Jake

It's easy to get into the tent, fork over $5 when it's raining

Player has to be on your team 3 years to get the Bird Rights. If you could lower your salary commitments after 1 year deal, you could go ahead and give him the same max everyone else can, but we won't be able to do that nor will most teams going after such a player

I think the idea isn't that you have to be 100% sure an anonymous source is correct, but that you don't transparently act as a mouthpiece for their opinions

I'm just not following. I could buy an argument that politics generally have gotten too invested in "personal vitriol," but I see no argument for that being something particular to liberal politics. I might say that conservative politics in the USA tends to want to have the appearance of issue-based criticism when it is in fact a veil for personal distaste/disgust/prejudice/vitriol/ideology/etc. Liberals certainly have no problem saying, "that guy right there is nuts"

When you're over the cap, there just isn't anything you can do.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) Yep. I tell people parenting is 70% awful, 30% amazing. But the 30% outweighs the 70% easily. I think that means you're bad at math

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) But if Boras had done ANY negotiating on his behalf, going back to college wouldn't be an option, would it? Signing an agent ends your college status, i thought. That would leave what, Independent league? Joliet Slammers? NCAA lightened up on the baseball kids when it became apparent how anti-player their definition of amateurism was. Asking the kids to negotiate multi-million dollar contracts with industry experts with only the help of their parents is just a recipe for disaster. They could hardly access the regulations that governed their interactions with an agent without an agent to tell them what the rules were

Jesus f***ing Christ. What a bunch of lowlifes making so much money. It's a shame that clowns like that earn so much while so many real journalists don't sniff six figures

Please tell I'm not reading that correctly that Dan MacNeil makes 300K a year

Jeter might have hurt his wrist. Yankees are a s***show

Delaying an announcement to avoid people "hating" you for apparently wasting everyone's time after announcing immediately...okay. Complete radio silence even once the moratorium period ends...you're begging for hate no matter what you do

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) This story right here is what is wrong with American politics in general and liberal politics specifically. This guy should be ashamed of himself. Especially if he has a daughter. But instead, he probably is proud of himself for being a good little liberal warrior. These politics of personal destruction are going to kill us all. You don't have to agree with someone's beliefs, actions, etc., but this constant trying to get people fired or worse is just wrong. Imagine if a Democrat had said this? OMG!!! WAR ON WOMEN!!!! MYSIGNO-WHATEVER-IST!!!! HE SHOULD RESIGN AND LOSE HIS PENSION!!!! Yes, I think this guy probably should resign, but I am not going to start a petition or twitter war about it. If he has no problem trying to get porn about a 17 year old, who knows what he can do. At the very least, I hope his next opponents bring this up at every stop and he never makes it into office. http://freebeacon.com/politics/left-wing-l...ollege-student/ In what way is some weirdo trying to get someone to illegally distribute nude pictures/videos of a woman emblematic of liberal politics? Because he calls himself "left-wing?"

Not at all a parent here, but my anxiety for it centers around when they turn into little people. A baby? It might be trying, but it deserves your love and attention. Then they turn into those brats I see at the grocery store and I don't know if I can take the aggravation....

As we know, Aggrey Sam is well-acquainted with the inner workings of the Bulls

I was sure this past Monday would be when s*** went down. Then I was sure it was today, since the moratorium ended. But here we are.....

I have a feeling Melo's delay has to do with somebody making moves

There's no way you'd tell the police what your decision is. Those are a bunch of regular guys, for the most part. It would get out.

I can't see the author

I'm guessing, when it comes to AJ, there's fire where there is so much smoke. All the Red Sox Way s*** makes me puke though

I like how one of the biggest injustices re: AJ was his shouting at umpires. Meanwhile, you have that piece of s*** Ortiz in the dugout losing his mind at the drop of a pin. AJ probably is an asshole and might have been sabotaging a clubhouse, but there's a reason public shaming like this always falls flat.

He was the best player in the draft and we've already seen Scott Boras take a potential number 1 who dropped back to college when he didn't get his asking price. I wouldn't want to try too hard to call his bluff

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) You mean if you are a psychotic, selfish, piece of s*** psycho who wants to enact a murder? Yeah google should be offlimits unless u destroy your computer before enacting the sickening crime. No, so that if there is a coincidence in which you are searching about something that actually happens, people don't act like that is sufficient proof that you had something to do with it. Regular purges of browsing history are a must too. This guy may well have intentionally killed his kid, but search history is something that can be very incriminating for anyone when it ought not to be. For me, I'm going to feel free to search for what I want without worrying about someone misinterpreting my intentions for doing so.

ESPN talking vaguely about "executives" believing that Tanaka news will be really bad

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) What makes you think a guy that has never played 1B could be a plus defender at the position? Never played the infield, even

Man, Andy Wilkins is white hot. For a guy who tended to put up boring season statlines, he has been tremendously streaky since his initial callup to AAA last year. Also, how long before Taylor Thompson gets the call to MLB?