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I think that's only if he is forced to watch. That only happens with birds.

If She did cheat on him, that would make him a cuckold. Which is a funny word.

That's my take on the whole thing; like, let's say he turns it around and starts playing well again for a while. How realistic is it to say he's an actual trade asset? His whole rep right now is as an abusive scumbag, so how many teams are going to actually give up anything of value for him? Yeah, I know teams have been more than happy in the past (including the VERY recent past) to gloss over this type of thing, but it does definitely feel like things have changed and are changing in terms of how fans and the media approach players like this. It seems like complete BS for the Cubs to be trying to shape this like they either want him to be good enough again to be a viable trade chip OR a useful player on the Cubs, because there's essentially no way for him to get out from under the stain (and rightly so) of what he did multiple times. This guy is NEVER going to be of any real value in a trade, and it's a horsefeathering farce for the Cubs to essentially act like he still needs to be on the team along those lines. A new team could give him a fresh start and fans have a short memory for what players did while with another team (see Murphy, Daniel). His trade value would come from being able to hit. If he can do that, the Cubs will be able to find a taker. That might not be likely but it's still possible considering he plays a defense first position. Is that a good enough reason to keep him around? Certainly not.

In his defense, the guy LaHair was blocking had a tiny face.

10 games is about 2 weeks but whatever. Maybe they said something privately to him but they've painted themselves into a corner publicly. They can't blast him in the press for these comments and still maintain the BS about "He's making strides" or being held accountable.

My daughter played this last season of field hockey with a broken pinky. It sucks and it hurts but its not like he was playing on a broken leg.

As opposed to a different kind of absolute power?

Snooker is a very difficult game to master. The pockets are so narrow compared to most pool tables.

How long can they keep him in Iowa?

Conventional wisdom has second base as a less demanding position to play than SS. Perhaps moving to second keeps him healthy.

Why is a bat flip considered disrespectful? The dong is what's important? After giving up a dong does a pitcher feel any better if the guy politely rounds the bases?

It's dumb gatekeeping. There's no correct way or reason to be a fan of something. And baseball needs all the fans it can get, so being even slightly picky about how you get one is especially dumb. I'd also add that old guys telling young guys not to do something because "we used to not do that" has a long history of not working.

I hope he can catch Nicklaus because I really can't stand that guy. Jack has been saying that he's "pulling for Tiger to beat his record" because he no longer believed there was any chance he'd actually do it. I still doubt he can actually do it. It would be really hard for him to win the US or British Open and the field is a lot better than it was during Tiger's heyday.

Taylor Davis sounds like a country singer that can't decide if she wants to be a cross over artist.

Not only that, but the entire business model of football is predicated on irrational fan emotional investment bringing you out to the stadium once or twice a year for many, and maybe 6 or 7 times for the rest of people. You cannot expect there to be any "fans" of pro sports teams for a generation. It's a longterm investment. You have to be willing to take lumps early on unless you are selling things like first class facilities and access to the best players in the world (expansion teams). You'd be better off not wasting money on "name" coaches either. A really lucrative TV deal would help too.

The Key word being almost. Don Baylor didn't get fired until July 4th. Dusty didn't get fired, just not renewed. Granted, that was a different regime but I think the answer for Maddon would be August 1 or not at all. What's wrong with the Cubs isn't Maddon's fault so if he got fired it would be as a scapegoat for a disappointing season. Why would PTR pay someone else and Maddon to finish out a lost season when he can save a few grand by just letting Maddon play out his contract?

I've never been a big fan of April Fool's Day sports teams pranks but this one was well executed. Just plausible enough yet still ridiculous. Much better than the fake "Cutler is coming out of retirement" headline I saw earlier today.

His bat flip game is still in spring training.

That assumes that you're trying to extend Contreras as if he's last year's player forever. Sure you might discount some on his 2017 performance, but Willson hasn't made life changing money in MLB yet so there's some benefit to locking in on his end too. Yep. Contreras is going to hit FA as a 30 year old catcher with 800 games under his belt. He won't be done, but he's not getting a long term deal. Meanwhile, if he comes out and repeats the second half of 2018, he might be out of baseball with what...$1.5m made in his career? You don't think he'd consider something like $50m or $60m for 6 years (using Bregman's deal as a starting point)? There's a decent chance his bat might be good enough to play a corner OF or 1st.

When the Hawks play the way they did in the first period they look like they could beat anybody. Then the 3rd period happened to remind us what they really are. It seemed like there were a lot of desperate passes to nobody in particular by virtually all of the Hawks defensemen.

Hundley both sucked and was a dick about it. There was that one time where he flipped off the fans. That pales in comparison to Russell.

Moises Alou was a whining, complaining baby. The Bartman play was just an example of everything wrong with him. Moises Alou never went into the stands to catch a ball in his life yet he threw a fit because of Bartman. Maybe I remember things differently but I can't remember him ever backing off on blaming Bartman.

The main thing I don’t miss about chess tournaments is getting paired against kids. It’s 50/50 that you’re going to destroy them and feel bad or they’re going to destroy you and you just got walked by a 9 year old. P sure a 13 year old was getting help from his dad’s laptop on his “bathroom break” one time so horsefeathers that kid I had a kid (who was probably about 10) with his phone in his lap and the parents of his opponent said that his dad was texting him tips from across the room. I felt really bad for the other kid but I had no proof. At the time there wasn't anything in the rules prohibiting having your phone with you during a tournament. This is an unrated tournament that is mostly for fun and a little trophy. It never occurred to me that a parent would help their 10 year old cheat another 10 year old out of a game of chess. My mistake. I talked with the kid that had the phone and he withdrew before the next round. I haven't seen him at the tournament since. The kid he was playing against has come every year since then.

Hopefully people will be paying more attention once his suspension ends and everything comes to a head.

Speaking of chess, I figured out that this is my 10th year as the tournament director for the local youth chess tournament. Participation was "down to year to about 60 players. The first year I ran the tournament we had about 25.