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  serious baseball talk with Mudge and RickD   Astros Baseball Talk   --- just an all Astros forum   I've been on quite a few others that have come and gone. I've probably been posting online for about 12 years now. 

https://twitter.com/cranesbrain/status/756993034827370498 This made me smile. Sale is still not happy with that Sox FO

  Ohhhhhhh, dangit. I should have changed my #2 vote then. Has to be Daniel Murphy. Kid has been tearing the cover off the ball. 4.2 WAR is second highest among 2nd baseman. I like the Kipnis vote, he will be my #4

Is this based on just this year's stats/performance, or just an overall sense (track record included)???

Pedroia? He's good, but well behind Cano. 

  My biggest worry is that this will be a recurring injury. Back issues don't usually just go away. He might be dealing with this the rest of his career. 

  There's merit to that statement, which is why the NFL has shown such an increased interest in Europe and now Mexico. They are trying to expand their footprint to get new money. Wherever the money is, the NFL will go. It's a business, not just a sport.

  Do the CFL and NFL seasons overlap at all? Including pre-season workouts and stuff...

No Bregman call-up :(   The #BregmanWatch continues

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/17121935/jj-watt-houston-texans-back-surgery-ok-season-opener     Twitter has been abuzz about this. Some think it will be more like 10 weeks. 6 weeks puts him ready to play by September 1st, only 10 days before Opening Day. 8 weeks means he will miss the first...

Look, don't get upset. I wasn't sure how well you understood the economics of the business and the country in general. This whole ordeal is very simple, the NFL (and any prospective owner) is going to follow the money. The money simply does not lie in the locations that you mentioned. Can...

  I wonder how the existing CFL team that plays there would factor into this. Would it be viewed as a conflict of interest, or since the seasons are opposite of each other can they co-exist? I'm not sure of the legalities there, but Toronto is an interesting idea. 

    ????? California has 4 teams, Texas can definitely handle 3. Austin? Since it's only an hour away from San Antonio, I guess it's not as huge a deal, but there's not enough corporate money in Austin to support a pro team on their own. Dell is nice, but there's more corporate money and...

  they gave that excuse on the broadcast. In any case, he has to be able to not allow 7 straight batters to reach base after the long wait. Time will tell with this deal. He's not that bad, but he also might not be as good outside of PetCo as Red Sox fans are hoping. His lack of a track record...

i am just confused by this move. I can't see the MLB or NFL making this kind of change so late in the game. I hope their lawyers read every inch of the agreement between the league and city, otherwise the lawyers might have more to say about this switch. And for goodness' sake, can we stop with...

  Agreed. Vogelbacher was a great prospect, but ultimately blocked and thus expendable. Montgomery is far from a sure thing, but was having a nice season overall in Seattle.

His first start for the Sawx was a dud. They paid a pretty good price for him, they need to hope it was just jitters.

I'd love for him to stay, but it would just go in the face of the going trend for superstars on the open market. They either want rings or the big market. OKC can promise neither. 

San Antonio has been mentioned the last few times relocation has popped up. I think it would be a good market for football. Texans are crazy about football.

OKC would be wise to trade him. There's ZERO chance he stays with them past this season. I dont know why he would choose the Rockets. It seems like he will pull a Durant and go to the Spurs or the Clips to make the MEGA team. Don't get me wrong, he would make the Rockets a contender, but he...