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A week into the NBA season and I\u2019ve already listened to two podcasts and read one article that tries to decide if early developments are legit or not. Based on 2\u20134 games. Because that\u2019s the world we live in. I thought I would take that concept a different direction and work through several subjects to determine if they are dumb or not.<\/p>\n

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Darryn Peterson Not Playing Because Of \u201cCramps and Soreness\u201d<\/h3>\n

Oh boy. Just four days after destroying Louisville for 20 minutes then basically sitting out the second half, KU\u2019s best player did not dress for the exhibition game against Fort Hays State.[1]<\/a> Since it\u2019s 2025, there were immediate conspiracy theories on even the most level headed of platforms.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to hope it was just a combination of the \u201ccramps and soreness\u201d and perhaps an illness that kept Peterson from playing and not some bigger injury that is being hidden or any of the other ideas that got thrown around. Not dumb but has potential to become dumb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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ESPN+\u2019s Broadcast Quality<\/h3>\n

The KU game was on ESPN+, which always worries me. You never know what\u2019s going to go wrong. Tuesday it was audio that was cutting out at various parts of the game, and often not perfectly synched up with the video. Par for the course, but indeed Dumb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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NCAA Allows Players and Coaches to Bet on Professional Sports<\/h3>\n

Oh good Lord, this organization needs to be burned to the ground. The Dumbest<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ohio State Whining About Having to Play at Noon So Often<\/h3>\n

Oh, boo hoo, the defending national champs and perennial contenders are claiming they have a recruiting disadvantage since they have so many noon Eastern games. They say it\u2019s hard to get recruits into town who aren\u2019t from the Midwest since these kids are usually playing on Friday nights. I feel real, real bad for the Buckeyes, how will they ever stack their roster three-deep with NFL players at every position? <Looks at current recruiting rankings, sees OSU at #4. Shakes fist.> Pretty damn dumb<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, and this was a month after Ohio State was one of the few schools to argue against limiting the transfer portal window, claiming that teams like them that make the college football playoff will not have the same opportunity to recruit transfers. Again, this is a school that signs a top five high school class almost every year. If they know they need a quarterback or running back or whatever, I think they\u2019re going to find a way to talk to a kid even if they\u2019re preparing to play Georgia. And, to be honest, schools who are NOT in the CFP deserve some kind of advantage in recruiting. Take your massive payout and opportunity to play for a national title while everyone else gets to fight over transfers. \u201cThey\u2019re Just Trolling Us Now, Right?\u201d Dumb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pacers Injuries<\/h3>\n

The Pacers lost Andrew Nembhard on opening night. He remains out for an undetermined time. Two games later Bennedict Mathurin hurt his foot and is week-to-week. Obi Toppin then hurt his hamstring and is out at least a month. Bench players Peter Taelon and Kam Jones are on the injured list. Johnny Furphy has only played a few emergency minutes as he works through a foot injury. TJ McConnell won\u2019t play his first game until sometime in November. Things got so bleak the Pacers actually gave Mac McClung a contract this week. Meanwhile they are now 0\u20134 after losing to Dallas by two last night. This one is Annoyingly Dumb<\/strong> but since it may put them deep into the lottery, could turn out to be Not Dumb At All<\/strong>. We\u2019ll see in May when they learn their draft position.<\/p>\n

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MLB Replay<\/h3>\n

Actually all sports replay reviews.<\/p>\n

We got home from L\u2019s scrimmage last night and I turned on the World Series and immediately saw back-to-back replay reviews. Each of bang-bang plays involving the same baserunner. We don\u2019t know what the replay officials were looking at, but Fox rolled each in super slow motion, freezing at key frames to determine if the runner was safe or out. The reviews stopped play for roughly five minutes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve ranted about this before, but if you have to do something the human eye can\u2019t do to make a final call, we\u2019ve gone too far. We are too worried about a runner coming an eighth of an inch off the bag, a football moving half an inch when a player hits the ground, etc. All things we can only see because of super HD cameras and zoom lenses and other technology. Replay review should be designed to overcome clear mistakes, not these tiny imperfections that, if we had the ability at the time, would likely overturn countless famous moments in sports history. Very Dumb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Weather<\/h3>\n

