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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 3h

Or I should say, things started looking bleak there. Then the Turang homer in the seventh pretty much made it feel impossible.

Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 3h

Felt like it was over when they had 2 on, nobody out in the 6th and didn’t score.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 15h

The rise of the Barstool bro types is easily the most infuriating part of sports in the 21st century. Easily. Fuck Portnoy and fuck everyone trying to *be* Portnoy. I remember when my sports was (relatively) free of this zoo crew obnoxiousness, and I want it back.

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 16h

It's 6 AM in Eugene, Oregon and Pat McAfee has had his coffee this morning.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 16h

Oblig.

Journalism 101: "If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true."

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 16h

I haven’t played an AC game in YEARS. I would play the SHIT out of this. Take my money Ubisoft or whomever.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jays fans on here already salivating at the thought of getting this Mariner team on short rest across the country after that marathon for game 1.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

15 inning marathon feels like it deserves a bevel?

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Saw the Tigers have stranded 10 and the Mariners stranded 9, and in both cases, I felt like the count was too low.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Make it happen, MLB owners.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for the Tigers to load the bases with no outs, and somehow manage to not score a run, because this game will continue until the heat death of the universe.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Double play incoming somehow, because there's no end in sight. No leaving. This is now your life. You made the mistake of getting involved and caring about the outcome here. You're stuck.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

God, eliminate them both and just send Toronto to the World Series. This has moved away from exciting and is sprinting toward just being sad.

Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Not really concerned with the outcome here, but enough obnoxious Lions and or Wolverine fans in my life are rooting for Detroit, and I very much don't want them to be happy, so here we are.

Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

M’s absolutely choking the shit out of this game. Honestly impressive.

Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

First pitch: Ball one, low and outside.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

It leaves them in a really weird position. They're wildly unpopular, they can't cling to anything that *makes* them popular, they can't skip to the end, and they're long past the point of no return. If it weren't happening in our country with global ramifications, it'd be fascinating to watch.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

This is what befuddles me. They ARE running out of juice. And on some level, the smarter ones know they can't skip the number of steps they'd have to to truly make this a permanent fixture of the US government (as permanent as it can be at least). But they also know they've come too far to quit now.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

The last time Milwaukee specifically was here was 2011. They went up 2-0 on Arizona at home, lost two straight in Phoenix, and then won Game 5 in 10 innings back in Milwaukee.

Every other time the Cubs went down 0-2 in a Divisional Series (1998, 2007, 2008), they got swept.

Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Does all this mean anything? Not really.

Is it predictive of what will happen Saturday in Milwaukee? Probably not.

Is it interesting to me? Well, yeah, but that doesn't say much.

I just kept hearing "only 7 times before," and whenever I hear that I go, "But out of how many?"

So there you go.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

That means if a 2-0 series gets to a 5th game, the team that was DOWN 0-2 (pending Saturday night's result) is 7-4 in those games.

If a team goes down 0-2 and they're on the road in game 5, their record in those deciding fifth games is 4-2.

If the 0-2 team is at home for game 5, they're 3-2.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

Since the 1995 format change, Cubs/Brewers is the 70th time a team has gone up 2-0 in a best-of-five Divisional Series (including two others this year). Of them:

40 ended in sweeps.
18 were extended to 4 games.
12 went the full 5.

Of those 12, the team down 0-2 has won 7 times (3 at home, 4 away).

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, you have to imagine that the pressure is ALL on the Brewers. Haven't won a postseason series since 2018, on the verge of blowing a 2-0 lead, would be only the 8th team in the 30ish years of the Division format to have done so...

Doesn't make it any less nerve wracking as fan though.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 1d

I would very much like Malik Willis to be playing in this game. Specifically, in the 4th quarter, while Love and the starters get a rest up 4 scores or so. Can we make that happen, please?

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 2d

FYI, Dodgers were 3-4 against the Cubs this year, 0-6 against the Brewers.

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Kyle Sparks @kyleksparks.bsky.social · 2d

The amount of pressure on the Brewers on Saturday night to not choke this series away…yikes.

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