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Besides the actual injury, the other place this is going to hurt is the roster fringe. If the plan was to go with 2 catchers and move Lee, now they can't do that, and they have to keep all three catchers on the 40. Not good for guys like the Rule 5's and the extra OFs hoping to catch on.

Yeah, this goes back to the good faith. This really bad. There is "legal" and this is pissing down the legs of your peers.

And this is why you wait to do anything with Lee when he has zero trade value.

Especially since the reports are that they didn't seem to try to act in good faith. They waited to request records and they sure didn't try to negotiate a fix. It's also not their first time pulling a stunt like this. It might be "legal", but it sure seems to be unethical or immoral at best. It's definitely not going to do much for their standing or trust going forward with their peers who all seem to think this is BS.

This makes a lot of sense. Hard to release an evaluation of someone who isn't there.

Especially considering the first freedom listed in the Declaration of Independence is quite literally LIFE, which is THEN followed by Liberty and Happiness. And if you don't think Thomas Jefferson put that first for a reason, you don't know Jeff.

Again, which is supposed to be easy if you want it to be.

Aren't you the one who tells us that you can pretty much fail anyone on a physical if you want to when it comes to pro athletes?

When you are paying a game in spring at 100% versus the 80/90 percent happening in ST games, I would bet money that makes a difference. Can you say for sure it wouldn't have happened in Sox camp? No. But also, intensity does matter for those things.

Especially since it seems to indicate a good faith effort to "fix" whatever problem existed wasn't made.

They actually have a history of doing exactly this.

The Rick Hahn treatment is still around apparently.

The injury wasn't the joke, he was mocking the current state of the White Sox.

Ah yes, love Americans who don't know our actual history.

A million dead people IS the case. Civilization literally was established to stop people from killing each other. Modern civilization established that killing people by neglect is still killing people. It's why everyone over a certain age got a measles and smallpox shot, ending the hundreds of millions of deaths over history from those. Well we had until people started taking health advice from quacks and drug addicts.

It's really not. Not allowing people to opt into killing other people is a hallmark of civilized society.

The Bears can make like 75 million in cap space if they want

But salary IS the point, as is age. Also this person literally can't find a regular starting job because of his defense.

What a mess. I wonder the Bears could still sneak in with a lesser offer?

Pretty sure he gets the right after he has been outrighted by a team.

I am sure he has an opt out, which he will 100% use if he isn't on the roster.

Plus they haven't used any cap recaptures to move back money to free up space, which still allows them flexibility going forward.

Yeah, that draft pick comment was a weird flex. The NFL is all about hitting homers on your draft picks, probably more so than any other sport with the way it's caps and life span of players works.

Cool, then we have nothing to worry about until the 2030s.

Here's the thing. The Sox putting short term money in 1 year/short term contracts instead of investing that money into better and/or more plentiful prospects isn't impressive. In fact it is short sighted coming off of yet another 100 loss season with no hopes of competition. Load me up with interesting guys with 6 to 7 years of control, vs. short term guys who will be long gone by the time this team is good again. Buy prospects, every single chance you get. That's long term planning.