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This trade is basically a bet on Soroka becoming solid again. Lopez is just a gap filler till Montgomery is ready, Shewmake can’t hit, and Shuster isn’t good and has very limited upside if any.

Yeah, I’m never siding with super rich owners (especially ones like Mark David and Fisher whose only achievements in life were born into billionaire families) extorting cities for $100s of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds.

Totally agree and it has become really clear that it is just incredibly hard to tell in the modern era which QBs are going to really make it in the NFL. It is just such a massive jump from college to the NFL with the level of defense played and it is such a difficult position to play..

There is zero reason to give money to the White Sox or Bulls while Jerry Reinsdorf remains in charge. Just absolutely terrible franchises. If Reinsdorf doesn't inherit the greatest basketball player of all time his franchises would have one title in almost 80 combined years of ownership.

Probably not but for people that do tune in they now are almost certainly going to get the pleasure of a terrible broadcast team.

He’s great and there’s a reason he’s gotten so many big opportunities. I’m sure the replacement will be worse and they probably replace Stone with Beckham so a garbage team will also have terrible broadcast team.

Yep, he is lighting it up without a great o-line, a terrible running game and Nico Collins who looked like an average at best WR in his first years as his #1 guy and a 3rd round rookie as his #2 WR. People need to just be honest with themselves that Fields is a great athlete that can at times make plays but just hasn't shown any ability to process and make reads or make the throws you need to on a consistent basis to be a good NFL QB.

When you can duplicate 10 years of sucking for 2 good teams that only really won in the playoffs because of an all time great bullpen (which is mostly luck) you have to try to do that.

He was a really good player from 2016-2018 as well (3.5+ WAR pace ever year during that stretch) but he became a legitimate star in 2019.

If he isn't extended Poles should be fired immediately. My concern with this move is that while Sweat is a solid player, I don't think he is special and I'm guessing he is going to get a really really big money extension.

It is honestly pointless following the Bulls and Sox until Reindsorf dies or sells unless they just flat out luck into an MVP caliber player like they did with Rose. And even then I wouldn't be confident they could built a championship team around that player. I've saved so much money and been happier since I stopped giving Reinsdorf any money for tickets. I just watch teams and players that I find fun to watch. Maybe someday I'll be able to follow the Bulls closely again.

Plaschke has always been an absolute moron so not surprising. And the Dodgers during their run have won a World Series, made two others and made the NLCS 5 times. Beyond hilarious to say they weren't built for the playoffs for several years when they won the World Series in 2020 and made the NLCS in 2021 and in 2021 Kershaw was hurt and then Roberts royally messed up their rotation by overusing Urias and Scherzer out of the pen. But a team with Scherzer, Buehler and Urias in the rotation is clearly set up to win in the playoffs. Plus look at the Braves, they win the World Series two years ago and now they are on the verge of losing in the NLDS the two subsequent years despite having much better teams in both of those years. I think the playoff setup for baseball is also really really dumb since expanding beyond four teams. Two years ago a 106 win Dodgers team had to play a Wild Card game and then play the 107 win Giants just to make the NLCS (which messed up their pitching bad as discussed above). They haven't had the postseason success they should have had for their talent level but s%*# happens sometimes in baseball. And their team this year looks way different if their pitching staff wasn't completely ravaged by injuries plus Urias being a piece of garbage. Not many teams are going to have a ton of pitching left when you lose Gonsolin, May, Buehler and Urias. I mean that is a couple top of the rotation type guys and solid depth. I assume they are going to go hard after Ohtani this offseason and also try to sign a starting pitcher and if they do they will 100+ again next year and be formidable in the postseason if their pitching is healthy.

This has been as boring of a postseason as I can remember and I’m surprised the Dodgers didn’t just try their young guys like Pepiot or Sheehan over Lynn. Dodgers without Buehler, May, Urias and Gonsolin just didn’t have enough pitching left.

Absolutely insane that Snitker let Elder face Harper. He has been bad for a while now and looked bad that inning.

Bears protecting and the left side of the secondary deciding not to cover Moore at all is something

I fully expect the Astros to handle them and advance to their 7th straight ALCS.

This Broncos defense showing how they allowed 70 last week and 32 in the last 36 minutes against the Commanders.

The Cubs need to win out, have the Marlins lose out and have the Reds lose at least one more time.

Three days for a lot of them. Absolutely bizarre as you want those guys still getting work.

And not even good AAA pitchers

Brewers trying to let the Cubs win by leaving an absolute scrub in the game in the 8th

So many dreadful at bats by the Diamondbacks today

Brutal by the ump in that at bat. Perdomo should have had a 3-0 count but had to hit 1-2 instead.

It’s insane the Diamondbacks are so close to the postseason with three-fifths of their rotation being absolute trash.

Yep, they are in a playoff race coming down to the final weekend. Under no scenario should they have been selling.