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He pretty much won 3 of the 4 games for the Dodgers, so yes I think so

Good lord everything is by the skin of their teeth for both teams

Jays have had their chances in this one

From the names in the article, I'd be fine with: Martin Perez again - he was good when he could pitch and shouldn't be expensive Anthony DeSclafani - seems like a reunion with Bannister might help Cody Ponce seems like a good guy to bet on given his success in the KBO with good stuff, though there will probably be competition for him Anthony Kay - throws strikes and generates grounders in NPB The rest don't seem as intriguing to me, and this is even including my love for unknown Japanese pitchers with NPB numbers they have no hope of reproducing here.

Maybe. I know it's all hypothetical, but even if they scored 2 touchdowns and Caleb didn't throw that interception they still lose. The Ravens seemed to figure out how to attack our defense after the first quarter and there was nothing the Bears could do about it. I think that happens even if they're down 14-0 because it'd still be early and Harbaugh is a smart coach.

Caleb ended up with ~67% accuracy, 285 yards. If you told me that was his line before the game I'd have assumed they won. He made two costly mistakes - the interception (which was also a good play by the DB), and missing that pass over the middle. Otherwise he was a bit shaky but probably good enough to win. The big underlying problem was the defense couldn't get off the field. The Bears had the ball for 12:41 in the first quarter, Ravens for 2:19. The Ravens beat the Bears in time of possession from the second quarter on 28:11 to 16:49. The Ravens had the ball almost TWELVE MINUTES longer. That's almost a full quarter. I'm not sure how the offense is supposed to get any momentum going with that huge of a disparity for 3/4 of the game, and it absolutely magnified the mistakes on offense. The secondary isn't going to be healthy for next week so it'll likely be more of the same. Hopefully the Bears can rebound and put some points up on a legit bad defense (not a fake bad one like the Ravens before they got healthy this week).

No, it was instituted in 1994. Just didn't have one for obvious reasons.

Expos offense was worse but their pitching was better. Cleveland had worse pitching, but they had Lofton on pace for over 10 WAR and the beginning of that murderer's row lineup. They were also only one game back and had played the Sox pretty evenly all year from what I remember. Would've been a good race but no guarantee the Sox finish in first. Yankees had worse pitching but scored over 100 more runs than the Sox during the season. Regardless, if the window didn't slam shut after '94 this wouldn't be such a big "what if".

It could've been a world series team, but it was just as likely Cleveland passed the Sox up and the Sox were the wild card and got bounced by the Yankees, who had a better record. The Expos were also likely a better team than the Sox, so even if they got to the WS it's not a given they win. The worst part of the 1994 strike was how bad the team was from 95-99. If they were competitive in those years I doubt we'd be as angry about 94.

Its nice when the QB has a bad game and the rest of the team picks him up

That's the real takeaway - there's no robber baron twirling his mustache while making money hand over fist. JR is an incompetent businessman at running an MLB team. There's no reason this team should only be ahead of the Athletics in revenue, and that's likely only because that team is in the middle of historically fucking over their fan base.

Mariners bats came alive in this series. Toronto better use the off day to bounce back otherwise this series will be over quick.

My favorite part of this was Vaughn talking about going into his 4th year, and Konerko saying something like "welp, if you don't get it this year you probably won't ever get it"

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-farm-system-statcast-hitting-rankings/ Sox with second best swing decision score. Love seeing them prioritize guys who don’t chase. Twins and Tigers ahead of the Sox. Sox were 14th in 2024 and 19th in 2022. Not sure how this translates to actual major league success, but nice to see the Sox system moving up. Hopefully a solid draft this year moves them into the top 5.

See that's the problem. TLR should've gotten Eloy Robert and Moncada on the good stuff. Definitely some HGH to help with muscle recovery.

Cubs laid a giant egg offensively in this game. Yeesh.

PCA gonna hurt himself doing that nonsense

2 on 0 out again

This game is never going to end

Yes. If he doesn't work out, I'd look at the young FAs on the market.

Munetaka Murakami would be the #1 option for me. After him, it'd be signing younger players to 3-5 year deals at $5-$10 mil per year higher than they'd be getting elsewhere, or whatever it would take to get them to come here. This would both give the current team a much needed shot in the arm, and worst case you could trade them in 2-4 years for quality prospects if things don't go well. I likely wouldn't consider players much over 30 years old on anything except short term deals, with the intent to trade them in a year or two. Younger players I'd consider: Kyle Tucker Josh Naylor Dylan Cease Ranger Suarez Zac Gallen Pete Alonso (He'll be 31 but his profile should age well. That said he'd come here and hit .220 with 18 HRs) Bo Bichette (not likely unless he's willing to move to third or second, or Colson moves to third)

I definitely wouldn't say I'm happy. This team was an embarrassment to baseball last year and has otherwise been at the bottom of the barrel since 2008. I see what they have to do to turn this ship around given the asinine payroll restrictions and how bare the minors were of anyone who could contribute to the MLB team, though. I accept that this complete rebuild needs to happen, and am encouraged by what we can see so far of the progress made. There is still a long way to go.

The leader is good The leader is great

Tigers rolling now