GameThread Game #138: Blue Jays at Rangers

RMB: It's the last week of the season. There's a bucket. There's a hat. There's an axe. There's a Game. There's MNWildKit doing adorable things. There are pretty leaves. There are students saying stupid but entertaining things. Find something to be inspired about one last time. You can do it. MNW: Honestly, RMB, you pretty much nailed it. (Just…

The results of the BasketNews players' survey show that the majority of players would like to team up with Nikola Mirotic, while the introduction of new rules, such as live ball timeouts and an increase in personal fouls, has the potential to improve the overall EuroLeague experience. Credit: AP - Scanpix, Vangelis Stolis, L.Sgamellotti - Getty…

Texas A&M is a 6.5-point favorite over Arkansas for Saturday's Southwest Classic at Arlington's AT&T Stadium. That's according to FanDuel Sportsbook. The line opened at 5.5. The over/under is 55.5 points. The line is also 6.5 by www.BetOnline.ag. • A&M still outside the polls. A&M earned 36 points in this week's USA Today/coaches Top 25 poll. That…

Part of the ethos behind Don't Watch This; Watch That is celebrating all that makes college football weird-the pageantry, the rivalries, the willingness to burn down your neighbor's house because they flew a different team's flag on gameday oh no I've said too much. The Dr. Pepper "Fansville", if you will, without the saccharine and…

Everyone can breathe a collective sigh of relief. In through your nose, out through your mouth (repeat five times). The time is nigh. Illinois football is about to play a game, and Brett Bielema is still the Head Ball Coach. Life as we know it, prefer it and love it is about to regain the spotlight, enriching our lives to a degree we dare not…

Rarely has a simple No. 1 inside parentheses been the source of such derision and mockery as on Wednesday at Circa when the results of the Mountain West preseason football poll were released at media day. The initial wave of jokes and laughter very quickly turned to speculation about who could have committed such a grave injustice as to have cast…

Happy Friday, readers! Shay Weintraub, here, and I got home just in time to watch Ty France do this: Can you believe we get to watch baseball AGAIN today?? If you haven't signed up for our watch parties yet, you can still do so! We have a Discord for connecting fans that live outside of the Seattle market. To sign up, fill out this short form and…

The results of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) vote for the 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame class will be revealed Tuesday night. Much of the intrigue in this vote will revolve around if Scott Rolen and/or Todd Helton make it, the gains made by several players and how Alex Rodríguez and Carlos Beltrán fare. The full 2023 ballot can…

Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the swingin' after-party for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. I hope you all had a good weekend. If you spent it at the Cubs convention, we're glad that you've decided to continue the good times with us. Come on in out of the cold. If it's raining or snowing where you are, come in and get…

It's another Wednesday evening at BCB After Dark: the swinging spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It's the last show of the week and we're going out with a bang. We're so glad you could come and join us. It's cold out there but it's warm in here. There are still a few good tables available. There's a two-drink…

Anthony Bass is a 35-year-old, right-handed reliever. He's played 11 seasons in the MLB, playing for the Padres, Astros, Rangers, Cubs, Mariners, Blue Jays, Marlins, and now the Blue Jays again. He was a Jay in 2020 after being picked up on waivers from the Mariners. He wasn't great (3.51 ERA in 26 games, 25.2 innings), and we let him leave as a…

It's a chilly Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning here at BCB After Dark: the jumpin' joint for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and get out of the cold. There are still a few good tables available. We're glad you could join us. The holiday cheer is flowing freely. No ugly sweater required. Have yourself a lovely…

There's still football on? But the west is done. The west is the only thing that's entertaining in this league. What the hell is this shit? I'll tell you what it is. It's MY team in the title game AGAIN, because we hammered Ohio State AGAIN. Also, Purdue is in Indianapolis for the first time after coming from behind to win the West outright. I…

Every week I log into this article to enter my picks and take care of some of the miscellany that RockyMtnBlue leaves for me as part of our work on these picks articles, and every week it says "MNW wit goes here." I am really letting you all down. We're to the end of another Big Ten season, this one perhaps simultaneously dumber and more…

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at BCB After Dark: the swingin' spot for night owls, early-risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We're still open here for the evening if you want to have a bit of a break before the holiday. Come on in and relax for a while. Get out of the cold. Grab a table near the stage. Have a tasty beverage-which you…

Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the groovy get-together for night owls, early-risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. There's a chill in the air on this crisp October night, so come on in and listen to some hot music and hot talk. Please let us check your coat for you. There are still a few tables left. No cover charge tonight. Bring your own…

Let's pick up another series W. Bo Bichette was yesterday's doubleheader hero, correctly predicted (infielder) by 35% of BBB voters. Here are tonight's lineups: (23 votes) 32 votes total Vote Now We are glad you are here and hope you feel welcome. As a reminder, we have rules. Mostly it's "don't be terrible," but these days, it's also, "please…

We've already lost the war, friends. For once, this is only tangentially about Ohio State football. Take the Heather Cox Richardson thesis from How the South Won the Civil War and look to the history of one traitorous Clement Vallandigham, and…well, Ohio, do you (or, I should say, y'all) really want to be here? WSR has spent the morning trying to…

Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday. Since today is the Mariners Home Opener and it is indeed a Friday yet again, we're going to do the same thing we did last week: meaningless, no-stakes prop bet polls! I promise I'll come up with something new to talk about next week when we have a slightly bigger sample size than seven games of…

Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday, OPENING DAY EDITION. If you're reading this, you've made it through another winter and Mariners baseball is hours away from being fully back in our lives. If nothing else goes well for you today, at least there is that. Cheers, friends. But first, let's look back on last week's poll results. I mean, duh. Of…

We are in full preseason prediction overload time here with Opening Day just days away. As such, it means it is time for our annual superlatives prediction series, in which all of us on staff here at OTM along with the community will be picking who we think will finish the season on top in a number of categories. We'll be voting on team MVP, best…

hello from my new year's spread those were just the appetizers, much as this game is an appetizer to actually important things This poll is closed 24 votes total Vote Now northwestern lost to iowa in basketball the other night. here is how i coped then, and similarly, here is how i plan to cope today go cat This poll is closed 31 votes total Vote…

At the turn of the new year, Fangraphs' Effectively Wild - one of the best baseball podcasts around - dropped an episode where they discussed what baseball will look like in the 2020s. It is worth the listen if you have an hour, it's fun to imagine what the game will look like over the next ten years. Here at the Snakepit, we have spent most…

The Pac-12 Conference released its annual media poll for the 2023 season ahead of Media Day on Friday and USC is the favorite to win the conference in its final year in the Pac-12. The Trojans received 25 of 36 first-place votes. They are scheduled to leave the Pac-12 next season for the Big Ten, with UCLA joining them. The Bruins came in sixth in…