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I watched the steelers/cowboys last night. Main thoughts: even as I wanted to move on, it was clear Justin Fields was a top 25 QB in the league. The Steelers don't need a lot at QB to win, but he is so much better than what they got with Kenny PIckett. You never know but I 'd be surprised if Russ gets job back. I think we should have gotten more, but you can see that Arthur Smith is providing about the best offense for him, and Smith didn't even want him. I think it's true that nobody really wants to make an offense around Fields, and 75% of the league is Shanahan/Mcvay now which isn't a great offense for him. Jalen Tolbert is finally getting more play on the cowboys, even Velus had outplayed him from their 3rd round position. Third rounds under Poles (Pickens, Velus, and I'm gonna throw out Kiran) have been confusing to me. Kiran may be great and that makes it all moot, but still 3rd round should be solid starters, strange to me to go huge project so soon.

For example, bengals got right last week vs panthers, hang 38 today vs ravens. Could have easily been a ho hum affair like last week even if they pulled it out.

I don’t care it was the panthers. They’ve looked much better with Dalton prior to today on offense. Only thing that stopped bears today, once again, was penalties.

He’s a much better run blocker, hard for me to complain as everything has been better with Pryor vs davis

Lynn trade was fine. Hard to time young pitching...and imagine not getting into the playoffs in 2021...oof. Compared to hahn trying to fill RF with Nomar Mazara and then Adam Eaton, this is like acquiring Fernando Tatis Jr. for James Shields.

“It’s so good because the players are earning little and are still hungry for success”

I have no doubt they could sell out a full week.

It's not a voluntary position, we are held captive.

I can't imagine being a guardians fan seeing a white sox fan pity them

I don't get emotional about sports like you losers. I get emotional about the tone on sports message boards.

A lot of this is true but I think there is a downside to bigger orgs in that you can just get kinda awkward timing. He DID land a big fish in Correa...and then have the medical staff nix it. They thought they had Judge, but could not compete with him being given "Mr. Yankee" status. He took over after years of borrowing on talent depleted them, got that one big year, and has been awkwardly successful since. He, however, showed a much greater ability to work the margins. Whether it be the pitching staff, or the Joc Pedersons of the world. In fact I think that success paralyzed them as he wasn't sure when to go all in vs. finding value, and chose to go all-in on some tough offseasons. His drafting wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible, and drafting during some of the covid stuff sucks. Kyle Harrison is still only 22 and did ok in a tough division. Patrick Bailey has been bad offensively but fantastic defensively. Bryce Eldridge is the 35th overall prospect. Overall he'd be a hell of an improvement. You shouldn't get 5 years at a major market team like the giants with only one big year. But that said, I think Chaim Bloom and Zaidi will have a successful second run. I think what Zaidi was best at would work extremely well in chicago, he'd probably be single best person to work in Reinsdorf's system.

I don't understand why we need a press conference. The letter was perfect and said it all.

Oh god, "like you I am disappointed" no no, he is nothing like me, he is directly responsible for it. I'm just out here giving them great ideas for free.

Right I guess I'm just saying "his way" isn't necessarily enforcing the opposite of, say, an orioles or rays, as much as just not really trying that hard at anything, and definitely not record-breaking spending for any player.

I think it would almost be nicer if Jerry truly was maniacal about winning "his way". It kinda sucks he's just like a neighborhood nimby, powerful enough to tell people no and slow any changes and progress, but not actively building or showing off what the "better way" is even supposed to be.

I guess I’ll be the contrarian. I was really upset about the season, but then I read the letter. I’m all in now. They’ve got this.

We can’t get the #1 pick, but what might we expect from the tigers, royals and Guardians (and frankly even the twins) for gifting them 12 wins and boosting their playoffs? Cash seems too informal. Thank you cards too light. Ah, I know. I believe we should receive their competitive balance picks.

I've said it before but if I was unattached to the weeds of this loser Reinsdorf...on its face this playbook looks very much like an owner trying to sell. - Tank the team and lose attendance - Put forward a proposal for a stadium requiring taxpayer funding on claims existing place is not sustainable due to attendance - Get denied because there is zero chance - Tell MLB you need to move to be competitive, the state won't support us and the fans have abandoned us We are at 2/3

I think it’s so funny how owners like reinsdorf will be the ones to point to analytics and consulting-esque front offices ruining baseball while he puts together one of the least watchable teams in history and teams like the orioles are bashing 250 home runs

do you remember when they signed Eaton and bucket sang its praises as a move the sox felt would help hold the younger players accountable lol

but that was his role this year, @Y2Jimmy0 mentioned that Getz in his presser said Keller and Silverio were running international together.

So what is the story here? Keller is Paddy’s role, Silverio is his director? Or Silverio is in charge of the PD on that side?

damn kudos to Jesse Rogers. I honestly didn't think it would be possible in today's game to lose as much as the sox did. Seemed like 30 years since any expansion the talent disparity was too small for something this insane. He should do a huge victory lap.

This is just incredibly sad. The whole structure of major sports and how much deference individual owners get to torch an entire market like this is so silly to me. This is bad for major league baseball, but every owner will just avert their eyes and is cheerily happy that they can still ruthlessly leverage a communities passion for a team for their benefit. Great job mlb, once again showing contempt for the dwindling population that still supports you.

So true. With Getz, we were able to identify that our Director of International Scouting had retired 8 years earlier while still getting paid and appearing on the org chart. That took a mere 10 months to identify. Had we hired a brand new front office, that guy would have probably brought in someone new and they would have never found the cupboard that housed the international scouting.