pelicansfan123

There is always discussion on this board about how you need somewhere in the range of 12-14 SEC wins in baseball to make the NCAA tournament.

I saw some discussion last night about this and I had been thinking about it too, but in a league where one team is just soooooo much worse than the rest, not even close to the competition, it feels unfair to the teams that don't get to play Missouri to just count SEC wins as if Missouri is a decent team.

It feels unfair to teams like Auburn, Vanderbilt, and Tennessee that they don't get three, essentially free, SEC wins on their schedule and I just am wondering how the committee will handle this?

For instance, Vanderbilt's 12-9 conference record looks a lot better than Alabama's 12-9 conference record when you realize that three of those twelve wins for Alabama were against Missouri.

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Are these politicians ending remote work because it’s proven that being in person is more productive or is it just to make feel-good political statements?

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When my company added an extra day in the office, they told us it was because of some vague client focus group-esque council wanted us to meet in person more...the thing is, we hadn't heard abthat we had not heard about before and haven't heard of since.

I think the real answer was that offices were sitting empty too often and the company wanted to get its money's worth.

However, when you make up some vague, ridiculous-sounding excuse for reducing remote work that has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the work being done, it leads to malcontent amongst employees.

I think being open and honest with employees might lead some employees to be upset, but we would be able to better understand and, ultimately, get over it if we were just told the truth.

And it's so funny because a higher-up just showed data for how many in-person versus remote meetings we've had with clients, and despite us being in the office more days a week now compared to remote days, clients are still scheduling more remote meetings with us than in-person meetings.

It's like, huh, so maybe this mysterious "council" wasn't right after all...

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Others would have to comment on places like Nashville or Charleston

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I don't consider Nashville to be a food city at all. There's some decent places in Nashville, but I would be stunned if there's anywhere close to Michelin star-worthy.

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It’s the Elite Eight, I should want to watch it. And in theory, I guess I do, but the product is so bad I’ll go find something else to do. Which is the point

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People complain when there's too much scoring and now complaining about too much defense. I actually really enjoy watching Houston. They play as a TEAM, run a methodical-yet-effective offense, and defend like their lives depend on it.

That's much more entertaining to me than the Alabama-BYU no-defense game a few nights ago.

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No worries, that’s your opinion. I thought it was good, overall this season is okay. Not great.

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Yeah I just find the season as a whole to be meh. I didn't even really know Bianca, when she left, it was like "Oh...ok."

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Yeah, that was a damn good episode

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Maybe I'm harsh, but I really don't feel this way. The game play was horrible and between the Vula sob stories and then how long they spent on Eva, it didn't even feel like Survivor anymore.

I really like Eva and Joe, but I watch Survivor to escape the daily realities of life, not have them jammed down my throat all episode. I just want to be entertained when I watch reality tv, that's truly all I want.

I understand if you disagree, but I bet a lot of people feel like I do, deep down.

I'm sorry, as much as ESPN pushes the WNCAA tournament, the early rounds are still a joke.

Uconn isn't even a one-seed and is up 66-16 at halftime. Notre Dame, a three seed, won by 52 yesterday. South Carolina won by 60. Lehigh scored 25 points yesterday against Duke.

Yeah, you can say that Duke beat Mt. St. Mary's by 44, but anyone who is making that argument is being disingenuous. Those type of results, even for 1/16 (let alone 2/15 or 3/14) happen every once in a while on the men's side.

This happens every year, multiple times a year, in the women's NCAA tournament field. It's embarrassing and makes the game look bad, even though the later rounds can be legitimately exciting.

Make the field 32 teams (or even 48) and let's stop this farce of a first round for the top seeds where the 14-16 seeds especially are literally wasting their time and money even showing up.

Vandy finally looks like they've turned the corner, sweeping Xavier by a combined 21 runs and allowing four runs across the three games. Was likely nice revenge for Vandy after losing to Xavier in 2023 regionals.

Perfect time for Vanderbilt to get hot, with only a mid-week game against Valpo left before SEC play begins next weekend against Auburn.

With as much hype as WCBB gets, you would think the product is a lot better than it actually is when you're watching.The WNBA gets this hype too, but WCBB is on right now, so I'll focus on that.

I'm still not expecting much, but it takes up a lot of air time on the ESPN family of networks and so I do expect more from the players because of that. But I was watching a major P4 women's team the other night who isn't good but is still a big name and their massive center struggled to score when basically right next to the goal and it felt like a good (not great) high school team beats them, if not destroys them.

I was watching a different P4 game today and it felt like anything but a layup is almost an automatic miss.

I don't see the longevity in women's basketball once the Clark hype dies down a bit (which will gradually happen over time, especially if she doesn't win a championship). At the end of the day, you watch the product, and it still sucks, regardless of how much hype it gets on ESPN.

When I hear about bird flu or a new bat disease, my thought at this point is, if it's my time, it's my time.

I totally think we should take precautions if necessary, but I also don't want to just live in a bubble for the rest of my life. Is that even living?

I'd rather, to a certain extent, continue actually living and let the cards fall where they may.