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HOW IMPORTANT IS TOP SEED
BACK TO BACK CRYING ---IT'S EASIER THAN EVER STOP IT. ---82 GAMES IS PART OF THE PROCESS A MARATHON........IT'S NOT JUST LETS GET TO THE PLAYOFFS... SPOLIED. ---WE DO BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK SHOWS.....
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-BROTHER STORY
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-WHY SF
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BASEBALL W OUT BEER LIVE??
| Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) | |
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It’s not a blockable offense, but I’m gonna start muting folks who constantly whine about beer prices and think it should be tied to team performance. If you don’t like the price of beer, DON’T BUY BEER. Might come as a shock to some of you bros, but you can enjoy ball without it
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TOPICS:
TROUT NEW DEAL:
WORTH IT
-DOES IT MATTER IF HE DOESN'T HAVE "IT" OR PLAY FOR A HIGHER PROFILE TEAM?
-MLB WISHES HE DID
| eith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) | |
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Here’s the devil in the Angels details:
15 career post-season plate appearances to date, and not the slightest hint that there are going to be any more in the near future. twitter.com/sportscenter/s… | |
| Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) | |
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BREAKING: Star center fielder Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are finalizing a record-breaking 12-year contract worth more than $430 million, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. Details: es.pn/2HsS1tv
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| Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) | |
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Angels and OF Mike Trout are finalizing a 12-year, $430+ million extension, per @JeffPassan.
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| Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) | |
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Trout, Angels agreement is precisely 426.5M. 360M 20 year extension plus 66.5M in place. @JeffFletcherOCR 1st on 369, @JeffPassan 1st with news
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| Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) | |
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Happiest guy in America other than Mike Trout right now: Angels GM Billy Eppler, who never has to answer another will-you-entertain-Trout-trade-offers question
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-KRAFT COULD HAVCE CHARGES DROPPED:
| Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) | |
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I'm no legal expert, but this seems like a weird offer. twitter.com/WSJSports/stat…
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-WARRIORS CRYING ABOUT BACK TO BACK ---82 IS PART OF THE PROCESS
-CAN WE PLAY THE FANS BOOING LACOB 8 YEARS AGO FOR PERSPECTIVE???
| Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) | |
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Warriors have come a long way in seven years. twitter.com/thisdayinsuck/…
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| This Day in Suck (@Thisdayinsuck) | |
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3/19/2012- Joe Lacob is booed unmercifully when he inexplicably decides to speak last during the retirement ceremony of Chris Mullin's #17. pic.twitter.com/7WVsawHIrj
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NCAAS:
| For The Win (@ForTheWin) | |
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The 11 biggest first-round NCAA tournament upsets of the last decade pic.twitter.com/yLWE17YrJ0
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WARRIORS:
MIKE TROUT NEW DEAL:
-LEBRON BLOCKED BY SOME KNICK AT THE HORN --HE'S GETTING OLDER BEFORE OUR EYES--HIS GAME IS. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN SLOWLY.
-DOES FRAZIER HAVE A POINT ON LEBRON OR IS HE PILING ON?
49ERS: UNSUNG HERO - P
| Matt Maiocco (@MaioccoNBCS) | |
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After the first wave of the free-agent signing period, here’s a look at the #49ers projected starters. There will be some competition at a handful (or so) of positions before the draft picks get in the mix, too.
nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/… | |
49ers' updated depth chart: Free-agency haul points to the focus of next month's draft
BREER:
| Spotrac (@spotrac) | |
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49ers 4 new multi-year deals:
Kwon Alexander’s 4 yr, $54M deal can be 1 yr, $14.5M Tevin Coleman’s 2 yr, $8.5M deal can be 1 yr, $3.6M Dee Ford’s 5 yr, $85.5M deal can be 1 yr, $21M Kyle Nelson’s 4 yr $4.54M deal can be 1 yr, $1.3M | |
| Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) | |
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The structure to the Ford deal is like Kaepernick's was, with April 1 roster bonuses giving the team time to decide on whether or not to go forward.
And the team basically paid $3 million over the tag to get 4 years of team options back. Niners killed it. | |
| Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) | |
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Details on #49ers OLB Dee Ford’s 5-year contract, which can turn into a 1-year, $20.5 million pact:
$19.75M fully guaranteed by next week. Remaining $25.25M guarantee is for injury only, with $13.65M “rolling” to full guarantee April 1, 2020. Base value $85M. Max $87.5M. | |
-EXPECTATIONS NOW AFTER SOLID FA.??
-PREAAG ALWAYS STRUCTURES DEALS RIGHTS---HUGE THING
-NEED A WR ALMOST AS MUCH OR ORE THAN PASS RUSHER NOW.....
KING:
49ERS DIDN'T MATCH UP W/ GIANTS:
So when the deal got to the one and the three and Peppers, Gettleman and Dorsey agreed. By my measure, the Giants got about 80 percent value for Beckham; I’m not as high on Peppers as Gettleman obviously is—or as Gettleman has to be. Gettleman had to decide whether he wanted to leverage the Cleveland offer with other teams. Because Beckham’s stock had been tarnished, it’s doubtful, for example, that he could have fetched better than 17-95-Peppers from the 49ers for picks and/or a player in the next two drafts. The Niners have been sniffing around Beckham for months. But they’re just not a good match right now. The Giants need high picks and/or productive players. The Niners wouldn’t have wanted to trade a high pick this year or next plus rising star defensive tackle DeForest Buckner … and the Giants might not have wanted to settle, say, for next year’s first-rounder and this year’s second-rounder (36th overall) plus a lesser player than Buckner (say safety Jaquiski Tartt). The Giants need help now. So Gettleman took the bird in the hand. He lanced the boil.
