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Jeff Passan @JeffPassan Rangers' return for Darvish is Willie Calhoun, A.J. Alexy and Brendon Davis.
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Minor shit that also went down - - Tony Cingrani from the Reds to the Dodgers. - Tim Beckham from the Rays to the O's - Joaquin Benoit from the Phillies to the Pirates -Brandon Kintzler from the Twins to the Nats
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Well, sure. But no one really believes Smoak is for real and the 1B market has been weak. So...good luck with that. Donaldson would have been the piece but he has been hurt more often than not this year so you are selling low. Shrug.
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Tony Watson from the Pirates to the Dodgers.
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The Angels send David Hernandez back to AZ. Details-shmetails.
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No idea on Aoki other than they need a warm body to play LF. Haven't seen anything about Happ and/or Estrada being moved though I did see the Jays were talking to KC about them. As for moving the vets - who is movable other than Donaldson and maybe Smoak? Bautista, Morales and Martin aren't going to make anyone jump.
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Rosenthal is reporting the Jays are sending Joe Smith to Cleveland. No details yet.
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And the A's send $1.5 M in international signing money to the Yankees with Gray. So the A's get two cripples...and a prospect the Yankees have no room for. OK. The Handsomest GM strikes.
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Jack Curry tweets Sonny Gray to the Yankees. No details at this point. EDT: Details! For Jorge Mateo, Dustin Fowler and James Kaprielian
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The Yankees trade something called Yefry Ramirez to the O's for international signing money since...what are the O's going to do with international signing money anyway?
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Jeremey Jefress back to Milwaukee for Taylor Scott. Ehh.
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Aww. Rippa only looked at prime time. Since they are also showing Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and MOTHERFUCKING MAN WHO MOTHERFUCKING SHOT MOTHERFUCKING LIBERTY MOTHERFUCKING VALANCE!!!!!
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Rippa and I are old men and watch too much TCM. And we both thought there was a thread for TCM but we could not find one so...HERE YA IZ!!!! In July TCM is showing Hitchcock movies every Wednesday and Friday. The full Hitchcock schedule is HERE.
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Also, this is kind of interesting about the root cause of the ESPN layoffs. More than 70 percent of the most widely distributed channels have lost subscribers in the last year, according to Nielsen data. Most television network owners have a channel that has done as bad or worse than ESPN's percentage loss since December 2015.Overall, the number of households with cable or satellite hookups in the U.S. fell by 1.6 percent — those are people who disconnected entirely, so that figure represents a sort of minimum loss for widely distributed networks like ESPN (if you're already in every cable household, there's nowhere to go but down).What makes ESPN unique among cable networks is the extremely high fees it charges distributors to offer the channel to customers. While that high price can be attributed to unique costs related to sports programming, it has also made the channel a target in slimmed down cable packages that aim to offer cheaper bundles with more personalized options.As of November, [ESPN]'s average Nielsen viewership numbers for the year (viewers aged 18 to 49) showed a drop of about 10 percent. Again, that's not outstandingly bad — about a quarter of channels did worse than that, and ESPN is still the No. 1 network — but it looks bad when you're charging $7.21 per month per subscriber. That's nearly four times more than the next most expensive channel, TNT at $1.82.
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Yeah. With hockey completely gutted and a lot of local beat people killed I was going to say ESPN.com is going to go with a lot of AP stories rather than their own coverage. Not saying that is good or bad, just saying. Of course, this kinda hammers home how much bloat ESPN had - and probably still has. I'm also going to guess the some of the bigger contract people are going to play out the string and not get renewed going forward. One now has to wonder if these ESPN cuts is the pinprick that begins the eventual burst in the TV sports money bubble.
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And Jim Bowden got it too. Honestly, given how I seldom watch ESPN most people who got it are people I've never heard of before.
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Yeah. Hockey and college coverage seems to have got it the most. From the Deadspin piece Rippa linked above, there is also this: Additionally, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Karl Ravech, Ryen Russillo, and Hannah Storm will see their roles at the network “significantly reduced.” They also initially reported that SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross wouldn’t have his contract renewed, but have walked that reporting back.
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Week Motherfucking 13, Rippa! It's motherfucking ON!!!!
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So...USA Today did a list of the 100 most powerful people in baseball. Skim and laugh.
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And he has now been found, per Woodstock, GA police.
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Otis Nixon is missing. Like...MISSING-missing.
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I love you, Dolfan, I do. But the Marlins as baseball's biggest shitshow is fantastically fun. Now, people (including said, Dreamy Captain Jetes) may be potentially be backing away from buying the Marlins because they are...well - "No, it’s whether Jeter wants to be the person to wade into the muck and mire that is the Marlins’ financial situation, which multiple sources familiar with it deemed “toxic,” “a dumpster fire” and “worse than the Dodgers’ and Rangers’ when they went into bankruptcy.”
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So...Our Lord and Savior Tim Tebow hit a HR in his first Minor League AB. The guy he hit the HR off of is Domenic Mazza. Who was picked in the 2015 draft by the Giants with the...666 pick.
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Yeah. It takes about a half-inning of listening to Waldman to realize she is an imbecile.
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Hey! Remember the whackiness when the Marlins were maybe going to be bought by a Trump-in-law? Even better! Groups lead by Derek Jeter and Jeb Bush are ALLEGEDLY contenders to buy the Marlins. Poor-poor Marlins.