The steroid era saved Major League Baseball and the jobs of the writers who now refuse to honor it
The steroid era literally saved Tom Verducci's job. In the mid-nineties baseball was dead after the players strike... And they brought in replacement players and baseball was dead. And what happens over the course of the next three years? Oh yeah, Mark McGwire starts hitting the moon... Sammy Sosa and McGwire summer saved baseball.
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I'm like 90% sure I can predict what's going to happen in the next two years for Sean Payton, Amazon. Amazon... They might put them in a booth with Drew Brees.
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Mike McCarthy is the lamest of ducks right now because he knows that Sean, this is Sean Payton's job. I'm first reporting it right now. Mike McCarthy has been fired as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys exactly a year from today, minus two weeks.
Adam Schefter will likely leave ESPN in the near future
Schefter... maybe Schefter thinking, you know, I'm going to be leaving ESPN soon. I can start giving a couple back here... Do you think Schefter lets Rappaport break the news that he leaves ESPN?
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I do think that the Falcons are real. Yeah. I think that they're a good team. They're a flawed good team.
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I think that if the Falcons can do that, they have maybe the best set of skill position players in the NFL. If you're able to protect Penix, he's good enough to distribute it and then just let their awesome players do awesome shit.
MLB's proposed check-swing replay would make everything a check swing
Yeah. Parallel with the plate. Yeah. That's what I thought the rule was. And apparently that's just not the rule anymore. If they ever bring this system to Major League Baseball, I get—everything's a check swing.