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Shouldn't our starting 3B today be at home working on bracketology for ESPN?

Looks accurate from some quick searching. Liberty bought the team in 2007. Twenty year TV contract expires in 2007.

Wasn't the TV deal done well before the Liberty purchase? I thought that went back further, and was more about propping up TWAOL stock, but could be misremembering.

Baseball is the only sport where I'm neutral as to whether I watch the game on TV or listen to the audio stream. A good play-by-play team can paint the picture well enough that you can almost see what's happening in your mind. It's not just old guy nostalgia either. I grew up listening to...

I'm not sure Trout does want to go to Philly. I read an article in the past couple of years that addressed this with Trout. He said something to the effect of not wanting the pressure of going home at this stage of his career. There is definitely some logic to his thinking if that is indeed...

I would be all in on Snitker if he would do two things, which AA would likely have to mandate. 1) hire a bench coach with an understanding of and commitment to analytics, rather than a fellow dinosaur, and 2) actually use that coach's input for in-game decision making, lineup construction...

Great points. Longhorn fans are the worst.

Doing a little snooping online, it appears that Hart lives in Atlanta (although he is a Missouri native and graduate of UM). I couldn't find any salary information for him...I have zero idea what either network pays their staff.

I wonder which job pays better. Hart is really good at football PBP.

It makes too much sense to move either Powell or Ingram to TV. I don’t really have a preference to which goes where as I think they are both outstanding and I probably watch and listen to an equal number of games.

Very possible, but if that happens that still doesn't give any of us the right to put it in that golddigger's butt while she's passed out or asleep.

Not guilty ≠ innocent. All that means is that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute or convict, or that a prosecutor didn't feel it was worth the effort. See also: Orenthal James Simpson.

It couldn't hurt to have a Razorback good luck charm on the bench.

It depends on how much room you have in your current budget obviously. If you are fairly well stacked and still have some room in your budget it could make sense to spend more now than later. If you're going to use that extra money to acquire more talent to help now, you defer the salary...

It just feels like the way the government finances itself with deficit spending. Kick the can down the road and let it be someone else's problem. It's not as simple as using the time value of money. If paying too many unproductive players in 2028 causes your team to not be able to afford to...

Or they have seen time and time again where a team can't afford to fill roster holes because of an older dead weight player taking up too much payroll space. Your argument isn't wrong, but there is also value in matching cost to production.

That is an interesting point. Does the cap salary (average AAV) transfer when a player gets traded in the middle of a contract? Or does the acquiring team get him at the average of remaining years on the deal? Example: Murphy counts $12.17MM/year towards luxury tax for the life of his Braves...

My favorite was when we didn't acquire him until after spring training, yet he refused to take a minor league "rehab" assignment for a couple of weeks to get his timing back or to get in shape. What a dick.

The ship of being stacked at every position including DH has long since sailed. I'd settle for no automatic outs in those last three spots, with competent (at least league average) defense at SS. TDA at his 2022 level isn't elite as a hitter, but he keeps someone like 2022 Ozuna/Rosario on the...

You all are going to feel silly when the RoZuna platoon puts up about 8.0 WAR as our LF platoon.