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That 1-7 is so awesome you can easily afford that 8-9, who, while not all-stars are not exactly massive holes. This team's window is now, not down the road whenever Vaughn hits his ceiling, if he ever does.

Sign Kyle Schwarber. Schwarber is what Andrew Vaughn could become, except that Schwarber is already that good and left-handed. Package Vaughn with whatever else it takes to get a #2-3 starter with at least 3 years of team control. Kopech/Keuchel split time at #5 Re-sign Tepera Trade Kimbrel for whatever you can get. Sign Matt Duffy to platoon 2B with Leury. Platoon Sheets/Engel in RF. Lineup: TA 6, Yoan 5, Robert 8, Jose 3, Schwarber DH, Eloy 7, Yaz 2, Sheets/Engel 9, Duffy/Leury 4 Bench: Collins, Burger Rotation: Giolito, Lynn, [trade acquisition], Cease, Kopech/Keuchel Bullpen: Hendriks, Graveman, Bummer, Tepera, Crochet, Ruiz, Lopez

I didn't know Rick Hahn wrote for mlb.com.

The majority of posters here are Bears fans. Can we please not use goalpost analogies?

Not sure why this is in PHT, but anyway it's nice that Joe Buck is going to MNF when there is a Manningcast alternative.

Now we get to find out what SF knows about Rodon.

Because that's much more believable than the Sox were stupid enough to not give him the QO.

He went to Michigan, you should hate him sometimes.

Putin doesn't have a lot of time left and I'm worried he will decide to take everybody with him.

Does anybody think Jerry was going to get close to the old threshold, let alone the new one?

I hate to be the glass half empty guy, but this new deal raised the luxury tax threshold which probably gave some teams more money to throw at some of the Sox FA targets.

Season is getting extended by 3 days to make up 3 of the games and doubleheaders to make up the rest.

The Astros are just assholes on all counts, huh?

No, this is the part where Manfred starts making unfounded accusations of voter fraud.

White smoke = deal Black smoke = no deal

This new "phase" of the war with Russia accusing Ukraine of harboring biological and chemical weapons and the bombing of hospitals makes me think that Putin's end goal is to get the US involved so he can justify using nukes.

So the two Friday games against the Yankees are going to be on Apple TV+.

This is the biggest problem with MLB. There are only a handful of teams that ever generate national attention. If the Royals play the Reds nobody watches outside those two markets. Contrast that with the NFL where you can get an AFC Championship game between the Chiefs and Bengals that is a must-watch event. MLB needs a system where the Royals and Reds are both willing and able to sign star free agents, or at the very least keep the ones they develop.

So you're assuming that she actually did this and wasn't framed?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4608780/china-to-pull-premier-league-tv-coverage-this-weekend-over-ukraine-support Can't have Chinese people seeing that the rest of the world opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

At some point does Russia's military get fed up with all this and just start ignoring orders and withdraw?

Never in a million years would the Cubs and Cards agree to be in different divisions.

Other than the pitcher and catcher I think the other 7 guys ought to be able to play wherever they want and restricting them is dumb, but if this moves them closer to an agreement on the major issues than I'll live with it.

It seems like Putin's only two options now are to back off or turn to nukes, and I worry that his ego won't allow him to back off.

Chelsea vs Liverpool for the Carabao Cup. Right before the end of extra time, Chelsea subs Kepa for Mendy specifically for penalty kicks. Kepa proceeds to fail to stop any of the 11 kicks taken by Liverpool and then misses his own kick to lose it.