Andy
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Yeah, I think this is about where I land. I'm taking more amusement than I should in what's happening to the Astros right now and it would definitely horsefeathering suck if the Cubs were getting the same treatment. -
Saw the headline, has he been hurt? Or just trying to get out of the NFL alive? He missed like 7 games this year due to concussions. Not this year. The video above is from 2016, and he missed the rest of that season. Ever since, he was probably 1 more concussion from hanging it up, and I've been bracing for this for a while now. Luckily, as far as we know, he never got another concussion. I'm going to miss watching him a lot. My wife just got me a Kuechly jersey for Christmas because I had mentioned once that if I got another jersey it'd probably be him due to his already being a legend. I figured he would be out within a couple years. The most technically flawless player I've ever seen on a field.
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Why not? The WS title should be stripped. What does that do exactly? Force them to take the flag down? I always felt like the NCAA vacating wins was such a lame punishment. This would be the same effect. The NCAA vacating wins is lame because it's usually done for lame reasons (people giving players money) more so than because the punishment itself is lame. I didn't really expect them to vacate the title, but if you were ever going to do it, large-scale and provable cheating would be the reason to do it.
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Mike Leach and Lane Kiffin heading up the most ridiculous rivalry in CFB is a future too glorious for us to deserve.
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Given the Alex Cora thing, the real surprise would've been if they never found anything suspicious with Boston. This particular sign-stealing doesn't seem quite as egregious as Houston's but it's still obviously against the rules.
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Maybe this isn't the right topic to post this under...By my math, there's aprox. $75.6M coming off the books from last year, which includes players no longer on the roster and any salary decreases (i.e. Lester). And there's aprox. $41.8M in additional salary, which includes salary increases due to both contracts and expected arbitration increases (as projected by MLBTR) and all of the minor signings. So, that leaves approx. $33.8M decrease in money spent on salary from last year. Is there something I'm missing? Is there another reason other than they don't want to spend money for that amount of decrease in spending??? No. There is not.
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I'm a big Rhule fan. Hiring him for a pro job is definitely a risk, but IMO a worthy one. I actually wanted him for ND someday, but it looks like he was set on eventually going to the pros.
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Convincing the Sugar to move off NYD in years it's not a semifinal so the semis can always be on NYD would qualify as massive. I'd root for that, personally. Rose Bowl as well, no? It would only take 1 of them to make it possible to have 2 NYD semifinals annually. They'd sandwich the Rose those other years, but it wouldn't be any more awkward than this is.
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Convincing the Sugar to move off NYD in years it's not a semifinal so the semis can always be on NYD would qualify as massive. I'd root for that, personally.
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Christian McCaffrey went 1,000/1,000, 3rd guy ever. Marshall Faulk 99 and Roger Craig in the 80s. Carolina went 5-11 and got their horsefeathers kicked in the entire month of December. Way to go, guys. Please draft Tua.
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That game was a blast and Lawrence vs Burrow is an unreal matchup for the title game.
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He is technically correct if only because Florida State only dropped to 2 in the AP poll in '14. There was, of course, no selection committee in '66 when it happened to (oddly enough) Alabama. It's transparently a motivational tactic for his team, but yeah, it's pretty lame. At least no one on his team got suspended for PEDs this year.
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In the last 4 years the Cubs payroll was 12% over the Cards, 88% over the Brewers, 74% over the Reds, and 102% over the Pirates. We were the Yankees of the NL Central. I'm okay with being the Yankees of the NL Central (we should be the Yankees of the NL Central). I'm not okay with being the older version, high-spending Yankees of MLB. I am. Everyone in MLB is swimming in money, if the Cubs decided to swim in slightly less money and the rest of them didn't, that's their damn problem.
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I can't speak for everyone here, but I would assume most don't have a particular number in mind. The general idea, though (certainly my idea), is that some of the stuff that's been tossed around in order to get below whatever payroll ceiling the Ricketts have in mind, during a clear window of contention that you can't automatically assume will be repeated, is really really stupid. I understand not paying through the nose for Cole or Rendon, but there's no real reason the Cubs should be basically ignoring the possibility of signing anybody at all absent cost-slashing moves that will hurt the on-field product.
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The tl;dr is that going over the tax for the 2nd straight year is more like a ~25 million cost than a ~5 million cost, and doing so for a 3rd straight year is upwards of 50 million. "Putting it another way: The system in place makes it much cheaper for the Cubs to have a $207 million payroll in 2020 and then a $250 million payroll in 2021 than to have a $209 million payroll in 2020 and then a $211 million payroll in 2021. It’s an absurd extension of the way these penalties are structured, but it’s true." Of course, the level of faith I have in the Ricketts actually consenting to go back over the luxury tax in 2021 (if this cockamamie scheme of theirs pays off in the first place) is basically horsefeathering zero.
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Trading him now so that they don't have to look cheap for not paying him in 2 years. Also some nonsense about how they tried really hard to get him to sign an extension but they couldn't so they had to try to make the team better by trading their best player. Yeah that's the part I'm mad about to. But this whole league wide collusion thing...I assume the team that would trade for him is planning on paying him, right? Collusion not to go over the luxury tax =/= collusion to not pay anyone at all.
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By....who? Who do you think is in charge here? The owners, in collusion. But I don’t think Ricketts has a lot of pull among them as fairly recent member of the club. Ricketts was allowed to buy the team as long as he was willing to participate in their newest version of collusion, and he was willing. So he may not have much pull but that doesn't mean he has any desire to run afoul of the party line, anyway.
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If we could manage to win 2 more titles like the Blackhawks did, I could probably live with that. (Of course, that's likely not what's going to happen.)
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Darvish has a no-trade clause for this year that he's not waiving.
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That's funny, right there. All this talk of contending teams trying to free up payroll in a "sport with no salary cap" is silly, though. The luxury tax is effectively a salary cap, and its obvious that teams are treating it as one over the past few years. Why do we so easliy accept a salary cap in other sports, but in baseball the mention of it is unforgivable? Salary caps are [expletive]. That said, if the owners are going to treat the luxury tax threshold as a salary cap - which is collusion and illegal, but that's never going to be proven - then fine, institute a salary cap, but it damn well better come with a high salary floor like every other sport's does.
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Yes, please. The idea that a franchise almost literally swimming in its own cash would need to trade an extremely productive recent MVP to improve its team (to say nothing of the idea that improving its team would be virtually impossible under that scenario), rather than just going and signing a few players to do so, is horsefeathering bat horsefeathers crazy and anyone who subscribes to that idea out of hand is basically too stupid for any insult to be effective. I think that's pretty logical.
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Oh God I'd forgotten all about that stupid cat and now hate you for bringing him up.
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Unless we're doctoring the ball like Houston is, I don't think a Cole/Pirates type would even be acceptable. Cole was basically league average his last 2 years in Pittsburgh.
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I dont get the blow it up plans. The whole tanking till 2015 was to build a core (supposedly save $ during the tank) then use that saved $ to pay that badass core. So when this team thats averaged 94 wins.per season cost controlled core comes to FA finally then its time.for Ricketts to payup.. The point of tanking to build a core was that Epstein was bored in Boston and wanted to tank somewhere and build a core. Which lined up well with Ricketts' desire not to spend money, which he successfully conned people into believing was part of some long-term plan to spend buckets of money later when really the plan was to spend only as much as he could get away with as a so-called big-market team.
