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Will also toss this out there.

Its a no win for them, so they don't want details out. Someone brought it in, and their non-existent preventative measures allowed to spread unchecked.

The President cares about exactly one person in his life. Everyone else is at best a tool for his betterment.

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-alternate-site-report?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

In order for something like this to work, the entire team has to be in on it. To have relievers in the mind set to be ready in the early innings the team had to be in on it, otherwise these guys wouldn't have been ready to work. There is no doubt in my mind that Dunning went out there knowing that as soon as he got into trouble, he was done, and everyone from Crochet down the line knew they could be in the game at literally any time. And if people still think this is outrageous, look no further than the San Diego wild card series. They used 26 pitchers to cover 27 innings. Their starters went a total of 6 innings in the three games combined. Their starters went 2.1, 2 and 1.2. This strategy can and does work. The primary reason it failed for the Sox was that Crochet got hurt, and then the guys they were hoping could suck up innings couldn't find the strike zone in Rodon and Foster. The Padres relievers made it work, while the Sox didn't. That doesn't make the strategy invalid.

The interesting part is that the Charles Comiskey being cheap stuff has largely been disproven, but people buy it because it was in the movie. https://sabr.org/research/article/how-cheap-was-charles-comiskey-salaries-and-the-black-sox/

How dumb do you think the front office is? They saw RR with the Cubs. They saw him on the bench with Robin in his last year, and how they have seen him run the team for four years. If they didn't like him and he wasn't doing what the front office wanted, he wouldn't be here. I think there is a lot of wishful thinking going on here for a situation that isn't nearly as tenuous as some would like. This team was 72-89 last year, and was 35-25 this year, which was a 95 win pace. They made the playoffs for the first time in 12 years. The players seemingly love Ricky. I think some people are so caught up in the individual moves, that they missing the forest for the trees. Maybe if another year or two down the road if RR really is stopping this team from going something might happen, but it was clear this year that the primary problem was the lack of starting pitching, and the front office knows that better than anyone. I have no doubt they will be looking to add at least one more primary starter, and maybe another depth piece besides. They see their window as now. If they thought RR wasn't in the window, he's already be gone.

Not that you have access to literally any of it... but it is easy!

I have shared the deaths by year for Flu number so many times in the last six months,,, but those people dont' seem to care about the actual numbers.

I don't think Madrigals arm plays at MLB SS. I wasn't really impressed with it so far. He is clearly limited to 2B and maybe as a back up at SS if needed.

Do you share your paycheck with your siblings?

Not sure what is going on there? Is that her daughter?

Why are teams falling over themselves for a 35 FV player? Answer: He's not.

The cult always has someone else to blame. It could be Jonestown part 2, and they'd blame Obama even if Trump himself was leading the Covid Kegstands.

If your plan is based on responsibility, it has already failed. Hence lockdowns.

Why are we giving this equal treatment? People aren't acting responsibly. They won't act responsibly. We don't have this option as a society, because people aren't willing. We as a society have to go to the next step if we want to stop people from dying.

You don't actually believe this do you? Coming off of the best season in a decade you can't really believe they are afraid of the wimpy Chicago media.

Been to the first two Rangers stadiums, will eventually check out the new one.

But thy aren't, so now what?

They need to, but they don't. We know this. It is human behavior. People are dying because of it. It is an empty platitude.

Link to the Rangers part of the story

With the pandemic taking a huge hole out of the revenues of professional sports. it is worth a mental exercise to expect there to be some pretty significant sellers this winter. Some had been trying to sell before, such as Cleveland, and others have been mentioned like Texas. It is also worth mentioning a team like the Cubs who has a TON of debt and debt payments and coming off of a year where their core didn't perform and are looking to make some changes. So who will be selling off parts?

The Harper contract might actually be a bargain if things get back to normal in the next few years.

I can't see them bringing him back at an arbitration price. They might well non-tender and resign him cheaper, but not at something like $6 or 7 million.