Dick Allen

The other thing is, fanbases of all sports see how some teams have prospered from tanking, so they are all in when their team does it. The problem is the volume of teams doing it now pretty much guarantees a few of them are going to fail and be stuck in a no win situation for quite a while. That will eventually curb some fanbases?€™ appetites for total tankage.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 30, 2018 -> 02:01 PM) Except it's happening in every league I pay attention to (I don't know the NFL draft). If middling free agents continue to get the contracts in the future they received this winter, look for some sort of lottery in the MLB draft. The lottery was brought into the NBA to discourage tanking. The reality is there have been very few teams that have had a legit shot at winning an NBA title any particular year since at least the 70s, but tanking has taken on a new level. So,etching needs to be done. It is one thing to have a roster that cannot win games, it’s another to manipulate it so it won’t. It is getting to the point where penalties should occur. I get rebuilding, and not contending, but max effort should be expected and a given with players, coaches, and from office personnel on a daily basis. Trying to lose should not be rewarded. Something needs to change. The NBA has made a ton of money with very few teams having a chance, but the amount of teams trying to lose is growing, and eventually will take its toll. It doesn’t always just kill the interest of the fans of the tanking teams, if you are a fan of a stacked team, eventually playing cupcake after cupcake is going to reduce your interest.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 06:58 PM) Donaldson can?€™t throw the ball from 3rd. Sox in Toronto on Monday. Speculation on MLBN is he may have the yips. Toronto says he has a dead arm. If he has the yips, it will cost him a lot of money.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 06:48 PM) Where did you find this for free? Most cable systems have a free preview somewhere.. Usually it lasts for a week now, and a week after the All Star break. I have Direct tv and the games are listed staring on channel 721. Ohtani got blown away .

Fre Extra innings. Otahni is about to bat.

Tuffy Rhodes II

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 05:46 PM) I don’t mind Benetti at all. I love him and Stone. Maybe that’s because Hawk was absolutely terrible to listen to. Benetti is atleast caught up with the times in terms of analytics. Benetti, if I did have one knock, would be that he is likely forcing jokes because he’s bored. On football, he is wonderful. Maybe there’s just too much down time for him in baseball, but I don’t mind the jokes even if they’re corny. He is good at basketball as well. I just think when he is with Stone, they try to be too silly. It doesn’t have to be 20jokes an inning. A couple an inning just letting them come to them instead of forcing would make it a better broadcast IMO.

Stanton just took Tyler Clippard out about 500 feet.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 05:34 PM) 3 RBI single. You don't see that a lot I would bet there are more cycles and no hitters.

A 3 run single

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 05:18 PM) Nice predictions flavum. By the way, any body else annoyed with the announcing? I can't put my finger on it, but man it is kinda bad, no? They are trying too hard to make it a sitcom.

You have to give Shields credit, after the first 4 batters he has made it look easy.

It is raining and 45 degrees in one of the better pitcher’s parks in baseball, and there are 6 long balls. Looks like the balls are juiced this year.

K.C. and Det are probably both 95 plus loss teams

Davidson MVP

So the Royals have burned a mound visit. Will they keep a tally on the scoreboard?

This is great, but the fluff that a lesser team perhaps would have quit down 4-0? C’mon man, it’s opening day.

Nice job by Engel after getting screwed on ball 4.

So if you need contact, he will give you contact. Of course he fans on the next pitcch.

This team is going to look really good some times and really bad probably a few more than that.

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 28, 2018 -> 01:57 PM) Yeah I also found it very curious that we sent him to A-ball. Would make more sense if he hadn't been in camp for a while and this was going to basically be his "rehab" stint. It could be they had the AAA roster set and didn't want to mess with anyone. He probably goes to Charlotte fairly soon.

The entire city of Chicago is behind you. But good luck. If Loyola doesn't win just for the shear ridiculousness of it, Michigan is my second choice.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 11:53 AM) i understand that Trump showed up and was like "FREE MONEY, IM GONNA GOLF!", but it somewhat surprises me that lifetime politicians like Price, Zinke, Pruitt, Shulkin have showed up and used their positions as black credit cards and it never occurred to any of them that it would be called out. It's more of what I have noticed about Republicans in general. They only care about spending if it is for the poor, or someone not them. If they are the beneficiary, they couldn't care less.

Kaplan was at the Waddle Super Bowl party John Fox attended. A couple of nuggets from John Fox. Says Leonard Floyd is the next coming of Jason Taylor. Also says Adam Shaheen is going to be awesome.

It's pretty obvious Engel is an excellent defender, but he is not excellent enough to ignore his lack of offense. He will have to pick that up significantly.