Balta1701

Is that all that different from Keuchel and Kimbrel each sitting out 1/3 of the 2019 season because no one would sign them to contracts they were comfortable with until their Qualifying Offers expired? It's not that teams are choosing not to sign guys, it's instead that teams are choosing not to sign them at the prices they would require. Unlike the NBA and NHL, no funds are being held in escrow to offset the losses MLB is taking this year, so if there's only $100 million left that teams across the league have to spend, and there's 100 players left.

I'd be ok with saying this year was an exception if we hadn't spent the last 2 offseasons complaining about how long everything was taking.

This is also after they played the Steelers on Sunday, with several known cases over the last 2 weeks, and the NFL saying that they have done "Contact tracing" and "There is no outbreak in progress" at the Cleveland Facility.

You don’t sign a big money free agent for what they do in the last half of the deal. Anything you get from a guy in his last season is gravy on top. You sign a guy to a 10 year deal because you think you can win in those first 5 years and he will put you over the top. You make it a 10 year deal to stretch out the pain. You pay a 5 WAR player over 10 years because then you pay the guy $30 million per year in your competitive years and still have some room to maneuver, rather than $50 million a year over those 5 years. Plus...deals are movable if you’re in a bad spot. If a GM will give back real talent for Cano’s deal, then almost any deal is movable if you work at it. If you’re worrying about being hurt in the final years of a long FA contract you’re doing it wrong.

(Quickly tries to figure out which player named House they sold to Texas).

No, he is not an arbitration eligible player this year. That would be if he had come up after the 15th of April but before June - get an extra year of control, but that extra year is an arb year. They didn't play any games with him. Straight 6 years to free agency - 3 prearb, 3 arbitration.

Allen will come in 3rd in the MVP race.

This exercise is left to the reader.

I will admit not being an expert here, but I'm pretty sure the "Polycyclonal antibodies" are not nearly the same thing as the body's response to a vaccine, that's the synthetic stuff that Trump and Giuliani got that probably saved their lives.

Just since I haven't seen anyone say this - you almost have to take a visit to the Blue Jays if they're even on the list, to try to figure out what the season will look like if Canada keeps the US under complete quarantine (as they should).

Let's see, the last world series teams - the Dodgers with Jansen, the Nats with Hudson who basically saved their bullpen l (My god was that only 14 months ago?), The Red Sox with the last good remnants of Kimbrel, The Astros had Ken Giles - who struggled with them but then regained value with Torotno, The Cubs with Chapman, the Royals with OMG EVERYONE IN THEIR BULLPEN. Maybe the money doesn't work out, but having that arm in the pen...has.

Exactly my point, if this was the one exploding in CA right now I don't think we'd have any way of knowing that. FWIW, on your other previous point - I think the risk of a new strain that is vaccine resistant popping up is the greatest risk we could run into. It won't be pleasant but the world knows how to handle this new strain as long as the vaccines work, we just need to buy time. Don't cut doses or anything like that - we have to kill the thing, not risk accidentally helping it more.

Has anyone seen how much testing we're doing to determine the genetics of the virus? Because it seems like the people who can interpret this stuff haven't said much about that, and it seems like an "open question" whether the B.1.1.7 variant is the one exploding in southern california already.

FWIW, this doesn't matter and I don't think that's an example of voter fraud. If the people are living an RV lifestyle and have only temporary homes where they register the vehicles, and they are only registered to vote in that place - unless there's some extremely specific law they're violating I don't care who they vote for. If they didn't register in Texas, they'd register in Florida and be able to vote there or in Georgia and turn that race or whatever. To be honest, most of their republican votes in TX have been excess votes for the last what, 25 years? As long as they're only able to vote once, we should make voting easy and flexible for people with different lifestyles.

FWIW, I think the lack of intermediate routes was a big part of the game plan. It was to make sure everything possible was complete, minimize turnovers, eventually set up one big strike (which succeeded), but most importantly it slowed the game down to keep Rodgers off the field. It was actually pretty effective until they finally hit that 4th down where they couldn't convert.

On the TD, Trevathan didn't start covering the WR, he started in the middle to look like a potential blitzer then backed off and headed outside. He wouldn't have even been in position to make contact with the WR within 5 yards.

His lawyers were sitting on the phone with him trying to deflect and the GA Secretary of State told him so on the call repeatedly. He'd probably have to go with an insanity defense, if he was ever put into a fair trial with that call as evidence.

They can have that pass if the Bears have the 3 INTs they dropped (what was it 2 by Jackson of all people?!)

This game was closer than the score. It broke through on that failed 4th down conversion.

I find the contrast here interesting. FWIW, here's the relevant federal statute. Georgia also has a similar law at the state level. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/20511

In the call he says he expects several other states to flip to him soon. So there are probably similar calls in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, just a question of if they destroyed the recordings.

Lol we’re all watching though.

The description given afterwards was a forearm flexor strain. I’d love to know if that counts as an elbow injury or not in your eyes? https://www.mlb.com/news/garrett-crochet-left-forearm-strain-update

So any way for the Bears to make Wentz work?

So I will admit I'm not an anatomy expert, but "a bony bump on the inside of the elbow that is actually part of the humerus bone" sounds like it's in the elbow.