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We've always been here. Handicapped people were legally deprived an education until the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Handicapped people were legally deprived the right to work until the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. DEI is actually DEIA - the A being accessibility. Handicapped people are even excluded from the hatred of DEI. 😉

a black guy twice got elected POTUS

As a golf fan, I for one am glad Scottie Scheffler wasn't shot dead in a situation where a power tripping cop got his feelings hurt a couple years ago.

There are many pathetic brainwashed troll losers that will say anything that supports Trump and speaks out against liberalism. These people truly see “the left”’as the ultimate villain to the American way of life. Much worse than Russians, North Koreans, Nazis, and pedophiles. These are horrible people with no conscious and even less brain power. Im talking in general terms of course and not about any one individual person or persons.

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The narrative from the right that he was hit still hasn't been proven even though we have like 6 different videos of this. So basically you're saying you're okay with the police executing someone because they're being annoying.

But if the Tigers had offered 25 million, the mid-point becomes 28.5. So, they would have better chance of winning. Offering 19 makes sense if you think that the arbitrator will arrive at a figure between 19 and 25.5. I am assuming that is what they think. Either that, or they underestimated the 32 million figure.

I am getting pretty annoyed at all the heat on Holmes. He built something amazing very quickly here. Had a step-back year. It happens. You don't throw out a GM like that because of a mulligan. The 15-2 season almost everything broke their way. The 9-8 season almost everything different. It really came down to the O-Line losing it's anchor in the middle and having an LT put together with duct tape and a bunch of guys who were pretty green. It's fixable. A 4th place schedule won't hurt either. Everyone need to chill the **** out.

But remember, he is the way he is because he didn't agree with the way Kamala Harris got the nomination. That was the tipping point. Fascism because of a process disagreement. Makes total sense.

well....that's not ALL i said. lol. i think its true that if she had not likely panicked and followed direction, this would not have happened. if she's not parked in the middle of the road, this doesnt happen. i also think she panicked because the ICE officer was unnecessarily hostile and it scared her. again, its standard police procedure nowadays to NOT stand in front of a vehicle for this very reason. its also pretty standard now to attempt to de-escalate an emotional situation before other methods of coercion are tried. Sometimes it is impossible for the police to get people to follow direction without some use of force. i get that. in fact, i'm on the side of the police 9 times out of 10. and even if i have seen the video, i wasnt there that day and dont know everything that went on. with that said, it certainly appears that the ICE officers intentionally escalated a situation that need not have been escalated. if he goes to her and says "ma'am, i understand your position on our work. i get it. but we are going to need to proceed down this road. i need you to move so we can get through. if you do not move, i may have to arrest you." this was not a 250 pound linebacker. it was not a drugged out psychopath. this was a woman in a car. let's try talking before escalating. that's what police officers are trained to do. but these arent officers. many simply appear to be thugs with guns. that's how its been here in chicago, and that's how it seems to be in minneapolis. to pfife's earlier point, even if charges are brought, trump will pardon him immediately. because he's a federal officer acting on federal orders, federal law will govern and supersede any state law, so i dont think any state criminal action will be valid so trump's inevitable pardon will let him off.

The problem, as usual, is... Boras.

Imagine touting an aggregator that shows your guy being disliked by the majority of Americans as some sort of achievement.

the front of our house looks right out (/ in) into the street. We have a big picture window and we have always had some kind of drapes or blinds on it. But a funny thing is that a few years ago we were doing a bunch of redecorating and the we had taken down the drapery rods and had some work do to on the window, and it was probably like 18 month we had nothing on the window, and it became completely normal. Then eventually we put in a new blinds system, which we are back to closing pretty religiously when it gets dark. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It does greatly resemble the Gilded Age. Not the one portrayed in the tv series, but the one experienced by at least 90% of the people who lived during this time.

Or driving through a crowd of people in Charlottesville.

TWO SHOTS OF MALORT, PHIFE!

Lets be fair here, she was saying that while blocking the road and her partner was outside the vehicle filming and antagonizing. I still think the shooting wasn't justified but it's very clear from this video that the narrative about her being scared and just being there because she had dropped her kids off is nonsense. They were clearly there to impede and antagonize law enforcement and planned on continuing to do so.

I'm trying to dig up the articles, but the studies out there have not really shown any hurt feeling effect for players who went through arbitration. They really just take the best deal they can. Some re-sign, but not any less than those who don't get their feelings hurt in arbitration. It's water under the bridge by the time free agency rolls around. In this case, the arguments will be less hurtful, more trying to establish precedent anyways. If the Tigers go in saying "He should make what David Price and Jacob DeGrom made," that's not exactly a slap in the face. Anybody expecting an elite Boras client to re-sign before free agency is fooling themselves anyways.

as someone who manages a lot of people, if i went into an open process like arbitration and said all sorts of things about how they didnt deserve the same salary as x, y, or z, there would be hurt feelings. no matter how much money they made. i know "its a business", but its still hard to hear that your employer doesnt think youre worth what you think youre worth. baseball players arent robots.

It’s funny because their top edges combined for 26 sacks and everyone wanted Hendrickson which would’ve been a disaster.

It's not one or the other per say. It's is he worth $1 more or less than the mid-point of $25.5 mil. If the formula says he's worth $25 mil, the arbitrator goes with $19 mil. If the forumula says he's worth $26 mil, they go with $32 mil.

It's only a 15 yard penalty so Ole Miss would have had a final play from the 20. I can see your point if it's the NFL and they get the ball at the 1.

I see #1 in the AL Central. That's gets them into the playoffs. Once that happens, anything is possible.

