Dick Allen

Hold for breaking news........

No need to worry, the update is Arenado is torn about leaving and if he turns down the trade, the management he was just ripping for doing nothing, told him they will do nothing with him this year. How nice. I wonder if JR will be meeting with Mike Trout next.

Someone actually believes this guy. That's the saddest part.

Obviously false. It’s one thing to tweet a trade that hasn’t taken place yet, but one that supposedly is done, and no one else has it anywhere? OK.

How does he not know what he has? He has 4 or 5 guys who will always be lucky to play more than 55 games. He has a super athlete with all the tools but can’t play defense or close out games, and once his athleticism starts heading south, so will his game., and a bunch of scrubs. If everything goes their way, they are an 8 seed, maybe a 7, if Coby White develops and a first round blowout loss. It isn’t going to turn around next year unless they get DRose lucky in the draft lottery, but they don’t even want the lottery. And he doesn’t want to admit the team also has to overcome being out coached on a nightly basis.

What are they really going to change? Does anyone really believe they will hire a new guy to make the decisions that need to be made? They might hire someone they will let bounce ideas around. But it will be years before they let a new guy tear down GarPaxs rebuild They would have to admit they were wrong. They can’t even do that with Boylen where even the beat writers and TV guys wonder WTF? Did you hear Stacey King when Boylen compared Luke Kornet to Robert Horry?

You're loaded like the Bulls, you stand pat as much as possible.

Waiting for the annual, Bulls had a lot of discussions, everybody loves our players , but just nothing that made sense for them line we get every year. No one loves their lottery players more than GarPax.

The talent is still there. There are a lot of really good players you would have written off if you based their future results on what they did in the major leagues up to the age of 24. If he would have been domininating AAA would you feel better about him?

What does that have to do with future results? I think he's in a pretty nice neighborhood. Just remember the worst house in a great neighborhood is a lot better than the best house in a bad one. They guy will still be 24 on Opening Day. There are a lot of stars that would have had worse numbers if they were in the major leagues at the same age. The guy has a ton of talent. Hopefully, it comes out. If not, it was a good gamble.

MLBTR has a poll on the Betts trade. How anyone could give the Red Sox anything but an F for salary dumping an in their prime MVP with the revenue they generate, and not give the Dodgers an A for acquiring that type of player is beyond me.

I remember seeing mock drafts and Luka going all the way from 1 to 5 and I had never seen him play. So I went to YouTube, and my God, this was the guy. Not crazy athlectic, isn’t build like an Adonis like Lebron, but to me he was a modern day version of Larry Bird. So clever with the ball. I think he was only 18 or 19 in the videos I saw, but he clearly was the most basketball savvy player on the court.

That’s exactly right.

How good is the SS position if Carlos Correa is considered 9th best?

Do you really think they would have made the tournament as often if they played a Big Ten schedule?

It's not made up. There's one top 50 guy. Wieskamp. Garza was 111 and had 28 offers, and not exactly from the who's who of the final 4. The younger McCaffrey is the guy who is going to be a player as long as his body will let him. He had cancer in HS and it's still messing with his 6'9" 180 lb. body. Conor is more of an agitator He has some value. .

They get a fee and an undisclosed share of the revenue from each ticket sold on Stubhub.

They should talk to each other considering they do have an agreement. But you are right, the Sox didn't really lose $1 million here. The people who probably lost most were other Stubhub sellers. And the Sox do get a percentage of the Stubhub price, which means they got money for comp tickets. The Sox made money on concessions and parking, so overall, it probably was a wash at worst. But still, slimy as can be.

I played baseball with a guy who to this day is one of the greatest friends anyone could ever have. He used to throw helmets and bats and got suspended. The guy thought he should hit .900. Just because you act like an ass every now and then doesn't make you one. There are a lot of Jekyll and Hyde guys playing and coaching.

Fran is about as clean as it gets.

He is actually one of the most decent human beings coaching Division 1 basketball. Squeaky clean recruiter. Very nice man off the court. Just is competitive as hell. There are a lot of guys like that. I was at the Loyola game Saturday night. I though Porter Moser was going to have an aneurysm about 15 times.

His team is ranked in the top 20 despite playing without his prized freshman and what would have been his top 3 seniors. Bohanon hurt. Moss grad transfer to Kansas, and Tyler Cook wanted to play minor league basketball. He is one of the better coaches in the Big Ten. Funny Fran is a clown to Illinois fans when Lou Henson used to be a regular on Dick Vitales all crybaby team.

The biggest crybabies are Illini fans.

Spring Training. I was never a fan of the 83 jerseys but the Nike lettering is so big, it makes them look like a Chinese knockoff.

If you don't want them to dunk on you at the end, don't press. If you think Illinois is the better and tougher team, you might want to be worried they lost.