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Everything posted by notin
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Given how many bad commissioners MLB seems to have had, maybe it’s the toughest position among pro sports commissioners...
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And which young Sox arms do you figure? Darwinzon Hernandez and Thad “Not In The 40 Man Roster” Ward? I will admit, I liked the Betts deal better when the Sox got Graterol...
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I would doubt even Bloom foresaw an abbreviated season. MLB played a full season through the 1918 pandemic and they did not even know what a virus was then, let alone how to cure it...
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We know he was trying to add pitching from his pursuit of Cal Quantrill. He was apparently looking to use adding high value/low AAV contracts as an enticement for other teams to give him what he wanted. It didn’t work with San Diego, but it’s possible he had other similar deals with in mind or possibly even in progress...
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Oh I’m not crediting him with foreseeing a pandemic. I don’t even credit him with foreseeing Sale’s TJ (although it’s very possible he did know or strongly suspect at the time). But would you agree that these subsequent events made trading Betts the right move?
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Trading Betts became the right move when Sale went down. The abbreviated season just emphasizes this...
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Yeah Jacko!! Boo Yankees!! Yankees s*ck!! But, yeah Jacko!
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Smoke? The smoke was the sudden surge to All Star caliber player from a slew of players who couldn’t cut it with other teams. This might be the actual fire...
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How long before we see proposals for a 10 game season followed by a 16 team postseason tournament?
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Not really surprising. Not having a second round pick in a five round draft does make having one of the top draft classes extremely difficult...
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I thought Yorke’s draft stock fell due to an injury his senior year...
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Ed Howard is a local Chicago kid. He’s the star shortstop at Mount Caramel High School, a school with an incredible reputation for athletic alumni. Notables include Denny McLain, Simeon Rice, Antoine Walker, Donovan NcNabb and Chris Calloway, among others...
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A lot of players don’t play the same position in MLB that they played in high school. For all we know, this kid could wind up at catcher....
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Agreed. MLB had one heck of an opportunity here. No other sports. Everyone pinned at home. No new television or forms of entertainment. But because neither side could find a way to agree, we all decided by default to become entrenched in the lives of midwestern idiots who like to keep tigers as pets...
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There were a few stories about NBA progress for salvaging their season. They pretty much all revolves around how many teams would be going to the post season...
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It does look like the owners are being very short-sighted. Sure they might lose cash this year If there’s a shortened season. But no season will likely cut deeper into next year’s profits and beyond. And will they use their typical fix to raise quick cash - expansion? That’s not going to bolster the game’s popularity except maybe in the new cities...
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At Fenway? Certainly Torii Hunter and Adam Jones (and Carl Crawford) agree. But other parks? Did Hunter have other teams on his NTC for that reason? Unlike most of us, he’s been to all or nearly all of them...
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Two reasons: 1. Daisike did purportedly throw a lot of IP in Japan, but this also created the possibility that he was already overworked. 2. Most Japanese teams use 6 man rotations.
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The first I heard of this kind of thing was when the Celtics drafted Dee Brown and he was accosted by police while house-hunting in Wellesley...
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Despite not being old for a free agent, Sandoval was in decline and asking for a ton of years and money. It was a perfect s*** storm. Valbuena was a stopgap player at best, but never played for anything other than an appropriate contract...
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I was vehemently anti-Sandoval and NEVER thought he made sense. Granted, my choice that off-season (the late Luis Valbuena) wasn’t all that much better, but at least his ineffectiveness was more affordable...
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They can always apply for food stamps. Although I believe you’re limited to domestic caviar over imported. But, hey, we all have to tighten our belts sometimes...
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Crawford was coming off an MVP-caliber season and the Sox were making zero headway with Ellsbury/Boras. He did make a lot of sense as a target, especially since retaining Ellsbury looked less likely by the day. But he simply did not pan out. As for least favorite Sox player, I’m still more down on Sandoval than Crawford...
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I jumped in midstream on that. Didn’t look back. Looking back is for slackers...
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Nope. I'm just gonna learn to hit like Lefty O'Doul. (How is he not in Cooperstown?)
