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Student athletes.

Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve encountered the mention of a “soleus”.

That’s a fair point, especially with travel tucked in there. Fortunately with a back to back that ends in Miami, there’s limited time to catch the Miami flu.

I was comfortable enough with a 22 point lead that my attention trailed off a bit until the last few game moments. Kudos to Miami for not giving up. My guess is that any game that hits a 20+ point deficit in the 2nd half rarely results in a comeback victory for the trailer, my guess being less than 5%. But I might be thinking too old school with slower and more deliberate offenses that aren’t as reliant on the 3 point shot as much as nowadays.

A thought I had about the byproduct of these larger football conferences. While the odds are probably on the outsides of the bell curve, there are going to be instances of this happening. To date, Ohio State has played Washington on the road and a bunch of meh. Granted, Penn State and Wisconsin are having gutter years, but their conference schedule has been soft. On the flip side, I can’t remember who it was, but maybe it was Florida that was staring at 4 ranked opponents in a row in the middle of the season.

Too much Amazon Prime action on the bench?

Regress in his 2nd season.

A group of friends used to do the Susan G Koman 5K every year. We all had younger families, small children in various stages of infant through kindergarten. We stayed towards the back, referred to ourselves as the stroller division.

Ain’t even done yet. What else might transpire today?

Rendon has made over $200M in salary to this point. If he ain’t set himself up for life by now, that’s just flipping ridiculous.

Exactly. Last season of the contract, what’s the point? Just release him.

This was a good reality check. A close game to the end, something to push them a bit. The streak was fun, and I agree that the schedule was lax and, along with so,e opponent depth chart issues, presented an opportunity for the Pistons to take advantage of things. To their credit, they did. It’s a better team than last year, but I’m not sure they’re top of the conference yet. Still some questions to answer. But they’re headed in the right direction. The question is how do they keep that roster momentum going?

That’s kind of interesting.

I’m kind of surprised by the Cease deal being done already in the off-season. I’m probably wrong, but it seems like the bigger free agent deals don’t happen this early.

I never considered chili after running a run, but I guess the protein would be good. Actually, I never consider running. Just skip over it to get to the chili.

Both dark and light red kidney beans.

Last year of the contract. Better late than never, I guess?

Never was a SP. Hardly a multi inning RP. Has only 2 pitches. I doubt that’s material for a team to try to push a RP into a SP role. I guess I can see a team thinking they can try it. But multiple teams with the same cockamamie theory? Sorry, I don’t see it. Seth Lugo has some SP outings earlier in his career and also had 4 or more pitches. So seeing his success in San Diego and then again in Kansas City wasn’t too surprising. Not necessarily expected, but more reasonable given his history and skill set.

You’re wrong. True, Texas prefers meat soup rather than chili. Crock pots are terrible for chili? Did you turn the crock pot on? See, my bottom line was right.

Phillips was awesome. I really liked his versatility and his on base skills. Lee is right, he was probably ahead of his time in that regard.

How about some Thanksgiving Eve surfing on Lake Erie, dudes?

Valid point.

I have a sibling that lives with my remaining parent. He can deal with it.

That’s no fun.

Do you mean in 2026? I think we all assume there’s going to be decline in the long term deal. But, yeah, you’re right. Everyone assumes Cy Young type performance in this upcoming season, nobody thinks otherwise. So, to that point, how bad of a 2026 would it have to be in order to shift expectations on that long term deal?