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Wow what the fuck was I doing today that I didn't notice this move?
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He's neither good nor bad, just a guy, he's ok
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Love yourself the way Hahn loves giving relief pitchers a shitload of money every offseason.
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I know people who pretend to enjoy watching pitchers hit and I simply never believed them.
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2 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:
Minimum salary - got a huge boost, from about $615k to about $700k per year.
Luxury tax level - huge boost from $210 to $230 million. Removed the multi year penalties. Added a Steve Cohen tax, an especially high level of tax, starting at $290 million.
Added stuff for pre-arb people. $50 million to be distributed to pre-arb players every year based on a WAR calculation to be agreed on later. Top Rookie of the Year voting finishers get a full free year of service time.
Some unclear changes in revenue sharing. Some sort of bonus was added for teams that grow their local revenue a bunch - they pay less to revenue sharing. Exceedingly smart.
Draft lottery. Teams can’t wind up in the lottery multiple years in a row to discourage tanking for picks (slight difference between big and small markets here)
Draft pick reward to limit service time manipulation- bring a top prospect up on opening day you get a draft pick reward.
Rules changes possible in a year - pitch clock, banning shifts could happen in 2023.
Union will either come up with an agreement to allow international draft in a couple years or qualifying offers come back.
Okay this sounds pretty fair. I also read that they expect to do some changes to the schedule so everybody plays everybody, like the NBA and NHL do, which I am cool with
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I just turned 40. My profile says I joined in 2007 (this sounds right, I wouldn't have remembered otherwise) so I would've been 25 then. I was still active duty military then and used to obsessively post on message boards. I remember this board used to have a lot of action late into the night, now it starts to quiet down about 9 pm CST cuz everyone's getting ready for bed 😂
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Okay so not to be this guy but I am totally being this guy
I've been too busy the past couple of days to read many details about the resolution of the various points of contention they had - can someone either summarize it for me if it's not too much trouble, or point me to somewhere that someone already did that?
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I don't know one person who follows the NBA who looks at what Ben Simmons is doing and says "yes, what Ben is doing is realistic and achievable, and his approach to the situation is logical. This will definitely work and get him what he wants"
Dude is a pretty-good-but-decidedly-not-great NBA player who thinks he's got all the leverage of a cornerstone franchise type player.
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The pettiness of this tweet is amazing.
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I think the most damning thing about Nagy's time developing Fields for me is that Nagy wasn't actively trying to sabotage him. He carefully thought about his approach, reviewed it, and concluded "yes, this is great work. I will make Justin Fields a Hall of Fame quarterback."
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4 minutes ago, Chisoxfn said:
Lavine was gassed - so pretty good excuse there (hadn't played in 10 days and needed more minutes). Same with Green. Outside of that - they didn't have 3 guys who are primary ball handlers (along with Lavine) in that situation - Ball, Caruso, and Derozan. So I actually think having that happen was good - because it will be developmental for individuals like Ayo and White. But it does highlight while Ball/Caruso are out - it can be helpful to have someone who can actually handle legit back up PG duties in that type of situational pinch (i.e., Arci...who is on day 5 of his 10 day contract with Knicks).
I fucking love Ayo
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Last night vs OKC was an embarrassing W but it's still a W. OKC turned the defensive intensity up to 10 and the Bulls had no response, their offense would just freeze up under full court press and traps the way the Thibodeau/Rose offenses used to do. Their normal lineup with Ball-Lavine-DeRozan-whoever the 4 is that day-Vucevic probably could've handled that.
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2 minutes ago, CentralChamps21 said:
I don't see how this roster can be a Super Bowl contender in 3-5 years if they aren't really bad in 2022.
3-5 years is a long time in terms of NFL roster management
If Justin Fields pans out as a franchise QB the window to competitiveness is even shorter
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1 hour ago, Dick Allen said:
Not to say Poles is a bad choice, I have no idea, and a lot of people who should know, seem to be impressed, but If Ryan Pace selected Mahomes instead of Mitch, how many of these KC execs and assistants would get interviews for big jobs?
Kinda hard to say though isn't it? Because in that counterfactual you would have John Fox and then Matt Nagy (presumably, assuming Fox is still fired after 2017)
sabotagingdeveloping Mahomes and then Trubisky (presumably) developing under Reid, not saying Trubisky would've become a great QB but with Reid the results would've almost certainly been different. -
I kind of detached myself from the process for my own sanity but Poles was the name I liked the most. (not that I know shit. I'm just some guy. stop listening to me.)
