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True. DL goes from 15 day to 10, as well. This is interesting. I wonder if we will see more people put on the DL with minor injuries than before rather than just keeping them out of the lineup for a few games.

basically this went through my mind driving into work seeing 3 back to back billboards on 294 from wintrust toasting the 2016 world champs I have a 'moment' at least once a day where it dawns on me that they won the world series and I get a brief rush of endorphins as I think about it, and then I carry on with my day with a smile on my face.

that explanation still made no sense because they didn't know who the teams would be The explanation was that as soon as the playoffs are set you know the potential host cities for games 1,2,6,7 and the potential host cities for games 3,4,5. There was some level of certainty. I'm not sure why the NHL and NBA don't have that problem with 16 teams to account for (or I guess 15 since worst record in playoffs cant get home court/ice). Of course their playoffs last 2.5 months so they have a little more time

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/12/1/13804504/mlb-all-star-game-world-series-home-field-advantage-cba I love how for years they were like "it's too difficult logistically we have to reserve hotel rooms" or something and now they just randomly decide that it's doable now. Glad though. Also glad we could take advantage of the last year of the rule in a backwards way.

no, they really don't by any definition of that word. but this game sucked. and we really need mcdermott and mcw back. and portis needs to be in the d league. I think they are a 6-8 seed, which is higher than I expected going in. Decent, good even, but not immune to these types of losses. disclaimer: have legit watched maybe 30 minutes of Bulls basketball this year. Rest of the time has been the game on in the background while doing other things. For some reason this team doesn't interest me as much as it should.

Very strange loss. Big early lead coming off 4 days of rest against a theoretically inferior team playing their 3rd game in 4 nights on the road.

Ok maybe Michigan is not as good as I hoped

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We'll see. I'm sure if an opportunity came up to make a big move to improve short and long term of team they will make it.

Those involved rosters full of older and very expensive players that were cashed in to replenish the farm for another run later. The Cubs aren't lacking for young, cheap talent- at least not yet. guys hes not saying he thinks its going to happen, hes just saying that he thought about how much it would suck to win a title and feel what were feeling right now, only to see it stripped apart weeks later a la the marlins.

saw that too. I know the report went out of its way to say its not serious but whenever i hear 'professional athlete' and 'back injury' i cant help but be concerned.

Its a really really interesting position for Michigan. If Colorado wins, the 3 teams immediately behind Michigan for the 4 spot are 3 teams that Michigan already beat this year (well technically 2 since one of them will lose). Can you allow one of those teams to jump Michigan? FSU did just jump ahead of Louisville even though Louisville destroyed them this year so their is precedent to ignore H2H results. Then you factor in: will the committee really select 2 teams from the same conference for the first time, and have neither of those teams win their conference division much less title? Wisconsin and PSU would be 2-2 against Top 25 teams (UW: wins over #21 LSU and ~top 10 PSU, PSU: wins over #2 OSU and ~Top 10 Wisc). That doesn't beat Michigan's resume which is 3-1 against Top 10 teams. Can either really jump Michigan? If the committee wants to go a different route, which way do they go? Colorado with their 2 Top 25 wins and loss to Michigan? Oklahoma/OSU winner? OU would have that same 2-2 mark against Top 25 teams and the same overall record as UM. OSU would be 3-0 against Top 25 (thanks to Pitt sneaking in at #25) but 2 terrible losses to Central Michigan and Baylor. So you are looking at UM, Big Ten Winner, Colorado, OSU/OK winner (assuming UW would be out with a loss since committee already sees them as virtually even with Michigan). Michigan trumps 2 of those theoretically and the OSU/OK winner probably doesn't have a strong enough resume to jump from 9/10 to 4th in one week. All that said, I think the committee in that scenario would have the BTT winner jump UM and make it. Too much controversy to select Michigan there. Someone said Michigan is cemented at #5 and I think they are right, it would be really hard to move them up or down. Also I don't see Clemson dropping out of the top 4 if they lost. I think their resume is fairly solid with wins over 13-14-15 ranked teams (2 on the road) and the 2 losses being to top 25 teams.

you call it clutch, I call it pixie dust (actually he had a .999 OPS with men on last year with SDG)

Yeah he had a second surgery like a week after his first return and was out until this Monday. Has the medical condition been kept private or have I missed it? Yeah they won't say. At first they said it wasn't serious, but yesterday Terry said he didn't know what exactly was wrong with him. It definitely is something involving his throat or that general area.

My only concern is that we're going from a CF that had a roughly .400 OBP to a platoon with 2 guys in the .320's. But I guess we are going from last year's LF to Schwarber so that evens it out at the very least.

Holmes won't be very argumentative imo. I think him and Bernstein have pretty good rapport from their crosstalks.

I saw a tweet from Julie DiCaro that she was excited that Terry was back...but I thought he'd already been back. Was he gone again? Yeah he had a second surgery like a week after his first return and was out until this Monday.

Terry Boers announced his retirement effective 1/5. Sure sounds like the dude is dying based on how emotional his announcement was.

$8 million for Jon Jay?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-shake-shack-wrigleyville-1129-biz-20161128-story.html I have heard of Shake Shack, but I don't know a thing about it. I keep picturing it as equivalent to Steak & Shake, in which case I don't know why this would be news. People swear by it. It's not bad but seems fairly expensive for the size burger you get. The shakes are pretty good.

I'd be cool if they just decided to cancel the game due to general apathy from both teams and their fan bases.

Anything that predicts who makes it through the playoff crapshoot over a span of 5 years is purely for entertainment purposes (well I guess any prediction is purely entertainment, but there is less science involved in these predictions)

Although I'm sure that several Mets Refugees posters are convinced that the only reason the Cubs won the World Series is because the Mets lost the Wild Card game and/or the pitching injuries. Otherwise they were going to shut us down or something.

If it is unlikely, is it because of his salary demands, the Cubs not being sold on him being paid ace money, or both?

SportsMockery report so be forewarned but whatever I like a nice juicy rumor, even of dubious origins, to discuss during a slow period, [tweet] [/tweet] If this were a legit rumor, I guess the Cubs would rather lock up 90% of Arrieta for 4 years at maybe $20m a year if the Tigers eat a bunch of salary (he's scheduled to make $28m the next 3 seasons and then $22 in his last season) than sign Arrieta for 6 years $200m