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Poor Harold. Quite an insult there at the end with Sheets vs. Kelenic. Although not altogether accurate if you consider Kelenic is a much more competent field er and runner.

$29 million including the buy out. $49 more million to Benintendi. Plus Jimenez.

Don't forget the Yosimar Cousin Experience. Probably gets you back close to $24 million down the tubes.

Prorated, probably. Unless it was a guaranteed salary for an entire season, which would be shocking.

About the same as Hahn's success rate with FA's. Pham will come with a cost to the outfield defense until they can push him back to LF.

No Getz success ranks higher than Crochet as a starter so far. Like Burger and Sale though...most of that success seems to have come from charting their own paths, pushing up against the team's plans for them. Same with Rodon's 2021 season...in a way. He was pretty much an afterthought with his career teetering on the brink.

It's one thing to look at Clevinger numbers from last year. Starting out so late...the odds were never in his favor, not with that 5-6 year injury history. His legacy will be the trade that essentially rebuilt the Guardians...along with all that off the field stuff.

Wonder when's the last time a team was Top 3 MLB record-wise while drafting 1-1?

There's also no way the Dodgers would ever play him in CF in Chavez Ravine...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/angels-position-challenge-mlb-record-012214104.html At least we're not head for the worst home record in MLB history??

30. Chicago White Sox (-) Manager Pedro Grifol said team looked "(expletive) flat." Team said no. Grifol reiterated. It's not yet June. Sheets will be benched in next reprisal?

All he can do is talk about this June's draft trade deadline advances in minor s like BIRM. Crochet. Robert coming back. Compare to teams like Royals who lost 106 games last year, etc. Concessions and upcoming promos/opponents. Sox Charities, ACE, summer camps.

With Bill Walton's death today at age 71 from cancer, that game he did out on the West Coast with Benetti really stands out now...

Worst start in franchise history should be enough. Even without Cease and Luis Robert, Jr. Noted clubhouse/chemistry or glue guys like Maldonado and Nicky Lopez can't be expected to lead either, not when they're having horrific seasons. Also, if they're going to launch him, please either name a younger voice like Jirschele, Leyland's kid, Grady Sizemore, anyone but Charlie Montoyo.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40230584/astros-recall-struggling-first-baseman-jose-abreu

Denial...Eduardo Perez (ESPN, MLB Network), supposedly his best friend in the game, needs to have a really difficult conversation with him about his future in the sport and the best way for him to exit this White Sox mess and maintain a job/relationships in the sport.

George Plimpton was another really talented, arguably iconic, figure from that generation IMO. I remember once upon a time there was Baseball Today and The National, of course most of us grew up with SI and The Sporting News. The quintessential tv show that put sportswriters on t.v. was on Sports Channel with Telander, Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason (don't remember Ben Bentley as well). Just read where Gleason worked over sixty years and lived into his late 80's, they don't make him like that anymore.

That's always going to be the enemy of the James Fegans of the world in journalism. That the Barstool Sports/Portnoys, McAfees, Stephen A. Smith, Jayson Whitlocks of the world who are self-promoters and controversy seekers (think the sports version of Joe Rogan or Alex Jones or Andrew Tate even)... I'll just put it this way, when I worked in Augusta, we had an excellent beat writer from Stanford who eventually left to work for big bucks with Creative Artists (CAA) in NYC. Joe Posnanski was actually a features writer (really nice guy, just like he comes across in print) with the Augusta Chronicle who left for the KC Star (and national fame) and then Mike Berardino, who originally broke in with Baseball America in Durham, NC. He's the one who fits the mold of the former beat writer who doesn't quite stand out in a digital world because he's never been all about self-promotion but simply doing his job well/professionally.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky-and-wnba/2022/5/1/23048436/sky-franchise-history-wnba-championship-vandersloot-candace-parker-elena-delle-donne Basically, JR didn't want to take any attention or resources away from the Bulls in the late 90's...of course, that all changed rather dramatically. One of the things that always surprised me was that one of the founders of City Year (like AmeriCorps/Peace Corps/*Vista/Teach for America) would get involved in a for-profit business adventure. Of course, there's a parallel history with the Bulls and Sky. Eventually losing almost all of their star players to other teams, AND an inability to attract premier free agents. That won't change without having their own dedicated practice facility like other teams such as LV and Seattle have invested millions of dollars into.

"Done with that fat" works better for Denise Austin or Richard Simmons. You can't be done with the FLAT because they're just not good players. Otherwise, you're basically attacking Benintendi Vaughn Eloy Moncada and Robert for underachieving. Because those are the guys who are expected to be producing. Not Tommy Pham at age 36 or Korey Lee after 2023 or even Sheets. Not DeJong, either.

Anything to avoid a repeat of last year with all the allegations and sniping over sleeping and day care.

Lee in the permanent dog house now.

Korey Lee for the banner...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/orioles-acquire-reliever-thyago-vieira-194618556.html Old friend Thyago Vieira traded to the Orioles.

A (retractable) domed stadium if you're talking basketball...then. Wintrust is what, just around 10,000? Of course, a domed stadium would double or triple the projected cost, right?