TheWatShot

Still in the first half and the Colts have already failed to convert two fourth downs. It's like Frank Reich never left...

Yeah, BSU fans aren't very realistic (then again, what fanbase is?). They're already convinced Michael Lewis isn't going to be successful because he's had a rough offseason (lost all five starters to the portal). Never mind he just had the second-most wins by a rookie coach ever at BSU. It's not an easy place to recruit to, with poor facilities, a cheap administration and Muncie being a dump.

He's in his 8th season and has finished above .500 once, in 2020 when he won the MAC along with the program's first bowl game. His first four seasons were mostly awful, and everything since 2020 has been pretty lousy. Very much a bell-curve type of career. I think a lot of BSU fans are just over him at this point.

They'll need it to buy out their coach after this season.

This is a textbook USA basketball loss. Tons of scoring ability but can't stop a nosebleed.

Drought season #2 is upon us. Only a trace of rain in the past 2 weeks and none predicted for the next 10 days.

Looks like the Tigers and their non-existent offense were just what the doctor ordered for your Yankees.

Moving down might actually hurt them more at the sectional level. In 5A, they got a bye week, with a chance of playing somebody like North Side or Anderson the week after, and not seeing Snider until the championship. Can't ever totally count out a program like that, though. In 2014 they had a losing record and there was talk that their glory days were over. They won state the following season.

Made it up to 90 degrees today, with a heat index of 103, humidity in the 80's and a dew point of 78. No heat advisory issued. I'm certain we've had heat advisories in the past when the numbers were lower than this.

Spencer Torkelson is finally starting to perform like a #1 overall pick. Eight home runs in the last 12 games and just had his second 4-hit game in the last two weeks.

Been a rough week for the NWS when it comes to tornado warnings. Last weekend, there was a spotter a couple counties away from me who reported a cone-shaped funnel almost reaching the ground, with a strong signature on radar, and no warning was ever issued. Then this afternoon, this happened near Crawfordsville and somehow slipped through the cracks.

The Tigers are so freaking bad...haven't won more than 2 in a row since Memorial Day.

I can't believe it's 2023 and we still have tornadoes touching down and doing damage before a warning even goes out.

MLB should schedule those games for later in the season then. It doesn't mean they need more games with each other.

That number was in the 70's before, or almost half the schedule. Playing the same four teams that many times gets pretty stale after awhile.

Eventually, it won't even feel like we're playing conference games anymore. We'll just be playing games. I guess it's not the end of the world, but beating Purdue and Michigan twice is a hell of lot more rewarding than beating USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon once each would be.

Teagle is already pissing off the helicopter parents and I'm here for it. He's had the kids in the gym at 6 a.m. treating it like an actual practice: working on screens, cuts, ball reversals, basic fundamental stuff. He's made it clear he's not interested in whiny parents or armchair coaches, it's his program and if the parents don't like it, they are welcome to remove their child from the team. We won't be good this year but it's so nice to see this kind of hard-nosed leadership again.

It's been weird where I live. In June everything was going south of us, and in July it feels like everything has been going north. No damage here last night, although we did get a severe thunderstorm warning (the typical "60 mph winds" that are probably more like 40 mph). NWS crews are looking at Portland and the northwest side of Fort Wayne for possible tornado damage. Also, I want to give credit to weather forecasters, who hear all kinds of insults when they're wrong but crickets when they're right. The forecasts this week were spot on, and July/August storm systems are hard to predict because the jet stream is all over the place.

Anyone else get a rude awakening from last night's storms? Finally got slammed after a week's worth of storm cells skipping us/fizzling out.

I remember a season where the Tigers went 15-4 against the Indians and finished 1 game ahead of them to win the division.

The Tigers scored 10 runs tonight, which for any other team would be like scoring 25, and still managed to lose to the Royals. Woof.

.316 OBP isn't very good. The Tigers have the worst offense in baseball and have 4 guys with a higher OBP than that. Luckily he hits home runs or he'd probably be in the minors by now.

Does anyone at ESPN do any research anymore? The Tigers took Max Clark with the third overall pick, and mentioned he was the best player to come out of Indiana since Bryan Bullington, who played for IU. Except, Bullington didn't play for IU, he played for Ball State. Probably written by someone who was multi-tasking this article and a story about what Wemby will have for breakfast tomorrow.

It's crazy how badly Archie Miller flubbed that class. He had all the hallmarks of a low-energy recruiter while he was here. He must have had an amazing interview that was totally out of character for him when he applied for the job.

It's a threat when you have the worst offense in MLB and your pitchers are under a ton of pressure to not give up runs. Even though everyone wants to see a no-hitter, winning the game is more important.