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I was a little surprised they kept it in Orchard Park....I kept hearing downtown. The area close to where the Sabres play by the Lake Erie waterfront is nice. Good for them...glad this will keep the Bills at home and not in Toronto or some other city that would have absolutely paid for the team.

Not sure if he is missing the point...... Not everyone entering the transfer portal is "transferring up". I would say most transfers are perceived lateral or even transferring down.

If I head to "Negativetown", some reasons may include: Path of least resistance Inflated feelings of their own abilities Difficulty in accepting feedback Work ethic - personal feeling of entitlement

Is he a Pittman type receiver? Colts need someone that can stretch the field. While great hands and a great route runner, not sure if Bell is that guy. Hopefully, Campbell can stay healthy and a guy like Bell would be great for depth.

At his intro in Cleveland…..

I wonder if that might change in the future, as CG won't be playing a MIC schedule after this season. Tough game going into the post season. Plus falling on fall break impacts attendance for CG....not sure about the Irish fall break schedule. Classic series.

Sadly so....I sure hope that changes in the final year of his contract with the Colts

they really need a LT, WR and a TE. Hope he does something. I would really love to see Paris Campbell break out and stay healthy. He has the speed and skill....just has to figure out a way to stay on the field. If he could stay healthy, he could have major impact with Matty Ice.

There is no debate about his play....although he wasn't the only one to fail the last 2 games of the season. Especially in the Jax game...that was a total team breakdown, especially with the O Line and the entire defense. To single out one person for those debacles is certainly biased. The entire team had a job to do, including the coaching staff that obviously didn't have them ready to play. I am asking you about your sources in regards to his actions in the locker room. Do you have real sources or is this just your personal feelings? Simple question.

I used to get out to Wyoming (Casper area) for business and local sports page featured their 8 man HS teams.....but always 2nd fiddle to rodeo. I thought that was really cool.

Some good insight.....Ryan is probably one of the best options out there...for short term. He's definitely on the tail end of his career and hopefully he can rebound from declining stats last year. But he is a short-term solution...Rivers Part II I do hope the O line improves this year...wasn't great down the stretch and now they must replace both the LT and RG positions. I'm a little more skeptical than you about their recent performance. Its time to move on from Wentz. I understand Zak Keefer wrote a negative article on his leadership and coachability in the Atlantic, but again provides no sources. I tend to take the work of players like Leonard, Pittman, Taylor, etc. over a member of the media....a biased media from day 1. Reich had positive words to say just yesterday, and I don't see him be blantantly dishonest. As the quote from the Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "its like the Sopranos....its over." https://clutchpoints.com/commanders-news-colts-coachs-surprising-comments-about-carson-wentz-per-ron-rivera/ Now, let hope the Colts can fill other needed position gaps.....LT, WR, TE, etc.

Interesting

2016 & 18 were great, but other than that....solid, not great Lots of yards, but not a ton of TD's. Hard to get excited to sprint to the ticket office......

I hear you...but its fun as a fan to speculate. I guess my top wish would be Garoppolo. I am not overly excited about any of the options, but it is what it is... Looks like someone has made an offer for Jimmy G.....reported less than an hour ago https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jimmy-garoppolo-trade-rumors-49ers-have-been-offered-two-second-round-picks-for-veteran-qb-per-report/

Mariota? Who in your opinion will land in town to QB?

is it looking like Mayfield or Ryan??

if the DH in the AL hasn't made a big difference in the past (and I supplied you plenty of data that shows it hasn't) then WHY do you think adding the DH to the NL will make a significant difference to a new generation of fans that currently don't have a baseball tradition? As I showed you, the NL already has 7 of the 10 highest drawing venues now in MLB, based off 2021 attendance. According to this article, MLB has the oldest fans of all major sports. I understand trying to do something to get the attention of the 18-34 age group. https://frontofficesports.com/mlb-looks-to-grow-its-younger-fanbase/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-sports-with-the-oldest-and-youngest-tv-audiences-2017-06-30 Major League Baseball’s television audience is among the oldest in professional sports, according to data recently released by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal and Magna Global. The average age of a baseball viewer is 57, up from 52 in 2006. There won’t be a youth movement, either, as just 7% of baseball’s audience is below age 18. Can you provide something other than your personal desire to see expansion of the DH work when history has proven its had minimal impact?

