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  1. crmr
    Your post doesn't really give any info about where the industry speculation is from, but they could easily be looking at a reliever
  2. crmr
    This whole story is simply hilarious
  3. crmr
    Baseball seems to be doing something well given the other major sports are all worse (hockey possibly being similar)
  4. crmr
    Should be the deal that lets us truly evaluate Happ's
  5. crmr
    Which isn't enough to support a team full of big contracts perfoming poorly like the other big markets
  6. crmr
    We do have different management now. Having a high payroll doesn't mean being competitive, something Rogers probably knows. You also dont know their value assessment, fans finally showing up this year could easily be what they had been expecting in the past years, and so want to see longer term fan commitment. The ownership has actually been pretty solid for a few years now and fans only finally showed up when they're winning, it's not like the other big markets where the fans are supporting them no matter what.
  7. crmr
    Smart in the sense that they use their resources for other priorities, I didn't mean anything about possible embarrassment. Taking the time to evaluate a player, come up with some numbers and make offers when you know you won't sign them is a very poor use of time.
  8. crmr
    Mark Lowe in discussions with multiple teams, hope the Jays are in on that
  9. crmr
    Do they call you princess Jonn? I think you're misunderstanding him, what is undoubtedly true is that your comment "he's worth it if someone paid it" could not be more wrong, and is actually typically untrue
  10. crmr
    More evidence of whining right here. This is actually something you would expect a teenage girl to say
  11. crmr
    Nobody took anything you said out of context, you're whining about us not offering a contract that would have been rejected then stating (almost unbelievably) that because Boston offered it he must be worth it
  12. crmr
    You make absolutely no sense... We made the ALCS last year, and are definitely one of the best teams going into this year. We also have zero huge contracts... How the sports world works? Baseball is the only sport where you can even have contracts this large in North America and if history has taught anything, it's that you don't need the massive contracts to win. Interestingly enough that's a main discussion point of this forum in general, which I believe you read quite regularly so I'm surprised you haven't picked that up yet...
  13. crmr
    And he would have rejected it...
  14. crmr
    It's worth it to Boston, not us. People value things differently, including in baseball. Look up winner's curse to understand the simple concept Sure, I would be. I'd also be happy if we didn't sign him and won a world series as well and I didn't have to watch 3 crap years of Price. I wouldn't be happy if we signed him and he ended up not being worth what he got paid, and we're sitting in 2018 or whatever with a fifth of our payroll committed to an ace. Teams with more money can take more risks (this is clearly observable in how they operate).
  15. crmr
    You're right, from the Blue Jays perspective he wasn't worth 7/217 million (hence why they didn't offer it)... what are you even complaining about? You're upset that they didnt offer him a contract he would have rejected, that seems smart to me
  16. crmr
    You don't have to give 200+ million dollar contracts (in today's dollars) eventually, no.
  17. crmr
    Ya, he would have come here for 7/217. I dont mind that we didn't make an offer if we didn't want to reach the numbers he was going to get. What do you tell him? Ya we'll give you 5 years 140 mil?
  18. crmr
    This pretty much already exists except it's really difficult to figure it all out. It turns out for the most part we don't need people with university degrees so its more in technical stuff
  19. crmr
    I assume this population refers to the entire world, Europe, North America or an entire continent and not a group of people on some island/specific country. While your story isn't particularly believable (Nobel prize track people tend to earn significant salaries at top institutions, and typically important areas garner enough funding to support more than 3 experts), it is interesting.
  20. crmr
    Just out of curiosity here, despite being 1 of 3 people in the world with high expertise, has your friend actually done anything of significant accomplishment related to the disease? Edit for clarification: By significant accomplishment I don't mean publications in top journals (there are lots of these in every field every month), I mean accomplishments which would garner her potential for a Nobel prize in some years? Because that is approximately David Price's equivalence to the medical research field
  21. crmr
    He could be, but he could also get injured in any of the next four years and struggle to have any effectiveness That's a big problem with these long term deals to pitchers (especially one with Price's historical workload), the higher likeliness of missing extended time (say one year) creates a 30 mil hole for Boston in any particular season. I don't necessarily likely the Jays particular moves, but I do like the idea of spreading out the earnings among the entire rotation
  22. crmr
    My part about entertainers was more in reply to the guy you replied to. The arts at the Phd level is largely an irrelevant contribution to society, but the arts themselves are in the same direction as sports. My point was largely to say that while your post doc friends are not making much money now, if they are indeed doing post docs at the named institutions, they will do very well for themselves so long as they decided to pursue a field which people consider useful (which is, generally speaking, anything but the arts)
  23. crmr
    But lives in London UK
  24. crmr
    Except if they're doing post docs in anything relevant (i.e. contributing to society in a notable way - pretty much exclude fields falling under 'the arts') at MIT, Stanford etc they will earn a much higher salary than $30,000 year. Also, to pretend entertainers don't contribute to society is highly inaccurate
  25. crmr
    It won't happen and doesn't have to
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