I am not gonna shill for the guy just because the Bears hired him but I'm also not gonna get bent out of shape just because he has a superficial resemblance to Ryan Pace's resume (as I've seen some others doing in the past week)
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Just now, southsider2k5 said:
These are minor league deals. That's why they are allowed. No major league deals can be signed.
Got it.
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Apologies if this has been answered/addressed already but how is it the Sox can do signings through the work stoppage (the fact that these deals were already agreed to notwithstanding)? Is there some different rule set for international players?
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7 minutes ago, Tony said:
Sort of feel like this tweet sums up the entire Ryan Pace experience.
It's like the perfect move.
Mis-identify QB at the top of the draft? ☑️
Give up unnecessary assets to acquire said QB? ☑️
Lose out on talented player in the 2nd round? ☑️
Get cute and draft a TE from Ashland University (?!?) in the 2nd round? ☑️
It doesn't even mention the Bears then having to go out in the next off-season and give Trey Burton a 4/32 million dollar deal because they realized in training camp Adam Shaheen didn't know how to play football. And then when the Burton experiment failed, they gave Jimmy Graham a 2/16 million dollar deal, who is currently the third highest paid offense player on the Bears and in 11 games this year has 16 catches for 108 yards.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot the Bears also spent a 2nd round pick in 2020 on Cole Kmet!
Ryan Pace, everyone.
I've lost track of the players Pace traded up to draft who ended up being busts*
-At the time, I had far less of a problem with them drafting Trubisky (even though I wanted Watson) than the draft capital that was wasted to pick him. The Bears were in a position where it should've been impossible to fuck that up and still found a way. I've complained about this a million times, so have others, I'm still not over how stupid it was.
*In the spirit of fairness I won't count the Fields or Mack trades against him, even though it's going to sting not having a first round pick *again*
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The most common defense of Ryan Pace is that he drafts well. That's debatable but let's just go ahead and grant that as true. Now look at the current construction of the Bears' roster from top to bottom and see how abysmal it is, and that's pretty indefensible. In 2018 they had the best front 7 and the best secondary in the league, those days are long gone and now the defense is a shell of its former self. Every team every year loses guys to free agency/salary cap, injuries, retirement, etc. and if you can't replace talent at at least the rate you're losing it, you're simply not good at your job. Pace has objectively failed at this, and whatever he does right he cancels out by wasting resources.
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11 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:
I don't think he's accurate enough to be a super bowl caliber QB. He's badly missing throws and that's not something that can be "coached up." He may have a couple years where he puts up numbers while his legs are still under him but when it comes down to him having to make throws with games on the line I think his inaccuracy will hold him back.
Those look more like timing issues than accuracy issues. He can make the throws, but he's not in sync with his WRs, good thing Andy Dalton got all the reps with the ones in camp this summer I guess. (And it doesn't help matters that Allen Robinson is not even trying)
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Is there a more universally-disliked combo than Collinsworth on literally any game Rodgers plays? Collinsworth seriously gets carried away in ways that no other commentator does, and he seems to forget that he's talking about a quarterback, and not a Nobel laureate, Medal of Honor recipient, or Humanitarian of the Year or something.
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6 hours ago, Chisoxfn said:
Oh and Fields has to learn to make plays on schedule. Not shocked cause he is a rookie but he still stares down guys a ton and took a few too many unnecessary hits.
His ability to run is awesome though.
On that pick-6 he stared down Mooney (or whoever it was) harder than a freshly-released convict at a strip club.
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Anyone remember those football tables from the 70s/80s where you'd line up the toy football players, turn the power on, and the vibration of the table would have the players moving in random directions? This is roughly equivalent to watching the Bears offense.
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This Bears-Nagy situation is messy and unprofessional. If you're gonna fire the guy, then just do it. If you're not, say you're not, and that you're focused on the season. But don't do this amateur hour shit where you make him squirm in a press conference and pretend you're not.
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2021-22 NBA Thread
in A and J's Olde Tyme Sports Pub
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In the past 4-6 weeks, the Bulls have systematically and totally snuffed out any enthusiasm fans had for the playoffs.