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Lol what an absolute joke. But at least we e now won the Eagles game.

Miller is useless.

He changes the momentum multiple times a game. Usually in the right direction, but he also does needlessly stupid crap like that.

If McD made the same challenge as Harbaugh just did,how many fire McD threads?

If the Bills gave up a TD the way the Lions just did, this board would have a 700 page thread using it as proof McD should get fired.

Cortes 100% had a good year in 22. I admittedly forgot him because of his lost year this year. I’d argue that Montgomery was decent with the Yanks and my Cards but he improved when they tweaked some things in Texas. Not sure how that reflects positively on the Yanks development. Next year will be interesting for him. SD had a weird year this year with an odd locker room. I don’t think Soto was the cause or that his year was some sort of catastrophe. The only position player on that entire team who met expectations in 2023 was Kim, who far exceeded them. Their pitching was ok +, but their season never got rolling at all. Soto is too talented to just disappear. I think he will have a strong year if healthy and he’s usually healthy. Boras is his agent though……

I’m not saying that can’t happen in NY or anywhere else but it is inaccurate with regard to current day Soto. He has more plate discipline than the rest of the Yankees roster combined and hits to all fields.

This is spot on but one could argue it is less supplemental to the Dodgers than it would have been to the supposed runner up, Toronto. It’s not like the Dodgers have ticket sales issues but I suppose they could increase the price per. Ohtani is a gigantic star anywhere and there is always room for more in LA but Toronto had other things to offer such as capturing the marketing landscape of an entire new country. Granted it’s only Canada but still. Interesting choice.

Please list for me the humans on planet Earth that haven’t said something incredibly stupid in the last four years. I’ll hang up and listen.

Lol “the arms keep coming” yet not one of the guys you mentioned has had any impact whatsoever in MLB. Yanks = Cleveland + huh? So when are the Yanks brining up Bibee, Allen and Williams? How about Seattle? Last couple years netted Kirby, Woo, Bryce Miller and Gilbert. Dodgers? Lol. Astros, D-Backs, O’s, Tigers, Braves, Miami, have all inarguably been VASTLY more successful at the MLB level and I’m being generous by truncating my list. IYHO who is the best MLB level pitcher the Yanks have developed I. The last 3 years? 5?

Pardon me Bill, you played the Chattanooga choo-choos.

Anytime. Sorry if I haven’t saved you lately. I didn’t realize the new screen name was you. I’ll be looking out for you now.

Lol the Yankees developing arms? Who? Anyone except the Rays? Shirley. Did you watch a single game of Seattle or Cleveland this year? Dodgers? DBacks? They all brought up more good arms this season than the Yankees have in the last five years.

Soto is not a pull hitter. They actually did a little thing on MLB channel last night mapping all his fly balls this year and he would have hit 5 fewer HRs this year if all his games were played in Yankee stadium. Maybe he changes his approach but why mess with things? Soto will be tough to re-sign but the Yankees do have money. Boras has a very strong bias toward having his players hit the market. In any event Soto is a complete player and will help the Yankees in 2024. In a way the Padres had a weak hand but……it was still Juan Soto.

The upside for the Yankees is clear. The downside is limited but real. 2024 Soto is 100% going to help the Yankees. If anything, he has too much plate discipline….a concept that has been lost on impact Yankee players for more than 5 years. That’s a big plus and maybe it’ll rub off on other players. He is an elite overall hitter and player…..another big plus. I’d put him top 10 overall players in baseball. He is NOT a pull hitter so the RF stuff is overblown, but he would produce offense in a park the size of the Grand Canyon so no worries. If the moronic Yankees try to make him a pull hitter????? I doubt they mess with him though. Grisham is an even better defender than Bader but a lesser hitter if you can believe it. The Yankees ruined Bader’s already meh offense. Grisham arrives pre-ruined and never having had any. The Padres did well to dump him. Still, he could help the Yankees in some ways. If he can keep Judge out of CF for some games and lower 99’s injury risk then he can help the Yanks. He sucks with the bat but is a gamer which is also something the Yankees have lacked. I think he will be popular in NY. The Padres did ok too. They were not going to be able to keep Soto long term. They got numbers in return. The catcher will help fill a backup role as they currently have an unproven injury prone young catcher with big upside in Campusano. If Higgy can spell him for 50ish games that will help. Both are placeholders for ultra phenom Salas who won’t arrive for a couple years. The pitching stuff is a numbers game for them. King is ok and Thorpe is a long term maybe. I don’t know much about Vazquez but have seen enough of Brito to know that he is a throw in. Maybe with a change of scenery? Probably not. They definitely lost overall on Soto having given up Hassell, Wood, Abrams and Gore. Yikes. With one year left they weren’t getting anything close to that back. It would have been nice if they traded with a team that had actual prospects to offer but the Yankees cupboard is utterly bare. Thorpe was their best pitching prospect and now becomes the Padres distant 3rd best…….maybe. He’s not in the same galaxy as Lesko and probably not Snelling. Still, they needed quantity. Looking beyond 2023 for the Yankees, their ability to retain Soto will tell the tale for this trade. A quick Google of “Juan Soto agent” might get a chuckle or two about the prospects of that, but it’s probably worth the shot for the desperate, bereft team with skilled organizations in their division like TB and Bal and a good chance Ohtani will be up north for 8 years. FWIW I like the Verdugo thing for them. Not sure how they will be able to jettison the comic book character known as Giancarlo, but who knows? The 2024 Yankees are definitely better and IMO could contend if there are pitching turnarounds with guys like Montas and Rodon. Doubtful but possible. Beyond 2024 money is the only answer for them as their minor league system is garbage. It’s bottom 5 in MLB and probably even overrated at that. The good players they have in it get hyped as great then mismanaged….see Volpe….the decent prospects are also hyped as future Mantles…..see Dominguez….and the nobodies even get mentions…..see Periera or whatever his name is. Also they’re stupid so look for them to trade undervalued assets like Peraza.

1. Shirley you can’t be serious. Wouldn’t it have been a good idea to make their statement about getting in when they played Bama? 2. The point is that both FSU and Ga have players that have ALREADY put on the uniform for the last time, so the game will be vastly different than a playoff game would have been for both teams. Seriously? Bama got in because of the 1990s? Do you have money on DePaul for March Madness?

Well then Bama plays the non top heavy part of the SEC. They aren’t just playing with themselves. How do they get credit for playing a “tough” schedule when the teams they played were beaten by ACC teams? The whole thing is pretzel logic of the highest order.

I called DHop a shiny object during all the off-season hype but that commercial about his mom got to me.

Bama too busy playing tough teams like Chattanooga to bother scheduling a “trash” ACC team?

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

There are still some. Bochy is pretty good.

The one 2nd graders do? Oooooh scary.

I know time flies and all and I hate to be the one to break it to you but Rob Johnson wasn’t ll that recent.

It could be college where teams get eliminated for having an injured player. Tonya Harding is going to start up a new company and make $$$$$$$$$.

Is that 98.3 or 102.7? I forget.