buddha

i'm not so high on niederbach anymore. seems like a fourth line rotation player to me. kasper is looking pretty good...

they were traded for quintana in the same off season. white sox struck early while the tigers were still dithering about whether to deal him, iirc. look, part of it was theo mishandling the cubs' prospects. lets remember, theo traded candy and paredes for justin wilson. he's the only gm who al could beat in a trade (although castellanos worked out well for 1/2 season with chicago). when they dealt for quintana, verlander was just starting to round into form. but i know there were discussions about him going to the cubs at the time, and it would have been for eloy at a minimum.

i dont watch enough ravens games to know if he gets hit as much as cam did. cam was never the same after getting obliterated by denver in that super bowl.

ive seen a few games on espn+ last year. its a much different game on the bigger ice surface. you can see why some of them struggle to adjust to the nhl. its also slower. but still good. wallinder and kasper are at rogle, right?

baltimore isnt trading lamar jackson, imo.

dylan cease: 14-7, 2.16 era, 189 era+ eloy jimenez: 311/377/508, 148 ops+ *** franklin perez: 0-4, 9.89 era in rookie ball. jake rogers: injured daz cameron: 219/286/344 in detroit no, i will never let it go how al avila screwed this team with the verlander trade.

cool beans.

lions would blow their cap up to sign lamar jackson. the plan - i thought - was to get a young qb to take over after goff leaves after next season. by then they will have built up the talent on the rest of the team in order to be successful. but lamar is a good qb and would likely make them nfc north contenders if they continue to use their draft picks wisely.

i bet that you massively overrate the influence of prop betting in what they do to the ball. did they increase the size of the bases because they knew there would be more prop betting on the number of stolen bases in an inning? whatever they do to the game there will be bets and "prop bets" and in game bets. the decisions on what to do with the ball have nothing to do with current prop bets.

what do "prop bettors" have to do with anything? there will be prop bets whether they deaden the ball or not.

and jim leyland batted him third cause he was playing for sheffield and sheffield batted third...

juan gone made 36.8 million after leaving detroit. he had a great year the next year and then fell off a cliff. him turning down detroit was a much better outcome for detroit than juan.

lions back down to -1.5. injury news being what it is...

btw, its good to see all of you jump on the eagles bandwagon! lol. i have them at +400 to win the east. so go eagles!

shocker

i dont think anything you wrote shows what i said was false. and i remember tiger mgmt talking about how they wanted the park to be different from tiger stadium and wanted a huge ballpark with a big outfield. and they moved the fences in considerably from the original design.

when you design your stadium around making it a park that fits the skills of Brian Hunter, you've made a horrible mistake.

that's what i really didnt like about comerica: it goes against the history of the team. the tigers played in tiger stadium and had a history of power hitters and home run threats with that overhang and short porch in right. and they build this massive monstrosity of a field designed to have a "national league" type team built on speed and less home runs.

who are we tanking for this year? anyone any good?

lions started at -1.5 and are now -2.5. so some people liked what they saw from detroit last week.

yup. and now dak is hurt. i can only imagine what dallas sports radio is talking about today. although im sure some texas fans will call in to say how the horns are BACK baby!

lions open 1.5 point favorites over the artists formerly known as the redskins.

he didnt do much.

a couple of observations: dj chark was not the deep threat as advertised. goff is still not very good under pressure. sure, the receivers didnt help him a ton, but he also missed some open guys. ultimately, goff is but a placeholder until they can draft or acquire a true game changer at qb. jameson williams will have no problem breaking into this receiver room. st brown is a good slot receiver. everyone else is easily replaceable. i thought hockenson played well. oline was good. tackles seemed to play real well. defensive line got pushed around but that's to be expected because the eagles oline is really good. missing on levi and paschal is really going to hurt if they cant play.

true, but have you seen tampa's oline? and tampa's qb is a bit less mobile...