We went straight from 80\u00b0 every day to 50\u00b0, which is a little annoying but not necessarily dumb. Fall is supposed to be chilly. I was reading a long-term forecast last night that suggested after a warm up next week, we could go straight to winter, with temps in the 30s and chances for snow. Why can\u2019t we just have six weeks where the temps slowly transition from 80s to 70s to 60s to 50s to 40s instead of these abrupt swings? Fucking Dumb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Big deceased parent grudge match as my mom and dad were FHSU alums. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A week into the NBA season and I\u2019ve already listened to two podcasts and read one article that tries to decide if early developments are legit or not. Based on 2\u20134 games. Because that\u2019s the world we live in. I thought I would take that concept a different direction and work through several subjects to determine if they are dumb or not. Darryn Peterson Not Playing Because Of \u201cCramps and Soreness\u201d Oh boy. Just four days after destroying Louisville for 20 minutes then basically sitting out the second half, KU\u2019s best player did not dress for the exhibition game against Fort Hays State.[1] Since it\u2019s 2025, there were immediate conspiracy theories on even the most level headed of platforms. I\u2019m going to hope it was just a combination of the \u201ccramps and soreness\u201d and perhaps an illness that kept Peterson from playing and not some bigger injury that is being hidden or any of the other ideas that got thrown around. Not dumb but has potential to become dumb. ESPN+\u2019s Broadcast Quality The KU game was on ESPN+, which always worries me. You never know what\u2019s going to go wrong. Tuesday it was audio that was cutting out at various parts of the game, and often not perfectly synched up with the video. Par for the course, but indeed Dumb. NCAA Allows Players and Coaches to Bet on Professional Sports Oh good Lord, this organization needs to be burned to the ground. The Dumbest Ohio State Whining About Having to Play at Noon So Often Oh, boo hoo, the defending national champs and perennial contenders are claiming they have a recruiting disadvantage since they have so many noon Eastern games. They say it\u2019s hard to get recruits into town who aren\u2019t from the Midwest since these kids are usually playing on Friday nights. I feel real, real bad for the Buckeyes, how will they ever stack their roster three-deep with NFL players at every position? <Looks at current recruiting rankings, sees OSU at #4. Shakes fist.> Pretty damn dumb Oh, and this was a month after Ohio State was one of the few schools to argue against limiting the transfer portal window, claiming that teams like them that make the college football playoff will not have the same opportunity to recruit transfers. Again, this is a school that signs a top five high school class almost every year. If they know they need a quarterback or running back or whatever, I think they\u2019re going to find a way to talk to a kid even if they\u2019re preparing to play Georgia. And, to be honest, schools who are NOT in the CFP deserve some kind of advantage in recruiting. Take your massive payout and opportunity to play for a national title while everyone else gets to fight over transfers. \u201cThey\u2019re Just Trolling Us Now, Right?\u201d Dumb Pacers Injuries The Pacers lost Andrew Nembhard on opening night. He remains out for an undetermined time. Two games later Bennedict Mathurin hurt his foot and is week-to-week. Obi Toppin then hurt his hamstring and is out at least a month. Bench players Peter Taelon and Kam Jones are on the injured list. Johnny Furphy has only played a few emergency minutes as he works through a foot injury. TJ McConnell won\u2019t play his first game until sometime in November. Things got so bleak the Pacers actually gave Mac McClung a contract this week. Meanwhile they are now 0\u20134 after losing to Dallas by two last night. This one is Annoyingly Dumb but since it may put them deep into the lottery, could turn out to be Not Dumb At All. We\u2019ll see in May when they learn their draft position. MLB Replay Actually all sports replay reviews. We got home from L\u2019s scrimmage last night and I turned on the World Series and immediately saw back-to-back replay reviews. Each of bang-bang plays involving the same baserunner. We don\u2019t know what the replay officials were looking at, but Fox rolled each in super slow motion, freezing at key frames to determine if the runner was safe or out. The reviews stopped play for roughly five minutes. I\u2019ve ranted about this before, but if you have to do something the human eye can\u2019t do to make a final call, we\u2019ve gone too far. We are too worried about a runner coming an eighth of an inch off the bag, a football moving half an inch when a player hits the ground, etc. All things we can only see because of super HD cameras and zoom lenses and other technology. Replay review should be designed to overcome clear mistakes, not these tiny imperfections that, if we had the ability at the time, would likely overturn countless famous moments in sports history. Very Dumb Weather We went straight from 80\u00b0 every day to 50\u00b0, which is a little annoying but not necessarily dumb. Fall is supposed to be chilly. I was reading a long-term forecast last night that suggested after a warm up next week, we could go straight to winter, with temps in the 30s and chances for snow. Why can\u2019t we just have six weeks where the temps slowly transition from 80s to 70s to 60s to 50s to 40s instead of these abrupt swings? Fucking Dumb. Big deceased parent grudge match as my mom and dad were FHSU alums. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,41,58,15],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college-sports","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16783,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions\/16783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}