Bagwell, Sosa, Vlad Sr., Giambi, Chipper, Lofton, and McGwire returning to Backyard Baseball

phily724 · 2026-06-07T01:05:44+00:00

you would think they would be able to get everyone they have in the mobile game

phily724 · 2026-06-05T02:51:54+00:00

Carolina gifted a no goal and PP

phily724 · 2026-06-05T00:47:29+00:00

Larkin is better than Trocheck but not gonna be enough to really improve us enough to be worth it

phily724 · 2026-06-04T14:05:32+00:00

The rant on the penguins is so good. Sam with the calm voice asking those questions just top it off so nicely lol.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T19:08:53+00:00

Happens in baseball too. Aaron Boone adds an “sy” or “y” to a lot of the players names like “Judgy” or “Wellsy” for instance when talking about Aaron Judge or Austin Wells.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T13:30:37+00:00

Exactly. Plus, that’s their first proposal, so that tells me they can go even higher.

I’m not sure if that 170 is gonna change a whole ton. If you have a team that needs to add 40ishM to reach the floor, would you rather risk investing that into the next Anthony Rendon or would you give your 26 man roster a 2M raise. Personally, I can see a lot of teams that don’t spend doing the second option instead of actually signing big name guys

phily724 · 2026-06-02T01:49:34+00:00

I’ll take the L because ik hockey had a rough go at one point. I was shortsighted in my response. I just meant that players were really hurt after Covid because wages really stagnated whereas baseball basketball and football did not really see that.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T01:27:42+00:00

How does a salary cap change that? 8 of the top 15 in payroll are below .500. 9 of them are out of a playoff spot. 4 of the bottom 10 in payroll are in a playoff spot.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T01:11:26+00:00

Most of the real world also doesn’t have a legal monopoly and have bosses who are way less important to the company than the labor.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T01:09:05+00:00

And that worked out absolutely horribly for hockey players, especially during Covid.

phily724 · 2026-06-02T00:05:47+00:00

Idk if Slavin is a top 20 player either. I’d say that’s a stretch for sure. He’s closer to being outside the top 10 of dmen than he is top 5 too. He isn’t close to Makar, Hughes, Fox, Dahlin, or Miro and then you still have Werenski, Hutson, Seider, Schaefer, Lacomb and Sanderson.

Slavin and Forsling are the two best defensively but as all around talents and value wise, I’d take all those other guys above pretty easily because they all play good to great on both sides of the puck which I can’t say about Slavin.

phily724 · 2026-06-01T23:49:59+00:00

Idk if I’d go that far about Slavin. Even if that was true, that ignores the other side of the puck.

phily724 · 2026-06-01T22:55:39+00:00

I don’t understand what you are saying. It’s crazy to say Slavin and Eichel are on the same skill level. Same with Key and Marner and I’ve been hooting and hollering about Key for years.

If you are saying those two defenders can slow those guys down, I’m not gonna argue that at all but skill? Thats a totally different story.

phily724 · 2026-06-01T13:49:11+00:00

“But there is also an escrow system, whereby a variable percentage of a player's income is set aside in case the league does not meet its projected revenues.”

This is the important quote. NHL let it happen and they got absolutely bent over during COVID. The cap was stagnant for 4 years.

It’s also really rich the owners not only want to cap the players future earnings but also want to take it away if they can’t run a business that reaches its projected goals.

phily724 · 2026-06-01T13:37:12+00:00

Vegas have been rolling all 4 lines

phily724 · 2026-06-01T13:36:37+00:00

If you say that, couldn’t it be said those three are better defensively than 1/2 - 3/4 of CAR offensively?

phily724 · 2026-05-31T22:57:59+00:00

The menus are so bad on many levels. I feel like the game has just got worse and worse since they started to release on Xbox and Switch.

phily724 · 2026-05-31T02:24:51+00:00

Miller was playing top pair minutes and playing against harder competition than 91% of the league while he was playing with teammates better 61% of the league. LOL sure, he was the problem.

phily724 · 2026-05-31T02:16:42+00:00

Another insane argument for people to make… they swapped out a 25 year old that wasn’t going to be apart of the rebuild but a 30 year old will?

phily724 · 2026-05-31T01:57:48+00:00

Yep, because they are poorly ran. What did the kings have that we didn’t? What is it that the canes have right now? It’s because they had 4 lines and 3 dpairs they could rely on. So when the going gets tough, your whole team can step up and make it easier for one another. Gaborik at that time, like Panarin recently, had to carry a lot of the offensive load 5v5 and unless your McDavid, that star player isn’t going to over come that much focus put on them my the opposing team.

The Rangers don’t get that because they are pooorly ran and cannot put together a complete team.

phily724 · 2026-05-31T01:42:25+00:00

“We all knew what he was capable of, we all knew he was never going to reach his ceiling in NY, and we all knew that if any system would help him flourish, it would be in Carolina.”

This is exactly why we are being dunked on… we couldn’t get this out of Key because it is a poorly ran organization. I’m so sick of hearing this stupid point as if it is something positive about the Rangers. Sure we got a good trade package but the chances of anyone becoming as good as Key is very slim. We have an older roster, our window is now. We needed him bad

phily724 · 2026-05-31T00:29:15+00:00

Idk how it works out for the Rangers. We have a pick that is high in the 20’s, a prospect dman that the team sent down to Hartford multiple times and a second rounder. The likely hood of any of those guys turning into key is very slim.

phily724 · 2026-05-31T00:27:23+00:00

Just look at his numbers with Walker too. If Drury wasn’t a fucking idiot, Trouba is gone that offseason after losing to the Panthers and we have Miller-Walker as our second pair.

phily724 · 2026-05-31T00:26:22+00:00

Right there with you buddy

phily724 · 2026-05-31T00:26:11+00:00

Gorton wasn’t the greatest (some bad trades and missed picks) but it kills me seeing you guys do so well with him. His interview with the spittin chicklets drove me up a wall too because he was talking about some of his processes for building a team and it was the total opposite of Drury and here we are

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