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And doesn't Brown only have two more years left on his contract? Wouldn't make any sense to hold onto him. Plus once they get Brown I'm presuming they'd no longer be burdened with that 1:1 tax apron trading rule and more picks could come from him than they could with Giannis. If Herro/Brown are next-traded, could we expect the Bucks to start trading for some bad contracts and getting picks with that, too? I wonder if a secondary benefit from all of this is that Ryan Rollins will be asked to take way more shots and we'll get to see just where his ceiling is. I didn't see enough games last year, so I'm not sure how to think of him. Is he a possible future star or more like a "Military 8" because of the lack of talent around him?

Yesterday I got home and looked up the long highlights of the US-Aus match. We won 2-0 so I was of course happy and excited. Only after I watched did I notice that the video was from a couple years ago, so I queued up the recent one and got to watch that, too. It was like getting to watch the Packers win different playoff games twice in the same day.

I wouldn't eat it, but I can see it. Cranberries in sauerkraut is kind of a Russian thing, so raisins in coleslaw seems like a natural transition. But people put fruit in regular salad, which seems like basically the same thing and equally off-putting.

I'm largely just addicted to all the "people discover America" videos. Just awesome. Saw a Korean guy in Mexico waiving around a Mexican flag and getting mobbed by everyone who also put a sombrero on him and everyone with the biggest smiles having an amazing time. No, obviously not the US, but whatever. I hear the US is a really good team. Not my sport but it's always still worth watching.

This is awesome! Good for him securing a rich future and good for us securing a long-term star defensive CF. Kinda cancels out our reason to keep Perkins around as a defensive sub. Hard to see Frelick leaving so shortly after, especially with Lockridge still out. But I won't hold my breath for him next season.

I'm never much for trading prospects, but I could see a need to trade prospect depth for other prospects. I'd go for trading Jett for a catching prospect like Briceno or a SP prospect.

Says a lot about our coaches, too. Maybe it's a specific type of player they're better able to tweak, but they've been very good for a lot of years at improving performance. 4/$58 is my guess at his next contract if it's with somebody else. Nice plus a guy who can play two positions. I assume his LF defense gets better with more reps.

Oh, you're right:) Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Isn't there another week to go before Super 2 status kicks in? Certainly a team with budget constraints is going to make sure to squeeze out that extra year of arbitration out of a player. I just wish Yelich could play 1b to make Bauers in LF a little more common. We give up a decent amount of defense with Chourio in CF, but the lack of offense is getting to be a real problem. Really no reason we should be losing 1-0 games against a middling SP. Maybe at some point you have to say that at the worst you'll get the same offense out of Lara (or Pratt or Jett) than you're getting right now out of Frelick/Perkins/Rengifo/Ortiz that it becomes something of a no-loss situation to call them up.

Dude what a terrific article! I've been as anxious as everybody else to see our big-time prospects and have been wondering just how close they are. It almost sounds like they're pressing a little bit knowing they're a step away.

I still like it from the Browns perspective, particularly with the possibility they get in a bidding war with the Jets to get the #1 next year.

People gonna get rekt on the SpaceX IPO which I hear is on the 12th. I guess there's not much early-investor money that has a lockup period at all. Plus I'm kinda expecting a lot of money will move into that and the rest of the market will have a pretty rough day.

Sure, but on the flip side the NBA can better ensure the Knicks get to draft Patrick Ewing and not some low-ratings team.

Yuck! That would of course put them in the exact same position they're in now. Actually worse, since you wouldn't be getting proportional talent back. Maybe their ambitions changed, since I'd read that when Cleveland called, the Bucks asked for Mobley and all their available picks. I guess I'll root for Orlando since Jonathan Isaac is my favorite non-Buck (Middleton doesn't count).

Oh man it's feeling a lot like December 15th. So close but you gotta have just a little more patience!