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Steve Urkel voice?

Can't even use the contraction threat like commissioner dropped on the Twins in 2001-02 because they still won't get any public stadium funding sympathy.

Same threat of the run at any time that Mahomes utilizes to keep defenses off balance....wonder if Chiefs' blitzes can even stop him? maybe not

gregariously outrageous Kingsbury>>>Johnson

If someone hit Mahomes like they did Goff on the int...would be banned at halftime from the NFL for life.

The return on saving $10-15 million to reallocate across the big league payroll is traditionally better than blowing $2 million on lottery tickets. Player to be named later too for CLE...probably conditional on securing Sasaki.

The day Getz was born...okay, maybe just a little bit harsh.

Chiefs just impossible to beat at Arrowhead in January...

$1.1 trillion... You just somehow spent more than the Dodgers and the GDP of the entire country!!!

Giving those rock skippers $10K each would have turned out more useful sidearming relievers than all their Paddy moves post Robert.

cmon you can't protect Mahomes that much...Caitlin Clark doesn't even get that call at home

Trying to imagine how badly Getz would be crucified for Myles Straw fiasco by Sox fans. Now looks like one of the worst moves in trade history. Because now that $2 million is useless and stuck with a terrible contract. CLE bailed out by Toronto on both Gimenez and Straw. https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2025/1/17/24346282/sasaki-signs-with-dodgers#comments

Cespedes Colas and Adolfo once did the same...the proof will be in the High A placement pudding this season.

https://www.gaslampball.com/2025/1/17/24345848/report-padres-out-on-roki-sasaki#comments Fine, I know most everyone is loving dancing on the graves of Padres/Preller...but here you had a GM who actually cut $90-100 million in payroll, yet still had the Dodgers on the run/ropes for two months until it finally imploded. What more can a small or mid market team possibly do in MLB? Likewise, Blue Jays fans have to be considering a total teardown of their once ballyhooed rebuilding class that's culminating with Myles Straw, Gimenez and perhaps KeBryan Hayes disappointing at third. They legitimately believed they had both Ohtani AND Sasaki. Padres went all the way up to #2 payroll in baseball with one of the most aggressive approaches, rose #4 in attendance...what Sox fans now desperately clamor for in their most optimistic fever dreams, but what's the point when their media rights package is generating $10-15 million in SD now versus two freakin' billion for LA??? Even he Twins' owners are smart enough to now just walk away knowing they can't realistically compete for a World Series at $130-140 million...they're capitulating, simply cashing out before it turns bad. Let's not forget the White Sox are about to be $100 million under that very much non-competitive standard that leads the AL Central by a bunch. https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-decision-alters-padres-plans

The White Sox and Blue Jays don't belong in the same sentence. Both rebuilds fizzled.. but 74-88 is a far cry from worst team in baseball history. They finished #2 #2 for both Ohtani and Sasaki despite being in EST in Canada of all places. A week ago, you could imagine them back in the AL Easy race instead of trading Guerrero and Bichette at the deadline for spare parts. As Balta said, watching Cease and King and Arraez and Suarez and Cronenworth in a fire sale, etc., isn't good for baseball (except it's great for Elias in?Baltimore to get bailed out.) They've been taking swings at LA going back to 2019/Machado and came this short from knocking out the Dodgers early the third consecutive time (Arizona the other occaicons. Can you legitimately believe that aging Darvish, knuckleballing Waldron and Vazquez and the next veteran version of Martin Perez can take on LA again? Instead of extending Merrill with yet another huge contract...maybe they instead trade him to reboot another long rebuild around Ethan Salas and deVrieze??? And it just makes a lot more sense to dump pending FAs Cease/King/Arraez...two of those guys are really expensive now in arbitration. How is that best for baseball when SFG Rockies DBacks and Padres fans see little to no reason to believe their teams can actually even compete in the West???

If they can move KeBryan Hayes and his premature extension somehow...

It's like the Chiefs just got back a motivated Tyreek Hill on a rookie contract...and Bowers replaced Kelce, who married Taylor Swift (and had a kid who ended up joining the Chiefs for Mahomes' last season.) Might as well throw in Saquon Barkley, McCaffery or Derrick Henry as RB1/2/3.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-chances-of-repeating-as-world-series-champs?partnerId=it-20250118-12346651-mlb-1-B&utm_id=it-20250118-12346651-mlb-1-B&lctg=34656683 Dodgers are far from unstoppable even with Sasaki...

See Flexen. Although he really saved the Padres in August and September last year. Totally stadium and defense/offense behind him, though.

