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The beers are only 4oz each for a total of 36oz. That’s less than buying the two large beers they limit you to at the kiosks.

To clarify, those daily games you are seeing available on peacock effectively replace the old “mlb.tv free game of the day” where one out of market game can be watched if you are not already an mlb.tv subscriber. These are just simulcasts of the local broadcasts that the in-market folks get. Peacock does have some exclusive games, but that is mostly just Sunday night baseball (just like espn used to have). Many/most of these will also be on NBC. These Sunday night national games are the games Jason is doing. The other exclusive is the Sunday early game that starts up midseason (like peacock and Roku had previously). Basically, NBC/peacock took over Sunday night from espn. And the tigers own network takes over for Fanduel.

The schedule for this is pretty dumb. It will never happen this way, but I would suggest going away from the silly pool play for the teams we know are the best. We saw how teams didn’t really take it seriously. If they insist on doing it, I would have it every four years, in between the Olympics, and I would have 4-5 teams as automatic qualifiers. We don’t need the USA and DR teams to go through qualifying. Fill out the rest of knockout round with qualification games that happen in the spring for the lesser teams. Then replace all star week every four years with a week-long double-elimination tournament similar to the college World Series. the qualifying rounds could also be played at the end of the season as a complement to playoff games. People already don’t pay much attention to the smaller/lesser teams.

yeah, you are right I forgot that they increased the supply of interleague games so much that they do average about 3 per day over the course of the season, so early on you could have more days with 5 (or 7, 9, etc) for sure. Opening weekend there are five interleague matchups the next set of series has seven The third set of series has seven The fourth set has five The fifth set has seven So, I think it’s safe to say the interleague series distribution is definitely front loaded. It could be for various reasons, but if I had to guess it would be for money reasons. They probably prefer increased division matchups down the stretch to maximize drama. And to the extent these odd matchups provide a level of novelty, maybe it helps get people to the park early in the year when attendance and interest tends to lag. Ability to make up a rainout could definitely be a factor, although teams had the same issue with non-division league matchups because the teams don’t make more than one trip to any team outside of their division. That does sometimes lead to the weird late season situation where a make-up from earlier in the season is played at the opponent’s stadium with home/road flipped, which is not an option for the interleague. Anyway, it sure seems like the league is blowing through the interleague games early. Nice catch.

Next year you will complain that the tigers have too many interleague games late in the season during the pennant race, and they wasted divisional matchups early in the year when no one was paying attention.

No matter what there is an interleague series every day due to 15 teams in each league. You can’t really front load them because everyone plays the same number per season.

Thanks, Dan.

I actually think McKinstry could be the one on the outside looking in. With McGonigle on the team he really doesn’t have a role. His value has been in his flexibility and ability to play short and 3B, but times change and Keith and Kevin look set to cover those spots, with Vierling and Javy in reserve (and trei Cruz in Toledo, too). McKinstry’s lefty bat also doesn’t really play as part of any platoon. He also stands to make 4MM in a season where they have very little wiggle room below the tax threshold, which they cannot afford to exceed. I know the instant reaction to this is “what if Kevin needs to be sent down?” To that I would say “Shut your mouth.” But also, McKinstry really isn’t good. And his spot as insurance seems redundant when you can always go to Javy (or Cruz, or Sweeney if he heals) in such an emergency. And it does feel like the last bench spot would better served by these other guys that we talking about being in competition for the final spot (Meadows, Wenceel, Vierling, Jones).

Everyone seems to be forgetting this in the rush to replace meadows in CF with Wenceel and/or Javy. Personally, I hope they stick with meadows in CF for the defense he provides, and if they are compelled to make decisions based on spring performance, just bat him 9th instead of leadoff. If it’s the end of April and Meadows is still lost at the plate, it’s a short drive to/from Toledo for the CF shuttle.

I’m talking about everyone knowing the costs/benefits of doing so, and the real cost to the team of signing a potential star player and ROY candidate with PPI potential before they debut. I’m not talking about the value and benefits to getting such a deal done (after the player debuts). Like you said the cost certainty can be very nice to have. I don’t really understand why the PPI rules are such that you can’t do these deals in advance, but it’s what it is. The tigers current potential tax issues are the cherry on top in this case for reasons to wait to get a deal like this done. Anyway, we all know why these can be good deals for both in the right situation. But I don’t think teams are going to throw away PPI chances and do these deals in the offseason anymore.

Sound like something to discuss with your therapist.

Yeah, but it feels like the benefit of these pre-debut deals is gone now. Not sure why they did it with Keith. Anyway, you can’t do it before the debut anymore and I doubt we ever see it again as long as the rules remain the at they are. Roman Anthony’s deal is a fair comp, and as long as they give Kevin a similar deal a day or later after his debut they will be just fine. I haven’t heard anyone discussing a pre-debut deal for Kevin.

It’s viewable via the mlb app, which as far as I know is currently available on every smart tv/streaming box.

You live out of market. Fanduel was never even an option to be that 100th problem.

This is where I come out, too. The optimism is basically gone. If the two of them basically combine to cover CF and bat ninth, that’s acceptable if they are catching all of the fly balls. I think Javy (not unlike Parker) is getting a lot of hype from folks that want to believe. So Javy becomes more tha jst a bench bat, and Parker becomes less than a true starter. Seems like a good compromise to me. Vierling and Perez don’t feel like real options for CF, so I think you need to keep both Parker and Javy and let them share the spot. It makes sense from a L/R standpoint. I think Vierling is the choice over Wenceel because I don’t think wenceel’s switch hitting is enough of a factor. Hinch was very complimentary of Vierling the other day, and our issue last year felt like a lack of right handed bats. He can play all three outfield positions and a bit of third base (although I recall that they had him working on first base recently, which makes sense because we don’t really have a true backup there). Anyway, I know people will disagree, but it seems like you gotta cut one of Vierling, meadows, or Perez, and Perez to me feels the most useless all things considered.