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I can't believe this thread is still going. Mike's Last Stand

I admire your courage Mike. I also enjoy playoffs as much as the next person. But as others have pointed out, your complaint is with financial inequality on the PL and the fact that the team you support hasn't won anything in ages. If the first wasn't true you would have no gripes. It's actually an incredible setup that makes games in August just as important as games in April/May. And it's just flat out wrong to say this format doesn't always declare the best team as champion. That's precisely what it does do. A playoff format, especially single-round knockout accomplishes the opposite of that. It's the definition of randomness. Sure, it works sometimes. The NCAA Tournament has producers back-to-back champions that were the best team for 5 months. But was Villanova better than Georgetown in '85 or Duke better than UNLV in '91? Not even close. Looking at another sport - do you think the Giants were better than the undefeated Pats in '07? There's a reason why baseball sabermetrics and projection systems like PECOTA can be fairly accurate woth regular season records - the best teams rise to the to with a large bough sample size. They're about as accurate as a coin in the playoffs though. What would you have thought if Newcastle had to play the 4th placed team in a one game playoff during the season in the Championship? 102 points and put in one game. We'd still be down there

Gosling MOTM.

The relegation picture will be very clear if results hold. If we lose...

They are going to come out storming in the 2nd half after seeing the replay. Need to be ready.

Perch took the ball cleanly then the man.

It's in the area, but it's not a fucking foul.

Sunderland winning.

Yeah, but it's worse than you're thinking. It was a gift.

Oh my god. Cisse has to score that.

Cisse

Gouff's workrate today is incredible.

What the hell was that?

My legal stream is awful right now. Sort it out, Fox.

Games will only be on Bravo, MSNBC, etc on the last day of be season. NBC Sports will carry one game in each of the standard timeslots with NBC airing 20 of the Saturday 1230 kickoffs. The rest are on the overflow channels and all are online.

MLS, PL, Tour de France, fishing, NHL, Triple Crown horse racing, Formula 1, plus they own the golf channel. Yeah, you're right on.

Ok, you've returned from the depths of hell with that clarification. But still, Costas crushes the Olympics. Anyway, back to laughing at the UK coverage. Imagine if NFL Sunday Ticket didn't exist, people in the US only got one or two national games and a local game, and Sky carried every single NFL game at no additional cost. That's what we're dealing with here.

He's the worst! I'm speechless.

He's the worst! I'm speechless.

I'd be so p*ssed if I lived in England and knew that Mike had access to more games than me. :lol: You hear that Chris? That daft c*** Mike has far more access to Premier League football than you. :lol: Mike :lol: I don't understand what I did to deserve this. As for the coverage, if they keep Costas off my screen, this is a dream come true. We'll have every Newcastle game on TV, right? Watch us go down. I was going to say that I was just using your name as the de-facto American on this board. But now that I know you hate Bob Costas you can fuck right off.

While we're all wallowing in the misery of derby defeat, a questionable manager, and a generally shitty season.... What are some of the best goals that have been scored against us in the Premier League era? The first three that come to mind... Bergkamp's flick Le Tissier Rooney's volley What else?

Ah, feel awful for him. (What the fuck is wrong with our medical team?)

NBC exploring possibility of a 10am whip-around show similar to NFL Red Zone. Incredibly difficult to pull off, but a cool idea if they can figure out a good way to handle it.

I'd be so pissed if I lived in England and knew that Mike had access to more games than me.

Correct. The only problem is if they don't, there won't be a way to get it. Anyone with Comcast (me) will be fine as they own NBCU. I saw an initial, relatively short, list a week or so ago, but can't find it now. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130416/english-premier-league-nbc-tv-coverage/