Laika
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Puke gif
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Tanaka is very interesting to me. Definitely would take him. More of a backend guy going forward but just seems so reliable... command guy with extensive playoff experience.
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Just saying. He looked like a crack head this year.
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I dunno, kind of feels very different. They seem to have given up a lot more for Jrue Holiday than Toronto gave up for Leonard. Toronto took a calculated risk and part of that risk was on the PR side (dumping DeRozan). Milwaukee seems to be reacting to an awkward situation they find themselves in which is partly the team's doing. And they are overpaying for Holiday, right? So it makes sense in the situation with Giannis, taking one big swing next season, but ideally they wouldn't even be in this situation. And if Giannis leaves they are out three first rounders and two pick swaps in the future... it seems like a risky position and on the downside it could lead to years of mediocrity. *edit - unless Giannis is extending with Milwaukee. Then this is fine. The way the NBA works you would then have to consider the Holiday deal in relation to Giannis getting locked in. Like evaluating the PG trade as part of landing Kawhi.
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Bucks pushing all their chips in too. NBA moves are bananas. Apparently Harden turned down $50M per year?
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It should be a good cautionary for Toronto to not overvalue their young SP depth. Soroka - still good but unfortunate injuries happen Anderson - good Fried - good Wright - sucks Toussaint - sucks Wilson - sucks Davidson - sucks? Folty - drugs Newcomb - not sure what happened. was okay now sucks? Most of the above were well-regarded and some were very top prospects. We can't expect most of: Pearson, Kay, Hatch, Borucki, Thornton, Murphy, Murray, SWR, Manoah, etc. to be big contributors. In fact, the majority will probably give Toronto essentially nothing in terms of meaningful production.
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Drew Smyly 1/$11M, the Braves 2 years older than Ray Projects a bit worse than Ray (fWAR) Was intriguing in 2020 and much better than Ray (2.56 xFIP in just 26.1 innings)
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He's been a pretty bad hitter since 2017. Not sure there will be much trade interest. Does Bradley Jr. even get that much money this offseason?
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DJ going to choke?
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I’ve never been wrong
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let's just say that I have not heard good things about this guy.
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oooooohh noooooooo I wonder if the highly motivated and successful woman who was an AGM at 29 years old is capable of learning *gasp* Spanish? she probably already knows the language a bit, man. she has done a bunch of international related work with MLB.
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Benoit-Olivier Groulx and Tanner Laczynski
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pm'ing you my short list, Spanky. If you'll be up for a bit. I'm out.
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can i f***ing pick yet erijgrqejgr
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veto
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So you made a decision to spend money on something you can afford and just wish it was cheaper. Gotcha. I don't see a policy argument there, though. i am choosing to not be a mod today
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Why should you be able to? What is the policy argument for giving that additional tax break to rich people? Anyway, in Canada I believe there are ways to deduct a good chunk. You can account for some of it as child care (deductible) and if it's a primarily religious institution a higher percentage may be deductible.
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How can you honestly say this? Who the f*** are these people? Hockey prospects don't exist. Some of these guys might crack a lineup some day.
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It looks like three players did it in MLB this year, perhaps this was a one year blip due to the different roster rules. Before that it apparently only happened twice - Mark Kiger and Adalberto Mondesi. Not sure what the deal was with Kiger but I can see it happening with Mondesi types who can be thought of as pure pinch runners. It's always been uncommon but there in hockey. Google says guys like Cherry, Iginla, Hull, McAvoy, Makar, Nick Robertson, Pearson, Tanev, Kreider, Mark Stone, Tom Wilson, Jannik Hansen, Doug Janik all share this debut quirk.
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Couple weird things there, Jim. Crawford sucks but also... who is trying to squeeze value out of Andrelton Simmons outside of a 30 team league? Should've just dropped Andrelton for JP, they are basically fungible replacement level SS assets.
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No, the DDL rules specifically say "service time". I don't think the issue has ever come up in the baseball leagues though - baseball players basically never debut in the playoffs. Either way, it looks like this league has a different set of rules for this stuff and maybe it makes sense because for one reason or another hockey teams do sometimes debut players in the playoffs.
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Is this your fault though for not clarifying? Obviously I don't know how this league works but in the baseball leagues we look at service time which would not count playoff games as experience.
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Can't help but cringe at some of these woke thoughtpieces coming out about Trevor Bauer, work ethic, and race. We like in a big, never-ending version of the Breakfast Club; people just see other people in "the simplest terms and most convenient definitions" based on the observer's station in life. https://cupofcoffee.substack.com/p/cup-of-coffee-november-12-2020
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Nordekes want Caleb Addison. can someone email the next guy
