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Then the problem becomes complacency and not being challenged enough in their own division, which has been. the case for division ever since Indians' World Series run. It will be interesting to see how the AL East and NL West teams do in the playoffs since those are arguably the two toughest divisions...although that West is historically top heavy, even more so than the 2006 AL Central.

Pretty limited to maybe 4-5 posters there, although some coming out of the woodwork more recently.

Depends on how you define expensive and what Giolito gets the next two years in arbitration. But yeah, Cease, Kopech and Crochet are generally cheaper.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movie-theater-owners-blame-marvel-204901310.html

At the rate he’s going, we should be adding ALCIDES Escobar, lol…

Was reading that and thought Daniel Palka was back….

I don’t think we can make any predictions on Burger as a hitter…yet. You can’t measure drive and determination, and just to be in the position he’s in now is pretty incredible, if you look at those threads on him the last 2-3 years. Remember all the concerns from draft year about the arm bar? Yermin kinda let things go to his head, but Burger seemingly is one of those super high character guys.

Terry Forster? Bartolo? Sid Fernandez? Sabathia?

To those who accept the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other national experts, the response to vaccine skeptics is: the polio vaccine. It eradicated a debilitating disease. But to a certain cadre of Americans determined to believe anything but science, the coronavirus vaccine is a fascist, world-order, takeover drug created by the Chinese to speed things along. Even if further investigation finds that the novel coronavirus escaped through a lab accident in Wuhan, as some have long suspected, wouldn’t one still wish to inoculate oneself against such a potentially deadly disease? Let’s just say, logic isn’t exactly humming along these days. Fiscus, who is a pediatrician, knows this deeply. In interviews following her firing, she has said that her dismissal is symptomatic of a trend around the country that has resulted, as of May, in more than 250 public health officials leaving their jobs — either by firing or through protest resignations. She says Tennessee, which initially boasted one of the highest vaccination rates, is bowing to “saber-rattling of some of our legislators who felt that it was inappropriate to share the Mature Minor Doctrine that has been Tennessee Supreme Court case law since 1987.” Thanks, surely, to political rhetoric, Tennessee’s fully vaccinated rate is about 38 percent, compared with roughly 48 percent nationwide, just as the more transmissible delta variant is sweeping the nation. To deal with this looming crisis, Tennessee has halted all vaccine outreach to adolescents, not only those related to covid-19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/16/when-we-run-off-our-health-experts-we-get-what-we-deserve/

Then go with Imperial College if you prefer the more academic ones…

Nothing to see here. ‘Merica in 2021.

The scout who signed Burger left the White Sox for a job with OU baseball the same year he was drafted….fwiw. He had been a White Sox scout for 18 years. https://soonersports.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/clay-overcash/553 https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-white-sox/what-draft-analysts-say-about-white-sox-first-rounder-jake-burger Love the pessimistic Keith Law quotes on his defense.

That IHME model/Murray/University of Washington was always based on 3 if not 5 different levels of mitigation, best-case/worst-case/medium, etc.

Burger is okay?

Attaboy Jake, very nice piece of hitting there…

Looks like the bigger crowd size is amping up Giolito’s fastball a couple of notches… Now sitting exactly on a 4.00 ERA.

Why in God’s name is he hitting ahead of Vaughn?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/entertainment/biz-markie-dead/index.html

You can even package him with Abreu to your heart’s content.

You’re forgetting they are based out of Hong Kong. Nobody has ever claimed mainland China press is objective…CGTN doesn’t even come close, but are perhaps the most benign example in terms of propaganda. Honestly, I think the fact that more and more nations are becoming leery about Chinese vaccines means we will never pull out of this Covid-19 mess, globally. Too many variants, moving way too fast, and with the rest of the world basically waiting on Pfizer and Moderna, and not 100% trusting AZ, it’s going to take years and years to catch up unless China or India can start to mass produce mRNA vaccines. We are at least six months at the earliest from that happening…that’s being overly optimistic.

We’re not the Dodgers yet. That requires winning at least 1/3rd of the 8 consecutive NL West titles…likely nine in a row with Bellinger back and Seager not far behind, chasing down SF. Now if the Sox sign Bauer for 2022…(obviously not serious), realistically, it means a “big/ger boys” $150-$165 million payroll. We have an argument with ALL our key starters back and healthy for 2022. Both teams have bullpen weaknesses, and the Dodgers are getting a surprisingly pedestrian showing from Betts, but that offense has so much firepower up and down the lineup and they almost all of them consistently take professional at bats and work pitchers to death.

They’re a much better source of information for Covid-19 than 90-95% of world newspapers, but they’re going to be forced to slant even more to mainland government positions with the independent Apple Daily shuttered. Knew you couldn’t come up with a serious answer…oh, well. Back to Fox News I guess.

Giolito moving on will leave him a man without a mission…

Seems like a big risk to give up Cease and basically leave you an injury away from garbage next season…and Keuchel’s already on his last legs as it stands. JR is not one to get rid of the cost controlled player in favor of the much more expensive and fading veteran. Last time a similar move happened was Daniel Hudson for Edwin Jackson, or the Todd Ritchie deal. The other one, Bassitt and Montas hardly had any major league time. Crochet seems much more likely.

Sounds like a Formula 1 driver or Italian striker…