SouthSideRyan

lmaooo At Billy Beane's height there were people on baseballthinkfactory.org who argued his signing a middling FA was an intentional overpay in order to force other teams to spend more on their players.

I have a feeling it would turn into 5 months of nonstop Bears coverage, and we'll all be craving the Juice Loosener infomercial.

Better than Dunn?

Big David Nwaba guy?

Ryne bhogg probably has a kid that age by now.

The guy who went 1-19 with 17 INTs in his one start sould take care of this.

I'm not sure why tackling a guy by is neck and helmet is legal.

And the Steelers lost to the Mike Glennon Bears.

This has been more enjoyable than the Playoff flameouts. I don’t even have to do anything

Gotta be Rosenbloom right.

http://thebiglead.com/2017/12/22/mlb-rob-manfred-complained-espn-dan-le-batard-interview-marlins-derek-jeter-giancarlo-stanton/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Naturally, MLB complained to ESPN about it.

If you read the piece you'll see why. That title really doesn't mesh with the article

I'm later than you are to the party, but didn't they(FO or Maddon, can't remember) make it clear that Monty was a reliever only going forward?

Has Passan ever seen an NBA trade?

NCAMFT. Thanks for not being able to score from the 1 yard line Pats. Thanks for giving up a TD in 8 feet of snow at the end of regulation Bills D. Thanks for throwing a game winning TD instead of settling for a game winning FG Packers.

UNLV out-free throwing Illinois 8 billion to 3 right now. They were in the bonus at the first TV timeout of the 2nd half.

It's hard for you to see MLB owners allowing 1 of of 30 franchises to spend no money and in-turn lowering the total expenditure on player salaries? Sounds like their dream owner to me. Loria finished off the Expos and was rewarded for it with the Marlins with help from an interest-free loan from MLB. ETA: I don't remember the specs on the debt/equity rules, but never have I heard it alluded to as a reason a team can't lower their payroll, and ultimately their made up rules that MLB can enforce however they want. No I don’t find it hard to believe MLB is fine with the lowering of payroll. I was just saying if the $55 million number was true they are trying to get to that, that seems so extreme that maybe they were doing it as a function of their financing package they used to buy the team and it wasn’t purely based on just trying to run at bare bones and turn as much profit as possible. Jim Crane had no money so he lowered the Astros payroll to an embarrassing level on Opening Day 2013, only to trade off the meager assets they had during the season to save any more money. If in order to afford the team they have to lower payroll, I don't see how MLB loses, barring a Frank McCourt situation which had a lot more to do with his converting the franchise assets into personal assets to the point that he couldn't meet payroll.

That’s wild if true. It’s hard for me to see MLB allowing it (since they have rules in place that require certain liquidity/equity to debt ratios and don’t allow just any financing arraignments) but you almost have to think the new owners put some sort of unconventional financing together and they have some heavy debt service theses first few years or a balloon payment due in a few years or something that’s driving this outside your typical cheap ownership group. It's hard for you to see MLB owners allowing 1 of of 30 franchises to spend no money and in-turn lowering the total expenditure on player salaries? Sounds like their dream owner to me. Loria finished off the Expos and was rewarded for it with the Marlins with help from an interest-free loan from MLB. ETA: I don't remember the specs on the debt/equity rules, but never have I heard it alluded to as a reason a team can't lower their payroll, and ultimately their made up rules that MLB can enforce however they want.

I just want to add Stanton's dongs to our lineup, leave me alone about it, ok? Stanton is going to spend more time on the DL than he will be in the lineup over the course of the next three years. If he can't stay healthy when he's young, it's only going to get worse as he ages. He played 159 games last year.

Unfortunately they'll probably be as irrational as the 2015 Royals.

I think Bama is in because they didn't want any rematches.

Nah this is the OMC talks about Ole Miss thread. my bad. An SEC school just blown to kingdom come by the NCAA. Guess that isn't significant enough to discuss in a college football thread. You just said their punishment is basically over after next year, and they self-imposed most of it.

UNC should have ended any cooperation with the NCAA. Just make up some garbage ex post facto reasoning for what happened (even if it conflicts with things you've already said) and you're golden. Isn't that what they did?

There's also ND/MSU tomorrow.

Theyre gonna wind up with Todd Graham.