Rick Blame

philly sports, college sports, horse racing, penn state '88, music, engineering/science, education, running, yoga ...

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@FrankCianfrani ... And that people move from Phillipsburg to Easton and Bethlehem but never the other way around. Half the Lehigh Valley are New Jersey refugees.

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@FrankCianfrani The *only* reason they live in NJ is because it's easier to drive to the sports complex.

The west bank of the Delaware River (PA) has about 3x the population of of the east bank (NJ).

It's no accident that my dad and his colleagues all worked in Trenton and lived in Bucks.

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@JamesRuport @Brady_H I think there are a lot of physical therapists who would strongly disagree with that. (Obviously, static stretching before workouts is counter-productive.)

Stretching has been a godsend for my management of back pain over the years.

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@debiferro @Ben_Jones88 I think booing your own players is a sign of a lack of intelligence and lack of success. I've never seen smart people boo their own players. In fact, the more you pay, the more ridiculous you should feel about booing. It's idiotic.

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@Keyes26 @Super70sSports I mean, they were all very capable of playing instruments, too. They had talent. We certainly know how much talent Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have.

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@MattyMike0718 Yeah, a Week 3 Eagles loss and a Phillies Game 1 playoff loss in a year where they're not expected to do too much doesn't really register. This will all be forgotten once the Sixers season starts.

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@JoshReynolds24 Oh, I'm not actually upset with him or anything. But it's not inaccurate to say he failed to execute. That happens; it's part of the sport.

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We've only got one inning left in the Astros game to see McCarthy polish off a nice juicy Texas steak in the broadcast booth. I guess we have tomorrow, too.

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@CFBJake @TheGBCoach Yeah, definitely. The last thing you mentioned is very significant in the specific case of Penn State, where the majority of fans are also pro fans in sports-obsessed markets where, culturally, they are frequently hostile to their own teams.

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Baseball really needs to look at the playoff format and how it advantages the last wild card. They're often playing the weakest team in the playoffs, as the Phillies and White Sox are this year, and if they advance, they get to play the #2 seed rather than the #1 seed in the NLDS

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@CFBJake @TheGBCoach The very public divorce with Franklin last year, handled very poorly by everybody involved, sort of cemented it for me that there was going to be no turning back.

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@CFBJake @TheGBCoach It was for years. Very strange. I have a number of theories, the main one being that the PSU community was always going to be one of the trad powers that was going to struggle to embrace college football as an industry, with "outsiders" and players getting huge compensation.

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Look, I've got all the respect in the world for Nick Saban as a football coach. But after all this, I just can't listen to this guy's voice anymore. I just can't hear him talk. Stop. Please.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets."

"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️

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@CFBJake @JayArnoldTX "We goin' through some hard times ... in puhlic, if you will"

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@SheintochM @Pat_Egan Normally, people complain that they don't go to their best players. The same people are complaining now that they *did*. Lol! You can't win.

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@BSP_Sully They weren't great, but they won 88 games. They weren't "pathetic".

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@LesBowen What are you talking about? He didn't face NINE batters, and he probably wouldn't have.

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@FanSince09 This is how these games are managed in the 2020's. Not the 1980's. Lol!

It's a three-game series, all hands on deck, your best against their best.

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I'd be so much angrier right now if that home run had come against, say, Chase Shugart or Tim Mayza. Lol! Could you imagine Alvarado in that spot? #RedOctober #RingTheBell