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Minnnie got in!

If you have an offensive line that can dominate the line of scrimmage, the weather doesn't hurt you so much.

He falls in the category of people I didn't realize weren't already dead.

There could be some debate about how the four get matched up against each other, but the four are definitely going to be Alabama, Michigan, Georgia and Cincinnati. My guess is we get Alabama-Cincinnati and Michigan-Georgia.

Losing an entire season damages the game long term, and players are only in the game a few years whereas owners make money for a lifetime. Plus, if the players hold strong, they will more than make back in a new deal what they lose from one season.

Cincinnati is better than people think. I'd give them a fair chance to beat anybody except Alabama. I know Michigan destroyed Ohio State but I'm not 100% sold on them and Georgia looked absolutely awful today. Notre Dame is honestly probably one of the best four teams right now but they lost to Cincinnati and all the other teams on their schedule that were highly ranked to start the season (Wisconsin, North Carolina, USC) all underperformed and finished the season unranked so ND's resume just doesn't stack up.

Assuming no miracle happens in Atlanta: Alabama, Cincinnati and Georgia have spots locked up. Last spot is Michigan's if they beat Iowa and Notre Dame's if they don't.

Your ticket sales staff and stadium staff, sure, but KW and Hahn and the personnel people under them still get paid.

One thing the players hopefully realize is that the owners get hurt far more by the loss of a season than they players. Yes, the pre-arb players might have a challenging year without a salary, but the owners will each lose millions upon millions of revenue, while still having to pay non-player staff.

Wrong thread

He couldn't be much worse . . .

Unless they get a couple more relievers after the lockout ends, they're probably going to need Lopez strictly as a reliever.

My guess would be yes since drafted players aren't part of the players union.

I would bet a good amount of money on later than March 1.

If the players want to get anything substantial in this, they're going to have to be willing to give up a significant portion of the season. The owners won't start making any concessions until April. They can afford to wait and see if the players blink first.

I didn't look up the details. Did OKC have a bunch of guys out for COVID or something?

So Memphis beat OKC by 73.

Giving Rodon a QO doesn't preclude signing a longer deal.

My idea for an optimal plan is to sign Rodon and have Rodon, Kopech and Keuchel rotate through the 4th and 5th spots and being skipped.

Time to change the Soxtalk banner to Montgomery, Cespedes, Kath and Kelly?

I've never heard of PNoles. Who the f--k is he? As for NSC, my opinion is that he's gotten a few bits of inside information but is combining it with random speculation.

It absolutely could go really badly, but it had to happen and here's why. The 2012, 2018, 2020 teams got blown off the field in BCS/Playoff games. Those were good teams and they were well-coached, but there was a noticeable talent gap. In one year, Freeman has landed a volume of 4-5 star recruits that Kelly never did. They just can't, absolutely can't afford to lose him, and the only way to guarantee that is to make him head coach. Even if he goes 40-20 in five years and then moves on, I won't think they would have won a championship with someone else. As great a job as Luke Fickell has done at Cincinnati, he's never had to go out and get a Top 5 recruiting class, so I can't just sit here and assume he could.

Apparently Freeman is a done deal, and Rees is going to stay as OC.

If the NL adopts the DH, then the possibility of eliminating the leagues and realigning into six 5-team divisions or five 6-team divisions certainly exists.

First people complain that the money isn't getting spent. Then everybody complains about how much got spent on a 2.0 WAR franchise legend. Make up your minds people.