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Looks like the Comcast deal to carry Marquee or not will come down to Opening Day...

Tired of players having the guaranteed comfort of a job...a little competition at every position is good for a change. For those arguing Mazara is too weak mentally, he should have thought about that last year when he was in the process of losing his position to Willie Calhoun.

https://www.mlb.com/news/yasiel-puig-good-for-baseball

You’re leaving out Grisham and then Taylor Trammell (long-term) as well...and they’re not going to bring in a player similar to Reyes or Renfroe after trading those two. Cordero has to prove he can stay healthy for once and Naylor is more of a 1B/DH on an AL team.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rob-manfreds-words-say-mlb-cant-be-trusted-to-root-out-sign-stealing-cheating-141308357.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/yankees-gardner-seeks-protection-order-183728703.html Or how many have a Brett Gardner-esque stalker in their lives?

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/cubs-yu-darvish-feels-weird-that-astros-still-have-2017-world-series-title/

Soon to join the White Sox scouting Brazil/Latin America, like what Reinsdorf did for Krause.

DeNiro, Daniel Day Lewis and Brando would get a lot of votes. Tom Hanks and maybe Denzel Washington from the generation. Hepburn(s), Bergman, Bette Davis...twenty years ago, perhaps it was Jodie Foster. Streep passed her. Cate Blanchette of the current generation.

Personally, liked Dunkirk more, but it’s such a unique film, the reactions are due to be so varied. Enjoyed George McKay in Captain Fantastic, that’s the performance that really put him on the map. The Gentlemen and Queen & Slim were both highly watchable, especially the latter film. Harriet was almost a Hallmark/Lifetime movie, but Cynthia Erivo elevates it well beyond that level...just her musical talent alone is off the charts, and perhaps the most jarring aspect is currently watching her as well in The Outsider as such a distinctive character, a demon-sensitive PI savant. Btw, BoJack Horseman rules!

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1963115.html https://www.lamag.com/longform/escape-from-cuba-yasiel-puigs-untold-journey-to-the-dodgers/ most authoritative version...

Maybe it would be a better use of your time to volunteer as his (social) media relations rep....and meme facilitator.

Rogers always seemed like a nice guy, the kinda dude you could share a Miller Lite with at Schaller’s and reminisce with about the glory days of baseball. In the last five years, though, he’s simply been left behind by more sophisticated, analytics-driven writers. I remember when complex baseball analysis consisted of mostly OPS, and Pythagorean standings for managers.

Yeah, I gave up a long time ago. Had to move on and find other ways to sustain my interest in the game while the White Sox were floundering the past seven years. At one point this offseason, I did find a bunch of supportive quotes from former and then current teammates with the Reds and Indians, but it’s pretty much a lost cause.

https://www.mlb.com/news/top-100-mlb-players-for-2020?partnerId=zh-20200214-156907-47943&query_id=1026&bt_ee=Rics%2BNIlv1uAOCyR4V9Do%2BdrI82guCfXwT42Wy9w4sgAa6VsIELzdIW1evaWFl0s&bt_ts=1581683593472 9 with White Sox connections 30. Semien 32. Tatis, Jr. 42. Grandal 60. Moncada 62. Sale 87. E.Escobar 95. TA 96. Abreu (take that, Ron) 97. Jimenez No Giolito or, less surprisingly, EE.

Greater than the Keppinger signing? I'd argue winning Robert over the Cardinals might be co-#1, along with the Jimenez/Cease for Q deal.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/david-ortiz/745/stats?position=DH Here’s a good example of a player who exploded after age 26/27.

Cooking/culinary arts show?

Iowa probably has the lowest number of Top 50 recruits of any program consistently in the Top 20-25 over the last 7 years. It has been ages since their last McDonald’s All-American.

That’s not to mention Jack Nunge’s ACL and his son Patrick’s cancer issues recurring. Every Iowa fan would have said they were likely to be NIT bound six weeks ago, at best. Next year, if Weiskamp comes back, they’re a Top 5-10 team nationally. Also, assuming Garza stays, but he’s not much of an NBA prospect, Weasy is somewhere around the 60 range in draft rankings. So how can a coach with just two Top 100 recruits (Weiskamp and Patrick McCaffrey) be underachieving with a bench of three players who are extremely limited?

Because he was the top-ranked prospect in baseball coming into the year, and only 20. Has he been healthy the whole year, he would have been even higher.

After the second interception, was down to a 4-5% chance of winning at 538. KC defense picked it up in the fourth, but that game wasn't managed well by Shanahan, either. Ultimately, Mahomes vs. Jimmy G. was the biggest difference between the two teams, as who else could lead three huge comebacks from the brink like he did this last month?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/local-red-cross-fire-china-coronavirus-donation-mess-200202055418491.html

Because the real mortality rate might be 2X or 3X the common flu, but the numbers aren’t reflecting it, YET. SARs after three months was at 4.8%, and ended up at close to 10%. Almost as many patients have died as have been cleared medically. The official number and actual number of those with this virus might already be in the hundred thousands compared to 12,000. Because you can get sick with this one twice, so a vaccine is REALLY tricky. Because you can pass it on to others without having any symptoms (asymptomatic.) Because so many crowded population centers in Asia....Kowloon/HK, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, etc. 50%+ of the world's population. To prevent it from wiping out 15-25% of the population of Africa, unless we want to play Thanos or Hitler here in terms of culling the world if its most vulnerable segments. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3048459/chinas-belt-and-road-after-gold-rush-pakistan-sees-downside For example, what happens when four million Chinese construction workers pour back into Pakistan after the Lunar New Year holidays?

Well, Viciedo wasn’t far off from can’t miss, he was the highest under 21 bonus at that time...but we also know about Rusney Castillo, Yasmani Tomas, Hector Olivera and Jorge Soler until last season, etc. So they have to get credit for being right 4/5 times, if you include Alexei Ramirez, too. https://www.forbes.com/sites/arikaplan/2018/12/23/the-value-of-the-mlb-deal-with-cuba/#4f379dd1149c

This is like the KW-JR thing with Hahn. Some will say Paddy should quit if he's not receiving the resources or support he needs, but he also has one of the most secure positions in the industry. If you go by the success or projected success of Abreu, Tatis and Robert, that’s one of the most successful runs for any teams in the majors. But if you look beyond those topline guys, other than Adolfo...who’s at best a huge question mark, we probably have the worst record in the big leagues in Latin American talent identification, converting on those targets and development, especially on the pitching side. https://southsideshowdown.com/2015/07/02/chicago-white-sox-add-4-international-free-agents/ None of those other three signed with Tatis have done much. But it's always a crapshoot, right? Just looked it up, Paddy wasn’t as involved with Quintana, fwiw. “The Chicago White Sox’ scouts Daraka Shaheed and Joe Siers, who watched Quintana pitch in the FSL the previous season, recommended that the team sign him.“