Collins blew it. You have a pitcher who's on "pitch count limit" and all the hubbub that went with it.

You have 2-0 lead, this is Harvey, not Greinke, not Kershaw, not Hershisher. He is ON PITCH COUNT!!!

AND YOU LET HIM PITCH?!!? After all the s*** his agent brought up even before play-off started?

Then you bring in Familia, so he can be recorded as another blown save??

Imagine what it would be like if Bill Buckner's E3 happened in 2012, or 2013, or 2014.

We now live in an age where young kids gets nasty tweets or posts because a punt was blocked (all his fault, of course) and it was returned for a miracle win, or young kids kill themselves because of bullying, go off the wall because they are lone(r) and have no friends.

Let me ask you this: Do you know this young man Familia well enough to know how he will handle this?

Again, <I just hope the young man Familia is not psychologically affected...>

If you wish to continue this line of thought, please post on my forum. Thank you.

By the time I typed and edited this post, the ESPN announcers made the comment that it's not Familia's fault, it was a difficult situation.

I don't know anything about Familia. But he didn't pitch badly. He came in with two on and nobody out, then pitched a perfect tenth.

In any case, he's going to be forgotten in the disaster of the 12th.

Even thought he was just signed from AA to be on the team about 9 days ago.

That ring he's gonna get will be costly, (ring is paid for by the team, but you get charged for taxes on the worth of the ring, think of it as getting a bonus, but the taxes aren't taken out in the check.)

Can't imagine what his tax bill will look like.

<WON> Arizona @ Cleveland

<LOST> San Francisco @ St. Louis

<LOST> San Diego @ Baltimore

<LOST> New York Jets @ Oakland

<WON> Seattle @ Dallas

Seriously now, Dallas had Seattle on the ropes, I "loved" how Cowboys played prevent defence last 4 minutes of the game while Seattle was marching down the field. Arizona held Cleveland scoreless in the second half, while scored 24-pts to win by 14.

So, this brings the running total to 10-22 a bit under 1/3

While the rest of the league's road teams went 3-6 in week 8, that will bring the running total to 41-46, just a bit under 1/2

For week 9 we have the following teams that will travel two time zones or more:

<???> Oakland @ Pittsburgh

<???> Atlanta @ San Francisco

<???> Denver @ Indianapolis

Once the ump has called the pitch "ball" or "strike", it doesn't matter if the batter swings or not.

< Jim Bartle: Rules question: How late can a batter swing and still have a strike called?

The situation I imagine is a wild pitch with two strikes. If the batter sees the ball get by the catcher can he just swing and start running to first? Presumably he can't do it when the ball is at the backstop, but how late is the swing called a strike? >

Good question. While on that topic, how <far> can a pitch be, and still count as a ball or strike? Obviously, a pickoff doesn't count, but what if it's like this (like the one by 50 cent):

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...

1. You are a reporter, if you wish to report that Kap like to mimic kissing his muscular arm after a TD, fine.

You wish to report that Kap have Biblical passages tattooed on his arm, fine.

You wish to report that Kap goes to church 8 days a week, fine.

You wish to report that Kap donates 20% of his earnings to the church, fine.

2. You do not write articles that so-and-so is arrogant & rude. You are not Ms. Manners.

No where does it say, that any athlete have to be polite to you.

You are an adult, you still have not gotten used to rejections and/or failures?

From his column:

<Benched.

Second banana.

The guy who holds the clipboard.

Colin Kaepernick, the once and no-more starting quarterback of the 49ers got shoved to the side, according to reports. He now is benched, irrelevant, history. Almost certainly gone by the end of this season. The understudy to Blaine Gabbert.

Last week @DEN, and this week @CAR

But GB's schedule do get a little easier after @CAR, DET, @MIN, CHI, @DET, DAL then @OAK, @ARZ, finish the season with MIN at home.