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Sam Antonacci is looking like a must-roster player in his own right these days. Here’s who else we’re adding for Week 14 cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…
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that's usually how it works
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He’s playing a God who teams up with Russell Crowe’s Zeus to solve a crime. It’s being written and directed by Shane Black, it’s called ‘The Nice Guys 2’, and it has no relation to the rest of the MCU.
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My life would have to be in danger before I would post “I had to use ChatGPT to learn where to buy a stamp” in public.
A client accidentally double paid a $15K invoice recently.
I called to let them know and said I would shred the check. They asked me to please mail the check back to them.
I had to use ChatGPT to learn where to buy a stamp.
I went to Walgreens, and they made me buy 20.
I used 1 and threw the other 19 away.
I then had to figure out how to get the envelope in the mail. I asked the property manager of our office building what to do.
She took care of it for me.
Not knowing how to send mail is a huge competitive advantage.
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It’s kind of wild that baseball players have stopped hitting 550-foot home runs during the era of lasers that can track exactly how far a ball is traveling. Probably just a weird coincidence!
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It's gonna take one player going commando during a televised spring game to fix this. Who will be our brave hero?
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“Why does Mike Vrabel, the largest coach, not simply eat the other coaches?”
Dianna Russini asked about Mike Vrabel on The Athletic Football Show:
"I don't think there was a fit for him. I don't think he sat in front of any owner who thought that his style was going to work for what they were looking for...I had a GM at the Senior Bowl who mentioned to me Vrabel's physical build. That he's a very large human being. And can be very intimidating to people in an organization that are going to be part of these decisions. And that is a factor."
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My theory on this topic for years has been: RedZone has tricked the football obsessive’s brain into thinking the average game has much more action and scoring and general excitement than it ever did, which makes normal island games seem less entertaining by comparison.
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Honestly, the Tebow block that went viral wasn't even his worst block of the night. This was *the very next play*
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Hello! What an amazing way to meet, you’ve brought some joy into our lives today. When this is all over, we’ll have to meet for real!
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I genuinely think not enough people in the Fantasy Football community understand this, but: The randomness is a feature of the game, not a bug, and many fewer people would be interested in playing if the best player won every league more often.
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We’re one win away from CU fans claiming Deion invented the forward pass.
Coaches/equipment staff are blasting stadium music and the Oregon fight song during practice.
It’s that level of detail that makes Coach Prime great. @DeionSanders
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I do not think we should be making a cute human interest story out of this guy?
Meet Austin Capobianco (middle), the fan that interfered with Mookie. I was talking to him at a local bar when a bunch of other fans asked him to take a pic with him and for his autograph. He was a beaut. Story up soon at ESPN: “If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.”
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Aaron Rodgers is only struggling because he found out on the flight to London that the earth isn’t flat
Send tweet
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It is perhaps worth noting that Tim Tebow left football and, with no experience as a broadcaster, immediately was put into high-profile, well-paying spots on TV.
He was then allowed to play professional baseball basically because he wanted to.
That context seems relevant.
.@TimTebow passionately expresses his thoughts on the California Senate passing a bill allowing student-athletes to have endorsements.
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Look, Jose passed 8 years ago now, so I get it if you weren’t old enough to have watched him. But he’s one of the best pitchers I ever watched, and he was absolutely going to be one of the best of all time.
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Shohei Ohtani is currently on a 51-homer, 48-steal pace while rehabbing from significant elbow surgery lmao
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Big wrestling nights are great because the timeline looks like this:
"wuuuuuttt"
"NO WAY"
"OMG HE'S HERE"
"Timberwolves transition defense just hasn't been sharp tonight."
"HE DID IT!!!"
"omg can't believe what I just saw"
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when Aubrey Huff and Curt Schilling are in a twitter fight with Trevor Bauer and you have to take Bauer’s side
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This twitter account was created two weeks ago and has 146 followers. This is the only source for this claim. But the tweet has been shared 14.6k times. People will really believe anything on twitter.
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His body broke down, I guarantee you he’s more upset about that than you are. I hate this stuff.
