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Oof. Brain farted. Obviously, I'm taking Burdi off in that case and putting Kopech on. Who you got @soxfan2014?

Right now there's 27 on the active roster - they've still got Ian Hamilton on there. At this point, I feel like teams will throw service time concerns out the window, so I don't forsee them leaving Madrigal down in whatever form of the minors are to bring Cuthbert or Romine to - hypothetically - Arizona. Madrigal is going to need a 14 day quarantine to join the roster at any point, so now they might as well just bring him along.

We also can't trust the US numbers due to severe lack of testing and delayed response.

Three games a day at Chase / night games. Then the players will have to play a few day games here and there, but if they aren't all day games, they could possibly endure the summer.* *Says the guy who doesn't have to do it.

One of my friends who is convinced that football >>> all other sports tried to tell me the XFL would overtake the NBA because the XFL had great opening ratings. Whoops.

If anyone wants even more AK highs, give BullsHQ a listen. They have a Nuggets beat writer on and AK is basically the anti-Gar: basketball lifer, no bullshit, commands respect, charismatic, listens to everyone in the room, favors analytics, etc. He's also gonna jettison Boylen because he wants to get someone to give love to players like Lauri, Wendell, and Valentine.

If there's a locker room that would, a young one with Zach, Coby, Lauri and Wendell seems primed to, especially old-school hardass Jimbo.

This Reds blog is worried about the Sox: https://blogredmachine.com/2020/04/10/cincinnati-reds-radical-realignment-big-challenge/ The Dodgers are the obvious kings of that division. The other four teams are all close, but have some fatal flaw. The Sox are uniquely built for this scenario, but will need their youth to perform. The Reds have improved their offense a lot, but their defense is...shaky at best. Angels may have the most top heavy team in the league. Indians are also top heavy, with a lot of industry previews having them just behind the White Sox due to this. Ultimately, I'd expect both Cactus League wild cards to come from the West, depending how they do the scheduling.

Shooting off of the ESPN thread, it seems like any solution of baseball returning has a lot of double headers and expanded rosters. I don't think we're getting 40 man rosters (too many clocks start), but my guess is 32. Who do you guys having making an expanded 32-man roster? Assuming the Active Roster on the site is accurate, that leaves 5 spots if we're counting a healthy Rodon in the mix. For the last five spots, my guesses are... Collins: Sorry Yermin Squad, need the semi-passable glove. Madrigal: No time to play service time games. Heuer: Good spring - and that's the environment they'll be pitching in. Fulmer: Gets his last shot due to his spring performance Edit: Kopech. Not Burdi, I dumbed.

Grapefruit League South is a bloodbath.

The Sox advantages are uniquely built for this scenario Two All-Star caliber catchers (going off of last season) to endure a lot of double headers. Hopefully, they'll be 7 deep in the rotation once you add Kopech and Rodon. Lots of power up and down the line up. If pitchers get screwed over by the air in Arizona, balls will be flying out of the park. Building off of the above point Arizona Engel.

This is roughly the plot of Osmosis Jones.

Following up, here's a good bit about less local news being terrible for democracy https://niemanreports.org/articles/less-local-news-means-less-democracy/ And then this https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html Thornton is behind the Texas Tribune. If every state were to get one of these to start (obviously places like California would need more), it goes a long way. There are even things like The Nevada Independent which is run by Jon Ralston, who is very pundit-y, but he's also very no bullshit and discloses every donation over $1 on their website and backs up his (strong) opinions with facts. Ok, I've derailed this thread from coronavirus enough.

Then that's my bad on that line and I'm sorry. I stand by reporting holding truth to power.

It exists everywhere. Miami Herald reporting brought down Epstein and Sec. of Labor Alex Acosta. Reporting brought down EPA Dir. Scott Pruitt, HHS Sec. Tom Price, Act. Navy Sec. Modly (just the other day), Mike Flynn (before the Mueller probe reached him), Rob Porter, White House speechwriter David Sorensen. Kelly Loeffler is now facing a tough re-election because of reporting on her stock trading coinciding with her Senate hearings on COVID-19. Reporting from the Waington Post is why Roy Moore isn't in the US Senate. Journalists can put out the facts, but money needs to come from somewhere. I subscribe to a few papers and make sure to disable adblock for all news outlets. Outlets such as the Texas Tribune are popping up that are non-profit. The Salt Lake Trib is switching to that. But unfortunately, opinion often pays for fact reporting, because people don't subscribe or, thanks to Trump, will now just call all fact based journalism fake. The Chicago Tribune had a painfully accurate article on this back in 2014 that broke it down as "we want to churn out more of this, but this is what you want and we know because we have analytics." My own example is when I was an intern, I worked on two tech pieces. One was about a solar cell invented by an MIT researcher that stored energy using heat, which included an interview. 500k views. The other was about a Bluetooth, app controlled sex toy. 15m views. @Jack Parkman, you decided to lump everyone in the journalism industry top to bottom in this as if there's an Illuminati meeting held weekly. A vast majority of journalists hold truth paramount over profit. I could have gotten a job with a PAC, and from what my friends in the industry have told me, it probably would have been a solid $50k raise. That PAC is still in operation, because it was independent of the candidate's campaign. I'm lucky I have a good salary, but a lot of journalists that you lumped in make shit wages.

Lord knows the Padres would somehow become a thorn in our side, because they are our curse.

Sox are suddenly in a tougher division with no Tigers or Royals to stomp on. I think the Sox could compete for a wild card in the Cactus League. Especially when you consider that a lot of NL teams weren't preparing for a DH and likely using that roster spot on utility guy. Dodgers would just be scarier with a DH.

This is fucking stupid.

You say this, but on election night 2016, two of my fellow classmates were reporting on the local Republican watch party. They were a sophomore and junior in college, working for the local newspaper. People at the watch party started yelling at them for being there, then gloating saying "Trump is winning and the media is going to be sad." Then, when facts are reported, they're called lies. Literal facts. COVID-19 was declared a hoax to start because of Trump. Trump's own words will be read back to him, and he will deny them. If you can't split editorial and reporting, that's fine, but don't pretend like reporters that "just report the facts" get called liars for no reason other than people don't like the facts.

If Karnisovas really is clearing house, who are the candidates we want for head coach? i imagine Atkinson and Hammon would be top candidates.

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust. Trump was supposed to disconnect himself from this.

Thank God. Prisons are basically death traps right now.

Y'all think I'm joking but Arizona Engel is a god into himself.

Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943

I think this means the Astros have to be suspended since Manfred told us public shaming was their punishment.