1984Echoes

One last point: our private insurance (MIDDLE MAN!!!) process is one of the most INEFFICIENT medical payment processes in the world. It's a completely asinine system.

PS: If our medical system can bankrupt you, or is simply not available to a large portion of our country's citizenry... It ain't the best medical system in the world. No matter how good the actual medicine is.

Maybe... how do we compare to Germany, Norway, Britain, and other elite democracies around the world? Is there data that supports your statement? Because I don't believe for one second that Germany has an inferior medical system to ours... Which is entirely why we rank last in the civilized/ first world/ democratic world... (I'm not talking ranking against developing countries...). Based completely on affordability and availability. We still have the highest population of uninsured amongst first world countries.

What if a Simmons trade includes Josh Jackson... do you think about it? Killian? Can Simmons play PF?

I think he can go through the same non-tender process so the team is not FORCED to give arbitration. Doesn't matter minor or MLB contract, he gets paid only per the contract and is not eligible for arbitration because of the contract.

Until it mutates and kids start dying. The stupidity of MAGA is just beyond my comprehension. And that's not the actual language that I use to describe the MAGA-idiocy.

Some Christmas favorites by Sting: Burning Babe & Hounds of Winter are also good from this album (I even like Lullaby for an Anxious Child).

I prefer a little more mellow in the morning... just a little bit:

But... 'Merica has the best medical system in the WORLD!!! I don't understand.

Detroit Red Wings, 8-9-2, 3-7-0 AWAY ESPN+ 11/20 8:00 PM Arizona Coyotes, 2-13-2, 1-4-1 HOME

2022: this country will be on a roll... No Dem wipeout at midterms.

Are you talking about Trump's tax cuts that added $1 Trillion to the deficit EACH YEAR? Or the $8 TRILLION that TRUMP added to the deficit?

That looks really good. I just went on Amazon and grabbed myself a copy...

OIC. 2022-2023 are already locked in. We have to pay $16 Mill on top of that to buy him out of 2024-25.

So many teases going on out there right now... Please don't tease me and then leave me.

Tease, tease, tease.

Do it. Let him get his 3000+ and if he's scuffling buy him out. I thought the last two years were already locked in though? Are you certain the buy-out is still in effect?

damn... I've been trying to edit typos before posting but every now & then I forget to double-check...

Why can't there be team options for the last few years of a 10 year contract? Or games played requirements. 130 games played = automatic renewal of years 8-9-10 (games played per each previous year that is...), less than 130 = team has the option to renew or buy out the last years at a 90% discount. Let's say $35 mill/ year the last 3 = $10.5mm to buy out the last 3 years if the player is constantly injured. Player gets something, team gets out of an albatross.

Repeat after me: Saaaaaben Lee.

Truth.

Look in the mirror. Forever? Really?

I think I won a day too, but I don't remember the date. Coulda been a day in 2014 or 15 or...? I saw it once on my Motownsports profile but can't remember that date... I think everyone must have been at the beach that day.

I think he was getting arbitration expensive and ready for a multi-year extension so, yeah, salary. Scherzer & Verlander were coming up (lost out on Scherzer), as well as Miggy. And they ended up trading Porcello also, the next year I think, to afford their stars & scrubs model when they were already pushing the luxury tax so... yeah, salary. In order to spend money on the BP and save money for extending JV & Miggy and (potentially) Scherzer... Yeah, they were pro-active in trading Fister. As someone else noted, he may have already been losing his FB a bit, so there's that too. But salary considerations were definitely a part of it.

No. Oswald Peraza.