Balta1701

Nobody knows. Aside from Lebron supposedly saying the owners need to be more involved, there isn't a clear statement of demands by those teams yet.

https://go.illinois.edu/COVIDTestingData Looks like they're currently in the 50-100 new cases a day area for the last week, eyeballing it about 300-400 cases in the last 7 days, with some people having been tested more than once??

Either pitcher you’re going to use your bullpen at the first sign of trouble anyway.

I could absolutely see Lavine plus something else making sense as a package for Simmons but yeah the 76ers would need to decide that’s the way they want to go. Downgrade in talent but probably far better fit alongside Embiid. Would the Bulls have enough to absorb Horfords bad contract? That could really help make that work. Also, I think I would be totally ok with either of the two recently fired head coaches taking over the Bulls. Flame away on that one.

If it counts, my health insurance forms seem to be lost in the mail after nearly 2 weeks, so I damn well better not get sick.

Right now we are playing the game of Euro mode versus everyone else and history has taught me to trust the Euro in this case. If it’s right I might get some hurricane force gusts here.

It’s physically impossible to evacuate Houston so they know they can’t order it after Rita. More than 100 people died on the roads and the storm went East. Hurricane Laura. The current forecast puts it East of Houston but the European model is putting it right on track to nail the city as a category 2-3. When Ike did that in 2008 it did $30 billion in damage and knocked out power for a month, and it’s track wasn’t a worst case path. In Houston, it’s better to anticipate and not be in the way.

No one else had to go to the strategy of testing their entire population twice a week because no one in the developed world failed at getting at least partial control during the lockdowns.

Do we have anyone here in Houston? Pack now. Won’t say it that bluntly on my twitter feed but Anyone in Houston should be prepping to leave today.

Baseball is testing 1000 players every 2 days at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. The US has been stuck at just over 600,000 tests a day for about 2-3 months and even had weeks where testing went down. There are 50 million kids in schools, testing them 2x a week would need 100 million tests a week when the country can do 3 million a week, and would cost in the billions per semester, and that’s just schools. The outbreak in the US is simply too large to deal with our current testing rate. I don’t think the press focuses on herd immunity, I think they focus too much on “living with it” and all these grand strategies to disinfect surfaces, when what the governor of Texas said in May in his talk to his donors about his evil plan still holds true. If you have increased person to person contact, in work or schools or businesses, transmission will increase in response.

Just asking - is Rodon done for the year?

Not really, it’s a slight bit better than inconclusive but without the studies done correctly it’s also difficult to know if there have been reactions specifically associated with their use. If this was being handled professionally or properly, the FDA made it clear last week they wouldn’t have approved it. If they were going to change their minds that abruptly then they should have had a press meeting including the people who had objected, by name, so that they could outline what their concerns are and perhaps why they had changed their mind. No politicians should have been involved in the announcement at all. Legally politicians are not supposed to be able to pressure or overrule the FDA on matters like this, but as with many things the law is out the window right now since Congress won’t enforce it.

So there was a report out literally 4 days ago saying that the first widespread study of plasma transplants showed very little effect of any and today the government authorized more widespread use?

Just play Engel more.

didnt think about this.

Well the guy who traded Tatis should have lost his job 4x over, but anyway. Its not about refusing to make deals, it’s about knowing what your situation is and being realistic about what you’re getting back. Every time we got burned it was because we traded something too valuable, expecting a guy to be more than he was. Samardzija wasn’t an ace but we acted like he was. Frazier wasn’t nearly good enough to make a 75 win team a winner. Shields was finished. In each case, a team below .500 said they’re better than that, fixated on a guy, paid a substantial price, and convinced itself it wouldn’t come back to hurt them.

No it isn't. The principle is still the same. We said over and over "it's ok to make this trade, we didn't give up all that much". We said it for about a decade, and it kept being true...until it wasn't, and that switch was pretty catastrophic. If 8 times out of 10 it turns out true that we didn't give up much, and then we give up Semien and Tatis as part of the guys who seem to be "not much" at the time, the 8 times where it works out don't balance out the enormous failures.

The Shock Wave from Luis Robert's HR just passed over Texas. I'm told it is likely to disturb the path of the hurricanes.

There is nothing left of that ball. Meteorites often vaporize in the atmosphere and sometimes you catch it on film. That just happened to a baseball.

No s***, Ian Happ is finally good?

But they'd look at anything of a 60 game season and think "Wow the White Sox got a bargain on him I should have paid $90 million"? The White Sox got him because they paid more than 29 other teams. You're telling me that there are teams now that would pay substantially more than they would last offseason? Not just the same amount, substantially more?

But that means he's not worth anything in a trade.

Not with that contract he isn't.

If a guy is signed to a fair value contract, he doesn't hold much surplus value, and trading him doesn't bring much back.