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David Fletcher is being investigated by MLB for gambling with an illegal bookie while at the same time trying to make the transition from slap-hitting utility player to legit knuckleballer. This is fascinating.
This is not a drill…
David Fletcher is listed as the starting pitcher for the Gwinnett Stripers tonight.
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“Blake Snell is the best pitcher in baseball for several months after being completely useless for several months” is one of the most consistent trends in baseball and it’s extremely funny.
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Elly has an .850 OPS and 90-steal pace despite striking out 43% of the time so far. An objectively hilarious, awesome player.
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Chase Daniel has 8 TD, 7 INT, a career 10% sack rate, and $38 million in career earnings.
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Phoenix playing the Olympic closing ceremonies with Ezra Koenig is such a victory for millennial culture. We made it, you guys.
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Sam Darnold has thrown 160 passes over the past five games.
373 QB have thrown at least 160 passes in a season over the past decade. His stretch would rank:
372nd in Y/A
371st in TD%
370th in INT%
It almost literally cannot get worse.
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“State of Grace” is Taylor Swift’s best album opener. Might be one of her five best songs in general, and there’s an alternate world where she leans into that sound that I would really like to experience.
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The importance of the Oxford comma.
My two beautiful daughters, ice cream and Ham Fam, it doesn’t get any better than this. @INFINITIUSA #ad #QX60 bit.ly/LifeLivedEp1
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I would vote for Paul Skenes, but let’s not be disrespectful here
I refuse to be gaslit into a believing a .800 OPS hitter who isn’t leading his team in any offensive category should win Rookie of the Year over a player having the best rookie starting pitching season ever.
If Skenes doesn’t win it, no pitcher ever should again.
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You’re gonna wake up one day and rediscover the ability to feel shame and I hope you’ll livestream it
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These CATS reviews are great, but nothing will ever top Roger Ebert’s review of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, the greatest bad movie review of all time
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“Guy who doesn’t tweet about baseball all season long only to parachute in at the end to say how boring they think the World Series will be” is a great character. We all love that guy.
This is the least compelling World Series matchup in a long time, maybe ever. MLB made a lot of great and overdue changes this season but it's time to contract the playoffs and give the regular season more meaning.
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we've gotta get our jokes off, and we will, but it's worth saying that this is just ... bad for the team. The Jaguars have to make roster cuts by Tuesday and if he's still around, I don't know how you take that staff seriously.
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You’ve gotta be one of the dimmest people in the world to think this is a good point.
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The Raiders spent a first-round pick on an RB they won't throw it to, then gave $11 million this offseason to Peyton Barber's backup. Incredible organization.
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Taysom Hill wasn't half the passer Lamar Jackson was in college, but it's okay because he was also a less effective runner and he was four years older as a senior than Lamar Jackson was when he won NFL MVP last year.
The Taysom Hill hype is literally unreal.
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Okay. The mlb home run record for a single season is 73, set by Barry Bonds in the 2001 season.
The vast majority of baseball fans younger than 26 and older than 35 all have absolutely 0 respect for the current MLB and NL homerun records, and consider this season by judge 1000x more impressive than anything bonds ever did in his career. Cry all you want.
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The Royals full 162-game season salary commitments for their 40-man roster is $91.7 million, so ....... no?
MLB claims Royals would lose $113 million if players don’t take further pay cut royalsreview.com/2020/5/18/2…
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I mean, James Calhoun was arguably the architect of southern secession prior to the civil war, so … that guy!
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I really hope we all agree to not have the the memory of a goldfish collectively next April
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If I were a Braves fan, I’d be pretty embarrassed by the dueling narratives this week that my favorite team can’t win in the playoffs because a) they got too much rest and b) someone reporter a thing a player on their team said in front of reporters.
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The hardest thrown pitches tracked with modern tech are around 105 mph. Outfielders with running starts have never topped 106.
But sure, Nolan Ryan threw 109 mph. Definitely.
