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The Buscher

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  1. After spending nearly $200 million on Chris Sale and Nathan Eovaldi, the Red Sox owner came out and said the team has to get below the luxury tax threshold. This comes at a time when JD Martinez can opt-out after the World Series, Mookie Betts having only a year left before free agency, and a bunch of their young players are due for substantial arbitration raises. Between that and clearing out their front office, Boston might be blowing things up and starting over only a year after winning a championship.
  2. Time for the Bears to sign Romo out of retirement at halftime!
  3. I feel like I can’t get on the bandwagon for any of the Wild Card teams until the glorified play-in games are over. Anybody can lose one game.
  4. A stress-free Giants win? That’s allowed?
  5. Midway through their fourth game and the Pats still have yet to allow an offensive touchdown.
  6. The division would’ve been tied going into today if Josh Hader didn’t serve up a home run with 2 outs in the 9th inning. Would love the Brewers to get the division if only to ensure that either the Cardinals or Nats are guaranteed to be knocked out after one game.
  7. Manfred’s finally acknowledged as much, and says the league will make modifications in the offseason. But it’s been obvious all year. There are over 50 players with 30+ home runs and about 120 with 20+. It’s absurd. With a non-juiced ball I’m fairly sure Pete still would’ve easily passed the Mets’ single season record (41) but probably ends in the high 40s. Would be in line with the estimates I’ve seen that most guys’ power numbers are up around 10%.
  8. And another power record falls. Pete Alonso cracks his 53rd home run of the year to break Aaron Judge’s rookie record.
  9. I understand why North Carolina went for 2 because beating Clemson in OT would’ve been virtually impossible. But man what an awful play call. Clemson weren’t even remotely fooled.
  10. Well that’s because Wade Boggs ruined it by accepting money to go in as a Tampa Bay Devil Ray, that’s when the HOF Committee overrode him and they changed the rules. Speaking of Rays, Cleveland lost which means the Rays and Athletics are both in the Wild Card game.
  11. I kinda like the idea of the top seed being the only one to get a bye week - adds more importance to playing until everything is clinched. But if I was doing that it would be a 10 team playoff with 1 wild card, not the other way around. You just know when the year comes that the 12-4 #2 seed gets knocked off by the 8-8 third Wild Card there's going to be a complete shitstorm. I do wonder how it would work schedule wise for that Wild Card weekend. The most practical would be triple headers on Saturday and Sunday (1 PM, 4:30 PM, 8 PM). But since the league doesn't believe in oversaturation I could see the Saturday and Sunday games remaining unchanged while extra playoff games happen on both Friday and Monday night despite the fact that it's an unfair advantage/disadvantage for those teams heading into the next round.
  12. I always assumed the league constantly proposing an 18 game schedule they knew would never pass was just so they could negotiate back down to what they actually wanted ahead of the next CBA negotiation. With that said, the 18 game schedule has reportedly been scrapped. New proposal on the table from the NFL: -Later start to training camp -Preseason reduced to 2 games, 3 for the teams that play in the Hall of Fame Game -2 scheduled scrimmages per team at camp which functionally replaces the lost preseason games -17 game regular season -Playoffs expanded to 14 teams, #1 seed in each conference gets a bye -With these changes, the Super Bowl would be in mid-February
  13. People who bought Season Pass early on before the DLC came out got the DLC at a discount.
  14. They definitely should retire Mussina's number, and should've done so no matter what cap he was wearing. And Jones deserves it too. Anyone who is a franchise player for that long is worthy of the honor. And yeah I've never agreed with the Mets being so stringent about it. I think a big part of their hesitation for retiring Carter and Hernandez' numbers officially is that despite being co-captains on a team that brought a title to Queens they achieved their greatest individual successes on other teams and weren't Mets for all that long. But Carter specifically requested the HOF committee put him in a Mets cap or a split Mets/Expos cap and they refused and put him in an Expos cap. Unfortunately for him that was right after the Boggs rule went into effect so they were strict about it. They've since lightened up and honor the players' preferences as long as it's close. But you mean to tell me they'd have retired #8 if the committee honored his wish but because they didn't, they can't? That's dumb. And Keith's #17 was handed out a lot after he left but it's now been in unofficial retirement for a decade. Nobody would be happy to see anyone else wearing #8 and #17 so just formally retire them and let the numbers hang in the stadium. There will probably be a push from a segment of the fanbase to retire Doc and Darryl's numbers too but I can't see that with all of their off-field issues, especially Doc's most recent stuff. Similarly, Reyes might've gotten #7 retired once the stink of him having one of the worst individual seasons in franchise history last year wore off...but I'm very uncomfortable with putting the number of someone who committed domestic violence up there. Considering how unfair the fans were to him after striking out looking to end the 2006 NLCS, I'd be fascinated in seeing what the team would do if Beltran went into the HOF as a Met. If he were going in for a specific team - he played in more games for the Mets than anywhere else and has his best overall numbers there while putting together a few monster seasons. But he played a similarly long time with the Royals, made All Star teams with the Cardinals and Rangers, had a legendary playoff run in Houston and then returned years later to win a ring there. He feels like a clear blank cap candidate.
