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I think he fits in a bucket of "plausible starting pitcher", which if you trade Vaughn's 5.5 million salary for his $8? million salary, you'd probably pay $2.5 million for that.

Lmao we traded vaughn

Keep riding the “take advantage of milwaukees pitching surplus” train

STupid mlb didn't have the play where he went from first to third when the shortstop bobbled the ball into LF and no one was covering third. One of those "we are going to be smart and aggressive" plays that hasn't happened since they've chattered. But we did have this triple. SO his real statline is he got to third on his own twice, and a double. Love this dude. Also props to Keith Law who kept Vargas on his breakout players for 2025 ("other names in consideration") when I thought he was toilet paper after last year: Someone please bookmark this, this will almost certainly be when he starts to fade. But I'm not calling the top, this is the start baby.

This is unrelated but I do wonder about it a lot. I feel like baseball and most professional sports have gotten out of brand building and have been in pure exploitation. It's worked getting more money out of their core fans who were addicted...but how many others are becoming addicted? When will the fact that a teenager in the suburbs no longer thinks about a baseball game as something they could do on a random evening in summer. Baseball is a 'premium' event you'd need your parents to pay for. And baseball is no longer just the background of summer, always on. I need to go to my specific app. I need to opt-in to baseball. It's not just everywhere. I am coaching baseball now, the kids all love to play. None of them watch it save for a few who have diehard parents as fans (mostly out of town teams). At some point baseball won't have their hardcore fans to exploit. When does the switch flip back to growing the game? It's more than making some tiktoks. I don't think live sports have a perpetual future as a luxury product. It needs to be part of life, mixed in and around it. Not broadway.

I think we can avoid big time losing streaks but if any bullpen vet starts to show promise they’ll go out and august will be difficult. Offense still gives only a razor thin margin but the pitching has been interesting since mid-May.

Yes. Was brutal. Not even vapes but some guy smoking a blunt.

Went to a few games recently… Personal Opinion: I don’t think you should smoke weed at a baseball game.

Very impressed by this week after feeling like “here we go again” when they lost 4 straight, rallied and playing great ball.

Yes that too.

I'm trying to cheer myself up and remember that there was a chance Jerry could sell to some other poor bastard that sucks, and even though the timeline is long, we are getting a true rich boi. That's a win.

Still fingers crossed for YouTube tv

Changed the title because I kept thinking 78 people died

I feel like the stadium is in good shape and if we wait 60 years it will be quaint.

When the Jerry biography comes out from jeff pearlman in 2035 I'm anxious to see if secretly it proves that bullying works and in fact our fanatic behavior to get him to sell the team made him reach out to Ishbia.

Yes, I guess if anything this lets us know that Jerry does believe he will die and this puts his horizon down to his paper bet. But given where I assumed we could be in the transition, this is only nice in that it's official. We didn't make the playoffs in the 2010s. Very likely we will only have 2020, 2021 to show for it by 2029. It's just a stretch that is hard to come out of.

Terrible day. I heard Ishbia runs a private equity firm.

White Sox are confused by this statement

Loved the murderbot books and now enjoying the TV show on apple. Think a few here would like it.

When we were hiring a new GM there were some rumors Presti could be interested (that's when Billy left) as it was the height of 'can't pay or keep talent here'. Such a shame. The 'Paul George Championship' is a good reminder that the same year that the Bulls traded Jimmy Butler on an expiring -yet extremely cheap- deal, the Pacers traded Paul George. The pacers received Victor Oladipo and Damontis Sabonis. Oladipo immediately becomes an all star in Indiana while they develop Sabonis into being an all star in a few years. Two all stars. Oladipo gets injured badly which is bad luck, while they trade Sabonis for Tyrese Halliburton, whom the bulls decided to draft Patrick WIlliams over instead. Not sure we need the Bulls history here, but the Bulls traded one of the Stars of the next 5 years in Butler for Kris Dunn, Zach Lavine, and a pick swap to get Lauri Markannen. Kris Dunn is terrible for the bulls and is let go before eventually becoming a pretty strong bench player. He is not signed by bulls so they just lost there. Zach Lavine eventually becomes an all star for the bulls but their aimlessness leads them to need to keep paying him until it was clear his sugar-high numbers were not at all helpful to winning basketball. They trade him for a salary dump. Lauri Markannen looks promising, but after a weird heart issue they trade him for a first round pick that never materializes. He becomes an all star with the Jazz. The bulls are on rebuild 3. THe pacers are in the championship. The owner is a Reinsdorf in one, has a major market and an amazing brand he has squandered. The other is not a reinsdorf, has a forgettable brand in a small market. Reinsdorfs are such losers, such pathetic pathetic losers.

Keith Law before the season put Vargas as one of the guys he was still in on despite his struggles. Was a good call at a tough time to make that call.

Yeah, sad part is you could kinda look at either and be hard pressed to say which is the charlotte lineup if you knew nothing about the year. Robert is like the one guy who you'd say "he'd never be in charlotte"

gotta say it's wild to look at the charlotte knights line up today and not think " that is basically our lineup from June/July last year in fact probably better?

isn't this the same? They aren't paying him a major league salary so that's probably money saved?