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Or Mussina getting so much credit simply because he pitched for the Yankees, went to Stanford and can do the NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle.

Seems like AZ has been struggling for the past six weeks, if not longer. All the OU QB's (Mayfield, Hurts, Murray) not having the greatest endings to their seasons. On the plus side, setting up four really interesting games next weekend. Would think that SF/GB is the only game that could be pretty one-sided, but the 49ers have been one of the hottest teams in football down the stretch and Deebo Samuel is the most dangerous player in the league right now, unless you go with Tyreek Hill or JaMarr Chase. Fwiw, nice to see Odell Beckham having fun playing the game again. The Rams have so many stars on that team. Kupp, Stafford, Donald, Von Miller, OBJr and Jalen Ramsey.

At first I read this as Pito/Abreu, lol. Hopefully he's much better than one of the first Cubans, a famed pitcher named Ariel Prieto.

It was a mess. Stems more from a fear of Moore leaving, being snatched up by another team...losing out on the next McVay type of mentality. Seems the last 24 hours, things have shifted to either Quinn or retaining McCarthy for one more season. Kind of like the 2020-21 White Sox, putting up huge numbers beating up on their own division, but struggling (I think the Cowboys were .500) outside of it.

How does he have a better arm if Com as was consistently at 93-96 mph as a pitcher? More accurate? Because of Yoenis' reputation for that? And Coles was really putting up excellent times to first after he lost all that weight. Did anyone get accurate times on Cespedes in Birmingham...first to home, stealing, on triples and v scoring from second on a single? In the outfield?

He can't possibly be any worse than Iowa's QBs... https://www.rockmnation.com/2020-mizzou-football/2020/10/16/21518672/how-does-connor-bazelak-compare-to-missouris-recent-quarterbacks Didn't realize Missouri had five QB's in the last couple of decades who played/started in the NFL, if you include Blaine Gabbert to the names listed in this article.

Poor Greg775.

I'll happily go on the record saying any MLB games of Burger at 2nd will endanger either himself or other Sox players. Moreso than Jimenez in LF and Sheets/Vaughn/"Palka" in RF place Robert in jeopardy...or run the risk of him overextending himself trying to do too much to cover for them.

McCarthy has to be gone, with Kellen Moore likely to take his place before he gets snatched up by another team. Cowboys continue to underachieve in the post-season...although SF almost handed them back the game which seemed like a blowout at 23-7. Continues to seem a possibility that ANY of the 8 remaining teams can the Super Bowl at this point. Will be happy with any match-up other than TItans and Packers.

Conversely, is his additional positional flexibility MORE LIKELY to get a White Sox SS (see Anderson, Tim) or even 1B injured? One can easily imagine it happening, due to general unfamiliarity the position, covering on steals or double plays, where to be on the field for cut-offs. We're already worried enough about this with Jimenez and Sheets in RF (of course, Robert by extension), let alone Abreu at 1B...with the pitching more LIKELY to be down this year compared to last, it really doesn't make sense not to just have a competent defender at that spot as the primary back-up (or starter).

We tried to "improve" all those guys by moving them their off initial positions. Leave Burger at 3B/1B/DH. Would have been better to just run Hernandez out there and hope for an offensive rebounds. You're just going to get him hurt again. We keep saying it's so easy to find corner outfielders, DH's, 1B...heard over and over again that Madrigal would be easily replaced, too. The only sort of logical thing is they're trying to play up his versatility to boost potential trade value.

Why can't Moncada do the same?

Worked well with Beckham, Viciedo, Josh Fields and Teahen. Can add Marcus Semien.

There are no unions allowed in Texas…well, actually 9th least unionized in the US. “Texas' status as a “right-to-work” state means union membership isn't compulsory — not illegal. That said, Texas is one of only a handful of states that denies collective bargaining to public employees. So our employment contracts generally are dictated to us by our local school boards.“

Since those are the only players left at second (Tier B/C players), that would make the White Sox position even worse.

As predicted this week…now only another Vera or Colas in the greatest shape of his life one.

Well, except for 2/3 decades when the White Sox had legit World Series aspirations being wiped out…this organization seem to have the most impeccable sense of timing. Couldn’t manage to have this happen from 2009-2019, of course.

aka Norge Carlos

“When you have an extremely profitable, well-financed corporation (or team) owned by one of the wealthiest guys in the world, you know what, you should not be demanding wage cuts from your workers/players and cuts in their (health care) benefits. That’s just wrong,” _____________ said in an interview Wednesday. https://www.thethings.com/the-16-absolute-worst-sports-owners-of-all-time/ I'm also going to take issue with Poppy's characterization that all these owners would/could/should be doing great at almost anything they attempt. For every Mark Cuban in the NBA, there's Donald Sterling, the terrible situation in Phoenix (despite a great team), Portland, the Knicks under Dolan...not even sure what Daniel Snyder could do successfully.

Seager comparisons continue.... Next up: Vera or Burger's lost another 10-15 pounds, BMI down appreciably and second base starting job firmly in his sights.

Well, some would argue any crashes in-between...

It’s hard. In the past, teams derived 60-75% of their revenues from daily attendance, parking, concessions, etc. In the last twenty years (certainly decade or so), that number has downshifted to the 35-40% range. Ultimately, the fans still consume the product…but in ways which are much more difficult to immediately impact by so-called fan boycotts, especially due to the advent of RSN’s as well as MLB Advanced Media/BAM Tech. Of course, the more you keep the fans at arm’s length, the more difficult it is to keep Millennials and certainly teenagers engaged with the sport. As much as the strike in 94-95 was devastating, particularly to the Rust Belt, and then 2007-09, simply have a hard time imagining markets like Pittsburgh and Cleveland surviving a prolonged strike. Even Minnesota, Detroit, Kansas City…perhaps Cincinnati would all face massive headwinds.

But you kind of made my point for me. It would be like if Blackpink or Adele were capped at earning $2 million their first 3 years after debuting.

There's NOTHING in the record amount of job openings mismatched with job seekers for any position under $15/hour or even $20/hr in the US that would suggest this is being reflected by what's actually happening on the ground. And back to baseball...the equivalent of those earning under $15-20 in the MLB economy, anything outside of the first, second and occasional high bonus/lower round June draft picks, Pacific Rim players, Latin Americans under age 18, and all the players in their first 3 seasons don't generally enjoy much protection. Mike Trout in his second and third seasons in baseball recorded 10.1 and 10.2 fWAR seasons. He was pretty clearly one of the best players in the game already, but made less than $2 million combined his first three years. By Balta calculations, that would make him worth roughly $160 million to the Angels, not even including marketing/promotional aspects. What other industry can you think in the entire world that limits the very best performer to the baseball equivalent of minimum wage? If Mike Trout had a career-ending injury after his first three seasons, he would have had just $3.2 million (pretax, including his signing bonus) to his name. (That's a mere pittance compared to the CEO of Binance already being worth $96 BILLION when almost nobody in the world was even familiar with Bitcoin and Ethereum a decade ago when Trout was a rookie, let alone Doge Coin and Shiba Inu.) So does somebody who just happened to be in the right place at the right time (pretty sure the story involves a poker game) deserve that much more than Mike Trout, who was already the best player in the game in years 2 and 3 in his contract but wasn't rewarded for that performance until Spring Training of 2014 ($144.5 million/6 years).