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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    What a dud this year's MLB offseason has been so far outside of Milwaukee. Is everyone going to sit on their hands at the Winter Meetings until they get to the airport tomorrow night/thursday morning before anything significant happens? Big ol' yawner at this point
  2. Fear The Chorizo
    This would actually be a pretty cool way to get interest ramping up for the regular season....if they can structure it in a way that doesn't impede the actual point of Spring Training and the incentive for teams is enough to warrant them actually caring about how they perform, but not something carrying such a high incentive as to strain the normal ramp up pitchers have to get ready for the regular season grind. Maybe halfway into Spring Training, identify one of each team's clubs (most spring training has games for multiple rosters to get onfield time for everyone) as the contestant, and then track their standings into the last week or so of Spring Training. Then take the top two clubs in the Cactus and Grapefruit league standings to play in a 4 team, single elimination tournament - the four clubs get a mix of player shares (similar to WS payments), competitive balance tax/payroll incentives (either a deduction teams could use towards getting below the luxury tax threshold, or a credit teams could use to put towards their following season's payroll), and maybe a sandwich pick or two - with the winning club getting a bit more than than the others.
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    I think Chourio is on the OD roster unless he gets injured in Spring Training, or has a terrible spring. And yeah, he's far from the 2nd highest paid player for 2024 - the significant chunk of the ~$80M guaranteed in the contract he just signed will get paid out in years 5-8 of that deal, until then he's likely making little more than he would otherwise have in pre- and early arbitration years on an annual basis. Specific annual cost details haven't really been released yet where sites like Spottrac can even lay out the exact dollar amounts Chourio will make each season.
  4. Fear The Chorizo
    The in-season tournament is perfect for the NBA this time of year, because their regular season means absolutely nothing and we're in the stretch run for the NFL regular season/college football rivalry/championship weekends, plus NHL seasons are rolling...in other words, absolutely nobody cares about NBA regular season games in November/early December, so anything they can do to draw some sort of general fan interest and get their teams to actually play with sustained effort this time of year is a good thing. I don't see how a similar format would would work at the MLB level, because teams just aren't going to alter pitching matchups that dramatically, and the frequency of games during the MLB regular season has to be almost daily, so a travel schedule for any sort of MLB tournament doesn't really work. For the NBA, if teams care about the in season tourney they just play their stars more frequently instead of giving them rest games off this time of year.
  5. Fear The Chorizo
    Rich Eisen went on and on about how much Love reminds him of Rodgers, the sidearm and backfoot throws and the zip and accuracy on the intermediate stuff. I feel like they all tried doing the same stuff with Rodgers when he first broke in - showing the off platform throws and jump throws and all that stuff....to be honest most NFL quarterbacks do that in today's game. Two great quarterbacks who wound up being totally different in how they played the game. Hopefully Love leans on his own unique qualities and develops into an elite qb, too! What has me most excited about Love is it seems like he's found a rhythm and the on-time throws he's making where he's driving the ball 15-20 yards downfield effortlessly - and the line of scrimmage checks seem to be getting communicated across the personnel to the point where we aren't seeing multiple receivers running the same routes and winding up on top of each other, too. Much easier for talented pass catchers to get open if they're spread across the whole field, and accuracy naturally improves when you're throwing on-time. What separates Rodgers from just about any other quarterback besides Mahomes is how accurate he is with the football on throws from outside the pocket or when the play breaks down. Love is definitely not close to Rodgers in that regard, and that's ok if he understands that and instead uses checkdowns and his own legs to try moving the chains.
  6. Fear The Chorizo
    Was checking NSBB for a similar article discussing PCA's MLB ceiling as a late-inning defensive replacement/pinch runner since his bat resembles several soggy rolls of tp strung onto a wet noodle, but strangely enough there wasn't one.
  7. Fear The Chorizo
    Odds of Ross performing better than Lance Lynn are really good at about 1/10th the price for 2024. Interesting signing if he stays healthy, and if not it's just a flyer that isnt wlexpensive enough to worry about.
  8. Fear The Chorizo
    You guys can keep thinking I'm secretly here just to talk down all things Brewers, but we're at almost a year together and I would think you'd have seen enough to start letting that paranoia go. Honestly, I think time and the growing amount of content being churned out is having the exact opposite effect on many regulars to this message board. There is nothing about Black's 2023 minor league season offensively that should be cause for a potential Brewers' problem moving forward.
  9. Fear The Chorizo
    What is Arnold cooking? We currently have a pretty set 13 pitchers if Ross's deal is an MLB deal. Looks to me like a pretty solid pitching staff....and "pretty set" 13 arms in early December is a good spot to be in right now...by Spring Training at least two of them are going to have some sort of injury issues to deal with - that's just what happens with pitchers. No reason to make any grand tea leaves predictions for a Burnes or Williams trade based on adding a veteran lefty who's familiar with the club and a potential back of the rotation starter returning from injury. those are the type of moves the Brewers make every offseason to solidify depth with their staff.
  10. Fear The Chorizo
    If they really wanted to shed payroll, the Twins should've not given Correa a full NTC to go along with the $30+M annual salary they're giving him the next handful of seasons to miss at least a month of each year and gradually decline offensively with the contract they just signed him to last offseason.
