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  1. jad
    Depends on your definition of honest. But to be clear, I don't believe anyone who amasses that kind of money came by it ethically. To claim they did is (to me) like claiming poor people deserve to be poor, or are so because they are not as smart, hard-working, or virtuous as those who are rich. (I have no real interest in investigating whether one greedy, self-interested billionaire is more or less awful than the next.) I watch sports to escape all these considerations, but sometimes, it's unavoidable.
  2. jad
    I agree with you, of course. The problem is that players (who at that level do not 'need' anything) do not see money as a commodity, but rather as a sign of their own worth. Thus, they want $1 more than player x. Where I worked, I know of senior colleagues who would make that specific demand to their bosses. But it's odd that fans complain about the salaries of entertainers--they do not complain about the money the owners make, nor how they 'acquired' (i.e., 'stole') the obscene amounts of money required to own a sports franchise as essentially a plaything.
  3. jad
    I know this is the accepted narrative, but can anyone post a list of those prospects DD dealt away who have proven to be valuable MLB players? I don't ask this to start an argument; I just really don't know who those players are.
  4. jad
    Let me know if you're also fine with death threats to Reddick's kids, since it was that topic (death threats) that brought you back to the subject of beating up 17 year old runaways.
  5. jad
    Well, you guys are obviously reading different reports from the ones I see readily on-line, although you haven't cited them (you can look back to see the reports I'm basing my views on). I actually hope you're right, and I hope the reports I've seen are wrong. Please cite the sources you're basing your views on, because I have difficulty understanding people who make excuses for participating in sexual assault, whether the guy is a mid-level player or a superstar like Kobe Bryant. Otherwise, it's pointless to argue. You are not going to persuade me that this kind of thing is just "boys being boys."
  6. jad
    "Zero" is a big word. As I understand it, the only controversy is whether he was passed out while this was going on or he was holding the camera. Both of those things kinda bother me, but I guess I understand why for others, it's no big deal. (Sorry, gotta run. I'm late for a Kobe celebration.)
  7. jad
    Little guys rule! https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/02/21/blue-jackets-nathan-gerbe-travis-sanheim-fight-video
  8. jad
    Yeah, I know. Not a rapist. Rather, just a camera guy. You know, like all of us here. As long as we're drunk enough, having a 17-year-old get assaulted in our hotel room is no big thing. So I guess death threats to athletes aren't either?
  9. jad
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28749183/athletics-mike-fiers-acknowledges-receiving-death-threats Just in case anyone wondered why there are people out there who think sports fans are a-holes.
  10. jad
    My bad. Nope. We agree. I sent the reply to the wrong post. And finally, if it's 420, how can it be bad?
  11. jad
    You're one step ahead of me! They will have to pry mine out of these cold dead hands.
  12. jad
    Why isn't 420 million reasonable? It's the entertainment business and others are willing to pay it. You can't get into that business then complain it's not being run like WalMart. [if by "reasonable" you mean something abstract like 'good for a civilized society,' then I'm with you. But far more 'unreasonable' is the bare fact that individuals in a society have billions of dollars to spend on what to them are essentially playthings. None of these people should be able to steal and hoard money and resources like that, and wouldn't, unless they were supported by envious sycophants and the machinery of a police state. ... OK. That's a different discussion: most of us are here on a sports board precisely because we want to escape for a moment things that truly matter in our lives!]
  13. jad
    Are you suggesting that with all that sudden cap space, Castillo comes up? (That's a bad look! RS traded their best player in order to get the cap space to bring up a grossly overpaid minor leaguer? But for Castillo's sake, I suppose I hope it happens.)
  14. jad
    Wow. You mean I can just click on ... Who Knew????!!! I have trouble enough dealing with the rotary dial on this machine.
  15. jad
    Moon-- Please start "Realistic View, Part II." Loading the nearly 400 pages of this one takes valuable time away from my more serious pursuits--e.g., complaining about Clippers' rotations.
  16. jad
    The LA City council vote was a joke and an embarrassment. I assure you NO ONE out here is talking about that. There are still a few sanctimonious a-holes (like LeBron James) who apparently, during their entire sports careers, have NEVER experienced cheating and have no idea how to respond except by throwing a moralistic fit or falling to a floor like three-year-olds. In general, those who get most outraged at the whiff of cheating, scandal, or crime are those who are guilty of it.
  17. jad
    Since so much of this disc. is about the "reset," does anyone know what CBA/league rules are on 'restructuring' contracts, say, by back- or front-loading them, to get under the cap for one year and thus resetting? (i.e., say, writing a contract for a high-end player in the 100s of millions, but having one of those years listed as $1 (or one million) and using that year to get under the cap)? I assume neither the league nor the union would buy such an obvious ruse (since it would artificially reduce what a team pays out). But is there specific language in the CBA about such things? (i.e., long-term contracts averaged out for salary cap purposes?)
  18. jad
    Not sure I understand. If you ran out the 2020 team, which we are saying for yucks equals the 2018 team, how does the payroll/tax/etc. affect its performance for this year? (You pay the tax if you have to and deal with it later).
  19. jad
    None is this is going to assuage anyone. Pulling out anecdotes of the good ole days (when the point is they WEREN'T good ole days, e.g., Musial), or invoking the Nomar trade (where they got back a hell of a lot more than they did this time--well, I admit, they didn't get anyone with sexual assault charges against them--there is that) won't do squat. Find me someone who was against the trade before who, after hearing Henry, is now persuaded. As for your assurance that Mookie will be back in a year, I'll take that bet. You name the stakes.
  20. jad
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28724451/red-sox-jd-martinez-thinks-astros-bashing-bit-much 100% agree. I'm guessing you and I share one thing w/ professional athletes: we've lost roughly 50% of the games we played. And it wasn't because our opponents cheated.
  21. jad
    Cheating occurs in every sport I've every played: football, hockey, baseball, tennis, squash, golf, bridge, poker... others I can't even think of--and I haven't played these at a very high level. You learn to deal with it. How is it that professional athletes seem never to have encountered this and have absolutely no clue as to how to combat it except to wail like three-year-olds "It's not FAIR!!!!"
  22. jad
    There's also an article in ESPN about various Dodgers' outrage (who apparently think that teams should win the old-fashioned way--by buying a championship). But the last thing a boxing referee tells fighters is "Protect yourself at all times." And if these dumb-ass after-the-fact moralists didn't bother to change signs even though sign-stealing has been part of the game since the beginning, then that's on them.
  23. jad
    Do they not also have the largest legislative body in the world? (just looked it up: #3 or #4). They also have a big mountain.
  24. jad
    And social services.
  25. jad
    Well, if you mean drug use, then of course you are right, given that drugs are ubiquitous. (I almost mis-read "lived next to forever in Maine" as meaning you 'lived next to Maine for a long time', which would mean New Hampshire. What a relief to go back and read it correctly, as I wouldn't wish New Hampshire residence on anyone!)
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