Who Will Lift the Cup?
It’s the most magical time of year in sports. The baseball season has started and now the NBA and NHL playoffs are about to kick off. The NHL brackets are now set, so who will lift the best trophy in sports? Well the only thing I know for sure is that it won’t be the New York Rangers.
Eastern Conference
Round 1
Toronto 4 Ottawa 1
Tampa Bay 4 Florida 2
Montreal 4 Washington 3
Carolina 4 New Jersey 2
Conference Semifinals
Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 2
Carolina 4 Montreal 1
Conference Finals
Tampa Bay 4 Carolina 2
Western Conference
Round 1
St. Louis 4 Winnipeg 2
Colorado 4 Dallas 2
Vegas 4 Minnesota 1
Los Angeles 4 Edmonton 1
Conference Semifinals
Colorado 4 St. Louis 1
Vegas 4 Los Angeles 2
Conference Finals
Colorado 4 Vegas 2
Stanley Cup Final
Colorado 4 Tampa Bay 3
2025 MLB Predictions
National League
NL East: Atlanta Braves
NL Central: Chicago Cubs
NL West: LA Dodgers
WC 1: New York Mets
WC 2: Arizona Diamondbacks
WC 3: Philadelphia Phillies
American League
AL East: Boston Red Sox
AL Central: Detroit Tigers
AL West: Seattle Mariners
WC 1: New York Yankees
WC 2: Texas Rangers
WC 3: Toronto Blue Jays
Postseason
NLCS: Dodgers over Mets
ALCS: Mariners over Blue Jays
World Series: Dodgers over Mariners
2025 Women’s Tournament Picks
My predictions for the 2025 NCAA Women’s tournament! Below are my regional final picks, you can click here to see the whole bracket once the tournament tips off.
Region 1 UCLA over LSU
Region 2: South Carolina over North Carolina
Region 3 Notre Dame over Texas
Region 4 UCONN over USC
Championship: South Carolina over UCLA
The Ball is Tipped
My predictions for the 2025 NCAA Men’s tournament! Below are my regional final picks, you can click here to see the whole bracket once the tournament tips off.
East: Alabama over Arizona
South: Michigan State over Auburn
West: Florida over St. John’s
Midwest: Tennessee over Gonzaga
Championship: Florida over Alabama
It’s Happening!
Happy Gilmore 2 is coming in July, and we have a trailer. I am sure this will be awful, but I can’t wait!
🔗 The MLB Ghost Runner Has to Go
MLB’s extra-innings ghost runner rule has robbed teams of home-field advantage - The Athletic
It’s asymmetrical warfare. A team that’s guaranteed to win with three more outs can use its best reliever to protect the lead if it hasn’t already used him; the home team can use its best reliever only to protect a tie. If the away team is up by two runs or more in extra innings, it can safely ignore the runner at second, whereas the home team will never get that luxury. The home team will always have to pay attention to the runner because if it is in the field, that means it’s a tie game, by definition. A home team can never be up by two runs or more in extra innings unless the game has already been decided by a walk-off homer, so it will always hurt its win probability more if the opposing runner moves to third base in the top half of any extra inning.
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I hated the ghost runner when it was introduced, but over time I have become okay with it as games did seem to end quicker. That said, it never felt real or like baseball. Hockey fans will understand this as when games go to a shootout the outcome becomes just random. Grant Brisbee does a good job here explaining why it’s time to move on from this.