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It makes me so happy when bad things happen to the Orioles.

Didn't Al Davis' son go to a PF Chang's daily and sit at the bar?

This would make no sense. They could have done a salary dump yesterday, accepted the best of the bad offers, and be free of the buyout amount and the rest of his prorated salary. It isn't rocket science. Robert will make $20 mil next year. Robert (on the open market) or his replacement would probably cost the team 50-75% of that amount. It wasn't worth it to the team to accept a subpar package if they think they can trade him next year for something worthwhile by spending only an additional $5-7 million. The only way they don't pick up the option is if he completely embarrasses himself or has some catastrophic injury before the end of the season. If they just wanted to save money, they could have dumped him 24 hours ago and people would have been cool with that.

They probably won’t go 500 the rest of the way, but WestEddy is right that this is not the same team from April. That’s not a controversial opinion.

I love how Soxtalk seamlessly transitions from prematurely hyperventilating about Getz not trading Houser to prematurely hyperventilating about hypothetical bad free agent signings that may occur in 8 months because the GM said they want to spend money on the team.

I thought you always say it’s too early for them to sign a top tier free agent. Is that someone else?

That sounds like good news to me.

Again… why are people making “the money will be spent” jokes in a thread about the team leaning towards overpaying a player with a high ceiling when they could have easily done a salary dump today?

All I’m saying is you can’t be mad that they don’t spend and then also be mad that they didn’t do a salary dump. It’s one or the other.

If the team was as stingy as a lot of people here claim, why wouldn’t they have just dumped him for a couple trash prospects?

Everyone making moves? Bieber, Soroka, and a few minutes ago, Kelly have been dealt. What other SPs have moved?

lol

Its not collusion. If Houser is like the 6th most desirable SP on the market and 1-2 SPs have been moved, what is he supposed to do? Force the other teams to want Houser over Gore? I'm sure you'd be real forgiving if he just started giving guys away.

Why are there no SPs moving? Bizarre.

Its not even $20M. Its the difference between $20M and the cost of his replacement. If you sign a guy for $11M, you are putting $9M at risk in hopes that you can deal him for something good.

Yeah, I don't think its a slam dunk. But its a risk you can take if you have no payroll and no other options in CF. If they sign a FA CF like Harrison Bader, what are they paying him? The amount you are risking is the difference between that one year contract and the 20 million you are paying Robert.

Cedric Mullins, Harrison Bader, and the current version of Robert aren't worth dick. If Robert bounces back and has a good end to this year and a good first half next year, teams will pay for him.

Was he though? He sold Eaton. Anyone could have sold Sale. Quintana had a lot of value. Everyone else was traded for junk (Ian Clarkin, Ryan Cordell, Blake Rutherford).

Does anyone know when the App will allow people to login using their Xfinity account to watch remotely?

Ok. I understand. You meant from the perspective of the Teams/Owners of the station? Yeah, ideally you would be on everything. The problem is that Xfinity doesn't want that and most people still watch their tv through cable. The numbers for antenna users were probably miniscule. In 2025, if you are on OTA and not the largest cable provider in the area, you have limited exposure.

Good post. I wonder what the long-term solution is. I bet those kids you coach don't watch cable tv either. A few years ago I asked my nieces in high school and jr high if they ever watch MTV and they looked at me confused. Outside of a few things like the NFL, there's no more monoculture and everything is becoming its own niche.

What doesn't make sense? Xfinity and all cable companies are losing customers at an accelerated rate. One of the biggest reasons remaining customers keep their cable is for live sports. If the customers can just get it for free over the air, there is no reason to keep or sign up for their service and cable will die even sooner. The NBA finals were over the air because they are the NBA Finals. The World Series will be over the air as well. CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox aren't airing random regular season NBA or MLB games on a weekday night. Back in the day, they always blacked out the internet feed during games and you had to buy the radio version of mlb.tv (mlb at bat?). I noticed a year or two ago they just began airing the games on the feed. Interesting that they are choosing to enforce that again.

Getz has been a GM for like a year and a half. In Kenny Williams' first year or two, he traded for the wrong player because he had a similar name to the guy they wanted. What do you think everyone's reaction here would be if that happened today? I always liked Kenny Williams but how are you comparing a guy who held the job for like 15 years to a guy who has had about 20 months?

I like the team this year for the first time in like 3-4 years.

I’m still getting antenna feed