.