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Crazy how much better Thad Young looks this year. And Steph noh has a bunch of tweets on how he thinks young has rubbed off on WCJ on offense

What did I miss here where people are arguing for bears to draft first round quarterbacks every year. I don't see where chisoxfn said anything more than a QB pick isn't a luxury while the position still isn't settled and even when it is should look for competent depth (on a rookie deal is better than paying so much for backups like the bears have). But GB/NE had drafted a lot of backup QBs over the years and that's what I was referring to, not just Love and Rodgers, but Hasselback and Aaron Brooks. They also drafted Hundley in the fifty round and went after Kizer shortly after cle unloaded him. That's all a lot more quantity put behind Aaron Rodgers than bears had with trubisky. edit: originally said hundley was drafted in 2nd round.

Also this guy didn't seem to be a baseball ops guy, more of a ted phillips owner-stays-happy-because-you-ask-the-annoying-questions-about-costs-of-75k-translators-so-he-doesn't-have-to and if anything they aren't going to put baseball ops guy above dipoto at this point.

Illinois actually reported a lot yesterday (nearly 60k) which I don't really know what that means because last week was so crazy but I'm glad this week should be back to business as usual in terms of monitoring and hoping we can get above that 60k/7-day avg.

Josh Rosen -> Kyler Murray What the jets are about to do. Wentz ->Hurts Possibly Tua being moved on from. Ultimately I'm not sure what the emotions around luxury picks even means. Mitch was a bad pick. The bears aren't re-signing him. They don't have a QB. Avoiding a QB just because they drafted one 4 years ago and moved on because it is embarrassing is worse process than just going after one. Look at all of these perfect, young, deep teams that couldn't find the QB when they needed. Jags, Vikes. Who knows with 49ers. Took years to build then crashed down on them after just a few competitive years. Getting a QB will never be a luxury if they work out, at the very least in the case of the Patriots or Packers it has led to returned value or recouped value if you still have a QB.

It reminds me of people saying sox are horrible at drafting high school players, when much of it is they just drafted a handful over a decade

if the freakin tigers get rocker I'm going to lose it.

Similar boat. In-laws in IL got shots in Jan. Mom/Grandparents in SC got shots in late Jan/early feb for one due to foodborne illness delaying. My dad in NC not getting it until this week, though he thought initially mid-march.

It's probably the case that mizzou will be not very good this year and lacks a sikkema/misner, but I really like what Steve Bieser has done and am excited to see if they get a pop-up guy or two.

I think as balta said the reality is currently we are still in a moment where a spike could happen. But I also think the tendency to not want to walk back if things get worse is over emphasizing spread scenarios in the future. I think if you were to be super simple and ask if I'm more bullish on this summer being joyful and social and mostly back to normal I am probably way more bullish than what you see. But, yeah, like I wouldn't still go to a conference. I'd be more likely to go to a concert in millenium park than go to the empty bottle again (maybe next fall). And I think that gets simplified to is that back to "normal", and the answer is no that's not normal. But is it back to normal in that I feel 100% confident I will have gotten a vaccine by May and in July I could find a vaccinated babysitter to watch my kids while we go to a restaurant for my birthday with my friends? Hell yes! And I think others would feel weird saying May, but pretty much anyone I know that has been trying hard to get a vaccine in the current risk ranges has gotten one. And I am very good at that stuff man. It is a useless fucking talent for 99% of my life but it will pay off here. And in other news, this week we'll get more J&J news. And the news about resistance post-1 shot continues to be great. And the Israel news on preventing spread was great news. And I mean...what is the novavax schedule? Anyway march is going to be a great month where most of us that have been on pins and needles with some vulnerable family members finally see them all covered with 1 shot, which covers them better than we previously thought. And then we'll be complaining about when the stories of "people choosing not to get shots" goes into overdrive as it moves from supply issues to demand issues. But bring it on.

I think that's just more of a reflection of how easy it is to juke that rating now. Mitch was rated 93. But if you are getting there without being able to get big chunks of yards you are useless. The timidity with quick check downs which helps your passer rating in most of the field ends up making you poor in the red zone, you are useless. So I just don't really buy that. A lot of the QBs with 90 ratings had really unproductive offenses. I mean Kirk Cousins had a top 5 passer rating, had a fantastic WR core and RB and they weren't even top ten in points scored. Hell, Andy Dalton was damn near 90 at 87 passer rating, had an excellent supporting cast, and that offense was bad. Teddy Bridgewater was the embodiment of what works with passer rating, and that offense was just average. And they were not top offenses because of their QB, despite "performing" with 90 passer ratings.

