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We're including Durham? Well, shit. Konerko, Contreras, Garcia, Peavy, Kopech, Moncada, Eloy, Cease, Giolito, Dunning, Lynn, Garland, Valentin, Quentin, Podsednik!

This IG story? https://www.instagram.com/stories/carlos_rodon55/2788378424690035978/?hl=en

My initial thought was that she was framed, but this happened before the invasion. Granted, Russia has been planning this war and has a history of doing holding people with hashish oil to try and get things from other nations. Flip side is that if Griner wasn't framed, it is colossally stupid to bring drugs into any other country, let alone Russia. I hope she makes it out of this safely, but...man, the Russians will likely try to use her as a bargaining chip.

I will add that 33 to 11 free throws is a travesty by the refs. DJJ's dunk on Giannis is a perfect example - that's a foul if you switch the jersey colors for what the refs were giving Milwuakee

I feel like Zach is the only one trying in this fourth.

I really hope that flagrant by Jones against Allen was an accident this late in a tie game.

I was told in this thread that if owners save money on payroll, we would get free nachos and parking.

Tex...the youngest millennial would be 26.

Do you want the workers to have no money?

Damn, y'all didn't even get a pizza party?

If they hadn't gotten the bubble championship, it would be even better.

With the Lakers getting booed - if the Lakers keep their youth together and add LeBron to it, do they still win a championship/become perennial contenders? For context, here's all the youth that got traded/let go in FA. Not including Russell since he was traded for Kuzma/Brook Lopez and would have blocked Lonzo. - Lonzo - Kuzma - Hart - Randle (left when LeBron signed, I'm sure they could have made it work). - Ingram - Caruso - Zubac - KCP I know they weren't great LeBron's first year, but if they ran it back one more year - would it have been enough to keep LeBron from going full LeGM mode?

Classic White Sox strategy, acquiring family members

The best Trout drawing yet.

Reading way too much into James' tweets, Reinsdorf might just see Manfred as an idiot fucking up baseball.

It makes me happy to know that Jerry hates Manfred.

Because Bernie totally isn't fighting for those salary increases as well. Man also hated the minor league contraction: Knowing people on his staff, it's 50/50 whether he wrote that tweet or not.

- Add two teams. - Expand rosters to 30 (yeah, league's gonna get watered down initially, but talent will eventually rise). - Balance the schedule, leave interleague a "special" thing where you don't play everyone in the opposite league every year, but enough playing your own division so damn much. - Every team has one alternate site game/series each year (Field of Dreams, Rickwood Classic, etc.) - Salary floor. - Combined domestic and international draft. Draft lottery for teams that don't make the owner's expanded playoffs, teams can't get back-to-back top 3 picks. - Eliminate trading international spending. - Eliminate the Competitive Balance Picks. - Let teams have fun and really crack down on pitchers doing retaliation for HR celebrations. If Brad Keller pulled his same bullshit against Tim Anderson today, suspend him 15 games and actually make him miss starts. I don't care if it's harsh, send a message. - Change the extra innings runner on second rule. Make it start in the 12th inning or later. - Finally, if these changes don't jazz up the sport, beginning in 2030:

I am so fucking confused with the turn this thread took.

It's covered in this article and I dunno, I'm not Enos Sarris. https://theathletic.com/3111064/2022/02/04/lets-talk-about-cba-issues-competitive-balance-tax/

lmao