Willson Contreras: "It's not enough when you have talent, or you have data, or you have computers telling you what to do, because this is baseball. The data is here to help us, but at the end of the day, you need experience and veteran guys to win games. There's a lot of stuff I would like to say, but I'll state it like that."
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I realize this is playing into the bit, and it’s also particularly bad news for the Steelers, but the 2027 QB class is being outplayed by its 2028 counterparts so far.
Since the start of the 2025 season…
Missouri and Tennessee have NOT beaten an FBS team that either ended last year with a winning record or is currently above .500.
That’s 34 possible games in that span.
This is the difference between turning the barrel and pushing the barrel.
Watch Carpenter’s hands. He’s not using his arms to shove the barrel forward toward the ball. The hands turn the barrel rearward, the barrel gets working deep, and the body carries it through the zone.
Hands turn. Body turns. Barrel goes.
The less the arms have to manufacture the swing, the quicker and tighter the barrel can work.
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We need to stop pretending that Babe Ruth, who dominated the competition of his day by a margin unseen before or since, by any athlete in any sport, wouldn't have been able to play today. In 1920, he single-handedly hit more home runs than 14 of the other 15 *teams* in baseball. He was head and shoulders above everyone else.
Had Ruth been born in 1995 instead of 1895, he'd be using a modern bat, not a 46-ounce tree trunk. He'd be a billion-dollar investment that his bosses would surround with the best training and resources money can buy, like the Dodgers do with Ohtani.
Or if you want to level the playing field in the other direction, send today's pitchers back in time to play under the conditions of the day. Send Jake deGrom back to the days before Tommy John surgery and let me know if he's still playing at age 38. The truth is he never would have even made the big leagues in the first place, because he had his *first* elbow surgery in the minors.
You have two choices: you either give Babe Ruth the benefit of every modern convenience that today's pitchers have, or you send today's pitchers back to an era without air travel, elbow surgery, or a new baseball any time they want one.
Either way, Ruth wins.
Lincoln Riley's biggest win at SC so far was convincing (some of) their fans it's actually ND's fault. The game didn't *need* to be moved. There was no scheduling conflict. Riley/USC wanted to make life easier on themselves, ND didn't play along, and now a 100-year rivalry is on hiatus for 4 years.