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I think there's some logic there, but to get to that point requires some pessimism about their current level of spending. 2016: 170 million payroll upped to 180 midseason 2017: By adding Davis and subtracting Soler, they're basically at 160 with a full roster only needing a SP to bump Zastryzny off and Montgomery to the bullpen. They also added 300k fans and won a world series 2018: 63 million in FA departures, including 2 SP, Strop, and a bunch of lesser parts(Jay, Duensing, Montero). Bryant and Russell hit arbitration. Otani maybe available but current news says no. 2019: Only Rondon leaves in FA, Schwarber, Baez, and Montgomery hit arbitration, Harper, Machado, maybe Otani available 2020: New TV Deal, Zobrist and Grimm FAs, Otani definitely available In other words, with the world series win and uptick in attendance, there should be some payroll growth that you can probably set aside to make sure the core's pre-FA increases are taken care of. That might get a little tricky in 2019 but that's also 3 years from now, who knows what the roster will look like. If you make that assumption, then you've got lots of cash and basically only 2 rotation spots to fill(and I guess CF if Almora fails), along with ensuring the bullpen is strong. Bringing in an Otani or Harper prior to the new tv deal could also up that tv contract as well. I do expect Theo to maximize the roster a season or two prior to the new tv deal.

Would anyone else object to offering Davis an shorter extension. Coming off injury he might be more likely to take it. Will be 32 next off season so he's not getting a Jansen/Chapman type offer.

u17's beat Brazil 3-0 today. Also beat Portugal 7-1 and Turkey 5-1 in the Nike tourney.

I always feel dirty cheering for the Steelers, probably similar to the end of most of Roethlisberger's dates.

I was thinking about this this morning and sure enough Ronaldinho and Riquelme coming out of retirement to play for chapecoense for free. Awesome move. Hope a few other follow suit.

That was great, final should be great too. Jozy vs Jordan.

At least Strong is making it easy on Texas.

Herman should have signed a deal last night. Down 34-17 at halftime.

lol at Texas. I think Texas thought Jimbo was going to LSU and that Herman was theirs. Now what are they gonna do? President getting in the way of the AD is just great, though another report states that it's just his agent talking and Texas is speaking with them tonight. Still, Cubs won the WS and don't even care much.

Not quite the pace of the Dortmund game but still good.

Was it 3-0 when you typed that?

That's the greatest thing I have seen today.

TCU at Texas (3:30 pm Friday, FS1) Don't care, the Cubs won the World Series.

From both sides of the plate. 4-4.

5 more things shipped last night, all in separate packages even though in same order. Almost becoming a pain to keep track of everything now.

So the hoodie I originally wanted was back in my size so after ordering, one of my original purchase shipped right after (the car decal). So i guess you have to purchase another item for them to ship one :-). 13 items to go.

Seems like a great opportunity to have his passport revoked.

I'll be extremely surprised if someone fires Gulati's ass too. House needs to be cleaned.

Haha, same thing happened to me on Friday. None of them were items that could damage or be damaged by the other items so no idea why they couldn't ship together. Oh well, I'm not paying any more because of it. These were all kids shirts too, 1 12 month, 1 3T, and 1 4T. All different shirts, but whatever. Just Christmas presents so I don't care. Just happy to be done with everyone else outside of my kids.

I had 3 different items ship today all in different packages. 14 more to go.

If Washington State didn't horsefeathers the bed week 1 they would even be in the mix. Crazy year.

I missed out on the hoodie I wanted. Hoping after the holiday weekend inventory rises again. The shirt the wife wanted was out of stock on Tuesday and back on Thursday so hoping the same.

So move the Mexico hex game to NE or Seattle now?

That's how I was the last two days, but woke up today in game day mode. Watching the highlights, feelings of playing the teams on the other side of the border when I was a kid. Lalas getting kicked in the nuts. Just stare at this face for 3 minutes. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161111/a0ac24d7dff7616b4b3c5da70c0228f0.jpg Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Never mind.