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    NRL 2020 - returns 5/28

    With almost no other live sports, NRL matches are now being shown on FS1. This weekend's televised matches are: Melbourne Storm vs Canberra Raiders - Sat 5:30am ET (the more anticipated of the two matches) Penrith Panthers vs Newcastle Knights - Sun 2am ET
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    NRL 2020 - returns 5/28

    Australia's National Rugby League (NRL) will become one of the first contact sports in the world to restart this Thursday. The season was suspended on March 23 after two rounds and sometime around mid-April (IIRC) the league announced, to much skepticism, that it would be back on May 28. But it...
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    I also think that'll be the top 3 (with Charleston at 5, Aaron at 4). I don't know why, but I think the top 3 order will be either: 3 - Bonds 2 - Mays 1 - Ruth or 3 - Ruth 2 - Mays 1 - Bonds
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    Who's your quintessential announcing duo for the games that count for each sport?

    Prime Marv with Mike Fratello (circa 1993).
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    The Athletic sells to the New York Times

    This is a great read and hopefully The Athletic will keep putting out these types of stories while sports are on hiatus. Babe Ruth, an influenza outbreak and a forgotten baseball writer
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    Yes it is. 8.6 for Clemens, 8.9 for all MLB pitchers in 2019.
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    Baseball Is Broken (off the field/labor relations etc.)

    Jayson Stark weighs in with a good piece in The Athletic (just subscribe already) built around the example of Francisco Lindor and repeatedly using the phrase 'baseball is broken'. His idea:
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    The big finish for those without a subscription:
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    The Athletic sells to the New York Times

    Tennis is what I really want to see. I remember liking Brian Phillips' stuff on Grantland years back. One or two good tennis writers like that would be enough, wouldn't it?
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    As someone said in the comments at The Athletic, Griffey is probably slotted in at 48 because it's double the No. 24 he wore in Seattle. And to recap, from Joe's newsletter:
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    Roger Kahn dies at 92

    AP: Roger Kahn, elegant 'Boys of Summer' author, dies at 92. Joe Posnanski has written a beautiful remembrance on The Athletic, which is unlocked for all.
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    Enjoy! My favorite ones so far have been Phil Niekro, Brooks Robinson, the Negro Leagues players, and basically all the rest.
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    The Athletic sells to the New York Times

    I don't think you'll regret it, there's a lot of great stuff on there. A few baseball things I've enjoyed recently: Realignment, robots and the universal DH — how baseball will change during this decade (Jayson Stark) ‘So leave a like, subscribe, all that good stuff’: Phil Hughes on going from...
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    Here comes the three-batter minimum...

    Well-researched article on The Athletic suggesting, among other things, that the three-batter minimum might lengthen games rather than shortening them. The new 3-batter-minimum rule won’t speed up games — but will have negative, unintended consequences Some key parts:
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    I loved the Brooks story today. That one and Niekro are my favorites so far.
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