No way he gets less than $200 million at that age...$225-250 million unless he just explodes again this season after two seasons of slightly lesser numbers. And think of the lineup protection in LA...my god. http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=https://www.mlb.com/news/munetaka-murakami-to-be-posted-for-2026&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj-odWqv_-KAxWWIEQIHbrtD54QFnoECAoQDQ&usg=AOvVaw2sINNFeyImh6_6A6bwvYED http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/three-budding-japanese-baseball-stars-who-could-be-next-to-fetch-huge-mlb-contracts/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiClsvhwP-KAxXUL0QIHUkzKlwQFnoECAwQAg&usg=AOvVaw2vFH-L_X1x36khpZka22sn And finally, Orix's 21 year old Yamashita the next great Japanese pitcher, but likely not posting until 2028. "What's his game? Watch the clip above from last season and you might be struck by how much Yamashita resembles a MLB starter. He's 6-foot-2 and strong; he features the kind of truncated arm action popularized by Lucas Giolito and Shane Bieber (among others); and he's already adept at playing the vertical game, elevating his mid-90s fastball over bats and burying his curveball below them. He threw a career-high 95 innings last season, punching out 26.4% of batters while walking less than 8% of them."

. 1. He won't be an ace -- yet Leading up to his first round of meetings last month, Sasaki provided his suitors -- believed to be at least eight teams -- with what he called a homework assignment. All of them had the same task: To diagnose why his fastball velocity dropped last season in Japan, and to outline their plan to ensure it never happens again. To those who have tracked him, it said a lot about the 23-year-old phenom -- that he's confident, but also self-aware. That he's a long-term thinker. And that though he recognizes he can get better, he's hell-bent on being great. "There aren't a whole lot of 23-year-olds who are going to be assertive enough to ask eight major league front offices a question like that," said a high-ranking executive who has seen Sasaki since high school. "Most kids that age are either in awe of that situation or hanging on for dear life." https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/43440181/mlb-offseason-2025-roki-sasaki-los-angeles-dodgers-scouts

https://dodgersnation.com/japanese-star-headed-for-mlb-soon-posts-photo-wearing-dodgers-hat/2024/12/27/#:~:text=Murakami plans to sign with an MLB team,pictured wearing a baseball hat representing the Dodgers. https://x.com/munetaka55ys/status/1871837920560341025/photo/1 Japanese 3B "Babe Ruth/Aaron Judge" of Samurai Japan/WBC fame expected to sign with LAD in 2026 at age 25/26 when he becomes eligible for next massive $300+ million contract...20% posting fee will go to his NPB team similar to Yamamoto deal. Questions exist about his weight/defense and potential move to 1B/DH later in his career, but power is totally legit. Will replace Max Muncy at 3B. Already set record for youngest bitter ever in Japan to 200 NPB home runs.

Make that 11 pitchers deep with Clayton Kershaw's eventual/inevitable return "He’s continuing to heal and build up from the procedures he’s had,” Gomes said at the Winter Meetings. “We’ll just stay in touch. As I said, I hope and our expectation is that Clayton will be back next year, and whenever he’s ready, if we’re fortunate enough to bring him back, we’ll plug him in.” The future Hall of Famer made it clear he wanted to retire as a Dodger at the end of the season, calling himself a “Dodger for life”. “I just thought everyone kind of assumed and knew I was coming back. I didn’t really think about it,” Kershaw said during the playoffs after announcing he would play another season but not specifying for what team. “I’m going to be a Dodger.” https://dodgersnation.com/dodgers-gm-reveals-latest-update-on-clayton-kershaw/2024/12/24/

"I think his experience at [the] WBC," Wolfe said on Dec. 30, "being around [Yu] Darvish, being around Ohtani, and then seeing [Shota] Imanaga come over and dominate at such a level in the first half, I believe he realized … in order to take it to the next level, he had to come here, play against the best players in the world every day and tap into all the resources that Major League teams have to … help him become one of the best pitchers to ever not just come out of NPB, but to be one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball." http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-contract-with-dodgers&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiGu8D9of-KAxUtLEQIHQoBKcsQ0PADegQICBAD&usg=AOvVaw0xyTBZi_gjl5BsgurcXBxe Dodgers' rotation Blake Snell Tyler Glasnow Dustin May Tony Gonsolin London Knack Yamamoto Sasaki Ohtani (later in season)...10 pitchers deep if you include Bobby Miller, Emmett Sheehan and River Ryan Clayton Kershaw? Best Fastball: Reynaldo Yean Best Curveball: Jackson Ferris (2026 ETA) Best Slider: Hyun-Seok Jang (White Sox pool money made possible) Best Changeup: Jose Rodriguez Best Control: Jared Karros (son of Erik)

They call him the "WestEddy" of the Padres' board... https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/how-roki-sasaki-shohei-ohtani-compare-as-pitchers-at-the-same-age/