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Trib sports section has been so gutted. Paul Sullivan has never been my favorite writer there (basically every column has a part where he puts in how he laughed at a players suggestion and they had a back and forth disagreement), but that guy is doing like quadruple duty. Puts together most of the cubs and sox profiles, most of the cubs footage and now a weekly column. The news staff of the trib is invaluable to me and i get sports from so many other places, but it's just a shame to see the gut job. Idea: get rid of Haugh and use his salary to hire 5 reporters.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 09:06 AM) This was one of the things i wondered about Gruden going into this season. He always had veteran heavy rosters, and that is really a thing of the past now. I've been a bit surprised by how old school he's been. I thought his time in the booth meant he had insight into every team. He meets with all the coaches and gets to view practices. He was very heavily connected. But the way he's running it I'd worry that you need a very specific roster to work for him. You better hope the raiders have that.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 11:18 PM) LOL did you see what the Phillies did? They made a pitching change even though they had no one in the bullpen warming up. LMAO....it was a clusterF and the Braves manager got tossed. I love when baseball gets stupid. Nice going Phillies Terry Bevington is probably thrilled someone one-upped him.

Wow great shot there. Looked like a gapper off bat, the sliced way right.

Sorry if mentioned before: Boooooo to the WGN graphics team! The scoreboards are confusing as hell

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 05:06 PM) According to Yahoo Avi is out of the lineup tonight? Just took him out of my fantasy lineup because it says he's scratched. Leury and Delmonico in. I saw the twitter post with Avi in the lineup...is yahoo just wrong? I think yahoo is wrong. Daryl van schouwen has tweeted pics of him out on field.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 09:59 AM) Agreed, I mean it's still March for crying out loud. It's stupid not to maximize the warmest part of the day, and it rains a lot this time of year....give yourself more time to get the game in. Lol I forgot it’s not even April! Goes double!

I don’t understand playing weekend night games for north teams in April.

Weird how Ronald Acuna is in the minors.

Was there any news on if Duffy was hurt?

I turned the aging thing to be more gradual for sure. Obviously people get older and worse, but it would be like they hit 30 and then are hitting .190 with a .250 slugging percentage.

I really hope bulls hit big in the draft I will probably repeat this 1000x, but this tanking is so much worse than baseballs. This year was so much worse than early 2000 bulls. But...they have to do it. I don't know what they do. The round robin tourney for non playoff teams i think is way better than the lottery. As the NBA should now recognize, the marginal improvement of odds to potentially land a franchise changing player is worth basically infinite amounts of effort to acquire vs just trying to build through a different type of luck/chance (building best team possible and landing a superstar in position 10-25) Until they change the process of acquiring best odds of a high draft pick to discourage losing, this will happen. There is no league where relegation makes more sense than the NBA.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 06:59 PM) Speculation on MLBN is he may have the yips. Toronto says he has a dead arm. If he has the yips, it will cost him a lot of money. I don't really remember as many elbow / throwing injuries on position players when I was a kid as there have been last few years.

I did not know true attributes were available. But also the first few seasons its a head trip trying to separate real life prospect trajectories with the games. Like I had to basically trade kopech for trash because he was causing locker room revolts.

I could watch Timmy's second homer a thousand times. Also really liked how excited both of those guys were to take a walk in the game, mentioning it right alongside the home runs.

QUOTE (daggins @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 07:20 PM) Yes, by game 82 he won't be able to hit it out of the infield. By game 160 he will expire on-field from exhaustion. Game 162 he will be an actual baby struggling to make its way out of the uniform.

Minaya will be fine. He’s got an arm that can k people so give him some space to figure it out.

My boy Juan cant find his release point right now.

Ummm... let’s get him 4 right?

I too was on a severely delayed nbc sports app but i had to sign out. Just gonna head home and hope i can catch last 3 innings.

Among other things, guys I think there are going to be a lot of home runs in baseball again this year.

#openingday-vidson

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 04:13 PM) Just gonna throw this out - this team isn't going to finish well over .500 when James Shields is on the mound opening day. Even if that bullpen magically is great or something like that. Oh sorry, guess I didn't realize that this team had to finish over .500 or it was an abject failure. I will set my enjoyment level to misery from here on out.

Just gonna throw this out there, i'm not sure losing the first four innings of opening day with james shields on the mound in kansas city is a doomsday indicator.

Engel is nice and fast. Never really got the Trout body comparisons though. He looks like he could fit inside Trout and roll around.