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* short-sighted and pathetic idiot who gets hard by smacking women around

No, I now think he is a douchebag. That's confirmed.

Meanwhile Yasiel Puig is just really annoying and nobody wants him. Also, Osuna is toxic because of a peace bond.

Nah it would change things. Right now he has just been accused by a private individual. For all we know the accusations are frivolous and without merit. But if the State actually thinks there is a reasonable chance that he could be convicted of a crime based on the evidence then I think that alone changes things. And if he ends up being convicted of a crime that of course changes everything. The spectrum would read something like: - Accused by private individual but nothing happens = the lightest shade of grey; he probably should face no repercussions professionally - Accused by private individual and faces a civil action but successfully defends the lawsuit OR nothing is proven = light grey - Accused by private individual and faces a civil action and loses in some respect = darker grey - Accused and the State charges him criminally but he is not convicted = dark, dark grey because the state saw evidence they could reasonably convict him of a crime - Accused and the State charges him criminally and he is convicted = almost black; his MLB career should be over It will always be a shade of grey but there can be very different shades of grey. The three middle roads would be followed by something like "MLB and MLB teams should feel free to conduct their own analysis of the facts to determine whether or not they want to offer him employment"

And if you take David Savard + whoever else off the team Montreal still gets crushed. If Tampa Bay was forced to comply with the cap during the playoffs it's not like they would have been without Stamkos or Kucherov.

And if you take David Savard + whoever else off the team Montreal still gets crushed.

A pretty sad finals, really. Not much sport to it. Montreal didn't even have more than 2 or 3 good scoring chances that last game. Caufield's crossbar wasn't even a high percentage opportunity, just a great shot. Anderson's breakaway he didn't even get a good shot off. There may have been 1 or 2 opportunities in tight that Vasilevsky put good poke checks on.

I'm not sure. They will be eyeing competition in 2022 and thinking that 2021 was a lot of bad luck. I'm sure they would trade Rogers and Berrios but I bet they would only do it for specific kinds of deals with MLB talent coming their way and those deals might not be out there.

Was Matt Kemp injuries?

Unless they trade from the MLB roster for pitching. That might open up space for Cruz. Could even be in one big stinky deal if Minnesota is adding pitching.

hahahah I don't feel so good, Mr. Atkins

I understand the slight preference for Bellinger based on demonstrated upside but both are young guys packed with tools, former elite prospects, who have performed at a high level. And one looks broken now while the other is turning into a pretty solid hitter. I don't see a big gap.

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let the other people answer, jim

He seems broken. Bellinger or Moncada in dynasty?

What happened to Chris Paddack?

I remember this. It was a bunch of cryptic twitter posts about "what he did to her" and stuff like that. Then we figured out she was talking about him based on past tweets (she was already part of Jays fan twitter) and someone posted the tweets here. Shortly after that she made some tweet like "I've been found! f***!" and she deleted her account.

Toronto is just going to non-tender an injured Julian Merryweather within the next two seasons and it will be a very sad day.

So you legitimately think it's believable/reasonable that Kucherov was told by the team that they were not going to activate him for weeks/months despite him being completely healthy, and he just went along with it? Like, he was cleared by doctors to play games and the team told him mmmm nah we will activate you in 6 weeks or whatever and he just said sure?

Kind of surprising that they even signed him.

He had f***ing hip surgery in December!!! He was probably "skating" like my grandma for the first few weeks. I don't understand the Stamkos point. Didn't Kucherov not play a single regular season game? Really, I think TB just "benefitted" from the timing of the injuries as far as the cap s*** goes. I actually would not care either way if there is a rule change. If the NHL wants to have the salary cap apply to the playoffs, that's fine. What I find disagreeable is that idea that Nikita Kucherov would willingly not play games for any extended period of time, if he was completely healthy. I don't think professional athletes think like that. Maybe he'd understand if the team said, hey sit out these last couple of games so we can squeeze the cap, but anything longer than that? The guy is chasing personal accomplishments and points totals, trying to climb up the career leaderboards and become a hall of famer, etc.

Man, people are literally saying that Kucherov agreed to stay on LTIR for additional weeks/months to help them circumvent the cap. That's a conspiracy theory. There's no other way to describe it.

I agree that the salary cap is horrible. I f***ing hate it in hockey. For some reason it seems to not be as bad in basketball...

It's what the fans want to see, mate. They want to see $11M in hockey talent sitting in the press box as soon as Connor returns. They demand it

I am prepared to blame the offense more than anything for last night. Spenser Watkins should have been pounded back to the minor leagues with the stuff he was offering but the Blue Jays took an awful lot of unprofessional hacks trying to end his career in one swing and they paid for it.