POLL: UPDATED: Bryce's team in 2019 will be.....

[skippy1999]

They should have shut down the Government again, if for no other reason so you can't post nonsense like this from work...

[hotshot]

Just give Bryce #43 and tell him that’s the number he has always had.

Like Carlton Fisk -- #27 in Boston, #72 in Chicago.

[Mattionals]

I'm to the point where I think anything could happen now. Here is an insane timeline I have come up with:

Feb 16: MLB expands to two new teams, Las Vegas and Nashville
Feb 17: MiLB franchise originally in LV moves to Portland, OR. MiLB franchise originally in Nashville moves to Tucson, AZ.
Feb 18: Expansion Draft!
Feb 20: Harper signs a 13 year 375M deal with the new Las Vegas Aviators MLB team.
Feb 21: Machado signs a 10 year 330M deal with the new Nashville Sounds MLB team.

[UMDNats]

I'll allow it.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

It's not a leap year, where are they going to fit Game 7?

I'm to the point where I think anything could happen now. Here is an insane timeline I have come up with:

Feb 16: MLB expands to two new teams, Las Vegas and Nashville
Feb 17: MiLB franchise originally in LV moves to Portland, OR. MiLB franchise originally in Nashville moves to Tucson, AZ.
Feb 18: Expansion Draft!
Feb 20: Harper signs a 13 year 375M deal with the new Las Vegas Aviators MLB team.
Feb 21: Machado signs a 10 year 330M deal with the new Nashville Sounds MLB team.

[imref]

MLB Insider tweets that the sticking point for Harper is that he doesn't want deferred money.  I don't know how reliable the account is though

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

This is where the besbol business becomes a parody of itself.  Maybe it's performance art. 

[Mattionals]

It's not a leap year, where are they going to fit Game 7?

Feb 22: MLB contracts season to 154 games

[PowerBoater69]

Though few mention it, subtracting Harper, while it will cost 34 homers, a .899 career OPS and some amazing hair flips, would help any team improve its attention to fundamentals. When the most famous player on the team can’t go 10 days without failing to run out a groundball, or overthrowing a cutoff man by 15 feet or throwing to the wrong base, or being caught unprepared in the outfield or on the bases, it’s hard to demand total alertness from the other 24.

“Write it,” one prominent Nats vet said.

Boz slams Harper now that he's gone. Would have taken balls to write that while he was still here.

[skippy1999]

Boz slams Harper now that he's gone. Would have taken balls to write that while he was still here.

Yep, piling on

[Natsinpwc]

If he is on the verge of signing with the Nats that quote won't help the Nats.  Which veteran wuss said that but probably never said anything to his face while he was there?  Smiling Tony? Couldn;t be his little buddy Trea?  My money is on Max.

[mitlen]

If he is on the verge of signing with the Nats that quote won't help the Nats.  Which veteran wuss said that but probably never said anything to his face while he was there?  Smiling Tony? Couldn;t be his little buddy Trea?  My money is on Max.

Max did a lot of opening up on topics yesterday to Boz:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/max-scherzer-says-baseballs-free-agency-lull-poisons-the-game-hes-right/2019/02/14/8bdca412-308e-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.90743abb3e9f

[DCFan]

Boz slams Harper now that he's gone. Would have taken balls to write that while he was still here.

I’m glad I haven’t put you on ignore yet because that was right on.

[Trea Burner]

There is truth to that comment.

If Harper is what he thinks he is, the Dodgers or Yankees would have signed him months ago. Harper isn’t worth what he thinks he is...not a 10/300 player that’s for sure.

[Nick the Pig]

I'd love to see Bryce serving half smokes at the Ben's Chili Bowl at the park on opening day...

[HalfSmokes]

Boz slams Harper now that he's gone. Would have taken balls to write that while he was still here.

I guess being on the cover of si as a high schooler gives you diva complex - who’d have thunk it

[PowerBoater69]

If he is on the verge of signing with the Nats that quote won't help the Nats.  Which veteran wuss said that but probably never said anything to his face while he was there?  Smiling Tony? Couldn;t be his little buddy Trea?  My money is on Max.

Harper didn't seem pleased with the Eaton trade when it went down so I'd bet that Adam still holds a grudge.

[mitlen]

Harper didn't seem pleased with the Eaton trade when it went down so I'd bet that Adam still holds a grudge.

Good eye.

[DCFan]

Good eye.

Yep he’s so good when he’s not on his Dave derangement syndrome.

[mitlen]

Yep he’s so good when he’s not on his Dave derangement syndrome.

I have a case of DDS myself.   

[DCFan]

I have a case of DDS myself.   

PB is about to get a restraining order on his ass.

[hotshot]

Feb 22: MLB contracts season to 154 games

Wish that were true. Might eliminate some bitterly cold games in March and November.

[varoadking]

Wish that were true. Might eliminate some bitterly cold games in March and November.

I'd gladly suffer thru a game in November... 

[Slateman]

They should have shut down the Government again, if for no other reason so you can't post nonsense like this from work...

They have the internet in homes now, old man. And also on mobile computing devices. Brave new world.

[Slateman]

I'm to the point where I think anything could happen now. Here is an insane timeline I have come up with:

Feb 16: MLB expands to two new teams, Las Vegas and Nashville
Feb 17: MiLB franchise originally in LV moves to Portland, OR. MiLB franchise originally in Nashville moves to Tucson, AZ.
Feb 18: Expansion Draft!
Feb 20: Harper signs a 13 year 375M deal with the new Las Vegas Aviators MLB team.
Feb 21: Machado signs a 10 year 330M deal with the new Nashville Sounds MLB team.

Theres no way Las Vegas would name their team something as lame as the "Aviator."

Totally unrealistic.