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Even the Super Bowl saw its worst ratings in 13 years, down almost 10%

To be fair, Kyle never threatened to become a fan of another team because the White Sox didn't sign a free agent.

Honestly I think the universal DH would have happened if the players had been willing to deal a bit more on the type and style of season we had, but the owners weren't going to let a bargaining chip go without getting something for it. Both camps already seem to be pre-negotiating for the next CBA, so there is definitely some heeling digging going on.

PECOTA doesn't have enough complexities to really understand what happened last year, while the human mind has a much better ability to understand one offs. PECOTA has no idea about mental illness, COVID, depressions, or how one little change can unlock or lock up a pitcher or hitter. I can speak for a lot of teams, but the Sox are loaded with a ton of weird one offs.

Fan Duel doesn't have win totals up as of yet, but they have the Sox at -150, Twins at +165, and Indians at +750 for the AL Central. Sox are 2nd best odds in AL at +380 to Yankees +210. Sox World Series odds are 4th best at +850. So while that isn't a true projection, it does tell you where people are putting their money. The betters have the Sox as a clear AL Central favorite, and secondary favorite in the AL.

100% agree there. And probably going nationwide as the Super Bowl crowd probably wasn't very local.

Really it is about a week too early to be measureable.

PECOTA always has a real hard time with oddities. They don't predict breakout seasons well, and they damned sure don't know what to do with guys like Kopech and Crochet.

Legally, one is a no, one is a yes.

There aren't many people who are better at inventing things to get mad about in this world.

When we have multiple threads on the same topic there is no need for another. Otherwise entire topics get buried so we can have 4 different versions of being better in 2021, because 3 other people want higher hit counts.

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