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One time I got free tickets to this STH event where the sox hall of famers had a luncheon with pretty much every living one but Frank. This was just after Baines got elected. I was kinda floored to be sitting at the table with fans who like, did all the "sox cruises" or "sox vacation in mexico" where these people just like loved the sox and loved every player on it regardless and just wanted to go to games and root for them. JR was there. There were like 100 people total. Anyway my first thought after that experience is this is who Jerry thinks the fanbase is. These very nice, incredibly forgiving group of people that just wanna see nice young men play baseball. And so maybe that is who JR is trying to communicate to and it seems so insane to us.

Not a TAM candidate but Barry Odom has completely turned around UNLV in one year. He showed a real knack for coordinator hiring while at Mizzou (Heupel, Ryan Walters) but just couldn't recruit enough (drinkwitz initially couldn't find the best assistants but could recruit and fixed the latter). I think a year or two of success and he should get a call for a major program again. Get one that has innate recruiting and he could be a really dominant hire.

But honestly even if players are healthy I expect them to get off days. I'd expect most are targeted to play around 150 games if fully healthy, which would be roughly 3 off games a month.

I don't know, I feel like on off days they would be taking treatments? Grifol sucks though.

It’s definitely not that I’m older it’s just a fact that slang has gotten worse.

I'm optimistic but he's facing the hardest part of the schedule. Detroit could still wreck any o-line. But us being horrified by the Minnesota game doesn't seem as bad as it looks like we faced them just as Brian Flores figured out how to run that defense.

Sucks we dont' even have a beat writer to tell us if Getz had diarrhea.

definitely. But hopefully this is influenced by a new coach what to do. I think walking away with a MH3, a joe alt, plus a treasure trove of picks...really should be an opportunity to build a team that if you find the qb it's a dominant 3-4 year run.

I don't think Cleveland is. Shows how good that defense and team were that they are getting a QB barely better than PJ Walker and winning like this. Houston, I hope, causes people to rethink a couple of QB-drafting-heuristics that are clearly helpful: - "X school or X system never produces good QBs". That train of thought led, in my mind, to the biggest NFL draft day blunder with Aaron Rodgers falling as the league grew tired of Tedford-system QBs. Obviously, Stroud went 3 overall, so not as big of an nfl issue here but fans clearly bought into the Ohio State as a sign of nfl failure. - You'd think Stroud's success starting right away and Jordan Love's struggles and Trey Lance's failure will help wash away the "sitting QBs and putting them in the right situation cures all". I think Stroud is probably my favorite example yet of the fact that NFL scouts are pretty good at telling who should be a first round QB, but terrible at ranking them within that round, and have no idea who will actually succeed in that bunch. Because of that we all create a bunch of rules like "oh if they had a team that developed them" or "if they sat" or "if they played" or "if they were in the right situation" and I think Stroud just kinda washes that away with if you can pair physical traits with the unknown it-factor of "able to diagnose defenses at high speed and make strong decisions" it just makes nothing else really matter. I also think the elevation of college QBs who can play off-script may be overrated right now. When Stroud needed to, he had the tools to play off script. But maybe elevating Caleb Williams ability to play off script when he could probably easily make a play out of the regular script is just not going to be as helpful. After all I thought Zach Wilson would be an incredible improvisational QB. But turned out he just can't figure out how quickly he's in trouble in NFL speed, and Stroud can. You have a big arm, are big strong fast and led an elite college offense or were the entire offense? Ok, first round pick and just know it's a lotto ticket. The benefit to having a team "ready for a qb" is merely that they get FULL advantage of that contract. Otherwise you just get a really good QB and have to figure it out fast.

I think they are more likely to be in the trade deadline market for an expiring, veteran starting pitcher who they can trust in the playoffs. OR they've kicked themselves for missing just a talented expiring like Jordan Montgomery at the deadline. I think they'll do a mercenary play for pitching each year, they will probably be able to replenish that prospect depth with their current operation.

I kinda agree with the "Would you want Cease starting a playoff game" train of thought for the Orioles after living through the last few years. I think the team trading for Cease is a move to ensure you can win the division. I kinda wonder if Orioles are even worried about that anymore. But you look at the championship series and see some teams that traded for playoff enforcers in Scherzer and Verlander on those teams, and then a team grabbing a guy who was just pretty dominant mid season. If you are Orioles, do you really want to pay that much for control? I think they do if they think they have a strong plan for Cease like Astros had for Cole. The other issue here again is the Brewers looking to dump their pitching, who have post season success. If I'm Balt i'd rather veer that way. Doesn't mean Cease has no market, just I don't think Orioles are the fit everyone else does. I wonder if a team like the Phillies goes after him with a package like Painter + Crawford. They have players to bring in with cash, but still not a perfect team so getting a top young pitcher via trade to ensure a playoff spot makes sense to me at least.

Looks like Illinois found a QB there. On Heisman watch, I don’t think he’ll win over a PAC QB but to me Jayden Daniel’s season beats anyones. Especially because in spurts without him they look pedestrian. And lastly, thank you to Mizzou for giving me this team when all my Chicago follows are atrocious. Cody Schrader is such a cool story, but would have never guessed he would become Christian mccaffrey basically. Probably could have just rode him to a Georgia victory instead of passing.

Was there in person and Bagent was awful. Extremely gun shy after last week. But he still outplayed Young. I am extremely surprised how bad he looks. Terrible situation for them.

lol I can’t wait to use that phrase

I feel like Getsy isn't good but people acting like it's easy to make an offense for fields that isn't what we ran last year (THEY NEVER PASS, SO ANTIQUATED) which put him at too much risk, and also doesn't ask him to - apparently - have him be able to throw short and intermediate passes and read defenses isn't as easy as some think.

That's why I hate that bucket. You pay for a 2 WAR guy you get a 0 WAR guy.

More that if there was such a priority to get this guy up sooner (which someone mentioned his contract includes) I don't understand why they weren't challenging him more in placement. But now that he's working honestly much better in short-inning stints, feels like this is all weird.

HEAVILY ACTIVE for 30 year old 2 WAR players

This is so great.

Did they instead sign more than one player and not take the rest of the year off?

My opinion is that Colas sucks even if he was poorly coached. Just another lazy acquisition by our international scouting director running out his clock until retirement.

I love how often we are talking about getting the players the board is screaming for 3 years after they would have been useful. It's like, nonstop.

I really don't get what we are trying to do with this guy.

Not just JR though. Really sucked losing Wayne Larrivee to Green Bay and suffering through Joniak. He is truly the one guy I can't take because of how overly descriptive he is on the things that aren't helpful to me understanding, and underdescriptive he is on the things that matter. Crazy how often we lose talent to questionable markets.

Well I guess my point is this. Probably the most valuable play he could pull with the league where it's at is to sell. But we are at a particularly bad point as an org to do it. There is no trust from fans in this front office, the guy apparently sucked up to Reinsdorf saying he knew how to make a winner, et al. So we're stuck not wanting them to do the thing that probably would be the best thing to do because they are dumb