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Cleveland Guardians (2025 Season Thread)

It'll be interesting to see how the team approaches the trade deadline given that they don't really need to make any trades since they'll be internally adding a Cy Young starter, set up man, and an All-Star to the lineup. Lots of flexibility for a talented FO.

With Bieber coming back, and Bibee and Williams cemented in the rotation (likely Ortiz is as well), you have Logan Allen and Ben Lively at the back end with room for only one. Lively is in Arb1, Allen is still pre-arb, if we could get Manzardo for Civale I'd imagine we could get a helpful piece back for either of those starters. Lively is 33 but he's clearly found something here in Cleveland and he's been so dang consistent for us, I personally would rather trade Allen while he's having a bounce back year and might be more enticing given his age, team control, and being a lefty.
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Auburn Football (Paying Players Before NIL + Scientology)

Alabama is working hard to surpass Mississippi as the least educated and most impoverished state

It goes back and forth every year. Not because one state gets smarter or richer, just that the poorest, dumbest sonofabitch on earth died that year and some other poor dumb bastard in the next state over takes over the title.

The Basketball Tournament (Carmen's Crew = 2019 and 2024 Champions)

This may not go anywhere; but FWIW a college team (i.e. Green Bay, aka University of Wisconsin–Green Bay) wants to play in the TBT:

Green Bay files waiver to play in The Basketball Tournament

Green Bay has filed for a waiver from the NCAA to allow its men's basketball team to compete in The Basketball Tournament, the $1 million, winner-take-all summer tournament that features many high-profile college alumni teams and active professional players.

The waiver request, which was filed last week, acknowledges TBT is not certified by the NCAA or fall within legislated exceptions but makes the case it is a suitable replacement for a foreign tour, which permits college programs to travel abroad to play against professional teams once every four years.

"When you play overseas, these teams that go to France, Spain, Belgium, whatever, those aren't NCAA-sanctioned games," Green Bay coach Doug Gottlieb said. "So the NCAA's argument is, 'Hey, in summer competition, you can't play these games in the United States. They're not NCAA-sanctioned.' So if I played this exact same game three hours north of here in Canada, it'd be OK. It doesn't make sense."

There is also the cost aspect. For a school like Green Bay -- especially as college athletics braces for the House settlement to be finalized -- a foreign trip can be cost-prohibitive. By participating in an event like TBT, Green Bay's waiver request made the case that it would be providing its athletes a similar experience within its means.

"Let's not worry about the prize money right now, but that could go to a charity, just let us play," Green Bay athletic director Josh Moon said. "It's really about our team and trying to give them opportunities."

The original premise of the rule that allows programs to take a foreign trip once every four years was that it gives every athlete a chance to make one such trip while in school. However, with all the movement in college sports in the wake of eased transfer restrictions, Moon said it's outdated.

"You're working in an environment that is still largely built on rules from 10, 15 years ago," he said. "There's still massive amounts of legislation that doesn't make any sense -- that hasn't been adjusted in 20 years or 30 years or who knows how long."

Green Bay's waiver request has support from Horizon League commissioner Julie Roe Lach and the organizers of TBT.
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