Vegas native here:

Fuck the A’s. I know a handful of people that are excited we’re getting a baseball team here, and it’s solely so they don’t have to travel to see their actual favorite team when they come to town.

The ownership group is the worst in pro sports now that Eugene Melnyk died to relinquish control of the Senators, and Dan Snyder was forced to sell the Commanders. They will never have a competitive team again. They aren’t interested in winning. They’re just interested in fielding the bare minimum team so they can make money from watching their team get futtbucked by every other team.

Whoever in Vegas government saw how they were given a sweetheart deal in Oakland and even that wasn’t enough for them and still said, “yeah let’s give them tax money!” is a fucking idiot.

And this is on top of the clusterfuck that is the F1 race in town. Locals are pretty pissed off at our tax money going to making ridiculously wealthy people more money while making our lives worse, for like the 3rd time in just a handful of years. And the A’s are just a dumpster fire. Nothing about the actual team is exciting.

What kind of sociopath sets up the graph axis this way? I’m looking at the top right thinking “gee I wonder who sucks” and I’m seeing all the best teams in the league.

It increases as you go left and down? Null is top right? What the shit.

We’re probably not beating the Chiefs in the standings. They’re simply too good a team and have a fairly sizable lead on us in the standings where catching them is feasible.

So we probably need to win a wild card spot.

Current wild card race is Steelers and Browns at 6-3, and then a whole bunch of teams at 5-4/5-5 (Bill’s, Bengals, Texans, Colts, Raiders). Steelers are frauds who will fall apart at some point according to just about every metric you can look at, so I think it’s pretty wide open.

It’s in the realm of possibility which is all we can ask for. Gotta keep grinding 1 game at a time.

Well, we knew their defense would be murderers row. Only down a field goal at halftime.

We still in this. Raiiiiiderrrrs