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[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@mooformoore5 Don’t disagree with that. Just saying I don’t think it was Basallo’s arm movement that tipped him

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@Nell_BTP Can ALWAYS be better

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@Nell_BTP WR and TE are 2 different positions my man. Chig will be a huge weapon for the offense, but that wasn’t the point of the question. Don’t understand people who think once you get a few weapons you should just stop trying to acquire more

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@ajpeebles @jcalvinmeyer Get out of your house my man. Players do this ALL the time. Go hate somewhere else bc your fanbase is one of the worst. Also, how soft to get hit by slowly thrown ball and have to be taken out

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@FulIMeasures Easy target bc he’s a douche. Even his own team doesn’t like him

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@justin_fenton @StubHub StubHub never has the best prices

[Bleeding Burgundy & Gold @BleedinBnG]

Fun Draft Exercise:
Rank the units as far as what unit would move the needle for the Commanders the most:

1. JD5 x Jeremiyah Love
2. Terry McLaurin x Carnell Tate
3. Caleb Downs x Nick Cross
4. Mansoor Delane x Trey Amos
5. Sonny Styles x Leo Chenal x Jordan Magee

#RaiseHail

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@TheVicMonte You struggle seeing? Literally in this moment you say, “Doesn’t have it.” What are you looking at?

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Immediate thoughts on the Orioles' trade for Shane Baz:

- This is yet another example that the Orioles are more focused on the present and the short-term than the medium-to-long-term.
- Baz's 2025 season is much better than his 4.87 ERA shows. He proved he can handle a 30-start workload post-TJ, and his underlying metrics maintain that his upside as a former first-round pick is there.
- It's clear the Orioles (and Rays) both valued Baz, because that is quite the haul Tampa Bay got in return. Forret has been superb in minors. Overn popped last season. De Brun and Bodine were first-round talents.
- Baz essentially replaces Grayson Rodriguez in the rotation. Baz's floor is higher since he's healthy, and there's no reason his ceiling can't be just as high as Grayson's is.

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Scott Boras said he’s talked with Jackson Holliday and Gunnar Henderson after the Pete Alonso deal:

“It gives them a sense of pride that this franchise is committed.”

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

Orioles offseason so far:

Pete Alonso
Ryan Helsley
Taylor Ward
Andrew Kittredge
Leody Taveras

And they hired Craig Albernaz as manager.

[Ken Weinman @KenWeinmanSport]

You don’t sign Pete Alonso and do nothing else. This is a message that the Orioles finally want a seat at the grownups table. I expect a big free agent pitcher and a major trade should be coming as well. It took longer than we wanted but they’re making Money Moves!!

[Jon Morosi @jonmorosi]

Even after agreeing to terms with Pete Alonso, sources say the Orioles remain engaged with the top end of the starting pitching market.

The Orioles have had talks with free agent LHP Framber Valdez.

@MLBNetwork

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: First baseman Pete Alonso and the Baltimore Orioles are finalizing a five-year, $155 million contract, sources tell @JeffPassan.

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[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@WarriorsDad75x @CaptainCons Which is Tulane’s best win (even though Duke isn’t that good). More of these type wins and they get even more respect. Although, people keep telling me P4 teams won’t schedule G5 teams, so not sure how they played this 😵‍💫

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@HisaoNakai8 @CaptainCons Don’t disagree, but the G5 is the one facing an issue. No one respects them bc of their weak strength of schedules. It’s a lazy take to say there’s no way to improve that

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@MarionC32314811 @CaptainCons False. I’m sure it’s hard, but it does happen every year. But what stops the best g5 teams from scheduling each other?

[Sport Fuse @TheSportFuse]

@pokeroots @CaptainCons I’d love to see that, since it’s on “record.” I get the hate for the SEC, but it’s hard to argue facts that they are the best. They get most of the top recruits and they get the most players drafted to the NFL

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

Georgia won 29 straight games, lost by 3 on a bad call to Bama in the SEC title, got dropped from 1 to 6, and instead of bitching and moaning about refs and committees they went and laid a 63-3 beat down on FSU in a game where all of their healthy draftable players played

Look where UGA is now and tell me it didn’t matter. How you do anything is how you do everything. If your core program traits only matter when things go your way then they don’t actually matter. Notre Dame just told their players it’s okay to quit when things don’t go your way. I think it will have negative consequences on the immediate future of the program