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Hopefully Dunn's DL stint comes after Abreu is back.

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...t&p=2980861 Can anybody loan greg some money? He may be a bit short this morning.

I figured he was a lock for Penn State.

As a GM, Bill James has won the same number of pennants as Billy Beane.

I think he means have him relieve in the majors this year instead of starting in the minors, a la Chris Sale.

Dunn and Lindstrom are very likely to get traded. Nobody will want DeAza, and the others are young, under contract and/or controllable for a few more years so it would take a pretty hefty offer to get the Sox to trade any of the rest.

I just think that MLB has the opportunity to both increase revenues and make fans happier. The current process is: 1) MLB team sells TV rights to local RSN 2) Local RSN sells channel that shows games to satellite/cable providers. In nearly all cases, MLB team has no control over this process and thus no control over which people are getting the games on TV 3) Both RSN and satellite/cable providers sell advertising for commercials during games. Now, if MLB just set up what amounts to 27 regional MLB Networks, they can control the entire process and make the money that the RSN's are currently making off their product. In addition, it generates a wider demand for MLBN which increases distribution. Why couldn't this work?

They haven't been the main game on MLBN yet this season.

Yes, but even with some RSN's seemingly losing money and with some RSN's partially owned by teams, you still have to figure that there is a lot of profit going to RSN's from MLB. Keeping the TV rights in-house should improve MLB's bottom line. Yes, the highest-end teams may not get as much, but if MLB is making more money as a whole, that should be good for the sport, not to mention more control about getting games on where viewers want to see them.

The Sox/Cubs/Bulls/Hawks are also primarily on a CSN station, but apparently the Chicago market isn't having the same issues. I know the teams hold 80% equity in CSN Chicago, is that not the case in Philly and Houston? In any case it was dumb for the teams in those markets to sign deals that gave the network so much leverage in restricting carriage. I would like to see MLB move to a model where all TV rights, both national and local, are controlled directly by MLB. Instead of having local cable sports channels owning each team's rights, you would have locally-produced games and daily/weekly team specific shows running on MLBN in each team's market in place of national programming during certain times, while allowing local broadcast stations (WGN/WCIU) to bid for up to 25% of each team's games.

Yeah, why is this overlapping with the game? Have it after. I'm actually going to be at the game and I could go to this if it were later.

"After their loss to the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Cubs became the third team in baseball history to lose ten thousand games. The poor Cubs. They can't even win a losing contest." - Jimmy Fallon

No, ND is not downtown and has their own power plant, but several of the hotels, bars and restaurants that will be hosting guests and/or events are affected. After the 6 home football weekends, this is probably the weekend that brings the most people to campus and it will be a huge financial hit for those places.

I think Bush would do a great job and I don't think he would be too controversial of a hire, but I don't think it's feasible for a former President to have a job like that. There is still a Secret Service presence following him plus former Presidents are expected to be semi-official ambassadors to other countries and during disasters, etc. I think the logistics are just too difficult.

Using my wife as a barometer, he doesn't have nearly the effect that Podsednik and Quentin had.

Nobody in South Bend will be able to see it. Entire downtown power grid was shutdown overnight due to an underground fire and isn't expected to be back up until Sunday. And it's graduation weekend.

Can we just kill two threads with one stone and agree that Beckham is the reason attendance is so bad?

No big deal. Somebody will start another attendance thread next week.

Enjoy the MON-NYR series!!

No, actually, I went to a Presbyterian chruch on Dickens.

When I lived in Oak Park, my church was right near Damen/Webster. Spent a lot of time in that area.

So when he comes back, tell him he's only allowed to talk to the hitters and to stay away from the pitchers.

Here is Keppinger's problem: With pitchers now taking up 12 of 25 roster spots on most teams, position players who aren't good enough to be full-time starters at any one position really have to be able to play at least one of SS, CF or C to make a roster as a backup.

I don't know that it's that he rubbed somebody the wrong way as much as it was a roster crunch. The only way to fit Keppinger on the roster was to keep LGarcia as both the backup SS and backup OF. Now with Keppinger gone they can keep both Semien and Sierra to fill the two roles. Also, the extra spot on the 40 will be very useful.

Don't know about Johnson or Sale, but we now have a definitive answer on when Keppinger is coming back: Never.