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  1. David
    Wouldn't that mean something didn't give?
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    http://prod.static.rams.clubs.nfl.com//assets/images/imported/LA/Screen-Shot-2017-05-12-at-53627-PM--nfl_mezz_1280_1024.png
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    no thanks
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    [tweet]https://twitter.com/BearsLink82/status/935510048234668032[/tweet]
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    It only now occurred to me that a generation of people exists who would reference groundhog day due to the way it's been regularly referenced since and not have ever actually seen the movie
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    I haven’t even seen the reports or am reading them very differently if we are reading the same stuff. Most of the perceived value in geography based on the speculation seems to be the Japanese population in a given city but there is not a single quote from Ohtani or a rep over years and years where this is or will be a factor. Also overrated as a factor is the bat. He is a pitcher. That is where the long term money is, but even beyond that he has always been a pitcher. Any and every team will give him a chance to hit, but as a LHH with swing and miss in his game he’s not sliding into anyone’s everyday lineup. The hitting issue has nothing to do with his value or the value of his bat. It's his strong preference (if not insistence) to play somewhere he'll be allowed to hit regularly. That's a promise that'll probably at least have to be made until he at least proves not worthy of it. It's not about teams seeing value in the bat or how bad he might be at it. It's about his preference for it being a determining factor in deciding where he signs.
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    In the last 20 years there have been 17 players who came over from NPB and played at least 5 years(this is to self select for some level of desirability, although it's not perfect). Seattle 3 Boston 3 (all Epstein era) Dodgers 2 Mets 2 Yankees 1 (although Tanaka will make 2) Cubs 1 (Fukudome, non-Epstein era) Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Texas 1 each The Epstein era Cubs have also signed multiple Japanese players who didn't make it that long in Fujikawa and Wada. Big markets have an advantage in most historical cases because they're big enough to have communities that aren't completely foreign, and they have the most money to pay. The latter doesn't matter in this case, and the above clearly illustrates that the Cubs aren't some extreme underdog to NY/LA in the former. I would say the Yankees are the favorite, but not runaway favorites and I like the Cubs' odds as much as any non-Yankee team. I don't see any way I'd consider the Cubs' odds as good as LAD.
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    Have they now? Just taking a look at it. Since Ichiro, players that have had any sort of impact as a major leaguer, excluding guys that came over after 35: Mariners - 4 (Ichiro, Johjima, Kawasaki, Iwakuma) Yankees - 3 (H. Matsui, Igawa, Tanaka) Red Sox - 3 (Okajima, D. Matsuzaka, Tazawa) Cubs - 3 (Fukudome, Fujikawa, Wada) Dodgers - 2 (Maeda, Kuroda) White Sox - 2 (Iguchi, Takatsu) Teams with 1 - Rangers (Darvish), Brewers (Aoki), Twins (Nishioka), Orioles (Uehara), Rays (Iwamura), Padres (Otsuka), Mets (K. Matsui), Cardinals (Taguchi) I probably missed a few so feel free to call them out. Also I realize that the Dodgers (Nomo) and Yankees (Irabu) both had success pre-2001, I just sort of see the Ichiro signing as the opening of the Asian floodgates. Of the ones I listed, there are only a few that I remember as being big deals where a number of teams were bidding heavily. They are: Tanaka (Yankees), Matsui (Yankees), Maeda (Dodgers), Matsuzaka (Red Sox), Ichiro (Mariners), Darvish (Rangers), I guess sort of Kaz Matsui (Mets) and Fukudome (Cubs). So I don't know I see it as more spaced out then just 2 teams getting everyone. But I can obviously see the reasons why Ohtani would lean towards NY and LA. Edit: [expletive], 2 people already posted well crafted responses basically saying the same thing as I was creating mine) I definitely think of Nomo as the start of it.
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    Have they now?
  11. David
    I'm so horsefeathering jealous of this coaching staff [tweet] [/tweet]
  12. David
    Is that the same guy who leaked quintana No(that guy's source was with the Sox),but they appear to believe this poster knows someone in the Cubs org. i wish he had a funnier name but at least it has a nice ending
  13. David
    Is that the same guy who leaked quintana
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  15. David
    This is really good. Solak does really good draft work too. Whereas Pedersen's comments on Mitch included a lot of fluff, this is an unbiased breakdown of things Trubisky does well, and does not and how it compares to Wentz as a rookie. Bowen just RT'd this that you might like too http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/article-1/Eagle-Eye-Heres-Why-Rookie-QB-Mitchell-Trubisky-Offers-Hope-For-Bears/b90c5803-eb17-4596-abf2-28b33082da7f
  16. David
    yeah i'm willing to go all out meatball on this. soft as horsefeathers. doctors had cleared him to play and he opted not to.
  17. David
    This Eagles blogger did a little bit of a deep dive on Mitch [tweet]https://twitter.com/BenjaminSolak/status/934431524799250432[/tweet]
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    This
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  23. David
    Yeesh The gould thing was all about saving money, right? They were tanking, knew they were bad and didn't see the need in paying top dollar for a kicker. Yep
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  25. David
    love it won't be much longer before lavine is back too, right? maybe 3ish weeks?
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