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Tried to do one where I DON'T trade up SMDH and instaed I traded down for 25 and a pick swap for our 3rd rounder (83) for 45. Ended up with Teven Jenkens, Terrace Marshall, and Chazz Surratt. Probably gonna stop for now because I keep just wanting the same guys

the accurate computer generated trades were unexpected, make it so much fun especially with a draft trade calculator open to make it realistic.

Man that is the most fun simulator I've ever played with. The trades are so addicting. In my draft, Trey lance was around at 14 (vikes), so I traded to get ahead of the patriots which kinda took a lot (20, current third, future second) Then I traded out of the back of the 2nd to the front of the third and picked up an extra fourth and next years third. I picked up the Notre Dame T Liam Eichenberg.

this is so much fun!

Sheesh what y'all doing putting trades in the garbage dump pile.

at this I have very little clue who is minor league quality. Peacock has enough injury baggage that he could work, I obviously love how he was an effective swing man. I still think Jimmy Nelson would be interesting, but there has been so little about him that you assume his back still sucks. And that's not even his shoulder. Stripling would be a good idea, I just think he signs somewhere.

At this point, every league should be assuming their golden age of viewership rights is over and they need to be aggressive in building different streams that build revenue. I don't think merely streaming on different services accomplishes this, as viewership for younger demos was abysmal (and it supposedly includes streaming). Maybe gambling takes care of all of it. Maybe this new "store of value" sensibility allows teams fun ways to raise money through some sort of tradeable market that pays out based of the year success. I have no clue. But "we'll let you stream our games for a fee, which you will make back in advertising" is broke and isn't coming back, and sports is not floating the model like it used to.

man it is really rich after the offseason we just experienced to say "who could the sox have signed to make them better?" nick freidell style lol anyway as I said I think sox will be fine, but if you want to hack the regular season you get a lot of good depth as we've been saying, and sox decided to thread the needle trying to only buy exactly what was needed. That leaves possibilities that our weak depth is actually strong, esp. in rotation. It is very possible. But it's also very possible it craters and undermines our bullpen. It is a possibility.

Yes, I am not sure I know of anyone who got moderna, but half the people I know who got pfizer had chills the next day (edit: for shot 2) Shot 1 had no problem.

over 2 years

Would I mind two of the best starting pitchers on the market signing? No. Would I mind a horrible piece of shit signing? Yes.

Jake mcgee signed for NOTHIN. Ugh stupid giants.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-09/gm-extends-production-cuts-through-mid-march-on-chip-shortage?sref=vuYGislZ

I think they weren't, in chicago at least, going to make a declaration on it before they got schools in order. But I think you are right and I think it will be much sooner than later. March is really going to be humming with vaccines. I expected IL to be around 30k a day in phase 1b based on how phase 1A went. It's at 50 already, and looks like it should be 60k soon. I do agree with Balta that outdoor was an easier decision before the new variants, where it may be more transmissable. But it just depends on what stuff looks like in March. So I think it's just going to be a late decision.

So the story starts about how the people that initially all got the vaccines live in majority white neighborhoods, 2(!) year old census data that can't actually break down accurately by hospital roles shows health care workers live across the city. Then actual data they had shows that when vaccines were provided to the hospitals, physicians were the ones who were most likely to opt to take it right away, and the physicians tended to live in the majority white areas or in suburbs. Then later after hospital staff saw the vaccines didn't have much side effects, much more of the staff took it. And it's all wrapped under the insinuation that white wealthy people are jumping the line. I really get annoyed by articles that insinuate something untoward is happening rather than a more straightforward article about how a high number of healthcare workers were initially skeptical of the vaccine but have now opted to take it in higher numbers.

Now that we have some daylight for getting through one catastrophic event, the other we should really try to hedge against has to be this unbelievable reliance on taiwan semiconductor to provide nearly everyone with their semiconductors right? I mean you have climate events that have happened before, easily realistic geopolitical events that could cause huge issues for manufacturing of cars and tech that nearly every industry uses. I don't know if the USG should take an active interest in helping Intel, or using our relationship historically with TSM whatever it takes to manufacture more of their product here (TSM was started by American citizens), but this seems like a pretty realistic disaster. They are opening up an Arizona fab it looks like this year, but it seems to make sense to coax more here just to hedge against a bunch of US jobs being lost to something like that.

PECOTA also thought those mets teams would be much better than they were as they doubled up so many major leaguers across their positions. The problem? Many weren't good and they still had injuries. The real takeaway has been the one many have expressed: the starters on this team are excellent. But this team will really struggle with starting pitching injuries, as well as an injury to TA. If we can avoid situations like august where we cannot find backhalf starters that can get through 4-5 innings consistently, it eats away at our bullpen advantage over the course of the season.

I doubt he told his parents. I mean worst case, he actually owes and he files for chapter 7 right?

No way they'd want a public lawsuit now, and their comments in the article make it sound like they want this to go away. I have to say it really is obnoxious how long "startups" take to move on customer service. For a while there was a zappos ethos in tech that perhaps over emphasized it. Now it's the last thing added with just some shitty chatbots. But schwab, etrade, etc all have zero commission trading. Had he been with one of them he'd have his own contact he could have reached out to. He'd also have had to explicitly applied for an options account. RH had been defaulting everyone to margin accounts, too. With finance, healthcare, you'd be better off betting on the dinosaur institutions improving their UI than startups promising the world when by just skirting rules until they are big enough to be a problem.

now the posturing is the eagles aren't getting the offer they want, and on the other side team sources publicly laughing at their requests. So either this is about to be over, or was just a lot of bluster from Eagles. At this point he's certainly still getting traded, but may be a little while.

cool questions but your original defense was toward the article as clickbait not the lawsuit being filed.

Maybe if the team had a reliable second ball handler the end of games wouldn't rely on Lavine.

Yes I'm sure the editors at NBC Chicago are following orders to take down RH before they get to an IPO. The incident happened in June. The lawsuit was filed this week. Seems like a normal timeframe. Seems like a normal follow-up on a local story. Maybe they think a lawsuit is more likely to win because of late June, but more likely it took months to figure out if they had a case that had merit.

the lawsuit was just filed on Monday.

If Carr is moved I would just have to assume that Gruden fell in love with a QB in the draft, and think that the compensation of trading carr would allow a move up. Maybe Fields or Lance? Otherwise seems like you'd just do a swap with the Jets if it's for Wilson.