This is very true.... they just need to realize the more they spend on baseball players to make a competitive team, the more money they will make in the long-run.....

I hate that shit so much.

I really hope/expect within 5 years that there will be no more regional blackouts as people realize how fucking pointless cable companies are.

Really hoping more things like HBO Now come out to convince more and more people to cut the cord. Although it could have the adverse effect on sporting since that is literally the only reason people would choose to keep cable.

I don't know. The one good aspect of being a displaced fan, I get no Tigers blackouts. /woo

Wait WTF

Comcast is the only service I can get at my house. I probably caught +/- 150 Yankee games this year

this is not good

poopfromweiner dude is not happy. this is not good

idk about all this MLB.tv s....I guess I could get that and "stream" it on my television...but I like to "flip channels" a lot

Wouldn't Yankee/Met games be blacked out for you via MLB.tv?

idk

There's ways around everything right......

I think they would be. I mean, you could always just get a VPN

Yes but, it's much too complicated for you


For anyone else, it's doable

<font color=goldenrod>I'd be fairly shocked if Comcast and YES didn't come to an agreement before the start of the 2016 season.</font>

lol Avila signed with the White Sox... pretty rough that your pops doesn't even wanna resign you, ouch

Cubs pick up Rex Brothers

Hell ya! Is he any good?

He had 13 RBIS last year.......

He's a solid backup. Hasn't been better than replacement level since 2011 or 2012 I think. He's a nice add as a backup with a solid bat.

Heck ya. White Sox going all the way!

I'd be surprised if he isn't retired in 3 years because of all the concussions he's had tbh

Stick him at DH for 75% of games and he might rebound offensively....It was hard for him to get DH playing time behind Martinez, Fielder and Cabrera for so many years....

If a team is considering putting Avila at DH then holy hell are they in trouble

He doesn't hit enough at dh to be of any value. Maybe he bounces back a tick or so but it's doubtful not catching the majority of the time is going to suddenly improve his bat by great measure.

I think the White Sox would let Henry Blanco start 150 games if he wanted to. Tyler Flowers is so garbage.

Jays sign J.A Happ 3 years 36 million.

Yup.

good signing. Really hope Stromayng can be the ace he seems like he can be.

They pretty much have 2, 3,4 and 5. Happ and Dickey at 4 and 5 of course. Chavez should work from the bullpen.

That's a horrible staff. Happ benefitted from favorable match ups last year and his advanced stats weren't good. Stupid waste of money,

Owenbrown looking for his dad in this thread

Dunno, we'll have to wait and see. Wonder if this is "the plan".

I personally like Estrada. Happ is a wildcard, so is dickey and chavez. so is Stroman LOL. I dunno, I just think happ is dece as like a back end guy. But who knows.

Not a fan of the signing. Below average run prevention for his career. Gertner hit the advance stats not liking him. With the pitching market as deep as it is, $12 million seems like a lot for a guy who's barely decent.

What's even more weird is he's been I Toronto before and was meh at best. Can't see what they think will be different the second time around at ages 33-35.

Well if it doesn't work... I guess Rogers is cool with an immediate drop in attendance, because that will happen at the drop of a hat.

If these moves don't work, it's the old father knows best mentality failing the organization one more time.

I'm not an advanced stats guy, so I'll give Happ the benefit of the doubt for having a decent season last year.

We'll see. Toronto is maybe the most interesting team this offseason. They unloaded some legit talent to go for it all and came incredibly and justifiably close. They need to replace Price, and maybe add one more starter and I think they're still very close with the Yankees and Bosox in fluxand Baltimore kind of sitting on their hands.

Apparently mlb is investigating a bar fight Yasiel Puig was involved in. Dodgers outfielder Andy van Slyke has been on record saying Kershaw doesn't want Puig on the team. There's now rumours starting to rumble about moving him.

Wonder how desperate the Dodgers would be. They'd be idiots to move him, honestly. He's an excellent player when healthy and a young core of him, Seager and Peterson just sounds deadly.

Mike Hessman retires at age 37.

A few of us know about him. But this is sorta relevant because he's the all-time home run leader in the minor leagues with 433.

ha that was a fun story earlier this season

<font color=goldenrod>Tigers sign Jordan Zimmermann</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Zimmermann's deal is 5 years, $110 million per <s>TPWW poster</s> Heyman.</font>

Hell yes

V impressed with the moves Avila has made so far

lol fuck, tigers get zimmerman for a pretty decent deal, and the jays pull in Happ and Chavez.

I don't mind bringing back Happ at all as a backend of the roation guy, but jeez Shapiro talked about wanting to be aggressive about winning and they go bring back 2 guys who didn't work out. Very odd moves so far.

Twitter shitting all over Jays signing Happ, but I love it.... a solid back-end guy to eat innings.... essentially a younger, cheaper Mark Buerhle

I will always remember this Bill Simmons column complaining about the Red Sox signing someone who was an "innings eater" and Simmons said that if they say that about someone, they suck.

Well Happ has pretty much sucked outside of one second half worth of innings. I don't see what they saw in his previous 940 some odd innings pre Pittsburgh that makes them think he's suddenly figured out out at age 32.