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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

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?

Jeremey Jefress back to Milwaukee for Taylor Scott. Ehh.

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!!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Week Motherfucking 13, Rippa! It's motherfucking ON!!!!

So...USA Today did a list of the 100 most powerful people in baseball. Skim and laugh.

And he has now been found, per Woodstock, GA police.

Otis Nixon is missing. Like...MISSING-missing.

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.”

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.

Yeah. It takes about a half-inning of listening to Waldman to realize she is an imbecile.

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.

And supposedly Romo is getting Phil Simms' gig at CBS. Now if they can only get rid of Jim Nantz too.

Yeah. Don't crush Dolfan while his his hopes are high for the Trump family infestation. I kid. I kid because I love. Marlins Monument?

But-but...

I am not certain if this is to make Dolfan happy or to piss off Rippa. Either way. Romneys, who bid on Marlins, in talks to buy piece of Yankees Mitt and Tagg Romney and family are bidding to buy a small stake in the Yankees months after their try for the Marlins stalled. They’re expected to pay $25 million to $30 million per point and thought to be interested in one or two points. The Yankees are valued around $3 billion or more. The Romneys are said to have offered $1.4 billion many months back to buy the Miami Marlins. But that appears to be off the table now, as the Romneys are talking about buying a very small piece of the Yankees instead. “No comment,” said Marlins president David Samson on the Romneys’ try for the Marlins. If Romney completes the purchase of the Yankees piece, that would seem to take him out of the Marlins picture. There are multiple other groups showing interest in the Marlins, sources say.

Baseball's Hall of Fame will honor "The Simpsons" on May 27 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show's "Homer at the Bat" episode.

The MAN WHO CANNOT BE NAMED'S! DVD the WWE put out in 04. It had a Liger match from 93. And then that Sasuke and the Black Tiger match from the 94 J-Cup.

Yep. Barring the TV bubble finally popping soon - IF the Yankees were on the market and the stadium and network rights were in the deal, I would imagine the Steinbrenner family would laugh at $10 B as the starting price. You're probably looking around $25 B for those three franchises and maybe the Celtics, Red Sox, Cubs and Dodgers (if the Dodgers ever get their TV issues straightened out). I want to throw the Knicks in there but I'm pretty sure Dolan has devalued the franchise too much.

Also this That's at least another $300 M on its own.