09/07 - Murder Mystery Monday

Tanking for a draft pick is match fixing. They might as well throw every game and bet on all of their opponents and line their pockets while they're at it. It's cheating and it's crap and has no place in sports.

 

Ok but here's an issue, unless you get lucky like say the Chiefs did with Mahomes as he went 10 and they moved for him. Constantly finishing as a 500 or just below or just under 500 team or even as a shitty but respectable team leaves you in that lurch. You get stuck there and you can't get out because you aren't shitty enough to draft a star yet you aren't good enough to win anything, it's purgatory. It's how the blow it up and tank on purpose idea came to pass I'd bet.

 

GO SPORTSBALL!!! GET THAT FIELDGOAL FROM 3rd BASE! WOOO!!!

But I was actually kinda looking forward to this season because this dude's mom was a paraprofessional at my HS when I was going, and his older sister was in my little sister's graduating class: https://www.cincyjungle.com/2020/9/...RHZUlgjvRrzS2eWlU6fRBVyp2Ov81qCAMKESIAOV6Q4qo

The last somewhat semi-famous player our town had was John Crider, and his obstinate ass passed up numerous colleges because he wanted to play for KU....who promptly benched him. *I* got a good deal out of that though, in that I got to go party with John in Lawrence and got drunk with Kirk Heinrich a combo of the basketball and football teams where someone rolled a dumpster into the middle of the parking lot of the apt. complex and there was a dry-erase board with leadership standings as to who made the most shots into the dumpster from the 4th floor with their bottles/cans.

/and that's all I have to say about that.

 

The thing is players and coaches don't do it because they know they'll be gone but front offices 100% do, like by trading away dudes for draft picks.

 

I told y'all they were ganna start reproducing on their own!

Spoiler: Proof your roomba is here to take over the world.

 

You're acting like it's unfair to get stuck in said purgatory and they deserve a bail out?

That's sports... literally. You reorganize, you trade, you demote, you promote, you teach, you train, you coach, you manage.

 

I only follow hockey closely so I can't speak to what other sports do, and I frankly don't care. You are not gonna make me say it is good for anyone to tank on purpose.

Then you suck it up until you get it right. Sports should not be about getting handout so you can win. What is point then? By your logic the Chiefs should let a lesser team win next season in the NFL.

 

It's an interesting debate there are lots of people that think tanking is a legit team building strategy.

 

FTFY

 

I don't sports, btw.

 

Why u no spertz?

 

There are lots of people that think really silly things, that doesn't make them right, or even debatable. It's an issue of morality at that point and it's cheating, flat out.

 

Gah, don't remind me....the Titans had the 5th pick that year...and took Corey Davis.

 

Cubs, Astros, Padres, White Sox are all teams that are good because they tore down their major league rosters to be good 4 years later.

Do you think the Cubs or Astros would trade their titles to win 10 more games in their bad years?

 

They don't hold my interest that much, that's all.

 

Going to have to call BS on this. They got Mahomes because they traded two 1st rounders to Buffalo to move up. Without him they were average.

 

The Titans are a perfect example of a team stuck in purgatory, they are a solid team but Ryan Tannehill won't beat Pat Mahomes in the playoffs.

 

Haha look at that ball go. It was grabbed by the wrong team! DAMN. OH NO! GOOD TEAM GRABBED BALL AND WENT! OH THEY MADE IT! WOOOOOOOO!

 

I know, I was just typing stupid words.