A’s first baseman Ryan Noda suffered an immediate ejection from Monday night’s game against the Red Sox after he appeared to draw a little line in the sand after striking out, which the umpire didn’t like at all.
This was the second line-drawing ejection we’ve seen this month, but this one by Noda was pretty subtle. He wasn’t happy about a pitch earlier in the at-bat being called a strike so after swinging and missing on strike three, he drew a line in the dirt with his bat while walking back to the dugout.
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Charlie Elena Carrasco says she is “2 and a half,” but she is actually a few days from turning 3. Someday, she will want to excel at math or science, or be a sports star, or start a company or run for president, and somebody will either tell her outright that she can’t because she is female, or she can’t (because she is female)—the sexism implied but not spoken, making it harder to call out. Right now, Charlie wants yogurt. Her mother gets up and walks to the fridge.
Vacation’s over. Football season is here. Let’s go …
• Mamas don’t raise your boys to play running back.
Three of the six players franchised in March went into Monday—deadline day for those tagged to do long-term deals—without multi-year contracts. All three were running backs. All three remain without multi-year contracts. And that’s a really tough result for Las Vegas’ Josh Jacobs and the Giants’ Saquon Barkley, in particular (and a little less so for Dallas’ Tony Pollard, just because of his lower mileage and the style of back he is).
The Open at Royal Liverpool is upon us, but this year I suggest we take a different approach as we head into the year’s final major championship.
Instead of wasting a single second thinking about the fact that after the final putt drops on Sunday, we’ll have to wait a full nine months until the next major rolls around, let’s just enjoy four days of links golf. The post-major Monday hangover always hits differently after The Open, but we’ll deal with that when we get there.
Another week, another Monday NASCAR race. Mother Nature is certainly on one this season, and she ain’t taking her foot off the gas.
But hey, at least we got a good race!
Just kidding. It was a typical New Hampshire snoozer. And don’t you dare try to tell me differently. Whenever someone leads 90% of the laps, it’s a snoozer.
Congrats, Martin Truex Jr. But that race stunk. Frankly, all NHS races do, which is why I never look forward to ’em. Great race fans up in New England, so I don’t want to take the race away entirely, but I’m begging NASCAR to do something to that track.
If you win, they will come, for free. That’s the strategy Boise State football is putting in place this season in hopes to fill their blue-turfed stadium.
In a world filled with wild ticket promotions, the Broncos are introducing one the that actually makes sense called ‘We Win, You Win.’
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Fans who purchase a $125 limited-edition ticket to Boise State’s home opener against UCF on Sept. 9 will earn a free ticket to its next home game against North Dakota if the Broncos win.
Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
Telling time by sundial. Listening to music on the beach with a boombox. Loading up a covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail.
All things that stopped happening once a better idea came along.
Welcome to the conversation around safeties in the NFL.
In the NFL’s golden age, few things about the on-field product are truly problematic. But the safety is boring and not properly rewarded.
Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
The Rams were playing the Chargers or Texans. The opponent doesn’t matter because it was an easy-to-forget preseason game last summer, but I do remember watching the broadcast thinking how great it was to hear Sean McVay analyze the plays called by his assistant coaches and how we need more of this.
Kentucky represented the United States at the GLOBL Jam tournament in Canada last week, a U23 event that features both pro and college players from across the globe playing for their home countries. After a tumultuous offseason in which John Calipari had to scramble to fill the back half of his roster before sticking the landing with major late additions, it was hard to know what to expect from the Wildcats.
The result exceeded expectations: Kentucky won gold, going 4–0 and looking much improved on the offensive end despite not having two key frontcourt pieces at its disposal.
For Tuesday’s MLB bet, let’s target a couple of starting pitcher props. Parlay these two bets and, if they both hit, a $10 bet would yield a $21.30 payout ($11.30 profit).
I like our plan:
1. Bryan Woo over 6.5 K (-130)
No team has struck out more than the Twins, who lead MLB with a 26.8% K rate. Meanwhile, Mariners starter Bryan Woo is striking out batters at a rate of more than 11 per nine innings. His strikeout rate is in the 88th percentile of the league and his chase rate is in the 85th. Woo has exceeded this strikeout prop in four of his seven starts this season.