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And take away their voting privileges. Permanently

There is a top tier in this draft but it's not as pronounced as other drafts, there's no Cade or Mobley in this draft. Smith, Holmgren and Banchero all have significant flaws, Ivey too if you want to include him in a "top 4" (his 3 point shooting isn't good btw, it's an issue to go along with his lack of a mid range game). Smith is pretty one dimensional on offense at this point in his career (plenty of room for growth though), Holmgren's frame and lack of offensive versatility, Banchero's long range shooting and defense. I like the 3 bigs and would be elated to have any of them (Smith and Holmgren in particiular) but I don't think there's a steep drop between the top tier and the 2nd tier of guys like Mathurin, Griffin, Davis, Murray, Sharpe so this is part of the reason why I'm not getting all caught up in the tank, not to mention the odds being fairly equal as I mentioned above, so if they go on a bit of a run here and create momentum headed into the offseason I'm ok with it. I'd like to get a higher pick of course but I don't think there is as much urgency to finish top 4 as there was last draft. They already got their franchise guy in Cade.

Having every team within earshot of 83 wins and 14 of them making the playoffs will be a blast to watch. Everybody gets a trophy. It’s the American way. No winners or losers.

or at all?

btw, he's on his parents' cell plan and not the other way around? 🤔

I figured it wouldn't happen but I was genuinely curious if Blashill would get fired this morning. Two days rest, at home against one of the worst teams in the league who lose their top scorer at the beginning of the game. Awful.

Is management losing job security with the work at home thing?

https://www.mlb.com/news/international-draft-cba-negotiations So the aggregate bonus & for the 20 round international draft (600 players) is more than was spent on over 1000 players in the last period prior to the pandemic. So the international prospects would actually get more $ overall. No team could pass on a selection. They expect $21-23 million more to be spent on international players with this system.

What if they are reading a book and it references a parenting combo of husband/wife? That's ok? But what if it referenced a combo of husband/husband or wife/wife? Is that not ok? All three scenarios represent the reality that kids live in today. Or what if they were watching a movie or program that had a gay couple but it wasn't about them being gay, they were just representing life as we know it, like they do in commercials. It wasn't that long ago that "parenting" rights groups went ape shit because they showed interracial couples in commercials. The point is to not make gay people feel marginalized or "other". It's about inclusion. It's why Marvel has deaf superheroes. They aren't "pushing the deaf lifestyle" on people. There are students with two dads or two moms. Make them feel normal and not ostracized which is what the Florida thing does. The cruelty is the point. Ron DeSantis probably kicks puppies when nobody is looking.

Agree

I don't think it has to. Even with keeping Reynolds (which I too agree with), I think we could still use two new WRs this offseason. Whether they're both from the draft, one from free agency and one from the draft, whatever. In an ideal world, I think Reynolds is the WR4 going into 2022. If anything, it should put Raymond/Cephus/Hodge/Kennedy/et al. on notice that their time in Detroit (and in the NFL) may be numbered.

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i cant wait until fanduel sponsors a team and this board's collective head explodes. i hope its the white sox, for the sake of history!

I'm sure you're shocked that they're both trending for saying stupid shit

Really like the idea of awarding extra draft picks for having a rookie on the opening day roster that finishes high in ROY voting.

My goodness, this thread... Incredible corruption

I honestly don't care about the CBT or any of that financial stuff. The difference between what the two sides want is not going to affect me as a fan. I want to hear about the playoffs, the pitch clock and the shift.

Close... I'm an extremely blunt, honest-to-a-fault, wildly emotional, backend boomer... Wait! Is that the same thing? Anyways, yeah... thanks for the positive comments!

Do you give away the endings to movies too?

stop gap move. prohibits them for swinging for the fences for a cooper or a robinson. but they probably werent getting those guys anyway.

Not everybody is tony gywnn. And he's a hall of famer. Of course there are guys that can do it but even at the major league level there's only a few and they are the guyss always at the all star game. To argue or say well just learn to do it, it's not that easy. It's not conducive to winning no matter the era. Deaden the ball and its still not conducive. Why because as we said doing it once it damn hard. Now imagine doing it three times (single, single single) to get one run before getting 3 outs. Crazy hard. And how is deading the ball not changing the game the same way as mandated the shortstop stand to teh right of 2nd base before the pitch? The whole ban the ban on shifts argument is stupid on several levels. It fails at a practical ability and what humans can do. it fails at a winning level. it fails at a changing the game level.

absolutely, But to analyze conventional wisdom, look for available data. Compare football or basketball to baseball. In those sports, almost all teams have payrolls at or within striking distance of their caps, but not in baseball. Doesn't that argue that there must be some other situation that constrains many baseball teams other than the existence of the cap (de facto or otherwise) that is not constraining basketball and football teams -- like that the revenue situation is so different in baseball than in other sports? Are we to believe that baseball owners are some different kind of breed than other sports owners? Why would they be? I don't see how you fix the overall revenue split to the players without working toward a more equitable revenue split. All the cap increase does is allow a few teams to pay more, while leaving competition even more screwed. That's good for a few players, I don't see how it's good for players as whole. I think the fair counter question is why doesn't the union see this if it's so obvious, and personally I think it's because the union is well captured by the richest players who do benefit - as a sub group - from a higher cap. You also have the 'aspirational fallacy' at work. In the same way many lower economic group people defend the rights of the rich in politics because they think they might be rich some day, many more players than ever will probably beleive they will be stars.

The Pistons may have something with Bagley, particularly when Cade is on the floor.

Let teams put 7 fielders standing in a line for all I care. It's stupid to try to make rules about the shift and its also lazy player development. Wanna get teams to stop shifting? Very easy solution, teach hitters to use the whole field. Hit it where they ain't.

I'm to the point of wanting to lock Manfred, Clark and 1 lawyer from each side in a hotel room. Pipe in "music"from than dang drummer in Cleveland. No one gets out until they have an agreement

anyone else still watching The Walking Dead? We are almost caught up and I don't know what happened behind the scenes but this season is as good as anything we've seen with the show.

Yet another horrific war crime.