NFL:
DID ANTONIO BROWN FAKE CRAZY - BREER:
’m not saying it was or it wasn’t. All I’m saying is that I don’t think my theory of Tuesday was far off (or off at all). Think about it. If you really wanted out, you’d want the problems you had to seem unfixable. And what can’t you fix? You can’t fix crazy. So Brown makes sure the Steelers think he’s just crazy enough to do anything, and gets a ticket out of town, along with a fat new contract. Once it’s over? Mustache gone. And Brown’s crazy like a fox. And I’m not crazy for thinking this all along.
BOTH KING AND BREER CONFORM FA IS PHONY: FOOLS GOLD
BREER:
Most good teams didn’t spend. And here’s proof, using Spotrac’s offseason spending tracker for 2019 as our guide:
• Five of the six lightest-spending teams made the playoffs last year, and two of the three lightest spenders played in the Super Bowl. Ten of the 12 playoffs teams from last year are in the bottom 14 in spending thus far. And two of the four in that cluster that didn’t make the playoffs (Atlanta, Carolina) have been in the Super Bowl and made the playoffs multiple times over the last four years.
• That leaves two of the 18 heaviest spenders that made the playoffs. One was eighth (Philly), the other was 12th (Baltimore).
• It’s not unusual that it’d skew this way—good teams don’t spend because they’ve already paid a lot of their own guys and likely don’t feel as desperate. But a quick look at the recent past shows that this year the divide between the habits of the haves and have-nots was much more pronounced.
• That leaves two of the 18 heaviest spenders that made the playoffs. One was eighth (Philly), the other was 12th (Baltimore).
• It’s not unusual that it’d skew this way—good teams don’t spend because they’ve already paid a lot of their own guys and likely don’t feel as desperate. But a quick look at the recent past shows that this year the divide between the habits of the haves and have-nots was much more pronounced.
KING:
Just Look At 2018
While getting excited about the new class of free agents, remember these Pro Football Focus ratings of some of the richest players who changed teams in the 2018 free-agency class.
Kirk Cousins ($28 million per year) was PFF’s 11th-rated quarterback.
Case Keenum ($18 million per) was the 28th-rated quarterback.
Sammy Watkins ($16 million per) was the 38th-rated wide receiver.
Nate Solder ($15.5 million per) was the 38th-rated tackle.
Trumaine Johnson ($14.5 million per) was the 43rd-rated cornerback.
Allen Robinson ($14 million per) was the 35th-rated wide receiver.
Andrew Norwell ($13.3 million per) was the 13th-rated guard.
Malcolm Butler ($12.2 million per) was the 73rd-rated cornerback.
Ryan Jensen ($10.5 million per) was the 36th-rated center.
Case Keenum ($18 million per) was the 28th-rated quarterback.
Sammy Watkins ($16 million per) was the 38th-rated wide receiver.
Nate Solder ($15.5 million per) was the 38th-rated tackle.
Trumaine Johnson ($14.5 million per) was the 43rd-rated cornerback.
Allen Robinson ($14 million per) was the 35th-rated wide receiver.
Andrew Norwell ($13.3 million per) was the 13th-rated guard.
Malcolm Butler ($12.2 million per) was the 73rd-rated cornerback.
Ryan Jensen ($10.5 million per) was the 36th-rated center.
Seriously: How many GMs who signed those players, 12 months later, wish they hadn’t? Keenum in Denver, Watkins in Kansas City, Johnson in New York and Butler in Tennessee … Those would be the top on my list.
The Contracts Are Phony
Some insightful work done by Jason Fitzgerald at Over The Cap. I asked him for the total number of contracts of three years or longer in the last few free-agency periods. Let’s isolate on 2015 and 2016. Of the 197 lengthy (three years or more) free-agent contracts signed in those two years, 121 of the players never made it to the third years of their deals. That’s 61.4 percent of big free-agents, gone after one or two years. The clear majority of free-agent contracts beyond two years: window-dressing.
The Belichick Way
You saw the pictures, I assume, of Bill Belichick and girlfriend Linda Holliday in Barbados on the weekend before free-agency began. They have phones there, and Belichick was using them. “Don’t let those photos fool you,” Rosenhaus the agent told me Sunday. “We talked one morning at 4:30 about Trent Brown. They wanted to keep him.” Brown, of course, went to Oakland. As Mike Reiss reported, the Patriots were heavily into the Adam Humphries bidding before the slot receiver went to the Titans. But as usual, New England was mostly a Triple-A player in free agency, willing to play the long game while Trey Flowers and Brown left for gigantic contracts. New England will be content to use their six picks in the first three rounds (32, 56, 64, 73, 97, 101) and at least five in the first three rounds next year as currency. It’s easy to wonder why other teams don’t copy this model, but I wonder: Why don’t other teams copy this model?
GIANTS:
| Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) | |
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Giants optioned Ray Black and Tyler Beede.
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VERY TRADEABLE
| Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) | |
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Now Bumgarner is done. 6 2/3 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K (including his final batter). Ovation as he walks off. #SFGiants
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MLB:
IS FORTNITE STILL A THING?
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Carlos Santana was so livid that his Phillies teammates played Fortnite during games in 2018 that he grabbed a bat and smashed a TV. With an overhauled team that includes Bryce Harper, what have the Phillies done to address their clubhouse? Story at ESPN: es.pn/2HEWkBh pic.twitter.com/tou1coHToL
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