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  1. Bellhorn04
    LOL good play.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I think it's fair to say, though, that some professions have a higher percentage of people who enjoy what they do.
  3. Bellhorn04
    As far as Mookie's next contract is concerned, I'm not hoping for him to get 420 million. As good as he is, I think that's too much. And he should not get as much as Trout. The insanity has to stop somewhere.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Amateur sport is great. But professional sport is what it says. And let's face it, as spectators, most of us are much more keenly interested in the professional version.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Unlikely scenario Lar. Maybe you'll just have to do what a normal human being would, and hope Sale is healthy.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The players love the sport, but it's also their livelihood and in most cases their one shot at making enough money to make them and their families financially secure.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I'm confident on that point as well.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I will say that baseball fans seem to have less patience and more pessimism all the time.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Playing pickup baseball stoned could be fun. But real baseball would be one of the hardest games to play stoned, because your reaction times would be slowed down. I've played golf stoned. It doesn't affect your full swing very much but it can really hurt your putting. Back in the day I did know some guys who swore they played games like touch football and basketball as well or better when they were high.
  10. Bellhorn04
    1. Sure 2. Not a chance. Verdugo brought enough baggage of his own.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Hey, we all like trade proposals where we fleece the other team.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Stop.
  13. Bellhorn04
    The idea of them trading Devers on top of trading Mookie is unspeakably absurd.
  14. Bellhorn04
    These aren't penalties we're talking about. They're adjustments.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Why's that?
  16. Bellhorn04
    But Kimmi, is there loyalty on the other side, from the front office? Let's not forget that they traded Mookie - and Price. For business (payroll) reasons. They also said goodbye to Porcello, Holt et cetera. There's no loyalty going either way.
  17. Bellhorn04
    It's pretty simple and makes perfect sense, actually. We were benefitting from an AAV that was lower than JD's actual salary in 2018 and 2019. If he opts out we get stuck with an adjustment in the year he opts out. The only 'penalty' is in the luxury tax calculations, which of course are totally separate from the actual payroll.
  18. Bellhorn04
    A bad adjustment for us.
  19. Bellhorn04
    So Cot's has us at 16.4 million below the cap. However, there is one little issue - the JDM opt-out. I'm 99.99% sure that if JD opts out at the end of this year, we will get hit with an adjustment of 5.25 million, representing the difference between what he was actually paid by us over 3 years -23.75 * 3 = 71.25, and the original AAV of 22 * 3 = 66.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Just trying to torment you a bit, Jax. You'd do the same for us.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Those are fair comments. But the whole premise of being part of a 'team' or above the 'team' is shaky. We're talking about a hard cold business where players are constantly being traded, cut, left dangling in free agency et cetera. They're treated like commodities. As are general managers and managers who are being fired and replaced all the time. I'm not trying to sing the blues for the players here, I'm just talking about the realities of the 'team' concept.
  22. Bellhorn04
    I know, that was awful.
  23. Bellhorn04
    What does that mean, really? On the field he has always given it 100%. And apparently he also has strong leadership qualities, according to comments Alex Speier recently made on Twitter-Speier learned this when researching his book on the 2018 team. I do understand how you feel about Mookie's drive for the money, but I think as far as on the field goes, he is an exemplary team player.
  24. Bellhorn04
    And Cole's numbers improved dramatically when he went from Pitt to Houston. Another interesting subplot to follow this season.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I was a little surprised that Theo gave up on him so quickly and ate all that money, but I assumed he had his reasons.
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