Laika
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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
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I smell a huuuuuge extension
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Nordekes want Jan Mysak
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Problem for MLB is they can't have their cake and eat it too. The black kids like basketball, the old white guys like baseball and NASCAR. If MLB turns its sport into the batflip pimping Tim Anderson / Marcus Stroman festival we all want to see, MLB loses a chunk of their core old white viewership. Just like Twitter does not define a country's politics, Twitter does not define general fan interest in baseball. As much as Twitter loves Yasiel Puig, lots of baseball fans do not.
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If the thing they are doing is the bare minimum, done mostly for optics, then there really isn't. The thing they are doing might even be worse than doing nothing at all! who knows!
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they have big butts
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Les Nordekes are floored that you had your eye on this sleeper goalie
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brother wants Alexander Romanov if he is available
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I think this discussion on race in sport is very interesting. Everyone is making valid points. I think it would be smart long-term marketing for baseball to really focus on making the sport affordable and accessible. When people say baseball is a "white man's game" they aren't intending to talk about the athletes and the other participants... they are talking about the fans. I despite quota-based analysis. I don't agree that MLB needs to hit some magic percentage of black participation. I also don't agree that MLB has any social obligations here. There are certainly things they could do more intelligently from a marketing perspective and those things in turn would improve the optics. Also, what are we really talking about here. Are we talking about MLB turning Kyler Murray into a baseball player rather than a football player? Or are we talking about baseball as a whole providing opportunities to low-income athletes who otherwise would not make it in any sport. These are very different things. In short I agree with connnorp more than thehurl.
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Nordekes want Marco Rossi
