TheHurl
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I thought saying "Your Sofu build our railroads" would be a selling point.
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Guy paid you about an hour before this was posted.
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It's amazing how there are rumours that many NBA players (including some that play in Miami) are said to be affiliated with Bosch yet it's kept nice and quiet. Baseball and Selig feel they have this f***ing legacy as "America's game" to uphold.
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MLBPA threatening MLB with a suit, I love it! “It is unfortunate that Major League Baseball apparently lacks faith in the integrity and finality of the arbitrator's decision and our Joint Drug Agreement, such that it could not resist the temptation to publicly pile-on against Alex Rodriguez. It is equally troubling that the MLB-appointed Panel Arbitrator will himself be appearing in the "60 Minutes" segment, and that Tony Bosch, MLB's principal witness, is appearing on the program with MLB's blessing. “MLB’s post-decision rush to the media is inconsistent with our collectively-bargained arbitration process, in general, as well as the confidentiality and credibility of the Joint Drug Agreement, in particular. After learning of tonight's "60 Minutes" segment, Players have expressed anger over, among other things, MLB's inability to let the result of yesterday's decision speak for itself. As a result, the Players Association is considering all legal options available to remedy any breaches committed by MLB.
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Sean Penn, Sandra Bernhard, Guy Ritchie, Jellybean, David Blaine, Warren Beatty and Vanilla Ice...anyone who sleeps with Madonna is instantly unlikable. I find it funny that Bosch kept all those text messages, but the one to his girlfriend threatening his life wasn't shown.
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Rodriguez, Bosch, Scott Pelley and Bud Selig...I'd love to kick all 4 in the nuts. I know I wouldn't be starting with A-Rod
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I would probably vote no on a second NA spot.
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Vernon Wells Designated for Assignment - Pickup?
TheHurl replied to Fromagedujour's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Turns out that credits against the cap aren't allowed. He just went in as $0 counting against the cap and that doesn't change. -
Vernon Wells Designated for Assignment - Pickup?
TheHurl replied to Fromagedujour's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Question for someone who can do the research...Wells was actually coming out as a $3.5M negative (a credit) against the luxury tax calculation for the Yankees in 2014. Does this change with his release? -
Done. Will post the AL later (possibly much later, not going to promise a timeline this time)
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I can email it to you, it's up to you whether you post it. Unless someone shows me how to post an excel document here without going through Google docs.
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What is the actual number if they don't make the Luxury tax? They are now paying 50% of the amount over the cap as they are 4 years in a row over. Then they can go over next year and only pay 17.5% (so a saving of 32.5). Seeing as they paid $29.1M last year, this could be an $90M+ saving over four years ($40M this year and it all depends on how much they spend moving forward...bet they wish that Tanaka was getting posted next season). All for losing a player that is providing minimal help to their team. Of course this is only true if they can get under the cap.
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Braun is still very marketable and the best player in Milwaukee. A-Rod is hated even in his own city and has zero marketability to the league. That's what I mean by this. My comment was actually about Puig though who's indiscretions with his car are being swept under the rug. MLB.com on the week of Puig's speeding charge bumped an article about him giving a little league clinic in LA while not reporting the incident. On their front page today is two A-Rod articles.
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Was the DWI by a player that is helpful or harmful in MLB marketing?
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I don't provide sources.
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all cats ass gave up was Sanchez?
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that's the word out there (although obstruct not obscure), technically so did Melky though. So did Braun and he still only got 65 games. MLB wants those that get implicated to say "I did it and won't ever do it again"
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Should have said in general illegal drugs are viewed as bad (even if the legal ones have more harm than most of the illegal ones) and governments/sports orgs use this to their advantage. In my study 1 out of 300 thought anabolic steroids should be legal which was the same amount that thought cocaine and heroin should be legal. It was just under 50% thought marijuana should be legalized and 9 out of 300 thought alcohol should be illegal. There was a further study done without naming the drugs just the stats, positives and side effects. Only 7 (out of 150) people thought steroids should be illegal in this case. More people thought Vitamin D should be banned in this study. It's only a college study, and I like to think I was pretty informed before, but that class opened my eyes.
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As it stands, because it's 162 games and not a full season (183 days..don't ask me the difference) the Yankees still have $3.15M cap hit for A-Rod.
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It's about time you got up to Ang's posting level.
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it goes beyond that. It's also about an opiate of the masses effect. Fans hate drugs, fans hate A-Rod...being against A-Rod is good for baseball. will the average fan and mainstream media see (or report) it that way?
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they'd be too afraid of the MLBPA consequences and agents boycotting them. If it can get them under the luxury tax for one year it's a huge savings though.
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The run environment was huge at that time though. No one deserved the MVP more than Pedro that year. 32 qualified players with a .400+ wOBA and Pedro puts up a .213 OBPA. He held the entire f***ing league to worse stats than what JPA put up last year. It's easily the single greatest pitching season I've ever witnessed (including Gooden's rookie and Clemens 87). People can argue all they want that pitchers don't deserve MVP...but IMO Pedro did that season. Missed 6 starts and put up a 10 WAR.
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It's not his worst...but this whole statement. “A lot of it was created by our own doing with social media, which is part of the game these days. We’ve lost some of the Twitter-a-holics we might have had around our team, and that’s where you hear the hype and the noise and the expectations and the outside stuff that can be good. But last year there was so much hype – I’m not going to say expectations because in the clubhouse, we’ll have the same – we just heard a lot of the noise from the outside world.” They thought they were good because of twitter or did Twitter cause them to believe they were bad? He's an excuse maker but he's too stupid to make good ones.
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Only engaged isn't it? Him and Lawrie have both been engaged before, it doesn't mean that much.
