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Jets quarterback Sam Darnold won’t be doing any “double dipping” (Chris Simms had a different term for it on Monday’s PFT Live [url=http://www.bearscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-dan-skuta-jersey]Dan Skuta Jersey[/url] , and Steve Levy would be proud), but Darnold picked up plenty of other non-financial terms in order to get his deal done.
Darnold’s deal includes offset language on his future guarantees, meaning that the Jets will get credit for anything he makes with another team, if he ends up being cut. In exchange for yielding on that term (which none of the top-10 players obtained this year), Darnold picked up several other key terms.
First, the Jets will pay out the full $20 million signing bonus within the next 15 days. Teams rarely if ever pay out the money that quickly, especially to rookies.
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Third, Darnold obtained the same language as Giants running back Saquon Barkley regarding suspension for on-field rules violations. Before scoffing at the idea that quarterbacks would be fined for helmet-related infractions, consider what may happen when a quarterback is trying to execute a head-first sneak under the new helmet rules. At best it’s uncertain as to whether quarterbacks will be punished, so it’s better to be protected.
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The holdout wasn’t about money, because nothing can be done to change the available cash. He was going to make $30.2 million over the next four years regardless of the specific terms of the deal. But he’s now far more likely to actually receive all of it, since the Jets have far fewer devices for shenanigans if a new regime decides it doesn’t want Darnold (or that Darnold is another Christian Hackenberg) and doesn’t want to pay him.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs waited and waited and waited Monday night. When the lights malfunctioned again and the forecast called for more rain, they finally said enough.
The rematch of the last two NL Championship Series was postponed by a mixture of poor weather and a limited power outage at Wrigley Field. It will be made up Tuesday afternoon as part of a day-night doubleheader.
It was sunny and hot in Chicago for most of Monday, but clouds began to roll into the area about two hours before the scheduled first pitch. An initial downpour stopped at one point and the grounds crew pulled the tarp off the field, only to put it back on after a short stretch.
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”It appears to be a limited power outage in the ballpark which is impacting the right-field light operation,” Cubs spokesman Julian Green said. ”Obviously can’t play baseball without a full bank of lights in the ballpark. Notwithstanding the lights, we’re also dealing with a pretty heavy storm system in the area, which we’re projected to get more rain here.”
Green said they don’t know the root cause of the power outage, but it appears to be in the ballpark itself and not in the surrounding neighborhood. He said the plan is to have ballpark fully operational by the start of the first game on Tuesday.
”But a lot of work needs to happen tonight to make sure we can do that,” Green said.
This is Los Angeles’ only scheduled trip to Chicago this season.
”It’s out of our control,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. ”It’s one of those times when we spent a lot of time here, but there’s nothing else we could have done.”
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Hill was placed on the DL on May 20 with a blister on his left middle finger, a recurring problem for the veteran left-hander.
The Cubs employed the same plan, with Tyler Chatwood going in the opener and Mike Montgomery staying in place for the previously scheduled game. Montgomery is 2-1 with a 1.14 ERA in four starts since he was inserted into the rotation after Yu Darvish was sidelined by right triceps tendinitis.
The Dodgers are making their first appearance at Wrigley since they advanced to the World Series with an 11-1 victory over the Cubs in Game 5 of the NLCS on Oct. 19. The same teams also met in the 2016 NLCS, with Chicago advancing on its way to its first championship since 1908.
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