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They were, though I would guess the Cubs looked a lot more appealing in the 2017 offseason than they do now. On the plus side the universal DH is here and that seemed to be a big sticking point for going to the Cubs.

Jed's going to have to put his big boy pants on for that to happen. I'm just intrigued at what Jed might have told Swanson about future plans to make him feel comfortable about committing. It could just be a nothing 'intro press conference' quote or it could be less about targeting specific names and more about general organizational strategy, but I'm curious

Wonder if this will put pressure on other owners to spend. I'm guessing no as most owners will tell you that a) Cohen has triple the net worth of any other owner except the Jays owner and b) NYC market provides revenue opportunities that most markets don't have access too. Not to say that those excuses have merit by any means but its enough to get the heat off of someone like Tom Ricketts.

Guessing the $13m in year 1 is to offset the signing bonus and maybe accounting for some of Heyward's contract on the books?

If its not a back issue maybe a degenerative knee condition that hasn't been an issue to this point but likely would be as Correa hits his 30s? Either that or the Giants just got cold feet on the contract, but seems unlikely given that they were far enough down the road that they had a press conference scheduled and they were showcasing him in their ticket ads.

Just for fun here is Justin Fields stats over the last 6 games projected over 17 games 4635 total yards (2833 passing, 1802 rushing) 68.1% comp % 45 TD (28 pass, 17 rush) 11 INT 7.3 Y/A 101.1 QB rating

KC confirms the report and says the frustration was directed at LaVine:

I'm pretty sure this is an additional report, not from The Athletic article:

I've made this rant multiple times. It sucks that a majority of their home games are in December/January with the team clearly tanking. Granted this is more exciting than your standard 3-11 team so there's reason to come out and watch Fields but still.

Cubs getting 2 of the SS's after all

It was pretty bad. I remember Landon and Darke for a good 10 minutes had no idea whether Mexico or Poland would be through if the score remained the same. I think they kept saying Mexico was through on GD but in reality Poland was through on fair play. Once they realized fair play would come into play it took them another 5 minutes or so to know who had more yellows (hint: the answer is always Mexico). Then there was the whole segment when the WC started that was a promotional video for Qatar. In general the coverage was bad. I understand they have to balance between catering to hardcore soccer fans and soccer newbs but they didn't blur those lines well enough for my liking.

The cherry on the cake is when your team performs when they've already eliminated. I cant wait for my team to have 2 big weeks the next 2 weekends, like they have virtually every other week for the past 2 months except this last one.

I would just like to say two things. 1. I love every bad beat story for pure entertainment purposes. They're all amazing and yet unique in their own way in how painful they are. 2. I love every bad beat story because it continues to provide justification for me never doing fantasy football. If something like that happened to me it would piss me off so much and, knowing myself, a bad beat loss would bother me more than a bad beat win would give me joy. Honestly point 2 is weighing on me right now. I’ve spent way too much time trying to be a fantasy guru the last few years. I won one championship and the rest I’ve lost to a lower seeded team at some point in the playoffs. This particular loss had me moping around the rest of the night with a dark cloud over me. Shouldn’t care this much but I did.

OK this is a pretty good bad beat..... I was up 2.38 points entering the 4th quarter playing the Rams D. In the first 4 minutes of the quarter Rodgers was sacked (2 points) and Aaron Jones fumbled (2 points). A Packers TD would have taken 2 points off their score to give me a 0.38 point win. Rodgers leads a 7 minute drive to get the ball down to the 4 yard line. 4th and 2 with 2 minutes left, he hands off to Aaron Jones, who gets the 1st and brings it down to the 1 yard line. Then Rodgers takes 3 knees and my season is over. 1 horsefeathering yard short. ONE YARD.

