Ken Rosenthal says that the Dodgers acquiring Tarik Skubal has nothing to do with money or salary cap:
“Every team could afford the remaining $9.4 million on Skubal’s contract.”
Mookie Betts traded bc Red Sox were cheap with their extension
Braves chose Olson over Freeman
Angels refused to win around Ohtani
Yankees wouldn’t pay Yamamoto more than Cole
Arte vetoed a Pages trade
Rays didn’t want to pay Glasnow
Cardinals gave up on Edman
A’s DFA’d Max Muncy
& now Tigers refused to pay Tarik Skubal.
These baseball GMs make it too easy.
🚨 🇩🇪 Toni Kroos on How the GOAT Criteria Kept Changing;
🗣️"What I find funny is how the narrative kept changing. In 2016, when Cristiano Ronaldo won the Euros while Messi still hadn't won an international trophy, many people still refused to call Ronaldo the GOAT.
Then Kylian Mbappé won the World Cup in 2018, and suddenly the World Cup wasn't enough to make someone the greatest.
But the moment Messi finally won it in 2022, the same people started saying, 'You can't be the GOAT without a World Cup.' That's not consistency, that's moving the goalposts.
I have huge respect for Messi as one of football's greatest ever players after Cristiano Ronaldo but some of his fans have a habit of changing the criteria whenever it suits their argument."
Better than your attacking midfielder.
Better than your central midfielder.
Better than your defending midfielder.
Everything your favorite can do, Jude Bellingham does it better.
Kylian Mbappe's World Cup record:
He's played 20 games.
He's scored 20 goals.
He's lifted the trophy.
He's scored the most knockout-stage goals.
He's scored a brace in six games.
He's scored a hat-trick in the final.
He's made it to back-to-back finals.
He's scored in back-to-back finals.
He's scored the most final goals in history.
He's registered 17 victories.
He's won best young player.
He's won the Golden Boot.
I literally witnessed prime Ronaldo dominate England, Spain, and Italy. You can try forcing the recency bias all you want, but Messi can never touch prime Ronaldo.
Too nervous to watch the game in a bar tomorrow night
This is the kind of game you have to sit at home in front of the TV and take it all in
Potentially an all-timer
#England#Mexico