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if it were bert, zadina, wallinder, and soderblum i would do it. bert, zadina, and a first i would do too. all dependent on the contract but i assume he gets 7-8 years at $10 mil. do they make him higher paid than the team captain? not often you get a 100 point power forward available. i wonder if he'd even consider detroit since he has said he wants to be in a major media market? jersey more likely. they have the prospects and the cap space. dallas too.

i guess if i had a top 2 protection for next year i might. and i would need a contract in place with tkachuk before the move.

i wouldnt do that.

i cant imagine any package for tkachuk doesnt include a 2023 first round pick.

all star games are boring and silly exercises nowadays. when i was a kid, i loved em. now? couldnt care less.

i hope the yankees call and avila asks for gleybar torres, lol.

felony domestic abuse. #spartanpride

there is a subsection to that entry in the encyclopedia that says "weak and fat" and there is a picture of james harden.

texas tech and baylor are never coming to the big ten. utah is never coming to the big ten. washington and oregon actually bring little to the conference money wise, but have the same academic profile (washington does, at least) and bring the nike money school. virginia is a possibility for the dc market. stanford and maybe cal because of nd and silicon valley. but nd is the prized pig. once it goes - if it goes - the rest of the dominoes will fall. big ten (and really, the big ten's media money men) will wait to see if they can get the big fish before moving again, imo. texas tech....lol. mcs, day drinking is not a good thing!

i used to think that was the obvious place this would all end, but now that a know nothing like rick reilly says it i am having second thoughts.

with usc, michigan, michigan state, and even purdue in the big ten, what "rivals" do the irish have left? stanford? navy? they think they're gonna get big ratings by playing stanford, navy, and the big 12?

they'll still make less money than if they joined the big ten. seriously notre dame...enough already.

illitch doesnt know what to do with the baseball team, so he just went with the guy who was there and sold him on all these progressive changes he was making. i know his dad was super loyal, but he also expected results. and when he didnt get them, he fired the guy and moved on. chris doesnt seem to have his father's initiative in that regard. i dont think its a matter of him "not caring," i think its because he doesnt know anything about baseball or running a baseball team.

i'm not apoplectic at all. the only thing really unexpected is the rash of injuries. you had young pitchers and rookie position players and the expectations for them to do very well were outsized. you built a team on young pitching and - surprise! - it got hurt and is inconsistent. welcome to baseball. i expect tork and greene to be fine in the long run. greene looks really promising. tork needs some work but he's still really young. they arent going to be in their primes for another 6-7 years. al avila has been your general manager since 2015. to expect success from this now is a fool's errand. the changes everyone lauded about the system of acquiring and developing talent were only recently implemented. it will take time to show results.

how dare you.

kyle schwarber?

i remember when he was going to play third base. just like tork was...

how many analytical psychology jokes can we make during his career?

he looks like billy butler....or chris shelton. that guy plays second base? i never would have thought that. but if issac paredes can play second, i dont know why jung cant.

remember when they did this over the phone on a league wide conference call? they'd get the whole thing done in a day or two, iirc. all 40 rounds or however many they had back then.

i'm old enough to remember the fubar for kumar thread.

i knew james mccann was special, but living until 3035? the dude really is a machine.

agree, its going to be a long time until we know what jobe will be.

noto to casmir, i dont think you walk on water either.

duncan keith? mike smith? kenny taketh, kenny giveth away.