Well Leonard Floyd and Aaron Jones ended my fantasy season unless the Packers can come back and score nothing less than a TD

Funny reading other fans (from other teams) opinions on Fields. They've basically determined that Fields is a RB playing QB and that he sucks at passing and needs to drastically improve to stay in the league. I get it the volume isn't there right now but if you've actually watched Bears games this year you'd understand why the volume isn't there and could clearly see Fields improve as a passer over the past 5-6 weeks. I won't argue that he still has room to improve if he wants to be an elite passer, but I've long since stopped worrying that he's never going to develop into a good QB. He's already a good QB and slowly becoming a elite QB. Also with regards to passing volume look at his longest runs in each game. Almost all of them are coming from broken passing plays that are forcing him to run. I don't see him necessarily scrambling too soon in many of them either. The Eagles actually did a really nice job at stopping his designed runs yesterday but they got burned when he tried to scramble.

he doesn't make THAT big of a difference. the beginning of last season was mostly a mirage where we kept winning with demar magic at the end. we'd still suck with lonzo, i think. right, we were unsustainably good in the clutch, and that has done an almost literal 180. We also played the easiest schedule in the league in the first half and the most home games in the league in the first half. Adding to that - the Bulls had almost a completely new team. Only LaVine and Coby White were on the roster at the start of the previous season. We caught teams off guard early on but once there started to be a book written on the Bulls they became easier to solve. All that said, I do still think Lonzo has a larger impact on the Bulls than he would on most teams due to the absence of high volume 3 point shooters on the team outside of LaVine, and the fact that the Bulls don't really have enough starter quality distributor/PG on the team. Then you add in the fact that he's one of the best on-ball defenders in the league and you realize that he solves a number of the biggest issues with the current team. Are they the best team in the East with Lonzo? Hell no. Are they safely in that 7-10 seed range with him? Probably. Either way, signing an off injured player like Lonzo and putting almost no depth behind him is quite the decision.

Those drove me nuts as I alluded to above. Williams did almost nothing all game, and the only outcome he could do damage is if the Chargers allowed a TD, the Titans didn't go for 2, and they had enough time for a last drive or got the ball in OT. Of course the Titans scored, kicked the XP and left enough time for Herbert to throw 2 long passes to him. I'd have roughly a 90% chance of winning had the Chargers D stopped them rather than the 57% chance I have now.

I know this is usually a hated idea but can we maybe go back to golden goal? Maybe instead of 2 15 minute periods, you do a single 15 minute period and then golden goal for the next 15 (or 30) mins. Though looking at this World Cup that would have only affected 2 of the 5 games to go into penalties so it doesn't solve the "issue" of PKs. All that said, I don't mind pk's. I'd rather it just keep going until someone wins, but doesn't seem feasible unless you allow more subs or the crazy idea of letting people sub back in after the match gets to a certain point.

Well after all my bitching Barkley showed up and I’m up 10. My opponent has the Rams defense and I have no one. Defense is fairly high scoring in our league (mainly 2 points for a sack) so it’s a coin flip (Rams are projected to score 9 points). I don’t think I’ll be able to stand watching lol

Well that was awful. I was up 4 until about 10 minutes ago. Here is what happened: -Opponent has Conner, Brady and Mike Williams -Cardinals were down 3 scores with like 4 minutes left. Of course Conner on the ground gets the garbage time TD -Bengals could have played conservative and come close to running out the clock. Instead they throw for a TD and give Brady enough time to score a garbage time TD -Chargers up by 7 late, they get a defensive stop and Mike Williams can’t do anything. Instead they give up a late TD and then have enough time to give Mike Williams 50 yards receiving in the final minutes. Go from up 4 to down 11. I have Barkley left, opponent has Rams defense. Not gonna win

Yeah...the Cubs really need a lot more power than they currently have. Swanson is solid but basically replacing Contreras's power. Hope that Seiya can amp it up next year. Bellinger will hit HRs but unless he recovers from his swan dive not going to provide enough consistent power. Right now either Morel or Madrigal is our projected DH I think. Mervis is probably the projected DH as of today I think. Hopefully we’re still adding Drury, Segura or Anderson for 3B and Aguilar, Belt or Hosmer for 1B (with some DH work for any of those names and Morel/Wisdom rotation around as well). That seems like a competent infield. Yeah could definitely be Mervis, though I'm hesitant to put him in projected lineups until he actually makes the MLB roster. I know the Cubs are high on him but may consider starting him at Iowa for reasons.