  15. In terms of the experience as a viewer, these challengeable pass interference calls are the worst thing to happen to the NFL in a long time.
  16. That was a fun half of football. Maybe the key to good Thursday night games is - gasp - good teams?
  17. 11 times in the Wild Card era, a team has had two of the three major individual award winners in the same year (MVP, Cy, ROTY). All of those teams made the playoffs. With their elimination last night it seems like the Mets are about to break that streak Alonso is a shoo-in for ROTY and I think deGrom locked down his second straight Cy last night punctuated by a 23 inning scoreless streak. To not make the playoffs with two incredible seasons like that is a disgrace.
  18. Mets book-ended their year-long 1969 celebrations with the surprise announcement that they'll be retiring Jerry Koosman's #36 jersey next year. Met fan Evan Roberts went ballistic about it on WFAN today because #36 has been given out to 27 guys since he left and it was never removed from circulation, including Mickey Callaway wearing it up until yesterday. His gripe is that them waiting 40+ years only to now decide it should be retired makes it look like a PR move rather than actually wanting to honor him, especially after the organization has been very stingy about retiring numbers. 4 numbers have been retired but 2 (Stengel and Hodges) were for off-field reasons. The only 2 player numbers retired were Seaver and Piazza who are the only 2 guys in the HOF as Mets which has seemed to be the unofficial policy on how high their standards were for number retirement. So to retire Koosman's number cheapens it. I understand Roberts' gripe, but they were always going to make an exception to that policy for David Wright anyway, so it's a sensible time to re-assess the policy as a whole. Every team has legends that are important to the history of the franchise without having HOF careers. Besides, it's not like this will open up pandora's box with a massive queue of numbers. They already had Gary Carter's #8 and Keith Hernandez' #17 out of circulation which has always felt half-assed, now they can actually commit to it. Between them, Wright, and Koosman that'd be 6 player numbers retired for a 60 year old franchise. Hardly feels egregious. The Mets have caught a ton of flack from fans for failing to acknowledge their history or waiting too long to honor their legends. It took them five years to add any sort of Mets imagery in their own ballpark or to paint the outfield wall blue or make it feel like home. They didn't commit to retiring Carter's number and now he's gone. They're finally building a Seaver statue but he'll never get to see it because he has dementia and has retired from public life. So yeah I won't deny that it does help the PR, but it's still the right thing to do. Koosman is the best lefty in team history and second to Seaver in most of the team pitching records. They don't win the 1969 World Series without him. His number never should've been circulated as it has, but that makes him no less deserving. And he'll be 77 next year. Give him the honor while he can enjoy it.
  19. Nets confirm that Durant will not play in the 2019-20 season, and Kyrie Irving took an elbow to the face during a pickup game and he has a facial fracture.
  20. The Nats bullpen is so bad I have to assume they're going to align their pitching staff in the next few days to ensure that Scherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin are the only pitchers who will be used in the Wild Card game.
  21. Nats/Brewers Wild Card game all but set. Nats officially clinched a spot today. Brewers clinch with a win or whenever the Mets and Cubs each lose their next game, so in all likelihood it'll be all wrapped up by tomorrow or Thursday. Credit to the Brewers, they lost Yelich yet have gone on an absolute tear since then. At least the AL Wild Card looks like it could be a 3 team race right down to the final series of the year. The last day of the regular season isn't as fun if there is nothing at stake for anybody.
  22. 5-star QB recruit Bryce Young flips his commitment to USC and has decided to go to Alabama instead. Glad to see a program down on its luck get a break for once.
  23. I mean, in their case I don't think you need to look much further than the name of the organization to determine how classy it is. That said, if you're bringing a guy in to induct him into your Ring of Honor you'd think you'd be spell checking the graphics. Reminds me of the Mets this year putting two players from the 1969 Mets on an In Memoriam tribute even though they weren't dead.
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