The best analysis I’ve seen is the one done by the NYT. As you can see, the wheels were turned before she was shot to move away from the officer. People are going to want to believe what they want to believe and allow this administration to gaslight them, but it is what it is. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Its from CNN..... Everything is doctored when we don't like the message.

A lot of people expected at this tonight

The best part of this arbitration discussion is that it demonstrates that there are posters here that are even nerdier than me. 😉

Party of fascists

have to agree. Pre-arb salaries are by definition completely divorced from any connection to a player's value. It would be an odd player evaluation system that gave them any weight. But then again, what's not odd about the way baseball players are paid? 🙄

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Yeah but it is important to note the file number is not the final offer from negotiations, but instead a strategic number to try to win the arbitration case, and it is done blind. Matt Garza, I believe, once settled once the team and his agent filed the same number.

indeed. And the numbers aren't only for the arbitrator, they set the frame for any negotiations before the hearing. Once the numbers are public, each side has to evaluate if they think the other made the more reasonable proposal and how that affects the strength of their own position on settling before arbitration.

He’s got addiction issues. He just replaced alcohol with South Beach fashion.

lol

And to think some still think it’s kind of wrong to refer to conservatives as Nazis. Nope. It’s more accurate than it is ever was.

I'm shooting for a 4-team trade: Pistons Brooklyn New Orleans GS Receives Michael Porter, Jr (Nets) - $38.3M '25-26 salary Jonathan Kuminga (GS) - $22.5M '25-26 salary Jaden Ivey (Pistons) - $10.1M '25-26 salary Tobias Harris (Pistons) - $26.6M '25-26 salary Trey Murphy III (NO) - $25.0M '25-26 salary Caris LeVert (Pistons) - $14.1M '25-26 salary Ron Holland II (Pistons) - $8.7M '25-26 salary Brandin Podziemski (GS) - $3.7M '25-26 salary Bobi Klintman (Pistons) - $2.0M '25-26 salary Paul Reed (Pistons) - $5.3M '25-26 salary Draft Picks 2026 Pistons 1st 2026 Pistons 2nd (CHARLOTTE) Received 2027 Brooklyn 2nd (least fav BKN DALL) 2027 Pistons 1st SWAP 2028 Pistons 1st 2027 Pistons 2nd (MILW) 2028 Pistons 2nd (best pick NOT going to Utah) 2029 Pistons 1st SWAP 2030 Pistons 1st Total $ IN: 67,000,000 38,600,000 24,100,000 26,600,000 Total $ OUT: 66,800,000 38,400,000 25,000,000 26,200,000 200,000 200,000 (900,000) 400,000 (100,000) Traded Tobias Harris - $26.6M '25-26 salary Michael Porter, Jr - (38.4)M '25-26 salary Trey Murphy III - $25.0M '25-26 salary Jonathan Kuminga - $22.5M '25-26 salary Caris LeVert - $14.1M '25-26 salary Brandin Podziemski - $3.7M '25-26 salary Jaden Ivey - $10.1M '25-26 salary Ron Holland II - $8.7M '25-26 salary Paul Reed - $5.3M '25-26 salary Bobi Klintman - $2.0M '25-26 salary

I hope the Tigers present their arbitration case in limerick form just to mess with Boras

500 for Kane! Empty netter

Would like to see Kane get his 500th now. My daughter is at Panthers @ Habs tonight. She has cheered for Florida for years due to the Luongo effect and is sad that “Marchie” was scratched due to an injury incurred the other night vs Toronto. Montreal is up 2-0.

Three closers, but still no dominant reliever. That's OK, but I wouldn't say that their bullpen is a real strength. On the other hand, give Hinch some reliever depth and he can take it a long way.

Same. I miss the sports coverage on Twitter, but will not rejoin that fascist cesspool.

Adding a proven starter will give them the most value this year for the roster. There are some hitters who would be upgrades right now but they would limit someone's playing time and potentially become a detriment in the future. A starter could decline as well but if Skubal does leave, it would be easier to add a starter now and another next year. If they are forced to replace the value of Skubal, Mize and Flaherty all in the same offseason, that is very difficult to do.

I think he’ll get head coaching interviews. The Lions have to be the top OC job available.

STEW!!!! What a game! Offense was a struggle in this game overall, but the defense was looking good once the second unit came in with Holland, Jenkins, and Green. Glad JB rode those guys in the second half. Can we be done with the Ivey at PG experiment? Daniss is the backup PG on the current roster and when Cade sits, that's who you play. His shot can be streaky, but he knows how to run the offense and he play defense. Also, can we see more of Lanier please? When Duncan is out or you need more shooting, that's who you play in that spot. He's a decent defender, he has size, and he can shoot off of movement. I'd rather see him get minutes than Careless LaVert who I'm done with.

I mean this in the nicest way possible. People who criticize minor league free agent signings are tacitly admitting their limits of baseball roster management knowledge.

Years ago I would agree with the "worse than vanilla ice cream" being an insult. But then I had high quality vanilla ice cream and my attitude has changed. Do vanilla right and it's great. Vanilla gelato at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor blows the chocolate away. Sometimes vanilla is good and when you have been casting about in a sea of mediocrity as long as the Giants had, maybe you need the stabilizing effect of a Mike McCarthy to correct things before you go and get the exciting guy. I mean, like Jeff Fisher, you're always probably going to be in the 7-10 win range, hoping for a couple lucky breaks or a perfectly-timed hot streak like they did when they denied the Patriots an undefeated season. I think Mike McDaniel was fired because they have already hired John Harbaugh. Stephen Ross - Michigan connection. Maybe the belief is Harbaugh and Monken can resurrect Tua's career. But if that's the case, you better have a really good back up because that one bad hit is always looming. If he gets another obvious concussion, they can't let him play again.