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  1. mauf

    Dak Prescott in trouble

    I think the Cowboys were expected to extend Dak to bring down his egregious 2024 cap number ($59.5M) and free up space for upgrades. Jerry Jones made intemperate comments earlier in the offseason about Dak, which I figured had complicated negotiations for an extension that seemed like a...
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    Macksonville: Mac Traded to Jaguars

    My son considers this trade a waste of a 6th-round pick. I think you have to reserve judgment until you see what they do with the money they saved — Mitch Trubisky made $5.6M in Pittsburgh last season, so as disappointing as Mac has been, he’s still underpaid. Edit: And now Drew Lock has signed...
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    That’s the player’s decision, not the club’s. I could argue that Giolito also would benefit from having surgery sooner rather than later (more likely to pitch 140 innings in 2025 and avoid the 2026 club option), but players are human and naturally tend to defer surgery until doctors are no...
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    If the RS sign Montgomery are you satisfied with the off-season?

    He has consistently outperformed his peripherals over the past three years. If you don’t think he’ll continue to do that for the next 4 years, and if you think he’s unlikely to be as durable in his age 31-34 seasons as he was in his age 28-30 seasons, then 4/100 looks like a bad investment. And...
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    If the RS sign Montgomery are you satisfied with the off-season?

    Breslow was brought in because he supposedly has a knack for identifying and developing pitching talent, so I’m on board with whatever he decides to do in that area. That said, it would be bizarre if the Sox spent the past 2-3 years pinching pennies so they could give a nine-figure guarantee to...
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    All NBA Teams so far

    The Bulls are 26th in points scored per game and 12th in points allowed. For points per 100 possessions, it’s 20th and 16th. The Bulls are overachieving, for sure, but it’s driven more by defense than offense. I haven’t watched the Bulls much, but I’d be surprised if DeRozan was a key defensive...
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    Court enjoins NCAA rules, allows booster groups to pay recruits

    The opinion isn’t worth your time. Tl;dr version: the plaintiffs are likely to win the case because the NIL restrictions at issue appear to violate the antitrust laws, and the other requirements for injunctive relief are satisfied. Very vanilla. The NCAA needs to find a path to an expedited...
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    Court enjoins NCAA rules, allows booster groups to pay recruits

    The states of Tennessee and Virginia successfully obtained an injunction that blocks NCAA rules against players receiving NIL from third-party collectives, such as booster groups. I didn’t find a link to the court’s decision online, but from this article, it appears to be a nationwide...
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    All NBA Teams so far

    To answer the question posed by the thread: The first team should be Jokic, SGA, Giannis, Tatum, and Doncic. Mitchell, Kawhi, and Durant should be second team. So should Haliburton, but I suspect he won’t play the requisite 65 games. I could argue 15 different guys for the remaining 6-7 spots.
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    All NBA Teams so far

    If there’s a debate as to who the best player on a .500 team is, then that team probably shouldn’t be repped on the All-NBA teams. I’m sure there aren’t 15 players I’d rather have than healthy LeBron come playoff time, but All-NBA is a regular season award.
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    How Many Games Does Anthony Rendon Play In 2024?

    Put me down for 110 games. He’s going to have to earn playing time (especially after his ill-considered remarks), and at his age some kind of nagging thing popping up seems more likely than not, but his spate of injuries the past few years looks like a string of bad luck — first a hip injury...
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    The downside is that he’ll be as bad as the projections are forecasting, and we’ll have to watch that. But yeah, I think the best-case scenario for a Jansen trade right now is a salary dump, and there aren’t many options left on the market to redeploy the money. (I don’t think the 2024 payroll...
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    NBA All-Star Game Weekend 2024 with Dunks, Skills, 3 Point Competitions, ASG: Hooiser Daddy?

    The NHL All-Star Gane has sucked since forever. The Pro Bowl was such a joke they got rid of the game. MLB and NBA were the two All-Star Games that were entertaining back in the day; neither is as good as it once was.
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    NBA All-Star Game Weekend 2024 with Dunks, Skills, 3 Point Competitions, ASG: Hooiser Daddy?

    The two teams didn’t combine for more than 300 points in an All-Star Game that didn’t go to overtime until 2014. It was never a display of defensive excellence, but the ASG only became the abomination it is now in the past decade or so.
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    That FIP probably oversells it, but he certainly wasn’t any better than his 3.86 ERA would indicate, and was probably a tick worse. More concerning, he missed a lot fewer bats last season than he did in 2022 (10.6% SwStr last year, 13.3% in 2022), probably because hitters did a better job...
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    Is It Over Now? Chiefs/Niners SB Thread

    Taylor Swift contributed $100k to the GoFundMe started by the family of the woman who was killed in the shooting. https://variety.com/2024/music/news/taylor-swift-donation-gofundme-victim-killed-chiefs-parade-1235913423/
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    Is It Over Now? Chiefs/Niners SB Thread

    Shots fired reported in the Union Station area during or just after today’s Chiefs’ victory parade. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MYxNozroqyKw?s=20
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    23-24 General CBB Thread

    Oops, I searched for “Syracuse” and not “SU.” First win over a top-10 team in 5 years, so tonight was the biggest SU win those kids have seen as students. We should probably be more strict about court-storming from a security standpoint in general, but since we aren’t, I can’t begrudge those...
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    23-24 General CBB Thread

    Can’t believe neither @bsj nor @BaseballJones started an SU hoops thread. Congrats on the win over UNC, guys! With a relatively soft remaining schedule, SU is firmly on the bubble.
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    23-24 General CBB Thread

    Syracuse-UNC has been entertaining.