a700hitter
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I did not say that what you posted was inaccurate. I am accepting that you are accurate. I am just asking you if the technique seems right to you. To me it looks like the contracts are out and out lies.
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The issue isn't whether I am more credible than "industry experts". The issue is whether MLB is right about this. "Industry experts" is just another set of opinions.
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The contracts were approved, but they were deceptive (basically they were lies), and the technique was not approved.
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Read what you have posted above. Does it really seem kosher to you? To me, it seemed like they were playing fast and loose with the rule and that they were not operating within the spirit of the rule.
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Have the red Sox given any public reaction to the ruling?
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I may move there someday after Global Warming gets a bit more of a foothold there.
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If it was and teams avoided the limits in that way, the Red Sox should challenge the selective application of the rule. I said that already, didn't I? LOL!!
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It might have been prudent to get agreement from MLB on this technique in advance. They played cute with the rule and they got burned. IMO, it was avoidable and stupid. As a tax attorney, before I would apply a new interpretation of a rule for a client, I would get an advance ruling. They got cute and got burned. The culprit has already been fired. End of story. At least they didn't fine Tom Brady.
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If the rule was applied selectively, they should challenge the ruling in arbitration. If they don't, I have to assume that they were the only team that actually exceeded the limits using this technique.
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Oh, they celebrate being Canadian? LOL!!
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The penalty for circumventing the rule is meant to be punitive with a deterrent effect.
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And we have been banned from international signings for a year.
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As I said in my earlier post, if other teams package or bundle the deals, the Red Sox must be the only team that avoided the limits by doing so. In other words, if you unbundled the deals by other teams they still would have been within the limits. If other teams did the same thing and circumvented the limits, the Red Sox should challenge the ruling.
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I have never seen the Toronto Blue Jays wearing the red jerseys that they are wearing today.
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I think MLB just ruled that said technique was not a technical loophole and that it was a violation. They took a chance and blew it.
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Betts, Bradley and Bogaerts are going to keep a lot of guys in the minors. Unless we trade them or they get a career impacting injury (knocking on wood), there will be very few openings for a large group of prospects. The numbers are that most will not make it with the Red Sox.
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The Padres have the 3rd lowest OBP in the league. I guess they can use him too.
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If this is a selective enforcement of the rule, the Red Sox would have a great shot at getting the penalty and 1 year ban over-turned by an arbitrator. Until I see some evidence that other organizations exceeded the limits in this way, I have to think the Sox were the only team that exceeded the prescribed limits. Other organizations may have bundled the prospects, but still not have exceeded the limits even if they were unbundled.
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I am retired now, but it would be a fun second career. LOL!! I am still only 57 and look years younger than the cadaverous JH.
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Maybe no one else did it. Do you think that MLB would selectively enforce this rule? I don't.
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I'd give it a shot. I am pretty capable. I was the lead attorney on a Pension Plan worth more than the Red Sox.
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this is a prime example of why I don't have a high opinion of baseball management and consider them to be overpaid suits that couldn't run a candy store in Brooklyn.
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So it wasn't innocent incompetence. It was conniving stupidity. I wonder where this lesson is in Ben's syllabus.
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It looks that way. I am interested in getting MVP's view of this since he is CPA. Do we have any Finance people on TalkSox?
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And more of his incompetence is revealed. MVP, you are a CPA. Does this seem like it was more than a gross mismanagement of budget?
