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Tony did get hit in the knee last night

He's a future MVP

They mentioned this last night, but can we chalk up a lot of these close takes/not recognizing the strike zone complaints that some people have in this thread to the differences in the strike zones between AAA and the MLB? I think once he gets a handle on this new strike zone and starts being more aggressive early in at bats, he'll be fine.

Defensive liability? what?

Yeah I just said above what it is. They don't care about that sort of stuff (countries owning clubs, as I referenced in my post), but they care about if you wrote some mean tweets 10 years ago. Trust me, tons of people have dropped out, I've seen these purchases go through about 20 potential buyers before. When clubs start to fail and are taken over by the government, they have to go through a long vetting process to sell the club to a new owner and those new owners often have their own funds restricted. Just look at what is going on right now with Derby County and Reading.

I am excited to watch this this year

I don't think your last statement is true. There is a long vetting process in England, many owners have dropped out or been removed due to issues raised by supporters/government. It's just not for the reasons we'd all expect (human rights abuses) and tends to be just bad tweets, etc. I know there was a lot of backlash to teams essentially being bought by countries (Newcastle, Man City). Also Bayern still adheres to the 50+1 rule. They just have more money because they have amazing sponsorships and have been historically been THE team that Germans want to play for (or even players playing in the German league). I know they adhere to it because that's the reason why they didn't break off into the Super League drama from last year.

Didn’t the Red Sox pick before the orioles ?

Nothing ages better than a forum poster saying a draft is terrible. I remember the outrage at GrayRod. I was similarly upset but then i realized that I don’t know crap about any of these players and i doubt anyone here knows much about them either.

You can't legally stream the games for free though. You're just fine with stealing it (not casting judgment, but that's what it is, no?)

Yeah I don't really agree that this guy is killing this level. I'm no scout, but when I've seen him the 3 times I have, he has not looked like someone well above the competition. Good pitching seems to routinely have his number.

Certainly there must be some arms out there that can eat innings while we wait for the cavalry, right? Harvey looks like he's a lost cause.

We can see from the NFL with Mel Kiper how little people care about these so called "scouts" and predictors of success being accurate

100% agree. Was triggered by the Mike Flanagan thing. Would delete it if I could but I can’t. Apologies to all.