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Real revolutionaries would welcome the longer jail term so they could work on their political tracts while in prison.

This is a great thread...read the entire thing

That’s disingenuous. It was for competitive balance. Most of the teams in the league couldn’t compete with the big market clubs. It was a league of haves and have nots, and the majority of med to smaller market clubs pushed for a draft to alleviate that. Of course they also wanted to contain costs, the objectives are intertwined.

My favorite part is at the end when she tells him she's been standing there the whole time.

Marching band season. My eldest plays clarinet. The band has around 120 kids this season. It’s down a bit from last season. But it’s a very good program and I’m happy she’s in it. My wife mentioned how she was out the door for school early and in a noticeably great mood last week which was their first football game. I happened to be home today and she was pretty happy this morning before leaving for school.

I always thought they saw easy dollar signs in LA instead of having to fight with the Yankees and Giants for New Yorkers

I like news aggregators as much as the next guy, but AP is left? Since when? https://adfontesmedia.com/gallery/ Feels like they are trying to shift the perception of media bias to the right with that, as also evidenced by trying to normalize Daily Caller or Townhall as being similarly-respected news sites. Interesting how All Sides make the bold claim that they are “strengthening democracy” with their product right in the first sentence of their About page. Rather self-aggrandizing, that. John Gable, the guy who founded and runs it, also worked for a political party he won’t name in his LinkedIn profile, but which Entrepreneur magazine revealed in 2016 was Republican.

None of this very trite, tired, jaded rant about greedy owners changes the historical fact that deep unrest within owners of mid to smaller market franchises, who were not granted a level playing field and could not compete with the big market clubs for talent, led them to pursue a draft. This disparity and rift amongst owners has been addressed in various ways yet still remains today, and will remain until revenues are shared as per other major sports. Do owners want to control costs? Of course! Are they greedy? Some, probably. Does a draft inhibit amateur bonuses? Absolutely. Still, the prime purpose of a draft is to equitably distribute talent. Sometimes face value is face value.

the vikings are paying hockenson more money than kelce. maybe if he stopped dropping the ball...or falling down immediately after catching it he might be pretty good. actually, he is pretty good. but not "best paid tight end in the nfl" good.

its nice to be able to say "jared goff has some question marks" without it turning into a seven page diatribe that always ends with everyone else being called liars.

I would say containing costs is #1 (which is always the case with everything owners do) and getting a little more parity is secondary. Of course, parity is also indirectly worth money to the majority of owners, although I think that becomes less important, the more they expand playoffs.

Unfortunately if you consider the source, I don't necessarily know if this means anything.

I don’t begrudge him the money. He’s a good player and seems like a decent dude. But OMG I’m glad Holmes didn’t pay him.

20 home runs for Malloy, with a .423 OBP.

The main purpose is to distribute incoming talent in an equitable manner, which also happens to contain costs more efficiently than the alternative of big market clubs outbidding everyone for top talent. It serves no purpose to provide rewards, or punitive actions if it has absolutely no impact on corrective, constructive or positive behavior changes. Your last paragraph makes no sense, as a “garbage franchise“ is just as likely to get rewarded as any other since there is no correlation between the lottery and behavior.

I want Corey Booker for President. He’s so so so freakin’ happy all the time. I guess cause not only is he single (but fairly certain not gay, though wouldn’t matter not one iota to me), but he’s also vegan. He’ll be a less miserable s.o.b. because, you know… more “regular”. … 😏…. Less “backed up”. He tells great corny jokes. And he’s a daily runner, even in a few questionable neighborhoods…. So , I’m guessing he’s got some speed when needed. He’s a good egg. He’s Superman.

The main purpose of the draft is to keep signing bonuses down which it does effectively for better or for worse. As for the lottery versus the draft, I agree it doesn't affect team behavior much if at all. It does affect how they are rewarded though. I like how the new process limits how many high picks a team can get in multiple years. I don't see how lotteries dilute anything since the poor teams still tend to get better picks than good teams. I'd rather see a close to the bottom team that's trying to get better get a pick over some garbage franchise like Oakland that doesn't even care.

LOL priceless. I love how she just raises the sign 3 inches so tiny p can't reach it

still doesn't really capture it because you can fairly blame *all* the European casualties of WWII on Hitler.

Oh stop it. Drafts distribute incoming amateur talent in a most rational manner, and have been doing so successfully in most sports for many years. Lotteries, in any sport, have done absolutely nothing to affect or change team behavior even one iota, and only serve to dilute the true function of a draft. Lotteries address a perception, not a reality.

I think there is also a difference between having a left and right handed player at a couple of positions who pretty much always play the same position when they play, (as did the 84 Tigers), and constantly moving multiple guys to a variety of different defensive positions where you never end up with a defensive team that is collectively sharp playing together. I don't see that as any kind of virtue at all and I don't believe for a minute that the tiny offensive mix/match gained (since you are talking mostly about players that are not very offensively productive under *any* circumstance anyway) is worth the general deterioration of defensive run prevention it creates.

I believe he did get pushed out the door. Not in the Vladimir Putin sense... that is. But rather, in the Murdoch/ Fox sense... "You didn't MAGA so **** you and here's the door..."

Can they have two QB's on the practice squad? Because I'm fine with Blough as an emergency QB. Martinez is nowhere near being that. But I'd still like him on the PS to develop him, and to show as the running QB in practices, that we could use... IMO.

Must win! If we lose this we need to blow it all up and start over.

and all this bull****, the reason we are talking about him today, is because of a hollywood strike in the mid 2000's and Mark Burnett pitching an idea to fill the gap in the TV lineups for a show involving Trump who at that point was a washed up real estate tycoon that was yesterday's news. He was as relevant as Jim Bakker or Max Headroom, some forgotten guy from the 80's who had his moment in the tabloids but was considered a joke at that point.

April and Phil are household names for those of us who have that sort of sense of humor. I thought it was really funny that he was okay putting an alligator in his parent's house but nearly pee'd himself when locked up with snakes.

I was checking stats today looking for a third baseman we could trade for and saw Issac Paredas leads all third baseman in baseball in OPS. So I won’t do that again.

My dad was on the detail to clean up Dachau in 1945-46. Or, more exactly, he was on the detail to force POWs and the local townspeople to clean up Dachau. He did not talk much about it, but what little he did say was truly horrifying, and I've always thought, if that's the part he was willing to share with us, I can't imagine how horrific the parts he kept from us were.