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Suck it Keith Law!

I think Wright has some solid upside. He finished last year really strong as a waiver wire pickup for me and I had him and Keenan Allen in the lineup every week down the stretch after all my WR got hurt. I'd drop Hunter or Blue (who I've never even heard of!).

Right, but if you have to provide verification of ability to see it otherwise (like ESPN's service is now) they're not losing anything, just gaining eyes on commercials that may not otherwise be watching, like a guy at work watching on a tablet or laptop for day games. Edit: The additional tier I'm referring to above is one that would be on MLB.TV for local subscribers.

As soon as next season? Almost certainly no. By 2020 or so? Not out of the question. I'd bet it's out of the question. There is a lot of money tied up in cable deals that depend on being the exclusive in-market homes for local teams. How big of a check does MLB want to cut to each of these RSNs? I guess I don't understand why MLB wouldn't want it to be viewable in the "local" area if you're already able to see it on cable. Just have another tier it runs on and show all the commercials like they do on TV and cable gets their cut from having additional eyeballs watching.

Miami is the 8th largest metro area in the country. Population does not equal ticket sales. Large cities with crap attendance doesn't make it any more likely that there will be small cities with great attendance. I know, which is why using population as a reason for starting a franchise in a city is a foolish notion. Tampa is a Top 20 population region and they've been an excellent ball club for about half a decade now and still can't draw good attendance figures. So if population doesn't matter, and a good team doesn't matter, what does to that god forsaken state? Is putting yet another team in Florida where people obviously don't care about baseball a wise move? It's hard enough enticing new fans to a team in your area when you've spent your whole life rooting for another club, and most of the people in Florida either grew up caring about the Braves or transplanted from the north and are Yankee and Red Sox fans. A place like Portland is perfect cause it's smack dab between the bay area and Seattle so it's kind of a neutral zone where if they got a baseball team they'd likely support the hell out of it because they finally have something to call their own. I just happen to think New Orleans could be the same way is all. It seems to me like they'd have an Atlanta like following with baseball taking such a hugs backseat to any kind of football in that part of the country. Maybe they'd get a better following since the people who live there are actually from there, unlike the transient population of Atlanta and Tampa.

I'd go that route just because the Bucs aren't likely to do much offensively in general. I did hear Matthew Berry say he was a sleeper for him though because he thinks Martin will get benched for not being any good, but TTFWIW.

Ola cannot be our seventh best OL. I don't believe it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk He's not been a complete disaster filling in and probably would have been in the top five in many recent years. But yeah, Slauson definitely needs to get back. I also thought Briggs looked quicker to the ball than he'd been the first couple weeks. May be completely wrong, but he looked better to me last night.

I will say this for the running game. 1) It was probably not a huge part of the playbook to begin with, given our struggles with running the ball so far, and the Jets being a very good run stopping defense. But also, 2) once Fiametta left due to injury, they probably abandoned even more of the run game. They still used Forte with those short over the top dump passes to make up for some of what they weren't getting in the rushing game. That one sweep was kind of ballsy and good. Yeah, that was an amazing dump truck sized hole to run through that they never got close to replicating the rest of the game. Trestman really seems to like running the sweep in 3rd and short situations and it makes me really nervous. It seems like they get it more often than not though.

Made all the wrong choices this week and got bailed out by that last Jets FG.

That is the most Cutler picture ever. Also, I would like it to be referred to as the Fuller Fist. He's so good and if he's already figured out how to do that, damn.

Even if you aren't a big fan of him, he's #2(!!) on our depth chart right now. But projection wise he's really just Dubrount/Strailey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Would you say the same thing if his FB averaged 92 instead of 90?

What has he done or not done in his entire pitching history that makes you think he doesn't deserve it? He's shown the ability to do what he's doing now at every level. He's more than likely not going to have a low 2s ERA like he does now for the season next year, but to expect a low to mid 3s seems reasonable to me. His FIP this year is 3.22 and his K/9 could easily tick up a bit since he's at 5.2 this year and was 7.7 as a whole in the minors, including 8.2 at Iowa this year.

I tend to side with TT here, especially since there's a non-zero chance that CJ or Pierce are ready to contribute to the big club and be emergency options at worst some time in June/July if they stay healthy.

J Bell, Reggie Bush or T West for my RB2 this week?

I'm watching in hi def from section 213, so no.

The way he paws at him is hilarious.

Yeah, he's been pretty perfect in the 2nd half.

That's just a really, really well designed and executed play for the TD. Nearly undefensible with a receiver that big.

Not after the way the Packers won today.

He seems to be decent at the first rounders, after that, not so much.

Hey, Bostic did something not terrible!

Who's in for Conte?

Quitter.

Shut up. Can't believe no one noticed. He bobbled it when he was being touched and didn't control it until he was free from the receiver.