LOL...SMH What I did post were a couple of examples that showed their was no real statistical relationship to the DH making the game better. a slight offensive increase. I also provided a paper (dated back to 2010) that illustrates the DH has done nothing to increase attendance in its use over time in the AL. The DH brings a perception more than anything else. It hasn't driven attendance in the past, but you think it may now. OK....wish away. What has led to the decline in MLB attendance is hardly the difference in offensive production in the NL vs the AL. 7 of the top 10 MLB teams in 2021 are NL teams....if the DH was so great to spur attendance, why aren't AL teams doing better putting fans in the stands? https://www.statista.com/statistics/193664/regular-season-home-attendance-of-major-league-baseball-teams-in-2010/

Opportunities with no statistical relationship to real success… Ok…..but if we just do something…anything…

Aaron can’t be happy…..Adams is Vegas bound….

theses from a Clemson grad student "Revisiting The Impact of the Designated Hitter on MLB" 2010. Perhaps the data has changed since this work, but interesting read nonetheless. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1878&context=all_theses#:~:text=They included%3A 1.,a temporary pinch hitter 3. The DH rule change was designed to improve attendance in the AL. When performing a regression analysis on 108 years of data, it appears that complete games pitched is more closely aligned with attendance than are batters ages or runs scored.

interesting read..........this may be more about perception and the hope of something big vs reality. But driving up attendance and viewership? I don't think so. https://brandeishoot.com/2020/10/09/results-of-the-designated-hitter-rule-change-in-the-mlb/ So, for the 2020 season, there was a DH for the teams in the National League for the first time. Since there was now a DH in both leagues, you would assume a higher average batting average for the entire league. However, that is not what occurred this season. Based on the information from Baseball Reference, the average batting average for the entire league was 0.245 and teams scored 4.65 runs per game, on average. If you take a look specifically at the National League, you can see that they had an average batting average of 0.246 and only scored an average of 4.71 runs per game during this season. Both of those statistics are less than last season without the DH. Does this mean that the DH in the National League is actually worse for teams’ offenses? Do the DH curse National League teams to have worse offensive seasons? Should the National League go back to having pitchers hit to improve batting for these teams? The answer is: maybe. In reality these statistics are a bit deceiving because of the shortened season. The previous year’s stats were measured for a full 162 games while this year only consisted of 60 games. So, in general the down year could actually improve if there were more games, considering most hitters start off really slow and get better when they play more games. Additionally, this season was full of surprises. Many players were either forced to not play or chose not to play due to restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic, so this may have influenced batting stats. Even though statistically overall, the addition of the DH did not accomplish the task of increasing the offense in the MLB, the entertainment level of the game likely went up. No longer did people have to sit and watch the pitcher be a “free out.” The reality of the change is that it seems like there is more chance for offense because you have someone that can actually hit in the lineup over the pitcher. Overall, the rule change did its job. It helped keep some pitchers safe from being injured and it gave people that only watch National League baseball a taste of what it is like to have a DH hitting instead of the pitcher. People don’t really care about whether or not statistically there was an increase in offense in baseball. What people really care about is what seems to be happening. It doesn’t matter if the batting average of teams went down; now that the pitcher isn’t hitting, you have one more chance of hitting a home run in any particular inning.

What makes you think I don't? I just don't buy that pushing the DH into the NL makes the game better or more marketable. Especially to a younger demographic. Professional sports, baseball included, stopped marketing to the family and went after corporations. Families were priced out or stuck in the nosebleeds. So kids (unlike my generation) didn't go to the ballpark in the numbers of the past. As a result, those kids that are now ticket buyers that didn't grow up in the ballpark don't care now. They have other interests. They have little to no tradition. If they truly wanted to bring the game back, they would make it more affordable to the family.....that includes tickets, concessions and parking. Generations care because they are there to establish love and tradition. If not, why should they invest their time and significant dollars? In addition, MLB started to play politics, hoping to pull younger folks....at the end of the day, they didn't care and some of us older folks that would prefer politics kept out of our entertainment, were turned off. MLB is reaping what they sowed.

I like it....or if they don't want to automate, use batting practice pitchers to serve it up and they can turn every game into Home Run Derby.......Screw defense.....just park it!! Afternoon game at Wrigley Score....... Chi Cubs - 116 StL Cards - 102