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I am someone that believes routine does matter quite a bit for relievers. But the idea that kimbrel is magically solved in the closer role just seems like such a farce. He was still eaten up in the playoffs, was that not enough adrenaline?

Everyone has moved on, but not me. I have a new RF bird drop (flamingo no. 492)

Just looked it up but our grandstand tickets were $250 (we are at grandstand 31 in front of turns 9/10). Not sure how it compared to COTA (October is way harder to travel due to school) but was definitely cheaper than miami when we looked.

Way, way higher on what Cherington is doing in PIT than what Elias has done with the Orioles with a year longer. Especially since Cherington had to start right before COVID.

At least vegas is built for large influxes of people, and will probably be just as fun just to be there during that weekend if not in the race. I could see COTA definitely becoming more affordable for tickets but still a pain to travel to, austin hotels see such crazy price inflection depending on the events. Miami I always find to be a pain in the ass, no doubt it is going to be fun for those who go. We are actually going to Montreal which all-in-all is pretty decent, not expensive to fly to, hotels are normal big city prices, and wasn't difficult to get tickets so long as you were prepared when they opened.

I would move vaughn for reynolds, it's pretty clear we will not have a long window, so optimizing through 24 is a good idea.

Eh, vaughn+, but we aren't a great system to make deals like this. I don't think Cherington would want a player with his clock started. But he may very well like some of our young talent, or a vera, or a ramos more than industry.

Fun ranking would be comparing every organizations most dominant decade in the modern era. Sox I'd assume we'd choose the 50s just because they never had less than 81 wins the entire decade, though they can't claim the WS of the 00s. I think that beats anything from the Astros. Rangers are tough just because it rarely sustained across long periods, but two WS appearances in a decade is tough. I'm not sure cubs ever had a run like the sox in the 50s, but their 2010s gets weighed down by a horrible start, but not sure if you'd put that above sox 2000s who had 3 weak years (2001, 2002, 2007). Not sure where you'd put 80s mets with the 50s sox, but probably above. Not sure what you do with Miami but i'd put both top eras of sox above their 90s/00s runs unles we break them up into true 10 years no matter when they happen. Unsure but Nats probably above with their 2010s. Teams clearly below would have to be Seattle, Rays, Rox,...tigers, No brainer teams above sox would be Yanks, Reds, As, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals, Orioles, Giants, Braves, Jays 90s, Phillies 00s, Pirates, Royals...definitely missing a biggie but t edits: Reds

this is so rad https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-las-vegas-to-host-formula-1-night-race-from-2023.69O9nKLwKraqAhR5rr8TQg.html (course looks kinda boring but the setting is amazing)

He does look really good.

And obviously while trading Kimbrel at the deadline could actually be the best case return for the sox, it's unlikely to help the 2022 roster. Also has a decent likelihood that Kimbrel is atrocious and we get a return similar to our Joakim Soria-type boys (all the older, limited, AAAA outfielders)

Before Jansen signed I would have said "well kimbrel's only 1 year, and they probably don't want another multi-year reliever" but now, yeah, I don't see how you get anything back for Kimbrel from a team that specifically didn't sign Jensen for a 1 year deal. But maybe maybe the rockies save us

It seemed at the time like the sox just thought kimbrel or kimbrel plus some small amount could fetch them more than $15 million in early free agency. But now it seems like they actually valued Kimbrel on this team for $16 million which is sillier when they signed two guys like Graveman/Kelly.

Could have had is poor choice of words, but I object to this phrasing going around that nobody wants Carlos at $22 million, because what the sox actually decided was they didn't want him at $18M (or $18.5 or whatever). The thought of him accepting was so scary that the luring of an additional $1m in the draft wasn't worth the small risk. It may be talking about two different things, but to me it sounds like rationalizing the sox were right to move on from Carlos because his final price tag was too high, when their initial price tag to they had to make a decision on was $4m and 1 year less.

We could have had Carlos for 18 per year, not sure why people throw around his SF giants number.

I agree with this. I think some of the twinge of doubt of how good he can be is how he way overperformed my expectations on what he could do post A+ Winston-Salem. Great makeup too.

I say let's all start a contact email bombardment demanding full time 6:10 pm start times full time or fire brooks boyer

The reason I mention it is I'd like to go after guys in the draft who don't have slot profiles, and instead go after the Alex Pierce's and David bell type people

6 pm start times are excellent.

One thing I've noticed on bears new receivers, they all have pretty good run blocking scores from PFF. One tossup in my head, I know pringle played a lot of slot, but I think it would be interesting to put someone like Cole Beasley in the slot for a year (he was released so no comp pick), since he is a bonafide strong slot receiver. Another connection to watch if we go after/avoid is our Oline coach would have been with trai turner last year.

If you are a free agent pitcher getting 1-2 year deals thrown at you, why on earth would you go anywhere but SF (or milwaukee I guess).

I hope they sign Trotter but I'm pessimistic it happens after lucas patrick being pretty loud that his position here will be center. Shouldn't be a reason you don't do it, but if they liked him better at center it may have them go after guards. Your draft is basically what mine circles around as well. Zach Tom's writeup in the PFF one says he's the most athletic IOL prospect, which makes him attractive. So I'll just do my top (6) FAs: Fisher - should be cheap, and if he truly is just a case of slow recovery, get him on a 1 year deal and hope he leaves and receive comp pick. Jarvis Landry - because he was released, not in comp pick formula G Oday Aboushi - capable guard but also okay to upgrade over S- Kareem Jackson - should play pretty decent in a cover 2 vs Fangios Cover 1 Edge - Arden Key - situational pass rusher CB - Jason Verrett - Injured a lot, but a legit outside corner that should come cheap and allow thomas graham to try out slot corner.

lol signing solomon thomas would be kinda funny