Balta1701

IIRC, in 2004 they put out a boxed set version for the Red Sox that had every game, but the White Sox in 2005 only got the edited version so you couldn't see the whole ALCS/ALDS in any format. We were annoyed at the time.

Someone asked about this a few days ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-mexico-immigration-coronavirus-vaccine/2021/03/18/a63a3426-8791-11eb-8a67-f314e5fcf88d_story.html

Originally, 50,000-60,000 was the previous president's number for how many might die because of the good job they were doing. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-deaths-60000-trump-prediction_n_5ea30db6c5b6d376358ed86a Just eyeballing - 75 days until everyone should have a shot available, slowly decreasing case numbers overall, B117 variant more deadly than any of the versions going around otherwise, 1200 dying a day right now and kinda plateauing, case numbers right now comparable to the peak last summer when deaths hung over 1000/day, multiple states opening things up and removing mask mandates - staying under 50k deaths just over the coming 2 months seems like a challenge. Maybe an achievable one depending on vaccine rollouts, but may also not be.

This has been bothering me all day, so I'm going to write it. If you'd told us a year ago that there would be days where 1200 people died in a day, and that 50,000 people were going to die, we'd have said that no matter how bleak things looked at the time they wound up worse. We were somewhat aghast when the former President said that 60,000 dead would be doing a good job. 1200 people are dying of this a day right now, and we are on a path where another 50,000 deaths are possible right now. So you'll forgive me if I don't have a good reaction to the sentiment that this looks like it's over - the next month or two will give results that are worse than we would have imagined a year ago, and that's just the tail end of this. So maybe it's not that things aren't bleak right now, maybe it's just that we've become immune to the horror of what we're watching.

Gage and Lonzo Ball = Caulfield and Tatis. Discuss.

I think it's important to stress that big time politicians and media figures who got their shots and then pushed this narrative are extremely important in supporting that resistance. Rupert Murdoch got his shot in December, and then his network runs out Tucker Carlson asking "do we really need these shots"? Marco Rubio got his shot and then went out and said "not getting shots is important freedom" a few days later. The same people who won't take these shots would take Hydroxychloroquine happily last year if a certain person told them to.

Timmy is soon going to be sporting a custom designed bat. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31045959/where-did-fernando-tatis-jr-get-awesome-bat-company-mlb-next-big-thing

Fwiw, that’s the kind of guess you’d make right now if your account was just spouting BS with no real access and you wanted to build credibility by getting things right anyway.

Green signing 1/$8 million deal with the Cardinals.

The IRS appears to have released the instructions yesterday if you're filling it out by hand. If you're using a software package, they will need time to get updates to you, but this guidance is out so it should only be days. https://www.irs.gov/faqs/irs-procedures/forms-publications/new-exclusion-of-up-to-10200-of-unemployment-compensation

Remember how last year the Bears jumped in early to get Foles, paid a draft pick price and took on a lot of salary because they needed something, then months later Newton signed a piddling deal with the Patriots after having no market, and then even though he wasn't great he was clearly better than Foles?

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2021-nfl-free-agency-riskiest-free-agent-at-every-position

We might be on a path out of this at last, but gosh saying "We're in so much better shape" doesn't sound right. It's like comparing you right after you eat some poisoned food to you after you've thrown up 18 times...you feel a lot worse after the 18th time you've thrown up, it's probably not over yet, it will be soon, and if I came in to tell you that you're in good shape you might throw up on me out of spite.

I agree. Andy Dalton was a significantly better NFL Quarterback in 2015 than Mitchell Trubisky. Thankfully, it is still 2015, because starting in 2016 things pretty much went to S*** for about 4 years.

As is the case with all backup QBs. They are always better.

Dalton's top games were against the NY Giants. Minnesota, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. This is the definition of backup QB syndrome - "The guy we have was bad, therefore nameless other QB must be better".

Andy Dalton currently is a fundamentally flawed QB who limits the type of offense you can run. You cannot sit here and tell me how Andy Dalton will open up the field by throwing shorter passes for fewer yards than Trubisky.

54 attempts and 236 yards, under 5 yards per attempt, with 2 picks and 1 TD isn’t a subpar game? Also, how many playoff teams do you think he started against? I count 2...Washington (ugh almost doesn’t count) and Baltimore. So staring “out of division” games doesn’t help when he got to run up numbers against Cincinnati.

How many Cowboys games did you watch?

So what does it say when we have substantial stats from last year and a terrible decision maker who couldn’t throw the ball downfield has substantially better stats? And it’s not like Dallas had no playmakers, that offense even with no running game racked up yards with Dak. So yes, if you are saying ignore the stats my gut says Dalton is an upgrade, you are absolutely suggesting he is something he isn’t at this point in his career.

Yes.

Yes.

Why would another team take on the bulk of Foles's cap hit to get a 7th round pick?

If they're drafting a QB (presumably trading up to do so), saving that extra $10 million would be useful to improve the O-Line in front of that QB. Play Foles to start the year until your drafted QB is "ready enough". He's already on the roster, that's a sunk cost. Dalton will be in the same boat as Glennon before long, not nearly good enough, losing games early in the season, forcing the young guy into action.