“As I said with @ColinCowherd, [the alcohol] wasn’t there to be consumed, it was there as more of a visual reminder that the world wouldn’t end if I made a mistake,” Buck tweeted. “It was symbolic and one of MANY things I would use, like texting with my wife and kids or calling my mom at half – just to chill.”
He also commended Aikman and said he had “zero to do with it.”
“My only regret with anything I said on Colin’s pod was mentioning @TroyAikman,” Buck tweeted. “Nobody has more integrity or works harder than him and I am blessed to call him one of my best friends on the planet.”
He appeared to call out an NJ.com article that claimed he and Aikman “had a drink or 2” in the headline, asking his followers to “please listen to the podcast starting at the 5 minute mark and let me know where I said that. I didn’t.”
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Which NBA players get the most negative tweets? According to a new study:1. Steph Curry (27.9% of his mentions were negative)
2. Russ Westbrook (24.6%)
3. Joel Embiid (22.3%)
4. LeBron James (22.1%)
5. Kevin Durant (21.7%)
6. Kyrie Irving (20.7%)
READ: basketballnews.c
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| Which NBA players receive the most POSITIVE tweets? According to the study: 1. Kevin Love (53.3% of his mentions were positive) 2. Steph Curry (47.5%) 3. LeBron James (46.7%) 4. Blake Griffin (46.7%) 5. Carmelo Anthony (46.1%) MORE INFO: basketballnews.c | |||||
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Five-time Pro Bowl cornerback Richard Sherman seems to know he will need to find a new team this offseason.
Sherman, who recently finished his third season with the 49ers, told the Sacramento Bee, "It's been made pretty clear" he won't be back with the team next season, citing a recent conversation with 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch.
"It was a good conversation, nothing crazy," Sherman said. "Just a good conversation about where they are and where I am, and their plans. We were both very positive and as good as you can be in a situation like this."
The 32-year-old cornerback played just five games last season after dealing with calf issues. He recorded just a single interception and 18 total tackles in 2020.
Sherman signed a three-year deal with the team prior to the 2018 season and is set to become an unrestricted free agent. He had spent the first seven seasons of his NFL career with the Seahawks and won a Super Bowl. He also made three All-Pro teams.
Sherman told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith earlier this month that he wants to play two more years with a competitive team.
"Very positive. It was an incredible chapter in my career and I got to meet and play with some incredible human beings," Sherman said of his time with San Francisco. "I met some phenomenal coaches, and obviously the relationships that were forged will be lifetime connection and my relationship with 'The Faithful' has obviously evolved during that time, which has been a pretty cool arc in the story. And I'm grateful for it."
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Now the trio enters the final guaranteed year of their contracts. They embark together on a season that could represent the final breakup of the most accomplished era in the franchise’s six-decade San Francisco history.
“Yeah, sure, it’s gone through my mind,” Posey said. “For me, my biggest goal this year is to just go, as cliché as it is, one day at a time and focus on what needs to be accomplished for that day, whether it’s stuff in the weight room or cage work or catching, whatever it may be, and try not to get too far ahead.”
This doesn’t have to be the final act for Posey in San Francisco. Even if the team chooses a $3 million buyout on his $22 million option for 2022, there are plenty of scenarios in which the front office might seek to renegotiate with a franchise icon who was the NL Rookie of the Year in 2010, the league MVP in 2012 and whose gleaming trophy case — a Gold Glove, four Silver Sluggers, six All-Star appearances, a gold medal for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic — doesn’t begin to document his status and his value to his legions of fans.
In March of last year, Posey expressed his clear preference to remain a Giant for the duration of his career. He acknowledged that it wasn’t a choice he could make unilaterally. There was no telling what kind of season he might have or what the front office’s appetite will be or what the future might hold. (Indeed, within 72 hours of that interview, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down spring camps.) But …
“I don’t see myself playing for any other team — I don’t,” he said.
For now, anyway, let’s stick with the cliché. One day at a time. And Wednesday was a day in which you could’ve navigated to the Giants’ streaming workout feed on YouTube and watched that stance, that anticipation and that familiar swing. The camera didn’t pan, so you could only guess at how high or how far the ball went. But for as many times as Posey looked up, it’s a good bet that more than a few cleared the fence.
It’s also a good bet that the Giants will be stronger behind the plate with Posey than they were last season. The Giants started the season with Rob Brantly, Tyler Heineman and Chadwick Tromp, and the inexperience showed. They called up Bart in August because the major leagues provided the only meaningful venue for his development. His inexperience showed, too. There were catcher’s interference calls and confusion with the secondary signs and frustrating shakeoffs even from a customer as cool as Johnny Cueto. The lack of familiarity with opposing hitters might not have been the primary reason the pitching staff struggled, but it certainly didn’t help.
And at the plate, Giants catchers ranked 26th with a .593 OPS and 24th with minus-0.6 Wins Above Average. Their six errors in 60 games was tied for the most in the NL.
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Ramos is still just 21, since he was only 17 when the Giants took him in the first round in 2017, and should start this year in Double A after spending the tail end of the summer of 2019 at that level, which puts him on track for a debut when he’s 22. He’s an aggressive hitter who can be all-or-nothing at the plate, with good enough hand-eye coordination that he’ll hit for some average and plus power even with a high strikeout rate. Ramos has mostly played center in pro ball, but he has already put a lot of muscle on his 6-foot frame, and he’s going to have to move to a corner in the majors — probably left field, given how large right field is in San Francisco — but he has 30-homer power and I think enough hard contact in his approach to profile as an above-average regular there.
Patrick Bailey, C. 5/ NR
Bailey was the Giants’ first-round pick in 2020, surprising some fans who assumed Bart was the team’s catcher of the future. But Bailey was among the best players available at the pick, and there’s really no such thing as having too much catching — especially with no other catching prospects in the system behind Bart. Bailey is a well-rounded player with no 7s on his scouting report but a lot of above-average tools, a switch-hitter with real power, an above-average glove and an average arm. The one big knock on him is that he has never really hit for average, but he also doesn’t strike out too often and walks at a good clip. He looks like a potential 55 regular, with OBPs and power above the median for a catcher and enough defense there to be at least average.
Hunter Bishop, OF. 6/ NR
Bishop posts enormous exit velocities and has 30-plus homer power along with plus speed, but he’s raw like a teenaged prospect even though he was a college draft pick, taken in the first round in 2019 out of Arizona State. He swings and misses more than he should given his bat speed and age, and his reads in the outfield are poor enough that he’s a left fielder despite his running ability. He’s built like a safety, though, and is inexperienced enough that you can reasonably project more skill growth for him than you would for most 22-year-olds. He’s a platoon outfielder as is but has that power projection and at least the physical ability to end up a plus defender in left to become an above-average regular.
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