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MKG will be Tony Allen without a 3pt shot. Maybe that's just Ronnie Brewer.

Rather than adding another rule to safeguard NBA owners from running their franchise into the ground, as a fan I'd prefer Adam Silver take on the derelict, terrible owners out of the league. Maybe if more teams were run like San Antonio we wouldn't think there was a talent drop off. No league has more rules to prevent owner incompetence than the NBA, and the number of incompetent owners just seems way way too high.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 06:05 PM) I do agree eight years is crazy for a pitcher. Even with Verlander last year, it already looked like he was losing his invincibility with all the rumors out there about diminished velocity from him and King Felix. It is crazy, on the otherhand, people are going to go crazy for his first 3 years production and deal with years 7 and 8 when they deal with it. I'm not sure why Scherzer should care about that though. Tigers have spent like crazy for talent, but Scherzer should take a team friendly deal?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 05:33 PM) FoxSports.com's reported offer of six years and $144 million would make Scherzer among the highest-paid pitchers in baseball – not to mention the second oldest of those with $127 million-plus deals. He's 29 now, turns 30 in July and only rotation-mate Justin Verlander (30) got his $100 million-plus more wizened. When he signed, Zack Greinke was almost a year from his 30th birthday, Johan Santana just shy of his 29th. CC Sabathia and Cole Hamels were 28, Matt Cain 27, Clayton Kershaw and Felix Hernandez 26, and Masahiro Tanaka 25. Enormous pitching contracts that encompass lots of years and feature a high average annual value are the domain of young men, and Scherzer's age plays against him. Of course, he and agent Scott Boras can argue his wear and tear pales compared to those peers and thus positions him in the proper place to seek more. When Kershaw signed his seven-year, $215 million deal, he did so with 18,643 regular-season pitches thrown. That's on the low side. Hernandez got seven years despite 24,872 pitches, Verlander seven with 25,424, Sabathia seven after 26,252. Scherzer's total after six major league seasons: 17,316. Here's the truth: If Scherzer is healthy – and the Tigers wouldn't have offered him what they did if he weren't – a six-year, $144 million for a pitcher coming off a Cy Young season and entering free agency with a little more than 20,000 pitches after this season simply isn't a deal to which Boras or one of his clients will agree. It's stupid money. Insane money. Untoward money. It's not the market, though, not when $9 billion course through the game and the players seek their rightful share of it. Hamels got $144 million over six years in July 2012 with 20,069 pitches thrown. Los Angeles gave Greinke $147 million over six, plus an opt-out, in December 2012 as he approached his 24,000th pitch. And Tanaka, whose pitch count is horrifying to even consider, scored seven years, $155 million and an opt-out. The ceiling is now Kershaw. Boras doesn't traffic in floors. Even if the intent wasn't to make it personal, the wording of the Tigers' statement ensured it came off that way. One general manager posited the only rational explanation behind Dombrowski releasing it was to prevent Boras from going to ownership and negotiating a deal himself, which is wildly cynical and makes complete sense considering his history of goading the Tigers into guaranteeing nearly $350 million to Pudge Rodriguez, Magglio Ordonez and Prince Fielder. I agree with that article's sentiment. Regardless of whether that's a large amount of money, if Tanaka just got what he did, it's probably worth the risk for Scherzer.

Great game, great effort. Jo was eating hibberts lunch tonight

I hope he does well buy I am a little nervous about how many passed balls I saw from him this spring.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:53 PM) I think Scherzer is dumb too. If he regresses at all or is just unlucky in general, he's costing himself tens of millions of dollars. Scherzer goes out there, loses a MPH on his fastball, puts up an ERA/FIP of 3.85/3.40, but everything else remains virtually unchanged, does anyone believe he is still going to get a 7 or 8 year deal worth $25 million per? Do the Dodgers and Yankees still exist?

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) Your living in the 50's. These players all have big time agents. Do you actually think their agent is advising them to take a huge risk and blow their own cut???? They all have special policies that in the case of injury their income is protected for life. Once they sign the mega deal they drop the policy. It is why colleges are able to get a one and done player a policy to protect them until they make it to the NBA. Agents = $$$ Insurance = $$$

Honestly if I was a young pitcher who is already successful I'm not sure I could pass down a team friendly deal in hopes of a huge FA payday. That is such a huge risk that a freak baseball to the elbow even will cut your value to nothing.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 07:12 PM) Hahn has gotten Sale and Quintana (at the time of both extensions) for 14 years (4 of which are options) worth a total of 107.5 million. Unbelievable. Man, wrapping up a true ace and true #2 for roughly 15 million per year/avg. through the decade is crazy. That gives us a lot of ability to over allocate resources to other positions.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 03:58 PM) so teams dont want to draft a guy who has a freak knee injury? Must be a very good scout. I have a hard time believing players like Embiid would drop too far even if he suddenly showed a stress fracture or something like that.

I think this year kind of taught us not go get caught up in the pre-conference play numbers. There was a lot of great offensive performances early in the year and that just dropped off like a brick as soon as conference play started.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 02:33 AM) Bulls expect Rose to be back for the playoffs Not this s*** again. I don't even want him back. He's not going to be good and look what's happened to Westbrook this year after a similar injury. Westbrook is fine.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 12:47 AM) Saw Hawkins bat a few times today. He has no plate coverage at all. Unless it's on the inner-half, I can't see how he makes contact. I thought the same thing. He took a fastball down the middle.

2 straight MEATBALLS from Paulino leads to a 3 RUN HR

Rough inning for Nieto

This will be a fun at bat for Eaton

Dang Blake sure can make some highlight plays...

Semien to Alexei looks pretty dang sweet.

Argh this high pitch RINGING

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2014 -> 11:18 AM) Did he ever have the rep as a bad person at Rutgers? Maybe not but I think old men sportscasters get a hard on for treating college kids like garbage.

Get the depressing ones out of the way first, I see.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Mar 21, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) Totally agree, I am anticipating the SoxTalk meltdown in June saying that Hahn is moron who acquired a bunch of bums when some of these guys start to struggle through their first full seasons. Offensively this is going to be a season of us taking our licks and getting the some of the kinks worked out. We are starting 3 rookies to start the season and could be up to 5 or six by August 1, this is going to be a year for getting guys accustomed to the majors. I've already written off Davidson. Soxtalk hath spoken.

I actually don't even hate on beats. It is overpriced, and is all marketing. But the market for headphones really was confusing. You had an explosion in mobile music players in 00, and basically no revolution for headphones there, despite the "specialty" market exploding in pretty much every other market (food, clothing, etc). Your big name (consumer facing) headphone makers (sony, panasonic, etc) had so many products, at so many pricepoints, how do you decide? You can't be brand loyal because th $20 sony headphones are horrid. How do you know their 110 are the best anymore? So you had insanely expensive headphones and terribly crappy cheap ones. And nothing in the middle. Yeah, monster head phones aren't amazing, but they also aren't horrible. Consumer ignorance was begging to be exploited there. Now that people know there's a market there it's going to work itself out, may as well thank Beats for that.

"Not only will fans be able to enjoy the game in a really cool setting, the Xfinity Zone will give them the opportunity to experience our TV, Internet, home phone and home security and automation services first hand. We'll even have sales staff on hand that can assist and sign up customers." I personally cannot wait to try their home phone.