This Week on the Blog
Giants: The Giants have an early season must win game. They have been catastrophically awful for the past three games and now is the time to right things, or start start looking for spoiler credibility in another lost season. We've talked enough about the OL here for the past several years, and it's not only made the Giants unable to run, but the bad play of the line seems to either have gotten Eli injured against Washington, or given him a case of the permanent yips. It's been that ugly. It would be nice if they could also get a passrush going. Seriously, what would Vernon and JPP charge for that? And I know Vernon has a wrist, but he has to either let it heal, or learn to make plays with it. Here's hoping they can fix some things tomorrow.
Yanks: The great news here is that James Kaprielian was lights out in his 3 inning return to competition. He was sitting 95-97 and his command was good. That's very exciting news. Oh and Gleybar Torres is starting to show more power at the plate and had a walk of hit last night, after hitting a loooong homer the night before. Tate has been up and down but his velo is back in the 95-97 range and that can only help. Don't know if they have or haven't had their organizational meetings, but I suspect they have since Rothschild got a new one year deal, and reporters saying the Yanks will target high end relievers.
Rangers: The Rangers looked quicker and faster in their opening night win against the Isles. Tonight they're in St.Louis to take on the Blues with the same lineup, so no McIlrath, again. I think they wanted to see if Clendening could move the puck during the regular season, but he and Vesey were actually the only two newbies who didn't score the other night. So we're still expecting a trade for a puckmover, even though it's been a tiny sample.
Knicks: Noah will finally make his Knick debut in tonight's pre-season tilt against Boston. Other than that, they're looking deeper and more talented and the kids look like better depth than they've had with the retreads of the last several years. Rose is still away from the team, and thus will have to make some quick adjustments upon his return. But let's see how Noah's debut fits tonight.
Don't let the Giants determine your weeks for you, and I hope you have great ones. Thanks for posting.
posted by Kalel9 @ 12:43 PM
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The Rangers looked real fast. I hope we can do something special this season before Hank becomes a problem.
The truth or falsity of the allegations aside, it's beginning to seem like Jackson did not adequately factor in an appropriate discount in the price paid for Rose.
So more specifically, there was the impending free agency/rental aspect and the past injuries/risk of future injuries, which were acceptable risks, but if he is found liable, which could be based on a mere preponderance standard (more likely than not), he and the franchise would take a not insignificant PR hit, and that leaves aside the ongoing criminal investigation by law enforcement. That would make it tough to justify his presence.
On the other side, he could have made the allegations go away for $20m or less, and chose not to, even though he could afford to do that.
Looks like an international draft is coming with the next CBA:
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17817574/major-league-baseball-pushes-international-draft-new-cba
-Mike K. at work
We cannot allow that.
Hal probably loves it. It keeps costs down
It will be interesting to see the Knicks cut and keep to form the back end of the roster. Baker looks pretty good.
So keeping Baker and waiving the injured Chasson Randle, hoping they can put them on the developmental team, is the biggest move.
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