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The conundrum for the UMs and OSUs is that they want to keep the market value of "Big Ten" but the conference bylaws don't allow for expelling members so if they want a new org, they can't remake the B10, they have to leave it behind. In the end, the only way the top schools in the power 5 can maximize their income is to stop sharing it with teams that do not suppport the value of their conference income shares and create a new league of more evenly matched schools, leaving the rest behind. The system survived the situation for a number of decades, but as noted, the diversion of income to the athletes has turned a situation that in the past was only a strain into one that is untenable.

TBF, the Tiger FO *might* have made ERods conduct appear worse than it was - we don't know one way of the other. The normal assumption would be that no matter what is going on, he should have kept the team aware of things at least to the point where they were not out there in public saying they had no idea what the situation was. That part was pretty absurd. Again, maybe the Tiger FO was only acting cluless as a matter of PR choice - who knows? The other choice being "Yes Eduardo is in communcation with the team but we won't/can't talk about it." Doing the former might be a lazy way to avoid continually being asked any more questions on the topic. All seems rather unlikely but if you want to give a person the benefit of the doubt you can usually find a way.

Wenceel, Parker and JHM need some MLB audition time -- even if they don't think any of them are slam dunks to make the team out of ST next spring.

there will be a lot of arms on the market this off season.

but do the arms look more accurate?

he and Meadows both. That often goes away at MLB because the average slider quality is so much better but it's still a better starting point for promotion than a bad split is!

This. The biggest problem in college football today isn't figuring out how to divy up Div IA, it's that Div 1A is an obsolete construct.

Parker showing no sign of slowing down. And his OPS against LHP is 878.

Granted all this, my argument still holds, which is that while he was within his rights to try to negotiate whatever he wanted, after using a last minute demand at the deadline after a deal had apparently been agreed to on all sides, he shouldn't be surprised if people label him dishonorable. And of course it didn't get him want he wanted either. And If I'm Harris I'm not giving him that yr 4 @ $20M either unless I'm sure there will still be an off season market for him at 4yr @ ~17.25M AAV.

If he has a good bat, you can get him more AB if he can play a position. A RHH is going to get the short end of the playing time at DH because odds are a team has a good LHH that can't field. In the Tigers case, that is Carpenter. who is already in line to take most of the AB at DH once Cabrera is gone. As to whether he can do it. probably not, but you you never know until you try. He supposedly came up as an IF so he should have the arm. Granted catcher is something you probably don't ask a guy to do, he volunteers to try. But they need to keep thinking outside the box.

I think he means Kreidler is playing tonight for the Hens and he's 2/4 so far. Parker Meadows and Malloy each with a HR also. 17th for each. But Gipson-Long abused for 6 runs in 4.2IP. They should send JHM to winter ball to learn to be a catcher.

so pretty much 2 full years without facing MLB pitching for Meadows? Next season he's a yr away from 30. It's getting to where he might not be able to recover his hitting timing again even he tried to come back.

Two 10pt bucks in velvet in the woods down the block today:

So Diane Feinstein's daughter is a lawyer and has been a judge. But she also has step siblings. Hubby has already preceeded Feinstein to the grave and now the steps are at each other's throats in court over who gets what money. So who cares about 1%'er family problems, right? Except the rich part is that Daughter (the ex-Judge who probably knows whereof she speaks on legal issues) claims to have the Senator's power of attorney. A sitting US Senator's POA. Let that sink in for minute. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/feinstein-husband-estate-family-fortune.html government and politics in the US has descended into farce on so many levels it's hard to even keep track.

But that's not what he's being dinged for. It he didn't want the deal all he had to do was say so in the beginning and everyone moves on you have two orgs and two fan bases that are still happy. By stringing people along to the last minute then either changing his mind of failing to extort the Dodgers for more money (which it was doesn't really matter), he ran out the clock on two organizations trying to make their teams better for their fans. You can say all that was within his contractual rights, and that is true. But if his team was dishonest with people, which seems the most credible reading for how they got to 4:30 Tues thinking they still had a deal, then the story is less innocent.

>Tigers have released Franklin Perez And thus comes the FP era to a close. How Six Years have just flow by, almost as though we never even saw him......

I'm trying to be generous. Entertaining thoughts that he is incompetent this early in his tenure is too depressing. 😟

And I will give Harris credit that he has kept his absolute cool in public. He hasn't whined or slammed anyone even though he has to be madder than hell. It's a good sign that he appears to have the discipline to avoid making the poor situation worse.

I go back the fact that Harris wasn't here during the ERod saga last year - maybe if he had been he would have been more circumspect in dealing with ERod's camp and thus would have limited his negotiations to teams that ERod couldn't veto. Sacrifice a little return for certainty your deal goes through. He put himself into the hands of people he trusted but should not have. I can accept a rookie getting burned once. It should never happen again.

The book isn't closed on ERod until this season ends. Harris can still salvage ERod's roster value if he gets him to opt in even it that mean offerring some kind of extension, as long as that extension doesn't leave him untradeable, in which case you either get his performance or trade a now controlled player for a good return. If ERod walks, then Harris rightfully should be hammered for getting nothing.

LOL - Correct read: "Family is important but not so important that it would not have taken second place if there had been time to get the Dodgers to kick in more $$" OK - more charitably "more time" could have be read to mean more time to arrange a 3-way that would would have sent ERod East and some other player West, but I'm not that charitable.

I think a conference will be reluctant to go that route because it raises a host of governance issues. Whether they apportion voting rights in accordance with $$ participation of not, either way you're going to have a lot of strain. IIRC hasn't B1G brought in teams without full $$ rights initially but reduced rights were temporary? (Maryland and Rutgers?). Still, hard to see the 2nd tier B1G and Pac12/10/8 teams not being willing to give up almost anything not to fall out the P5 completely.

Good Lord - if they had traded Rogers and the catcher coming back was slotted for Toledo that would have meant Haase full time? Fan agony. Talk about the best deals being the ones never made.....

I don't extend him to keep him. If he goes, he goes. If he stays 3 yrs is enough. If he's good, I trade him next yr or the year after once the remainder on his contract turns into an asset for a trade - i.e one to two years out.

How do you change ND's incentives? As it stands any conference they join reduces their take.