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The Rangers' secret weapon. Can it take them higher?

Dodgers lose!

You are misremembering. You're thinking of Tom Brady owning a fairly successful chain of Boston cream pie shops along the East Coast (secret ingredient: JR and Rick's--and, to be fair, most sportswriters and broadcasters--cum). There was a bit of a financial scare when Brady joined the Bucs, until it became obvious that 95% of the "Patriot fanbase" would just become Buc fans.

Which is how it should be. To be the best you've got to beat the best. And overcome any implicit advantage they get from past success.* *Tom Brady excluded. He never got any benefit of the doubt from past success. Far from it. He not only had to overcome the opponent, but the incompetence of his own defense, less-than-special teams, offensive skill position players, offensive line, coaches, etc.

The Rangers are on to the ALCS, sweeping both AL East teams out of the playoffs.

Had to check the date stamp on this one. I thought the other performance was bad. Will they activate the Tank for Caleb plan, or will Jerruh try to convince Shadeur Sanders to declare and add to his dad's legacy in the Big D?

Bill the coach is hurt by his say in personnel maters. If you can win double digit games with McCorkle and Cassell, that's a great coach. If you can get the Commissioner to change the rules multiple times to combat your schemes, that's a great coach. True, some of that success was achieved by bending the rulles, and it's hard to know how much, but he, his system, and the defense he created was a bigger factor than the system QB who ran the offense and benefited from a run of good luck, except maybe against the mediocre QB whose team his offense put up 31 points in two games against. (At first when I saw 80-91 I thought it was Eli's record.) Put Brady on the Dolphin teams of his era and he'd be a footnote in history. Bill is starting to slip a bit, it seems, and nepotism may have led to the very recent decline, but he still comes up with gems like sending a rusher from the sidelines to block a kick to keep the team in the game that show he's still making the best of what he has. You can only juggle the plates for so long in the modern NFL.

Nah, having a coaching system and organization that could win double digit games with Matt Cassel and McCorkle Jones at QB, allowed then to win extremely closely contested Super Bowls with an above average quarterback (and lose three against the likes of Nick Foles and that funny guy that provides comic relief on MNF broadcasts with his brother.)

Brady's better than MacCorkle Jones. I can't imagine being so enamored with one individual that I'd actively enjoy the demise of a team I supposedly rooted for, but I guess part of Brady's magic is that he's been able to charm people from Skip Bayless to Antonio Brown to SBF. At least you didn't pay him $55 million to be his friend. Hopefully you stayed away from that and the other snake oil he's so good at pushing.

The coach with the all time worst record is in the Hall of Fame.

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2023/10/05/chicago-bears-icon-and-pro-football-hall-of-famer-dick-butkus-dies-at-80/

Well she had a bad reputation So mother put you on probation Now ain't it funny how the story goes Well, seems like every boy you meet Just tries to get you in the back seat If you been there once, your gonna do it again That's what they say when you You've got a bad reputation A bad reputation But what a sensation Ooh, you're such a temptation Sometimes sneakin' out the window Well, just as sure as the wind blows Your in trouble when they find you out With such a small circle of friends The train is never gonna end And some girls like it, yeah but, some don't You, you, you got a bad reputation A bad reputation Aw, but what a sensation Aw, you're such a temptation You're the kind that wonders if love was made to last Or if marriage is a thing of the past Well, anyway you want it baby, that's the way its gonna be, yeah 'Cause if you're good enough for you, you're good enough for me, yeah Alright When she had a bad reputation And now its a touchy situation Well, just try to change in this small town Where everybody knows your name Expecting you to stay the same Either put it up or they'll put you out That's what they do when You got a bad reputation A bad reputation But what a sensation Ooh, you're such a temptation You got a bad reputation You know it's alright, it's alright with me I'll take your bad reputation You and your bad reputation Whoo! C'mon, baby, yeah Alright, hey, yeah

If you get lonely on your daddy's farm Just remember I don't live too far And there's a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah You'll be at my place in less that a day So get on your bad motor scooter and ride Up over to my place and stay all night First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right So get on your bad motor scooter and ride Ooh, the last I seen your face I swore that no one would take your place Now since you've been gone I've been feelin' bad, yeah I'd come out to your place (but) I'm afraid of your dad So you get on your bad motor scooter and ride Up over to my place and stay all night First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right So get on your bad motor scooter and ride Ride, ride, ride Come on baby, ooh yeah Crank it on up Get on your bad motor scooter

Any time you see a thread in the recently created list which has 73 posts you think it might be interesting. Not this one.

Keep us posted, this is fascinating stuff.

I remember Nettles' performance in that WS better than Robinson and I couldn't have imagined one better than that. But it sounds like Robinson was his equal.

RIP to a fielding legend, instrumental to the Orioles 1970 championship by robbing various Reds of doubles with diving stops. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38498947/hall-fame-3b-orioles-legend-brooks-robinson-dies-86

Still the best

They're a tribute to the 80s Canadian band Glass Tiger. Goodell wouldn't let them wear glass unis; this is the closest they could come.

George McFly was pretty scared when he woke up to Eruption blasting at 11.