Texans Sign A.J. McCarron To Back Up Watson

[chuck]

Next thing Buford will let slip is that he LOVES Canadian football because you have to punt on third down. Talk about speeding up the pace of the game!

I bet those boys send replay decisions to Moose Jaw to make sure no one involved has a sentimental attachment to the teams competing.

The advent of penalty shoot-outs in soccer has nothing to do with the US American's aversion to a tie. In fact, in league games a tie gives each team an often valuable point and is often an excellent and exciting result for a visiting side. The idea was hatched in the 60's, in Europe, and also has nothing to do with television broadcasts. Previously they would either play a rematch or flip a coin. (This happened to my team once a couple of years ago. The geniuses at the league decided to start our game an hour later than normal, the game went into extra time and then to penalties. We had no lights at that field, which is one strong reason why we'd start games as early as we did. Anyway, it was decided after ten or twelve penalty kicks that it was simply too dark to continue and the outcome was decided on a coin toss. We lost.)

[Keith]

I've used the ItB twitter account to express my dismay at the MLB rule changes. Maybe it means that lawn chair and warm beer aren't too far behind, but shaving a few minutes will do nothing to help the ultimate goal, which is to appeal to the non-die hard fans.

The 3-batter minimum for relief pitchers is about the worst. Major strategy change. I get that MLB is primarily for entertainment, and the potential of three pitcher changes in the sixth inning is a buzzkill, but is this why the perception of MLB fandom is stagnant? A better idea would be to start games earlier so kids can actually make it to the sixth inning.I have a little bias on this as the parent of a young LHP, but the 3-batter minimum could kill the LOOGY (lefty only guy).

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Keith

The 3-batter minimum for relief pitchers is about the worst.

THE WORST.

My kid's a lefty, too, but thus far he has (wisely?) shown no interest in sports of any kind.

[HPF Bob]

Joe Webb was re-signed at 1/yr, $1 million so it looks like our QB stable is full, except we'll add a UDFA for training camp.

[painekiller]

Okay let me attempt an end run here and go back to the original post, Brent was correct, Mrs AJ McCarron is hot. But I'm not saying that on TV nor am I 70 years old yet. Many would find my agreement as to her looks as creepy, but I don't care because I am creepy.

I know when I heard of the signing the first thing that went thru my head was "was he the one that married that hot former Miss Alabama?"

I am creepy as charged.