UMFan83

Yeah, sounds like Poles believes he could have gotten a 2024 FRP from Houston and potentially some additional picks this year. But I think the package from Carolina lessens a decent amount from 1 to 2. And I'm guessing that meant no DJ Moore or possibly no 2025 2nd round pick. The 49ers gave up 2 future 1sts and a future 3rd to move from 12 to 3. And they may have paid a premium with Miami assuming they'd be a playoff team in 2022 (which that picked turned out to be 28th, no chance Carolina's is that late). So, even with a similar deal you're looking at: 9th pick, 2023 3rd from Carolina, 2024 1st from Houston, 2024 1st from Carolina, 2025 1st from Carolina vs 9th pick, 2023 2nd from Carolina, 2024 1st from Carolina, 2025 2nd from Carolina, DJ Moore Of course, the Houston deal could have included another 2023 pick as well. Obviously, that Houston pick next year looks very enticing, but I think it's a huge assumption they would have given up a future 1st. And if they would have, it wouldn't have been much more than that. So basically, it comes down to DJ Moore and 2025 1st for a 2024 1st and a 2025 2nd + the proverbial "bird in the hand". Houston could have changed their minds. Carolina could have changed there's or the package. It's obviously a fine deal, which I'm sure Bears fans will completely be rational about when reading the article. I know what Poles said but I have a hard time Houston would really offer their 1st next year to move up a spot. But what do I know? I'm happy with what we got as others have said, and the ability to get it done before FA was helpful.

Yeah I was surprised to see him as a lock with Madrigal a begrudgingly added final IF. I would have guessed the other way around. I try not to pay much attention to Spring Training for whatever reason so maybe McKinstry is raking Fake edit: Oh, no he's 2-29 with a .275 OPS after having a somewhat extended look last year with a .633 OPS. Versatility is nice but the dude has shown nothing with the bat. If he's a lock we're gonna have some issues with depth this year.

Damn that sucks! Predictably it also allowed TCU to cover as the spread was 4.5.

Would be great to have revenge on Mexico for the loss in pool play, but a game against Japan would be really damn fun. Anyone know who is lined up to potentially start for Japan?

Except for the inevitable 7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER performances against the Cubs

Cardinal hits a home run off a Cub and I’m cheering. Weird.

Definitely a lot of pitching death with this organization. Not as much as cardinals though I don’t regret my typo

Seems sub-optimal. Seems like we have a lot of pitching death so not devastating if he can’t get it going but he was so useful in the multi-inning relief role last year

Do you happen to have a video I can watch? Find your own wanking material lol As much as you hate Michigan I doubt you want to watch NIT highlights but I want people to understand how stupid this was so I’ll take a chance. Starts at 22:00 with Hunter missing a point blank layup

Yeah that was incredible

No one should care because its the NIT but after losing 6 other games with an 80%+ chance of winning in the 2nd half this year, Michigan managed to save their best for last. Up 8, with the ball, 1:06 left and their best player with the ball in his hands under the basket with a clean look, and they managed to lose in regulation. Vanderbilt didn't hit any 3 pointers. Michigan didn't shoot (and miss) any FTs. They just turned the ball over 4 straight times leading to easy baskets (and a FT). 97.7% chance of winning and they lost it. Good times

On one hand Puerto Rico is the funnest team in the tournament. On the other hand Yadi doesn’t get to coach his country to a championship

I honestly feel this way right now. But then everybody brings up Virginia's struggles, then their Championship. Also, assuming Edey isn't crazy enough to try to go to the NBA(And the transfer portal doesn't hit too hard), Purdue probably returns their whole roster except for David Jenkins. We're talking their top 7 guys in minutes played returning. Hopefully after time has passed you can at least take solace in the fact that Purdue won the regular season and conference tournament championship. But I totally get it if this completely ruins those accomplishments. I was talking with some Michigan fans after the game about whether you’d rather miss the tourney or be a 1 seed and lose to a 16. I think I’d rather actually miss the tourney of those scenarios

Also nice to see Nelson Velazquez hitting 3rd for PR and hitting a single, then scoring on Javy’s bomb. Past, present and (sort of) future Cubs staring for PR

FDU was Kenpom’s 297th ranked team, and had the 4th worst defense of any team in the country. They did not even win their conference tournament. They lost their championship game but got the auto-bid because Merrimack was ineligible. This is worse than UMBC/Virginia despite the score being closer. Painter has now lost to an 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16 seed

Purdue reminds me of 2012-2013 Michigan. They brought back some returning players like Burke and Hardaway and had a great incoming freshman class. Ranked 5th going into the season, they started 20-1 and at one point were ranked number 1. Their defense then fell apart and they went 6-7 the rest of the season including getting knocked out early in the Big Ten tournament. They even lost to a Penn State team that went 2-16 in the conference. Over the last 2 weeks they dropped from a 1 seed to a 4 seed and their expectations were much lower (I remember everyone picking 5 seed VCU to upset them in the 2nd round), but they found another gear and went all the way to the championship game. Not saying its a perfect comparison by any means and admittedly just drawing parallels without much actual analysis (though I know Purdue's defense has really dropped off lately similar to Michigan's) but just saying don't completely dismiss the early season performance or take too much stock in the late season lag. Expected to be a top team heading into the season, they played like it initially and then slipped before putting it back together. Sounds like Purdue so far. ….or not

0-7 today on upsets, and only 1 of the 7 games has gone down to the final seconds (Xavier-Kennesaw St). Zzzzzzzz

Yikes

I’ve thought that too. They’ll also have 2 first round picks with at least one of them hopefully being top 10. But I don’t think Poles is a splashy FA guy in general. Not sure if he’ll ever make the splash you think he makes. I think he is carefully building this thing up and doesn’t necessarily have a timeline in his mind. He absolutely should be trying to win ASAP with Fields on his rookie deal though

Love the Foreman signing. Very underrated though like others pointed out I was hoping we’d have a better pass catching option.

They’re also the only 1 seed to ever lose to a 16. Happened 5 years ago today. ?? what am I missing

Insane, absolutely insane. Hopefully the Bulls can get an injury waiver to give them some space to find a replacement PG this offseason. Though I think with cap holds for guys like Vuc, the Bulls are over the cap even without Lonzo's cap number.

Bottom 10 but hopefully improved LB play and likely improved secondary play (with Brisker and Gordon in their 2nd years) to mitigate some of the challenges of having a below average DL unit, maybe? Pretty please?