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So AL MVP ... Judge 302/408/684 55 HR 9.2 fWAR Ohtani 267/356/536 33 HR 3.5 fWAR, 11-8 181 K in 136 innings 4.4 fWAR (7.9 fWAR total) my first instinct is that Judge probably gets it based on the ding dongs and the Yankees superior record, but man Ohtani is such a freak, and even providing 1 or 2 fWAR less might even out considering he opens up a roster spot by being a two-way guy?
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you had me at die
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i kinda wonder at times if TAA just needs to move on. He's way too talented to be so disinterested, his attacking is still strong but he never seems to be in the right place defensively. He's won literally everything at Liverpool, maybe it's all just stagnant there. Salah is taking a lot of blame this year too but he's working with a whole new frontline essentially. You just can't keep the same XI out there for 5 years running and think the trophies are going to keep coming. Things get stagnant fast at the top
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Euro soccer fandom and journalism is just so crazy to my american eyes and ears. I guess on some level i can understand fans being upset with the sudden nature of the firing and it being a guy who led an average looking team to a sudden turnaround and a deserved champions league trophy but I am struggling to come up with any reason why you wouldn't fire tuchel. Give me one reason outside of the champions league win to justify keeping him? i was watching some commentary today and people were melting down about Boehly like he personally fired tuchel because he would accept a ronaldo transfer. It's just stupid. These commentators were like, "sure, potter makes more sense for chelsea from a development standpoint, and tuchel had by all accounts checked out and pissed off all the players, but you can't just fire him before matchday 10!" well, why not? Have you watched a single chelsea match in the last 12 months?
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yeah VVD is 31, had an ACL and has played a billion games the last 5 years.
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yeah i mean, let's see. poor results last 50 matches, team is getting overrun in european comps, tuchel lost the locker room and he's playing players out of position, and cost the team $100m because of how he (not all his fault) handled the Lukaku situation. You have a new ownership group who he has a falling out with, just like he did at dortmund and PSG. Now he's checking out mentally, might as well pull the plug, especially if you think your target is available. When chelsea hired Tuchel I remember thinking wow, how is a guy with this resume still available? The first comment I read was from someone who said "he'll win games early and then burn out, piss ownership off and be gone." Looks about right. would have been a hell of a lot better to get their guy in may but . . . another well run club is Ajax. If Man U gives Ten Hag time and money, I think they will be relevant again soon. i think so too, they were patient with oli without the results outside of one hot stretch down the end of the 20-21 season (iirc) no reason not to be patient with a guy who actually knows how to coach
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While I was surprised, it sounds like Boehly didn't like him and I think it's a good move. yeah i mean, let's see. poor results last 50 matches, team is getting overrun in european comps, tuchel lost the locker room and he's playing players out of position, and cost the team $100m because of how he (not all his fault) handled the Lukaku situation. You have a new ownership group who he has a falling out with, just like he did at dortmund and PSG. Now he's checking out mentally, might as well pull the plug, especially if you think your target is available. When chelsea hired Tuchel I remember thinking wow, how is a guy with this resume still available? The first comment I read was from someone who said "he'll win games early and then burn out, piss ownership off and be gone." Looks about right.
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it's truly remarkable sometimes how awful a billion dollars can look on the pitch
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chelsea STOP SIGNING DEFENDERS you cant win 0 to negative-1
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If the goal of all these changes is to increase action and push star players, why is not giving the stars more PAs and also improve offense a bad idea? There are better ways to do things. Move the mound back, make a limit on the number of pitchers on a 25/26 man roster. Don't make it a different sport. moving the mound back seems like a much bigger change than just eliminating one hitter from the lineup to me. I dont think there will ever be dramatic changes to the mound, pitchers are already dying at stunning rates, changing up what they do seems like a disaster
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presti gets to tank again, so happy for him
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god almighty leeds is fun
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rumors of pulisic to united in a swap deal with maquire coming back to chelsea
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And Ronaldo is down to Dortmund now as his only option to leave united ... messi at PSG and ronaldo at dortmund ... what an ending
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are we talking about pulisic here? I dont think there's any way he ends up at manu, i think they're just tossing their hat in the ring to horsefeathers things up for chelsea. For all the transfer talk ... Chelsea seem way more likely to loan him out, extend him if he plays well and then possibly sell him (or just bring him back and pretend all's well) I've seen a lot of Dest to ManU smoke which seems ok to me.
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the thing that gives me pause is that he lost out at dortmund too and under the other manager at Chelsea. For sure getting anywhere but Chelsea would be good. Did he lose out at Dortmund? I thought they did the thing they've done with other players before which was basically drop him once it became clear he wasn't staying at Dortmund beyond the year. Lampard is incompetent so I'm not particularly worried about that either. I do get the concern, though I think that's kinda part of the game now for attackers of a certain vintage. You get too good to go to anywhere but Champions League clubs, but most of them are trying to find playing time for 7 good attackers and you have to go supernova to be an every game player in a lot of cases. he did spend a lot of time as a "super sub" at dortmund but i believe most of that was under tuchel so ...
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man i was like i hope the shoulder injury doesnt set weston back for the WC and the horsefeathers is already back in the starting XI
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Sounds like Weah might be headed to Valencia, I like that
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"I'm a Cubs fan ... and a Bitcoin man! Buy the dip! Holy Cow!"
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Can smith joining LIV would suck
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aaronson debut goal!
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the eventual end of this saga is going to be hilarious
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It’s not just sports. The saudis know the current socio-political situation in the US and how conservatives (who don’t hold the White House, senate, or house, but still have managed to control the country despite that) will latch onto LIV because of its destiny as a grievance culture war thing. Now the saudis are endearing themselves to the power party while also playing into the political divide. And all it cost them was money that they have an unlimited supply of. Nice gig
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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
imb replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
We’re splitting hairs right? Ownership directives is a budget constraint to me. I try to do whatever I can to remove them from the equation. Not when ownership is straight up lying about how much money they have to spend. It's all part of the equation. If I clearly have the income to spend X on a new car and could do so without overextending myself at all or preventing myself from making other significant purchases by doing so, but instead I choose to limit myself to 60% of X as what I want to spend, my budget constraint isn't 60% of X. It's still X. I'm just choosing to limit myself to 60% of X to spend on a car. yeah but he's talking about the constraints that ownership puts on the GM. you can spend whatever you want on a car, but if you tell your kid they can only spend 60%, they can only spend 60% -
god it's such a good line lol
