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Mena being traded for a player the Sox like means he was a successful signing.

See this annoys the hell out of me. The reason many, including myself, liked Mena is because he actually pitched. He has been durable, he had pitched young for the league throughout his career. The problem with Mena is you can’t say “if he just continues on this trajectory with more experience he can succeed”… because his fastball isn’t quite there and his breaking stuff isn’t elite enough. He’s also 6’2”, and this is where smarter people than me should project whether his body type is athletic enough and has room to fill out more to add some power. But the thing with pitching prospects is them randomly just getting a velo increase happens. It turned Davis Martin from nothing to a feasible MLb starter. Now do that do a 22 year old who actually is comfortable with 4 pitches? Norge Vera was stuff first who never pitched and never gets outs. He could have a great year this year and be three years away because he’s pitched so little. In short your reference was bad.

I’m intrigued by the fact that we appear to have opinions beyond what ranking a player has in last years top prospects. But he is quite short and older.

There has been 2 relocations in the last 50 years though right? Montreal and Oakland.

I more blame Shane Riordan (his producer), who has never gotten a story even close to right one time, ever and in general is the worst.

Cowherd already walking it back. Shocked!

This is a strange thing to say. He doesn’t have the upper hand or else Dylan would have been moved. You go to a garage sale and refuse to sell your hutch for less than $1000 and nobody balked, sure, you still have an asset that may hit $1000, but you also have to keep paying to store it because you have no current use for it. The market wasn’t good this winter for a trade. That has proven out. He’s not wrong for holding him, but we don’t need to lie that we are in a strong position. We are a 100 loss team whose best asset to trade entered a well supplied market. Yippy what a great position we are in!

Glad I still have a bobble head of an existing white sox

Mmm hmm yeah

Colin Cowherd huh, that guys a straight shooter. Definitely real.

MacDonald may lure Washington Huskies (former) OC Ryan Grubb back to Seattle per PFT You never know, but to me I just don't know why more teams weren't trying to lure him. Seattle is a good org.

I'm sure those that had to make that decision whether to leave in the 7th inning for that 10 pm BNSF line to the western suburbs would rather be a 3 minute taxi away than down 35th and shields. THis land giveth and taketh away. Some will benefit, some will lose. But it will be fun to go to.

i personally think, if you exclude harbaugh, he was far and away the best candidate in the cycle that was currently in an nfl job.

Really, really really big win for the steelers getting Arthur Smith as OC. That should mesh extremely well with Tomlin and that roster. But boy, that guy has not had a QB has he.

Chiefs still produce good games, for the most part (side eye to the ravens game), so I'm still good. Still like Mahomes and Reid. TBH I find 49ers much more boring than the chiefs. I still get annoyed when the nation gets behind an oft-suffering fan base just because when the sox were in the world series suddenly the fact that a team was about to end a 90 year old drought it was not really interesting to people. So I'm not rooting for detroit.

Its not that big of a plot, and its already surrounded by development, just mostly residential

This. It would look incredible.

Can confirm that 40 degree games in april, typically raining, are miserable. That said, baseball in a dome doesn't feel right.

So seems like Mike MacDonald is going to Seattle and Ben Johnson will go to Washington. You never know, but those seem like the best hires of the cycle to me. Which, yes I am the "Harbaugh to bears must happen" guy. I think the "jump the hire" stuff is overrated. Overall though, I'll put a prediction down to paper. Before that, I'll say that 2 years ago I thought the Seahawks would be the worst team in football, and they made the playoffs. Then I thought the bucs this year would be the worst team in football, and they made the 2nd round of playoffs. In both cases, they had strong executive teams who were vouching for players and coaches that I thought were past their prime/were propped up by other players. Licht/Schneider are the goods. Who I think will succeed: Harbaugh - while it may not be in year 1, I can see a situation where he "gets the band back together" and finds they don't work well in modern nfl. But I trust harbaugh's desire to win first and foremost - he will find a set of coaches and schemes that get that team going. (Assumed HC) Mike Macdonald - This guy was an incredible this year vs specifically the NFC west. He helped turn around Harbaugh's career at Umich. Him paired with Schneider and the Seattle FO seems like a strong match. Ben Johnson - the pairing of him + GM seems strong. They have a clean slate to work with and a consistently mid-division. I COULD see him torpedoed by their first round QB maybe busting but overall I think he should be strong. Raheem Morris - I think he's a good coach, and I am going against my own hunch that the Falcons FO is bad. They did a good job in FA last year shoring up the D. They have drafted some good players and put together a good oline. THey had a coach that kept saying "no this QB will work" and it not working. I think they are bad, but I also thought it was crazy Tampa wasn't firing Jason LIcht after so many coaching mess-ups. SO this is me going against myself. WHo I think is more likely to fail: Canales - If a strong FO can get more out of the staff, this is me saying I don't believe that they have one, even with a business guy from KC. The owner seems like a problem. I like Canales though, but boy that seems like a lot to manage for a younger HC. Callahan - It MAY have been Vrabel pushing to keep going for it that made the first year look so meh, but I just don't like a lot of what was done last year with the team. I think this is going to be a really strong coaching class though. If I'm wrong, I'd guess I'm wrong with Morris and Callahan, where the titans like make the playoffs behind Callahan's brilliant work with Levis. And that Carthon starts stacking talent a la his time in SF. You definitely starting to see the Dan Campbell effect in coaching hires, where more ARE looking for big leaders rather than the hot QB coach.

Man being mostly a baseball-discussing fan has made me not aware at how stupid-with-numbers football fans are.

Oh dang so Chiefs will be new Pats where they look vulnerable every reg season now with Mahomes on his contract only to have Spags coddle together a top 5 defense and Mahomes do just enough to win every year. Sweet. Draft Caleb Williams.

It sounds unhinged but this guy is such a lifer I wonder if there is any coach he'd consider helping. More likely he goes to an advisory role while he waits out a gig. But I do joke about that moment where Belicheck was so laudatory to Flus after the bears whipped the patriots last year. This cycle was wild to me. I'm embarrassed to be shocked that Brian Flores got no real traction after what he did in Minnesota this year. I'm pretty amazed Macdonald may end up without an HC role. Vrabel not being immediately snatched upf loors me. And mainly it's because they are choosey, but considering some of the coaches (1-year OC in Canales, LInebacker coach in Las Vegas, Non-play calling OC in TN, Linebacker coach in NE) it's very surprising. But also kinda good news for the bears as when I really was tipped over the edge on us not getting a coach was when it was clear vrabel would be available. That guy can coach.

I'm not gonna lie - my personal thoughts. If you could tell me that Nabers was available at 9 and Fields would have that much value, I'd rather stayput at 9 and collect the premium. This is implying that Fields is worth uh...jeeze a lot. The diff between 9 and 3 is roughly the 20th overall pick. That's where PIT is. Then add in another 86 points for the fourth, another 75 for the future 3rd and 15 for the future fifth. So yeah that's valuing fields at around a mid-round 1st.

Do you say that because of the turtleneck?

"Sox down 4-0 in the 9th having only scored 12 runs over the previous 23 games. Anyway Steve what steak house you have planned for tonight?" Soxtalk " OH GOD TALK ABOUT THE GAME LOSER"