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hahaha Man I know Aaron Gordon shoots 3s ata 40% rate but if I'm Boston I feel like Tatum/Brown/Sabonis >>> Tatum/Brown/Gordon, but maybe it would be too easy to clog up.

Of the vaccine resistant groups, I find this one to be the least worrisome. One - if anything it's the opposite of vaccine hesitancy. Two - there actually should be a decent ability to have a choice in pretty short order, and really it's harder to get J&J now than to even get an appt in general Three - Anecdotally, I know several friends who want to get J&J because they hate needles so much. Push comes to shove, they'd take what they can get, but to me there isn't much of a difference between the two, and there may be more needle-hesitant than J&J-hesitant. J&J will be great for that group that is the general pop, I don't really blame someone in the high-risk groups or 65+ for getting the mRNA vaccines that were just so ridiculously good. It's also just easy to talk about preference when you actually don't have a choice yet. Look at how we start every offseason saying stuff like "ugh if we have to settle for Keuchel or Odorizzi" in September then all the top free agents go off board and we sign one and everyone is like "OH MY GOD WE LANDED KEUCHEL HE ROCKS". And he did rock, but people are pickier in hypothetical circumstances.

I uh, wouldn't do that deal without protections

I did see some big companies were hoping to help with the immunization verification thing https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/big-tech-helps-set-standards-for-covid-19-vaccine-verification-11616151614

I saw somewhere Brogdon may be available, which would be ideal

Fulmer worked with Driveline, who Katz is not associated with. https://theathletic.com/822743/2019/02/19/why-carson-fulmer-trained-at-driveline-this-offseason-to-reclaim-his-college-dominance/

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/22/biden-administration-frets-j-j-may-miss-vaccine-goal-477602 "Biden administration officials are increasingly concerned Johnson & Johnson may not deliver the 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccine it promised would be available by the end of this month, according to three senior administration officials. The full tranche of vaccine Johnson & Johnson committed in February to delivering may not be ready to ship until the second or third week of April, the officials said, potentially complicating preparations for states expecting millions of J&J shots." There was an initial wave of mass vaccination 24 hour places who just used the new J&J shots since the other places had been aligned for a two-shot operation. I haven't seen any recently and the stats looked flat. I'm not surprised, but the vaccine makers have done such a good job getting close to production goals that this is a big disappointment as it seemed for most of last week that May 1st for all eligibility seemed conservative.

No I think the outdoor stuff is fine. but Sox park at 100% capacity you'll have lower risk than like the Vic at 20% capacity. But, whatever I don't really mind, simpler policies are easier.

Were the white sox aware of his 2018 stats?

also Shams is reporting bulls are listening on Lauri

Yes

Good, still funny to me they are treating indoor and outdoor as equal.

illinois's state allocation for this week doesn't look much different than last week, which is a bummer. I was hoping a lot more J&J vaccine, who said they were still on track for 20 million before march to be delivered. Guess it's like, dropping at 11:59 on 3/31.

Yeah, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of nobody teaching it because nobody wanting to learn it and nobody learning it because nobody teaches it. But, this stuff inevitably figures itself out when they are forced to figure it out.

Maybe not but they have to balance being able to attack him as an RFA in the offseason. I don't think Sato + a 2 gets it done, but I also don't think it's going to be a particularly large package.

Ha, that's actually amazing. I keep picturing 20 years from now where the top paid employee at JP Morgan is going to be this like 75 year old programmer who is the only one that knows all of the systems that they keep throwing more and more money at to stay out of retirement.

This stuff is pretty hard. And yeah, it's bad that a lot of government software runs on COBOL, but there's still an pretty extraordinarily high number of banking functions running on COBOL too, and those are private firms with plenty of need and capital to improve that. Federalism also makes it harder. Overall, just letting a bunch of places figure out the online scheduling is probably one of the smarter decisions (probably was just the absence of a decision, but I'll still give credit)

I think kenpom is great, I'm just saying this year specifically pointing to a metric and saying "see loyola is good because they were top ten in this metric" is silly. Loyola is good, but the advanced metrics had the same limited data the rest of us had that makes this an especially difficult year, and it's questionable if a one-and-done tourney even satisfies it - but loyola winning the MVC often with good margins of victory and then beating a good team and then beating a great team is more than enough evidence that loyola was a very good team. Doesn't really need a NET rating to prove it. I do think big ten benefitted from there being no tourney last year as many of the teams like Illinois got hot in conference, then had a pretty mediocre non-con this year, then got hot in conference. But I still think Illinois is a top ten team in a normal year, but as others mentioned, teams like the PAC-12 probably ended up on harder draws due to there being so much less cross-conference play this year. And also there were no fans, which may have helped some bad road teams or younger teams not show weaknesses that the fans + pressure of the tournament exposed or didn't let get developed. THat's not an ILL story but could be an Oklahoma State story. Anyway, kenpom is great, NET rating is better than an AP top 25, but this is just a really weird year and i think certain conferences were just inevitably going to be undervalued because of it.

and had Colgate at 9, illinois at 3 and ohio st at 8. I don't think advanced metrics were any more impressive than anything else this year, it was just a very weird year and now there's a tournament where weird things happen and people will work backwards to find what shows it was going to happen that way.

I honestly don't think building an app should have made the top 100 in terms of priorities. The only real issue people have here is that there isn't enough vaccine currently for everyone that wants it. When there will be plenty of vaccine, they'll be able to sign up online for a convenient time at their nearby CVS/Walgreens/Jewel/Costco/Walmart/Local general practicioner or through a local public health designated vaccination center using ZocDoc, or they can call the central hotline or pharmacy. There is nothing particularly bad about Walgreens app, it was really bad initially then they fixed it in weeks. That's actually an impressive timeline for developing something like that. Albertsons (Jewel), and CVS are both good. The Zocdoc app is really convenient. and IL was just able to partner with an existing company vs. developing their own. But they all suck because they are dealing with a small amount of slots and a bunch of traffic. It's the same reason ticketmaster's app sucks. If the government had a singular app, we'd be talking about how it sucks, because it said it was available but then when you got through it was booked - because it would have to balance benefits of a queueing system vs. getting through as much availability as it can per day. They did a good job on getting the vaccine developers resources to develop and get approval, a piss-poor job at anticipating resource bottlenecks and distribution. That was really the only path to a smooth rollout, but the public-private apparatus has mobilized rapidly relative the the size of the problem.

The other thing about walgreens/etc is they actually don't get that much of the vaccines but get a lot of the traffic since they have been the least restrictive (they have followed state guidance rather than county). So, for example, when the state opened up vaccines to high-risk, you couldn't book into cook county's system for any of the dph centers because it only allowed 65+ still. But walgreens you could, and it was slammed for all of that group since it was the one place many in chicagoland could go.

It's hard to make something that works for so many people and connects to constantly changing capacity in just a couple months. It's good to include walgreens/cvs/walmart etc because they already have a lot of real estate with ability to do vaccines. Something more centralized has benefits, but it requires a lot of planning and this was an all hands on deck, get it out fast as possible so it is what it is at this point. CVS's new scheduling has been pretty great.

As I recall, Lopez is the same as Joe Musgrove.

really sucks how little we can hear about the other games but obviously it's for good reasons. We basically only hear cespedes news.

The knockiest on knock on wood statement but I've been pretty surprised how good health has been so far.