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The discourse on here everyday is “there’s too much scoring in the nba” and “there isn’t enough scoring in the nfl” and I think I have the answer: put two safeties on the court in the nba
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Trevor Bauer is very good at getting reporters to uncritically repeat the nice things he says about himself, so I will just point out that he was 22nd in ERA out of 49 pitchers with 100+ innings in Japan last season. So, if we're defining "one of" as "top-100," he's maybe right?
Trevor Bauer after dominating Dodgers minor leaguers in 3 innings: ‘Hopefully people will remember I’m still one of the best pitchers in the world.’
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My friend went to the Dolphins-Commanders game today. Live report:
"He got the Commanders to send him an email saying he was allowed bring in a Flanigan's cup as a religious exemption."
This is Miami as hell.
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Football Men: It's okay to admit last night's game was a snoozer. Pretending you enjoyed it doesn't make you the Best Football Appreciator. We're not impressed.
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I just don't understand why you're so unwilling to engage with the point people are trying to make: That not everyone has the opportunity to take advantage of unpaid internships. They are barriers to entry into the field that have nothing to do with work ethic or talent.
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So, here’s the thing about Aaron Judge: He’s basically dead-center of the distribution in rate of middle-middle pitches – 6.6%, 97th out of 195 qualifiers.
What’s special is that he just doesn’t miss those pitches: .719 wOBA is the highest in baseball. League average is .394.
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Everything about this is insane and stupid and reprehensible, but …
Mookie caught the ball! It was an out! This guy didn’t even accomplished the dumb, illegal thing he tried to do, and y’all are treating him like a hero.
This is so stupid!
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I feel like movies, on the whole, *never* looked this good. Lord of the Rings is one of the medium’s crowning achievements and acting like they were just normal movies does them a disservice!
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This is so funny because like “500 homers and didn’t take PED” is just what the bar is and has always been?
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Really weird how many people are doing the “Carson Wentz is injury prone” thing on a day when an opposing player dove at his head while he was going to the ground, but go for it, guys.
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The Jets had 2 yards offense in the second half on 27 offensive snaps.
2 yards = 6 feet = 72 inches
26 plays
72/26 = 2.769 inches per play
Please don't try to #WellActually me about my joke tweet, thank you.
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To borrow an analogy: Van Halen weren't actually sticklers for which color M&Ms they ate in the dressing room, they put that in their rider to make sure the venues were actually following instructions.
Ohtani and his agent don't want news leaked of meetings with teams, say such leaks will be held against that team. And so many folks normalizing this instead of calling it out for what it is, pretentious BS. We all know he's an incredible player. Just negotiate and pick a team.
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I will say this exactly once in my life: Go Yankees.
Trevor Bauer, unsigned after serving the longest suspension in the history of MLB's joint domestic violence, sexual assault & child abuse policy, tweeted that he's pitching against the #Yankees in Mexico City on March 24 as a member of the Diablos Rojos.
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What are the chances I just bought tickets for Sturgill Simpson from a Pirates utility player?
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Timberwolves who have scored 50 points in a game:
Karl Anthony Towns
Kevin Love
Mo Williams
Corey Brewer
Derrick Rose
What a weird franchise
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Don’t know what kind of business you’re in, but I tell ya what: I’ve never seen a boss in any professional setting run up to someone, angrily grab their hand, yell at them, point a finger in their face, and have to be restrained by other employees.
Tom Izzo was asked about getting after Aaron Henry.
"I don't know what kind of business you're in, but I tell ya what, if I was a head of a newspaper, and you didn't do your job, you'd be held accountable."
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One of the best draft success stories of all time, a legitimate foil to LeBron, maybe the best wing defender of his era in addition to being a great scorer, led two different franchises to titles. One of the best I've ever seen.
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Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton have struck out in 35% of their plate appearances so far. They have 3 more strikeouts than the entire Royals team.
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The free parts of the US are going to force you to wear pants at the grocery store,too. Totalitarianism run amok
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Peak Dwight is probably the most impactful defensive player I’ve ever seen and was the centerpiece of some elite offensive teams. Jokic is better, but peak Dwight is probably the most underrated NBA superstar of the past two decades.
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