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    He must have shrunk 4 inches since he was drafted - he was listed at 6'2" then...truth is probably somewhere in between, which is just fine for a doubles machine that can fly no matter what position he plays. Really hoping Black is in the Brewers' plans at 3B for 2024 - maybe not opening day, but not long after that if he's hitting in Nashville. Guys with that kind of speed shouldn't be striving for hitting the ball in the air constantly - aim for line drives over flyballs, make solid contact, and get on base. That .428 OBP clip in in ~40 AAA games or the 0.417 overall OBP between AA and AAA for Black last season looks pretty darn good - and over both Frelick's and Turang's 2022 minor league production.
  12. Fear The Chorizo
    If Kelenic wasn't a WI product, we'd all pretty much presume his ceiling was that of an average MLB corner OF, and the most likely career arc for him would be more along the lines of something less than that who never came close to the prospect hype he generated. Then again, the Braves seem to be pretty adept at getting as much offensive production out of guys as they're capable of providing and Kelenic is still just 24...if there's one place he could find a way to reach that potential, it'd be ATL.
  13. Fear The Chorizo
    I tend to agree - but I think it makes the most sense to do an extension like that sometime in the next league year for salary cap relief purposes (i.e., be able to put as much of the cap hit onto year 1 after Rodgers' dead $$ falls off). Plus, they'd get the rest of this season to continue evaluating his performance. I don't know if Love is suddenly deserving of a new lifetime contract sort of extension, but something in the 4-6 year range at market rate is starting to be warranted.
  14. Fear The Chorizo
    Ticked that MLB won't implement some sort of waiver rule changes to prevent what the Angels did last August to skirt themselves back under the luxury tax threshold and avoid significant financial penalties that are, in part, shared across lower-revenue ballclubs from happening again. Could be as simple as locking in an organization's payroll figure that determines the following year's luxury tax accounting right after the 8/1 trade deadline.
  15. Fear The Chorizo
    That was FSU's 3rd string qb last weekend...their primary backup to Travis, the guy who won in the Swamp, will be their starter in the bowl game. As far as other teams making the playoff with backup quarterbacks, OSU, Bama, and Clemson all were selected as CFP participants with backup quarterbacks and some of those teams werent even undefeated, so that argument has no merit IMO. Back in the BCS era, we were subjected to an all-SEC title game with Bama facing LSU for a second time in a game where neither program had an offense worth a darn, but they talked about those great SEC defenses being the reason they both deserved a spot. FSU's defense is legit and has proven as much even more so after Travis got injured. Look at it this way - had Alabama lost to Auburn a couple weeks ago and likely taken themselves out of the CFP conversation regardless of the SEC championship game outcome, and then UGA scratched out a win against them despite losing Bowers and their starting quarterback to injuries that would keep them out of the CFP rounds, would UGA have still gotten one of the four spots or would they have been leapfrogged by multiple teams and left out of the mix despite an undefeated record? The ACC went 6-4 against the SEC this season, btw.
  16. Fear The Chorizo
    I don't think you can set any expectations with a roster so young that's still learning how to do what they're supposed to do individually on the field, let alone learn how to play together, plus dealing with a bunch of key players out with injury - but it's exciting to see things start to come together. Particularly on offense, you can see more variety/imagination with playcalling as players seem to actually be running the correct routes or keeping their blocking assignments. It's just exciting having this team in early December having a playoff spot firmly in their hands if things go well, and giving this roster the chance to experience that sort of pressure as part of the learning process against what looks like a favorable schedule. The play I was most impressed with was actually one that resulted in an incomplete pass late in the game - that misdirection screen pass where all the other receivers flooded the right side of the field at the snap and it left Kraft + 1 blocker on the left side of the field - if the timing was just a bit better and the KC defender wasn't instantly glued to Kraft to give Walker a chance to at least get in front of him, that would've been a a walk-in TD from 15 yards out.
  17. Fear The Chorizo
    Yep - guessing that officiating crew won't be doing the Super Bowl this year - it was keystone cops on that last possession.
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    Other than Mich, OSU, and Penn state, the big ten is a bunch of nobodies. Other than UGA and Bama, the SEC is pretty much a bunch of nobodies, too. FSU and Clemson have both won national titles in the last 10 years - they are far, far better than Iowa and Wisconsin in terms of football programs no matter what conference they play in. I agree with what reps from FSU and the ACC conference have stated, that leaving an undefeated power 5 conference champion out of the CFP when there isn't 5 of them in a given year should not happen, no matter what.
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    Dude was trying to run for a 1st down and was still in bounds....terrible flag call
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    Yeah, but Watson has shown he can be a difference-maker if he could just stay healthy
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    Gosh darn it...you hope it's a cramp. Seemed to be grabbing up pretty high towards his knee from where a hammy would normally be injured
  22. Fear The Chorizo
    I really, really like Wicks...he knows what to do in the slot and gets upfield once he catches the ball
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    Great play!
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    They are playing the team that won the super bowl last season, too...
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    That TE misdirection screen to Kraft was a walk-in TD if the chiefs' defender doesn't make a great play redirecting that route. Feels like they should let them score a td quickly so they at least have a shot with the last possession...maybe the defense will come up with something again
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