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If you're not interested in anything other than Bears games, I think you can stream the games on FOX/NBC/CBS without subscribing to a service. You would need a subscription in order to get games on ESPN, and for that I think Sling is the cheapest.

He may just end up being one of those guys like Abreu that takes a while to get going.

Would be a fun visual if everybody bought upper deck tickets and the upper deck was packed with a nearly empty lower deck.

PAC 12 was never going to survive in a world where there's so much TV money in the Noon ET time slot. In hindsight, they should have tried to get the BIG to do a joint TV deal/scheduling agreement. BIG may not have gone for it but it was at least worth a shot.

So far we've only heard from Middleton and Lynn, who weren't around when Ricky was, but I would think that things weren't this way under him.

I'm not going to downgrade him for not trading Cease because he can still be traded after the season and they could get a better return. For a guy with that much control you set a high bar and if nobody meets it, you keep him rather than letting him go to the highest bidder.

Couldn't they have snuck Grandal into this one?

We want Ohtani here We want JR gone Obvious solution is to give Ohtani JR's ownership stake in exchange for signing with the Sox.

2024: Moncada $24M Benintendi, $16.5M Jimenez, $13M Robert $12.5M Bummer $5.5M Hendriks $15M option Anderson $14M option Clevinger $12M option Cease Arb 2 Kopech Arb 2 Vaughn Arb1 Crochet Arb1 Toussaint Arb1

Gonna need to call up more guys now.

You can argue about whether or not this trade will pan out, but on paper this was a very good haul for 2 months each of a SP and RP.

Stroman (probably) vs Lynn (probably not)

Zach Martin unhappy in Dallas. Bears have the cap space to pay him and the draft picks to make a trade. Get it done.

I watch very little scripted TV but I do miss the late night shows.

Will pay more than the USFL but fewer championships.

Central defense the weakest spot on the roster right now.

No thanks to Qatar for fucking up the calendar and forcing the NL final so close to the Gold Cup. Would have been nice to see everybody's best.

The US better have its best players healthy in 2026 because their 2nd string is weak. Took PKs to beat Canada and then lost to Panama in PKs, which honestly saved them from a beatdown by Mexico in the final.

The economics of baseball was different back then. It was easier to build a winning team without taking risks on the kinds of big contracts that Jerry will never approve of. As bad as I think Hahn is, I think the Sox with Hahn but a new owner are better off than the Sox with Jerry but a new GM, but of course the best option is if both are gone.

I will repeat - there is no point in replacing Hahn until there is someone different picking his replacement.

I wouldn't release Grandal if he can't be traded. It's not like he's blocking some super catching prospect.

Yes

Benintendi 7 Remillard 6 Robert 8 Vaughn 3 Moncada 5 Burger DH Colas 9 Zavala 2 Sosa 4

Drafting SS, CF, P, C are always great moves because those positions are always in high demand. If you end up with a backlog at those positions, you can get good value in a trade (or in the case of SS or CF, move to another position). If you end up with a backlog of 1B/DH, it's harder to fix that, as we are seeing on full display right now.