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With thirty teams the team in each league with the best record receivers a bye in the first round. All higher seeds would play a three game series at home.

Possibly. But a number of studies have linked increase consumption when alcohol is cheaper. https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh26-1/22-34.htm https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/26/16738722/alcohol-minimum-price https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7755127/#:~:text=Among “causal drinkers%2C” happy,3-hours of reduced prices.

Damn, only 60

Leury for life. The team has beaten me to the point where I just accept he'll be there. I'm hoping new year, new management, new usage. I'm also going to embrace that he's an underdog. He's managed a MLB career with below average skills through hard work and grit. He never slacks, just hustles his ass off every chance he gets. I'm just not going to suffer through another season where I just kept finding things to hate.

Bingo. The PGA Tour has even said they price beers to keep people from getting drunk. Sucks that a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us happy drunks.

Brilliant

Not meaningless. Better records get easier seeds. Top 16 teams host all first round three game series at home. It's adding two three game rounds so back to tradition and a 154 game regular season instead of the watered down 162 game season.

Thirty-two teams. Everyone makes the playoffs. October Madness. Four regions each headed by a team with the best record. First round is a three game series, then two five game series, and two seven game series.

In Texas we would just tell our wives we are moving to Indiana. Then pack half our s%*# and move. ?

I wanted to go but couldn't find any of my buddies to go with. I knew taking my girlfriend wasn't going to work.

Tony Larussa Lock In Night. Here's your chance to sleep in the dugout like a real Hall of Fame guy. $2 beers and shots.

Love it! We could take it one step further. Stop me if this sounds familiar. Folks could get in on Fridays for .98 and a bobblehead of anyone they want fired. During the 7th inning stretch they could blow up the bobbleheads.

That's the next great promotion "Fire Fridays". JR, Hahn, the slow concessions guy, Pedro eventually, everybody gets a week. Best of all, they will never run out of spotlight talent. Hell bring Tony of of retirement and Fire Friday! ? ?

It's certainly possible. And I wouldn't be surprised. I also believe that if the Yankees, Astros, Dodgers toss out a competitive deal most players will take it.

If he just cared about winning where else would he go that doesn't spend big on free agents? It is kind of a circular argument, if a team prioritizes winning over profits they will spend more. But if the team spends more then players just come because of the money and not winning. So teams like the Sox don't spend big on free agents because they are looking for players who just care about winning and not the biggest paychecks. Brilliant strategy JR.

TA always says the right thing.

My point was really if players didn't care about the paycheck someone would have every great player and they would probably be in NY or LA to win championships. As @Tnetennbamentioned there are also ego and other human factors in play so some of the Midwestern guys may want to go to Chicago. But money spreads players out a bit. Players going for the money screws a couple of franchises (I'm looking at Pittsburgh), but most of the franchises can land an above average replacement in the free agent market by outbidding. Not always a marque name, but above average. Which is why I favor eliminating the draft and having everyone be a free agent from the start. Imagine if other industries worked like that. Accounting firms gathered together every spring to draft accountants for their company. "We needed to beef up our budget analyst department but fucking JR went cheap in the first round and picked up a payroll generalist. You can pick them up in a late round from a public school for cheap. No need to waste a high pick."

I'm certain his ego and other human factors played a role as well.

Close. His son was falling off a garage roof and he hurt himself trying to save his kid. Apparently that's more important than his team. (Wish we still used green for sarcasm)

So maybe more than just money factored in his decision?

In response to the comment that he wants to be here because the Sox were high bidder for his services. I meant imagine if money wasn't a factor to the players. They would play for minimum wage just to be on the best team possible.

And fans are better off. Imagine if money wasn't a factor and every player just wanted to be on the very best team and win championships.

Most people would have roasted Tony for not backing his player.

@T R Uthanks for making the thread interesting. Overall I think they did well. Maybe they could have some a little better, but trading the pick eventually made sense to me after I realized it was trade Fields or trade the pick. My hunch is the #9 gets packaged for a line guy (D or O) in a similar situation to Moore. Immediate impact, less risk, less upside than drafting.

It's crazy that for years I've sat around with buddies in the golf business my age and we talk about our latest trips to the dermatologist office but rarely change any behaviors.