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Ah man all the soxtalk accountants are going to fall over eachother to start talking about some weird tax laws. Have at it you guys, it is your christmas.

Hey! It's another believer! Regardless, he's the type of guy that even if you weren't in the mode to make that type of splash you make room for. But the Bears are absolutely in the mode for needing a guy like him.

Sure is a lotta smoke that Wilson and Seattle is really at breakup level.

Even if there were, SCOTUS has made quid pro quo legal, making the standard to prove that he gave that money because of x virtually impossible without him actually dropping a bag of money at his step and taking the boxes of vaccines out with him.

My gut belief not backed up by anything real is they have a deal but are waiting for more vaccine availability coming soon to avoid a "you are opening up sports while teachers still can't get vaccines?" story even though it is unrelated this is outdoors and is not real. Schools have an agreement, Reinsdorf just gave the UC to vaccines, crapton more vaccines open up today/next week -> now city announces deal where sports can reopen.

Naw it's cool if 20 teams overthink it.

Indoor will be a little different but yeah I would bet it will start slow with maybe 5k-8k

They are being planned for.

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love hearing applause on these highlights.

Rips off the mask - it's miguel ascensio

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeettts

A little bummed we haven't seen Sheets in the outfield. Guessing that was a little overblown.

Also here is an actual link to the piece: https://theathletic.com/2420975/2021/03/03/2021-mlb-draft-prospect-rankings-vanderbilts-jack-leiter-kumar-rocker-top-keith-laws-list/

Yeah, seems a little natsy to me too.

I just don't know how many times I can look at this and still ignore it. I'm a Book of Jobe 18. Jackson Jobe, Heritage Hall HS, Oklahoma City Jobe is a very hard thrower with elite spin rates on his curveball, possibly the highest in the class, and is an outstanding athlete whose father, Brandt, won the Boeing Classic on the PGA Tour in 2019. He’s not the tallest or most physical among the high school right-handers this year but has the best present combination of stuff and athleticism.

I'm still on Jobe at this point. In the comments. @Mike H. He's completely unable to hit or pick up breaking stuff. He's more like Kam Misner, who was a comp round pick two years ago despite top 10 overall tools.

I almost wonder if you just plan on aisle vendors? Keep people in their seats. I think baseball is one of the biggest no brainers for fans, I just think it being outdoors, easier to keep attendance in check while it still making sense to have fans, and less of a "scream to make noise" event. But the only place I really worry about are bathrooms and the kitchens/gate vendors. If sox have really improved ventilation/air filtration then I honestly think the mayor/governor are just dealing with how knee jerk people (themselves included) are about people gathering in large numbers on tv even though this is much safer than the 50% indoor capacity and bars being allowed open until 1 am.

There are going to be fans on opening day. But they aren't going to say there are going to be fans until there is an agreement in place. The sox also have a bit more leeway since they start season on a 7 game road trip. Biggest issue is going to be training vendors, who are always pretty terrible to start season. If I was food vendor I would simplify menu to start season, launch the weird stuff in June.

booster talk from Gottlieb

Yeah, there was that study with AZ a few weeks ago showing that people that got shot 2 six weeks later were in the 80% efficacy whereas prior it was 60. J&J booster in 5-6 months may be the most effective.

4D chess - not dicking around with vaughn/kopech service time will help in Giolito negotiations.

Couple things I think will help that I think/hope we'll know by summer: - Nobody in public health is capable of saying whether you can take multiple different vaccines. It seems weird that it would really be an issue. But there are studies now on mixing/matching different vaccines running. Basically if it come out that, yes this new moderna booster for the SA variant works, the J&J/Pfizer group can also take that, vs are you locked in for some reason. I think a "you can take the other one later when there is more" may ease some of this concern. - Eventually J&J will get results out on a two-dose which I would bet heavily will put it on a tier much closer to the pfizer/moderna vaccines. We have gotten releases from moderna or pfizer, can't remember, that those are also effective as one-dose. Really was just a choice by J&J to get to EUA as a one-dose, they did, it's a big deal, but showed it as less effective. It will probably be helped by a booster just like the others, so it will help when they can put that study out. And whichever one gets out their youth studies first will benefit. I get the concern from people, mainly around the variants. With that unknown you probably want to work on the highest baseline (see south africa ditching AZ), but AZ has still shown how valuable it is in the UK. And J&J still held up pretty well against the SA strain with 57% efficacy (compared to 70% overall). Long story short - hopefully the messaging to take what you can get now works, and gets improved when they can say "and you can get the other ones later"

Rangers were the team that got mad at Tatis for hitting a grand slam on 3-0 right? Shocking.