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The Pearce signing came before the Eovaldi signing, right?

You wonder in cases like this if there might be some skullduggery behind the scenes, like the White Sox GM mentioning to Boras that they are itching to spend like fools on a DH. When JD Drew opted out of his Dodgers deal and signed with the Sox there were some malicious little rumors that JD knew he was gonna be better off opting out...

IMHO it's on both DD and JH if they decided it was Pearce or a reliever.

Cleveland now has Aaron Civale in their rotation and pitching very well. They took Civale in the 3rd round of the 2016 draft. And guess where he played university ball - Northeastern! It really is frustrating that the Sox can't seem to make picks like that.

Anything is better than another Yankees-Twins series.

At the end of the season, we'll probably be able to say that if Dombrowski had done a better job with the pen we would have been in the Wild Card game.

A couple of things I wonder about this: 1) Will the immense popularity of the Pats continue when the Brady/Belichick era of dominance inevitably ends? 2) Will kids ever fully realize that football is a sport that wreaks havoc on the body, that forces a star quarterback like Andrew Luck to retire at 29 because of the relentless injuries and fear of living the rest of his life in chronic, debilitating pain?

Here's my way of phrasing it: I would prefer that the Yankees beat out Houston for first overall. That means they would not be playing Minnesota in the first round. They would be playing the Wild Card winner. Which could be Cleveland, Oakland, Tampa or us. If it's not us, Oakland looks like the matchup that could give the Yankees the most trouble.

Yanks win! Yeah, that does feel weird.

The only thing is, the Yanks are in a battle with the Stros for HFA.

Can the freakin' Yanks beat the A's once?

Damn, I should've just said LAST arb year.

The strength of schedule stuff doesn't even mean that much at this stage. The Rays recently had a hard time with both the Tiggers and the Birds.

And it was .562 last year. Yikes.

Jackie's OPS against lefties is .624.

Are you knocking the greatest manager in Red Sox history again?

One thing for sure is that there will never be a deal that everyone's happy with.

Some of this is being addressed by higher arb salaries. I mean, we're already beetching about how much JBJ is sure to get in his third arb year...

Yeah, I think we might be seeing somebody like Ryan Weber pitch some innings today.

700hitter, you would get along great with Phil. Players’ Weekend disaster shows MLB’s continuing foolishness Phil Mushnick August 29, 2019 10:02 PM In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.” By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness. But MLB never runs low on rotten ideas. It suffers from advanced nearsightedness while self-deluded into practicing the kind of innovative thinking that guarantees a maximum of unintended, unforeseen, ridiculous circumstances. So does the NFL. Thus, our question for commissioner/marketing genius Rob Manfred: Given that every game for three consecutive days appeared the same — Johnny Cash and the San Quentin 9 versus the psychiatric facility security detail from the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — which game or games did he choose to watch? After all, by design they all looked alike. The players wore monochromatic white-on-white or black-on-black self-selected nicknames on the backs of their corresponding all-white or all-black monochromatic uniforms, making it impossible to know for sure who many of them were — even if you knew their nicknames, which were mostly inside gags. Reader Joe Plitnick thinks Gary Sanchez went with “No Sweat.” Of course, at MLB no one saw this coming. MLB placed everyone in the same clown suit then hit “send” under the full impression and authority that it knows exactly what it’s doing. So all 44 games over the weekend were played in indecipherable secret code — white ink put to white paper, black ink on black paper. Morons. Or as the bibulous W.C. Fields said of his African safari: “We forgot the corkscrew. All we had to live on was food and water.”

That's a contender for Most Cynical Sentence of 2019! But I know you can do better, too.

Not Cashner!

There's no doubt about that.

The very best players, like the most popular movie stars, get paid crazy amounts. It's just the American way, really.

The Red Sox, meanwhile, purchased for 700 million in 2001, are currently worth an estimated 3.2 billion. So that's a tidy capital gain of 2.5 billion.