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Goodell issued a memo indicating that independent investigators will be reviewing the diversity hiring issue as well as the game integrity issue, and he's calling on teams to cooperate fully on both issues. He didn't say who would be investigating the issues, or if either would be made available to the public. It's a step back from the league's initial statement that Flores' claims were without merit. It's going to be a hard case to prove in court, unless others come forward, or there is a paper trail. So far it's just the text from Belichick, which could be interpreted as speculation.
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Now Hue Jackson is walking back his claim about direct payments for losses. This type of false "me, too" stuff doesn't help Flores. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/sport/hue-jackson-nfl-cleveland-browns-not-paid-spt/index.html
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Congrats to you and your son! Sadly, some coaches are ignorant to the importance of that kind of stuff.
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Good choice! It's liberating! -
In a league that is in partnership with sports betting companies, it matters quite a bit if a coach (or player or game official) is given secret payments to effect outcomes of games. The whole enterprise is built on competition. That's why point shaving is a scandal. That's why the Black Sox were a scandal. If a team wants to play young guys for development or be more cautious with holding back stars from the injured list, that's a strategy that might lead to fewer wins-- but that stuff is out in the open for everyone to see. This is much different.
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Indeed. If the Packers had a coach or assistant or player who was paid by ownership to lose on purpose, I imagine it might be a big deal around here.
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Hue Jackson is making similar claims, that he and others were being paid to tank. These are stunning charges. Who would want to play fantasy football, or bet on a game, or buy a ticket, or buy team merchandise or even watch a game if coaches or players were invested in losing?
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You're absolutely right. My mistake on the number being 31. It is not 31. There is just one African American head coach, but there are not 31 white head coaches.
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Absolutely spot on. The difference is between the voting bodies. The BBWAA only gets to decide on the new player retirees, while the special committees vote on all Execs, Umpires, Managers and the reconsidered BBWAA rejects. The HOF seems not to want to clarify their voting standards, but its clear that the different voting bodies don't consider the character issue in the same way.
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I totally believe this to be true. Ross sounds like the Donald Sterling of the NFL. The whole league used racial prejudice in denying brain injury disability payments to black ex-players, so Sterling would fit right in with this group of owners.
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That seems pretty unfair. Do you have some sort of inside information as proof they only want to hire white guys? Inside information? It's out in the open for all to see. 31 white coaches and 1 black coach in a league with such a poor record of hiring minorities that they had to create a rule to force teams to interview minority candidates. Team owners have spoken by their actions that they are disinterested in hiring, retaining or developing minority candidates for head coaching jobs.
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". . .they know who they want to hire from the beginning. . ." is the problem. Especially when all the guys they want to hire are white. The other gem in the story is Flores' claim that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered to pay him $100,000 (extra) for every game the Dolphins lost, in order to tank the season and secure the top draft pick. As if NFL team owners couldn't get any more loathsome. If true, the league should have no other choice but to force Ross to sell the team.
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Fangraphs is much friendlier to Kaat's candidacy, ranking him 28th in career pitcher WAR (70.9). Tommy John was also on the ballot, and he's ranked 22nd (79.4). Mark Buehrle is 81st (52.3). Two other modern day guys who would be considered "compilers", Bartolo Colon (51.0) and Jamie Moyer (48.0) rank 86th and 104th.
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Prior to his domestic violence allegations, I was firmly in favor of Vizquel's candidacy. 2877 hits, nearly 4000 times on base and #1 all time in games played at a premium defensive position. That's worthy of the lifetime achievement award. But I can see why writers who decry PED users or Curt Schilling for failing to show good character would choose to not vote for someone accused of spousal abuse.
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I think Kaat's election was also to recognize his lifetime in baseball. He started pitching at 20 and is still broadcasting games in his 80s. That's a noteworthy thing. He'll be a marginal Hall of Famer, but he won't stand out as being completely out of place. Seven of the ten pitchers with the highest similarity scores (Roberts, Jenkins, Rixey, Blyleven, Wynn, Grimes & Ruffing) are inducted. Buehrle is an interesting comp. He had 8 seasons with an ERA+ of 120 or higher. Kaat had just 6 of those.
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MLB Caught Using 2 Different Baseballs This Past Season
JimH5 replied to rondoman's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
A good reminder that Manfred is not trustworthy with whatever he says or does. -
I'm glad that he got paid, and that's more money than the Brewers can spend on a #2 catcher, but I'll miss him all the same.
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Stearns mentioned for Met's Presidents job
JimH5 replied to brewers888's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
This couldn't be better for Stearns. He is the hot candidate for a job in his hometown, for the team he grew up supporting, for the wealthiest owner in the game, who is willing to wait out his contract. He is about to get paid. -
The brutality is the run itself. For hundreds of years, every bull has been tortured and killed in this ridiculous tradition. There are humane ways of killing livestock, but people like to do it this way. So if some dope gets gored, I shed no tears.
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My heart is warmed by this bit of sunshine: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/man-dies-after-being-gored-spanish-bull-running-festival-2021-10-31/
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For me, this was the season when Stearns earned all the praises that so many on this board had been giving him for years. I'm a tough sell, I guess. The pitching staff was the best in club history. They found a gem in Adames. Eric Lauer and Freddy Peralta advanced their performance more than I ever expected. Tellez was a nice find. Urias showed promise. Aaron Ashby, too. Tyrone Taylor was exciting. They were quick to move on from Orlando Arcia. There were warts, for sure. Yelich and Hiura and JBJ. But I'm excited about 2022, and they should be a playoff team again.
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I agree that we don't take historical context into account when administering judgment on moral and ethical matters. And we should. But Gruden's emails are offensive by the standards of their day as well as of 2021. Had they been exposed then, he would suffer criticism. I don't know if it would cost him his job, but his days as an effective leader of an NFL roster would have been over. Maybe he would have played out the year. But maybe not, too.
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The difference is our access to such stuff. It was unacceptable long ago, too, but unless it was made public (Cosell, Al Campanis, Jimmy the Greek), there was no uproar. Gruden knew that, too, since he filtered it from the public and only shared his racism, homophobia and misogyny with someone he knew to be "safe". Though Bruce Allen couldn't have been the only one to see the real Gruden. Who else in the league and at ESPN was part of his circle of trust?
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None of the slurs reported in the Gruden story were acceptable 10 years ago. Or 30 years ago. Howard Cosell took deserved heat for calling Alvin Garrett a monkey in 1983. Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen have known this stuff was unacceptable their whole lives. But they didn't care because we worship football people and make excuses for their conduct all the time. The ground hasn't shifted on what is and isn't acceptable to say. The only thing that's changed is we found out that Gruden is a terrible guy, instead of him being able to keep that a secret.
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The NFL and ESPN have plenty of people around who knew Gruden was a racist, misogynistic homophobe, and said nothing about it. He's only out now because it went public. Had it remained private, he'd still be the same terrible person, but he would be employed.
