Recent content by MikeTisdale

I'm sure Happ would gladly accept the QO, but I highly doubt the Cubs are going to give him one. All signs point to them trying to re-sign Suzuki, and I doubt they want $50MM+ in 2027 dollars tied up in two 32 year old corner outfielders, especially when PCA's money really kicks in next year...

Hindsight is 20/20, but Schwarber was coming off a well below league average batting season (shortened by COVID), was unplayable in LF (NL did not have DH in 2021), and would have cost around $10MM in arbitration that they couldn't have recouped if he was batting anywhere around his career line...

My brother was at Bradley when they had that stretch in the zenith of the Missouri Valley where they were good (made a sweet 16), and it was one of the only college stadiums at that time where you could buy beer (since they play off campus). Those student sections got WILD.

Yea I think they don't let the student section buy beer, which is absurd. They should not only be allowed to buy beer (of age), those beers should be $1

They're not at the point of the rebuild where they need to do this (and hamper SP development), but they could easily build a competent bullpen out of the AAA rotation arms they have. Spending real money there should ALWAYS the worst case scenario - RPs are fickle by nature. The rotation is...

His prospect rep was all defense so if he's actually able to hang around as a league average or slightly above hitter, then he's definitely the better option than Crooks long term. But a 22 year old catcher who put up a 116 wRC+ in his first taste of the majors is definitely exciting. Whoever...

Just having a bunch of rich alumni isn't the key. I mean that helps, but if that's all it took, then Harvard and Yale would dominate college sports. Getting donors of all levels involved is pretty important outside of the guys like Gies who can just underwrite a whole sport if they wanted too...

You're not even looking at this objectively. Biggest recent naming rights sale was Arkansas, which is $5.4MM/yr. for 13 years ($70MM total). What's the present value of that? $38MM (10% discount rate)? Well, we got $100MM NOW (allegedly, not sure they officially said how Gies' gift was...

That game specifically was a just a turd. Had a double(ish) digit lead with around 6-7 minutes left then Wisconsin couldn't miss for awhile and our O-rebounding got frustrating with bad bounces right to Wisconsin (doing this from memory, but that should be generally correct). Then Wisconsin...

Yea when a 60 year old controlling owner of a $15ish billion cap privately owned conglomerate who just happens to be a sports nut gives your school a quarter of a billion dollars in a relatively short time frame, you give him basically anything he wants (within reason) to keep him happy and keep...

Guy is about to be the #1 prospect in baseball when people make their lists over the winter. About to make the whole team out of catchers.

35 year old Keaton Wagler about to be the answer to a trivia question years from now - "who was the last LA Clippers 1st round pick?" Feel bad he's going to be stuck on a re-building team with no picks (nightmare) - but he'll probably get flipped to a competing team FOR picks in a few years.

I actually love this change - every single person has a phone that can tell them scores at a moments notice without having to wait for a scroll. I'd rather have more of the screen filled with action than a strip at the bottom. But in reality, ESPN isn't just going to give up the ability to...

A fun rumor around the trade deadline was they were trying to buy low on Jackson Holliday and move him to 3B. They need to do something to raise the ceiling over this offseason, and that would certainly raise it (floor can't get much lower at 3B). I said here when this team started the year that...

The simplest solution here is to just keep the kingfisher the unofficial mascot but subtly have him around so kids can get attached, wait for all blue haired donors who are willfully ignorant in thinking there's a greater than 0% chance the Chief comes back to die out, then officially make the...