Andy
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Top of head guesses: - are ST road broadcasts a thing? I don’t remember - if yes, maybe Camelback specifically isn’t equipped for them - too short notice for various logistics/schedules post-lockout - spite Marquee broadcast the first road spring game this year, I'm guessing one of the middle 2.
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Sports has a way of hunting your weaknesses. ND couldn't rebound all damn year and it leads to losing a game to a team that didn't make a single horsefeathering field goal for the final 8 minutes until 5 seconds to go. A great finish that totally vindicated the season but that one will sting a while.
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
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He reportedly structured his contract so he receives as little as possible in base salary this year, so he clearly thinks he's getting something. -
10.8 bWAR in 369 games for them is pretty strong. Sorry, my sarcasm was more about Machado spending some prime years on the dumpster fire that is the Orioles, not the value the Orioles got from Machado Machado was drafted by the Orioles and the contract being discussed is the Padres contract.
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That seems like an awful lot of money for Villar, but I guess his offensive numbers have been pretty darn good on occasion
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isn't he the king of being TOOTBLAN? Worse than Rizzo? Unpossible.
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I think most don't have much of a hope anymore, but does this effectively confirm we're out on Correa? Or not really a factor either way? It probably isn't a factor but we sure seem like we have a lot of infielders on the roster for a team that might theoretically add another one.
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Looks like another potential back of rotation guy is on his way
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Full no trade as well, Rosenthal says.
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It isn't prohibitive, but wasn't Schwindel at least as good as Rizzo post trade?
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While we're assuming things, under this hypothetical Campusano is among the goodies we're getting and Contreras got wind of it which is why he scrubbed the Cubs from his social media accounts
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We'll try to fix him
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This would be an excellent decision if KB never wants to win a meaningful game ever again. Didn't we literally just end a lockout led by cheapskate weasels like the Rockies' owner with no intention of competing?
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According to the master seed list, Notre Dame was the last team in. (Apparently they were bumped to the 11 line because of a perfect storm of bracketing weirdness - they played IU, they played SMC, who's the 5 opposite that other play in game, and IU is obviously in Rutgers' conference so that was out.) I have negative confidence in them at the moment - anyone who puts in even a modicum of effort to get a good shot against them can do it very easily. But in is better than out.
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Someone check to make sure Jed isn't still receiving 17-year-old complaints about "Why can't we hit soft-tossing lefties"
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I agree with this take. There's little difference in variance anyway, so go all in with it. I will concede that it's nice that the higher seed gets all 3 home games, even if that's really just a result of needing to avoid travel days to cram the games in.
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That's done. Joe Davis does a really nice job as Fox's #2 baseball guy, I'm sure he'll just get bumped up. The NFL spot is the interesting one.
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Wonder if he'd do Sunday Night Baseball too. At least in the NFL offseason.
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That's kinda how it has to work given the power dynamics, right? One favorable interpretation for the players is that they learned from the owners and started opening cracks in the system that can be expanded, the same way that the way the CBT operates now is far from what it was initially marketed. The bonus pool for pre-arb is a big thing there, and it'll be easier to continue to reform pre-FA comp with that mechanism to be added to/adjusted than it was in November. Service time levers are the other in that vein, though they are more modest in their current benefit. When you layer that on top of significant increases to minimum salary, the CBT, and closing some player unfriendly loopholes(option limits, draft/tanking reforms), I think they can be reasonably happy with the outcome, even if the net result isn't as much as our hopes and dreams given the last 2 CBAs. Yeah, the owners didn't get to the power side of the arrangement just through the last CBA, they got there through several of them. The players took a step back in the right direction this time and they'll just have to keep it up in 2026.
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Compensation is axed for the 2022-23 offseason pending the agreement on an international draft, the deadline for which is later this summer. If they don't come to an agreement the qualifying offer would stay.
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The NHL shootout actually serves a purpose. Shrinking the average length of the already-uncommon extra-inning game by four minutes did not.
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i watched so many non-cubs extra inning games that i wouldn't have. it's instant action/strategy, and 17 inning slogs are overrated. There is just something magical about the possibility of that 17 inning game. By no means do I want to stay up until 2am every night watching extra innings marathons, but I want to know that it "might" happen. I like the unknown of going to the ballpark and expecting a 3 hour game but understanding that we might end up being there for 5+ hours instead. That could all just be me, but I enjoy the unpredictability and the chance to see something crazy/historic on any given day. The two most fun/dramatic games beginning to end that I've ever been to were 13 innings (Soriano walk-off slam) and 12 innings (Brian Matusz game). I don't think that's a coincidence.
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I do not understand the mindset of anyone that believes anything was added with the fake runner at 2nd. If anything it sucked drama out of the game by lessening the impact of the original run scoring. Who cares if you give up the fake run, you get your own fake runner to match. Conversely, if you score your fake runner in the top of the inning, well, you still have to stop the other team from scoring their fake runner in response. There was no drama. It was boring as horsefeathers, frankly. The one Javy won on a walk-off was cool, I guess, but that was only because he clowned Amir Garrett afterwards.
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The shift won't be banned this year. Part of the agreement is that after this season, MLB has 45 days to push through any rule changes it desires for the next year, which is thought to include shifts and a pitch clock, but those wouldn't kick in until '23.
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Five.
