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  1. Laika
    Upon reflection, I'm not sure that adding more playoff teams would increase competitiveness at all. If the playoffs are easier to make, does that not incentivize mediocrity? Owners of teams like the Rays could actually lower their bars since all they have to do is limp into the playoffs with ~85 wins half of the time, and that will produce enough lucky playoff runs to excite their 17 fans. s***** teams like the Padres and Reds and White Sox are already spending.
  2. Laika
    It's different in baseball because of the pitchers. A mediocre team that limps to 85 wins in the season can have an Ace that makes them the heavy favourite in a wild card game. It's not like football and the other football, where winner take all games can be random but are still essentially the full rosters of both teams fighting each other.
  3. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Well he's probably a downgrade for any of a decent team's top 6 forwards and he's not a bottom 6 forward. Strikes me as a "negative WAR" hockey player tbh but I don't know what the fancy stats say
  4. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    A contender would want Galchenyuk? Hmmm
  5. Laika
    Seems great. Manfred for HOF?
  6. Laika
    Man, that would be so frustrating as a hardcore fan of that team. They were rumoured to be giving up Luis Rengifo for Stripling and Pederson. There were other names involved so it might have ended up an even deal, but imagine having that rug yanked out?
  7. Laika
    Yeah, there are multiple avenues to victory in a lawsuit like that: 1) An actual victory in court 2) A settlement because the other party wants to keep a lid on everything 3) A legal loss, but a moral victory; the other party has to squirm, is exposed publicly, etc. 4) A legal loss, and a moral loss (think the case getting dismissed quickly) BUT being involved in something noteworthy somehow gives the plaintiff benefits (book deals, future jobs, etc.)
  8. Laika
    Only one year of control though. I can't see it making sense for Toronto to pay futures for him. I'd be interested in Ross Stripling - three years of control there. He was going to the Angels in that.
  9. Laika
    Enough people are taking cracks at Sean Manaea that he probably moves today. The cost is shaping up to be something like two solid prospects, or an interesting young arm + a solid prospect. I am countering most offers so come at him fast if actually interested.
  10. Laika
    I don’t think this was stated yet but if you trade for a prospect that does not have a green flag but was on the other owner’s farm, you can ask a commissioner to put them on your farm. Only makes sense and it’s how the kids do it in LOD
  11. Laika
    Probably should just gut the rest of my old rotation and try something new so Sean Manaea and Chris Bassitt very available. Open to all types of deals. Current best offer for Manaea is a disgusting prospect who strikes out more often than I fart
  12. Laika
    I still think the Red Sox f***ed up David Price at half of his contract is probably what he would cost as a free agent. There should have been no absolute need to attach Betts to him, and possibly dampen the return for Betts in the process. Mookie is not your normal star player - he's a total package superstar and likely the 2nd best player in baseball. I think this return for him lacks a certain type of upside. This isn't even obviously more than Goldschmidt fetched.
  13. Laika
    Apparently it's Graterol + the pick + an older platoon prospect for Maeda and $10M. The money probably means the Twins did slightly better than the original trade as I can't imagine the pick is worth more than $5M.
  14. Laika
    Puig is going to get almost nothing. Kind of crazy. Kevin Pillar might come back for $1M!
  15. Laika
    Rays also have Tsutsugo as a s***** LF option. Maybe the Padres are going to poach Betts
  16. Laika
    Jim he has sucked for a long time. No, a couple of months of mediocre AAA stats did not save him from being an Oriole (his destiny).
  17. Laika
    If they keep him it will have nothing to do with the second half. One last (low cost) gamble on the tools is all it would be.
  18. Laika
    Love him already
  19. Laika
    Undecided. Probably one of the imports but I’ll research closer to the draft
  20. Laika
    What’s this deal? Honeywell is an interesting one to evaluate
  21. Laika
    Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas remain available. To get a valuable bat I'd be willing to attach a good prospect to them (Matt Liberatore, Daniel Lynch, Shane McClanahan, Seth Beer, Braden Shewmake... maybe Ian Anderson) Currently keeping 3 of the following 4 but would deal: Avisail Garcia Will Harris Buster Posey Christian Walker Cuts on the cheap: Willians Astudillo Christin Stewart Brock Burke Darwinzon Hernandez Joe Palumbo Collin McHugh Carlos Estevez Damon Jones or Jarren Duran (green flag; MiLB eligible)
  22. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Holy f*** they are going to miss the playoffs when Matthews scores like 55 goals. The Leafs are the Mets of hockey.
  23. Laika
    Well, there is no God in a literal sense. Negativity towards a non-existent God (literal sense) has no real function in most instances but to frustrate and harm the human directing the negativity. Positivity towards a non-existent God (literal sense) does arguably have a function. The reason people believe in things is deeply rooted in our nature, evolution (both biological and social) and human history. Alignment with archetypal sources of order, or a platonic good, or whatever you want to call it tends to make humans better and more functional (zealots and extremists aside). There's ancient wisdom in religious stories and traditions that modern people practicing middle-school skepticism are too quick to abandon. In a circular way this makes the concept of God "true". Let us pray
  24. Laika
    Ouch
  25. Laika
    I think he served it all last year and pitched in September
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