I think you could still get a similar RT prospect at 20 and 52, but 20 you could maybe be in position to get a high-level LT prospect. I think 1. Jones 2. T and let rest of draft fall where it leads is a decent possibility. It's just hard with QB. I think when the NFL was dominated by the likes of Brees/Brady/Manning I think there was more of a ethos of "arm talent is overrated" in favor of smart QBs with accuracy that could compete. And it's not like a Cam Newton is ignored being drafted 1-1, but Luck was the prototypical then - accurate, dominates the offense ins and outs, competitive, etc. And now the league is led by Mahomes, and Josh Allen surprise hits, and kyler murray's height and experience get ignored for arm talent, and suddenly it's an arm talent league and a guy like Lance is a no brainer for first round. And maybe in few years we are all saying well it's so obvious, he was competing at top of college football at alabama, he was super efficient, of course he would succeed with Mac Jones. Ultimately we are in a league where the top 2 first round QBs drafted from 2009-2016 aren't on their original teams anymore and not because they were too expensive. So it's not that I trust Pace/Nagy to hit on the zig when the league zagged as much as it's hard to feel that confident that Jones is milquetoast prospect with ceiling of a ryan fitzpatrick vs just feeling like if it happens it happens and I really can't say it's bad or good just that they decided to go for the mystery door rather than the higher probability prizes in front of them.

It's a bummer for the mariners F.O. and young players who figured to be pretty exciting this year, to have this talentless hack frame them in this negative light. I think DiPoto is now in this similar group with Hahn and Preller, where they initially looked awful in their role of GM where ownership demanded a competitive team despite a large gap to cross with limited resources to get there. Dipoto in desperation mode was trying to paper clip his way into depth and just couldn't scrape by enough, and by 2018 they'd basically maxed out as close as they could get with near top 10 pitching and hitting but underperformed in actual runs created. And lo and behold when he was allowed to put himself in a to win through more of a scouting and PD focus he has shown again that he actually has a damn good eye for talent and in just a few years with limited assets to trade off he's put together one of the most exciting young outfields in baseball and really nailed his trades. And in Julio Rodriguez the guy is about to crash into the scene too and now will be asked about his English constantly rather than his play. And the one huge asset Seattle has had, their relationship and market for Japanese stars, this dude craps all over it because they have to pay 75k a year? GMAB.

Stuff like this, that this guy could be a high ranking baseball official for 25+ years despite being a moron clearly starved for attention, is why no fan should accept criticism that they would know less than people actually employed in baseball.

seems like a terrible fit for Lavine.

carlos rodon

pitchers and catchers report day is also the start of pitcher injury season ?

I can't access paper but I wonder how many of the samples they were sent contained it, and if it was part of a teams outbreak.

Theres a lot of stuff constantly to do. Texas isn't the first state to have the event happen that they knew could happen and cause damage. Chicago has a pretty awesome water management system, but it likely doesn't invest in things like TARP (deep tunnel) without a hundred years of constant waste water battles. And it was billions and it's not even clear it fixes the problem. Hard to get buy-in for that stuff unless you have a "great chicago flood". This situation is really bad and scary for certain for many families and those with medical device needs. But Texas will likely adjust. They may not even overhaul, they may just bring some more safeguards and generally keep it the same. Chicago had a heatwave and hundreds died, and their mayor called it fake news. Puerto Ricos grid was destroyed in a hurricane and their island without power. I don't recall dunking being the response that helped. Not everything needs to be kinder for the fire for the ongoing exhausting ideological battles.

wild. COVID sucks https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1362049551490637834?s=20

so seems like a lot of the fringe guys ended up with pretty decent major league deals as teams fret about pitchers not being able to log full seasons. The white sox pretty explicitly did not plan for this concern so will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Good question but not sure, I kinda thought the bottom 14 teams were locks for lotto regardless so it didn't create bad incentives

I think bulls keeping a lotto pick while making the play-in tourney is my sweet spot tbh. But they should trade thad and go after lonzo.

The next month is going to be refreshing:

I wasn't sure which way it would go since regular checkups were down so much. A bit impressed it was in line.