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    Y2Jimmy > National Reports (Moncada extended 5 years)

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

    Playoffs are a crap shoot but making it 3 times in the next 6 years as the division winner would be a success imo.  Throw in once as the WC maybe.

    I really want to make the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history. I agree that playoffs are a crapshoot. 

    120 years is way too long for that not to have happened already. 

    Y2Jimmy > National Reports (Moncada extended 5 years)

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    6 minutes ago, poppysox said:

    Moncada has acquired generational wealth even if he should break his leg tomorrow.  A player is on a team he is comfortable with and is being paid more than any human can spend in 3 lifetimes.  Seems like a very smart move to me...just not greedy.  I admire him for it.

    He's already guaranteed himself $100M+ in career earnings. That's nothing to sniff at. 

    Again:

    31.5M to sign out of Cuba

    70-90M now

    That's at least 101.5M in career earnings by age 30, with the likelihood of being 121.5M.

    Plus, he could still sign a >$200M deal after this one. 

     

    White Sox about to win me $1,000,000

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    7 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

    Jack, think about how crazy that is. Mike Trout could retire today and be he'd have 1 more career WAR than Frank!

    If Mike Trout retired tomorrow, he would be retiring after his age 27/28 season. Which means he'd be retiring at the age in which Josh Donaldson had his first good season in the MLB. In the time it took Donaldson to be awesome, Trout accumulated more WAR than Frank.

    Trout has the great WAR because he's basically a slightly worse Frank offensively, with Elite defense and baserunning at a premium defensive position. 

    I think WAR overrates defense and underrates offense....It's pretty much impossible to do Mike Trout things as a 1B or LF, no matter how good you are defensively, with the exception of Barry Bonds on steroids. 

     

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    Y2Jimmy > National Reports (Moncada extended 5 years)

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    Just now, Balta1701 said:

    Is he hurt? Seriously, like this contract and this statement are what I'd expect if people knew he had just blown out his knee. In his first 3 arb years, Bryant has mad $42 million, and that's while missing 1/3 of a year with a shoulder problem. If he was healthy, he'd make $50 million+ the next 4 seasons.

    2 words for you: Anthony Rendon. 

    He's going to be up for a $250+M contract at the end of this anyway, as long as he's as good as we think he is. 

    He has already guaranteed himself $100M+ in career earnings. 

    $31.5 to sign

    $70-90M  on this one

    And probably $250M on a retirement deal at 30. 

    Y2Jimmy > National Reports (Moncada extended 5 years)

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    3 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

    How is it an awful deal?

    I actually don't know why people think that either. It's a nice deal for the Sox, but it's a fine deal for Moncada as well. 

    Anthony Rendon just proved you can get paid at 30. If Moncada is as good as we all think he is he's going to get paaaiiid after this one. 

    That being said, I can't believe they got this done for under $100M. 

    Kudos to Hahn, and it speaks to the culture that everyone wants to stay and win together. It seems that winning as a group is more important to these guys than getting paid now. Actually, they get a little of both. 

    Very glad to be wrong on this one. 

    Sox in Discussions for Moncada Extension per Y2Jimmy

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    6 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

    What is happening? Has it been so long since the Sox competed that people have forgotten how to act and are being serious when talking concern about 18 ST AB's?

    Everyone should take Moncada's ST stats with a grain of salt every year. He's a repetition/feel based hitter and every time he got hurt it would take him 5-10 games to get his mojo back. Talk to me if he's still scuffling at the end of ST. 

    Sox in Discussions for Moncada Extension per Y2Jimmy

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    17 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

    Plus, Moncada isn't having a great spring which obviously is scaring the team and Jack!

    You do know that Moncada and Giolito are my two favorite players on the team, right??

    I corrected myself about Moncada the other day. It's expected that he starts spring slowly because it takes him a bit to get his timing back vs. live pitching. Has been a pattern every time he's been injured. 

    Sox in Discussions for Moncada Extension per Y2Jimmy

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, chitownsportsfan said:

    Fake ass insider Not Steve Cishek tweeted last night things had gone "silent" on purpose, just the way the Sox prefer it blah blah blah.

    Again, I don't think an extension is happening for either Moncada or Giolito until the coming winter. Too much risk on the Sox side after only one good year, too much risk on the player side giving away FA years for not enough. It just doesn't make sense for either party at this point. 

    Job Thread

    in SLaM

    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    I will repeat:

    All of you people with "wonderful health insurance" with small co-pays, no deductible and a large network,

    All of you people that make enough money that you can save large sums of money and invest in the stock market

    All of you people that have enough savings that losing your job won't push you to the edge of financial ruin .....

    ......Do not live in the same reality that the majority of Americans live in. You're in your own little bubble, insulated from the harsh reality of the rest of the country. 44% of US workers make $18 k or less per year. 

    https://www.legalreader.com/low-wage-jobs-are-the-new-american-normal/

    Of these people:

    40% have a HS diploma or no credentials 

    13% are Teens. 

    Which means...

    47% have at least an Associate's degree. 

    The bottom line is that there aren't enough jobs that pay well enough to live a decent life. 

    What you guys don't realize is that this isn't even about me. I've accepted that I should take what I can get and have minimal expectations. 

    This is about everyone else in their 20s and 30s that is struggling with the combination of soaring housing prices, low wages and crushing debt. 

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    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    1 hour ago, Moan4Yoan said:

    So right now, you may not be qualified to be a professor because you would need a Master’s degree or higher.  But you are qualified to be a public high school Chemistry/Science teacher, no?  Salaries start out low but you would still be teaching which it sounds like what you wanted to do.  Eventually, you could make a good salary with enough tenure and also have a great work/life balance with summers and state holidays off, along with winter and spring breaks.  And the pension pays off pretty well in the end.  Have you looked into teaching at all?

    My mom used to be a teacher and she says there's no way in hell I can handle teaching in HS. I'd be too naive for it.

    It was college or bust. 

    @lane

    The economy might be doing great but it's doing well for the same reasons it was doing well from 2000-2006. We learned nothing. There's some bubble we don't know about yet and when it bursts it's going to be worse than 2008-09. 

    Job Thread

    in SLaM

    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    1 hour ago, lane said:

    What does this even mean? Do I even want to know? I’m not going to look it up right now, but the economy is doing great. Stocks are up, unemployment is down, wages are up. Quantity and quality is solid. It might not be going well for you, but for most Americans, it is.

     

    I had multiple job offers for the first time in my life a couple weeks ago. It was nice to be able to actually make a choice for a change, instead of having to take whatever I can get. 

    I turned down more money for a more secure position. One was a contract to hire position, but full time hours.  One was part time with the ability to earn full time. I also used to work there, so I knew what it was about and that they invited me back was a good sign. More security, familiarity and not as boring of work=ended up being the better choice for me. I wasn't expecting the second company to call me back so quickly, so I was hoping to give the first job a try before having to make a decision. Both offered the same hourly pay. In the end, I took the other job because that company caters to autistic people and the other place doesn't. I thought I was setting myself up for failure. Getting that offer was a huge confidence boost though. 

    I don't think it's going to last long. I took the job that is more secure. All of this stuff is all driven by financial speculation, and not by actual results. Wages are still stagnant at best vs. inflation. 

    This economy is a bubble. Eventually, it's going to burst and when it does it's going to be worse than 2008. We're repeating 2000-2007 all over again. We learned nothing. 

    Speaking of bubbles, there's a large number of people in this thread that need to check their privilege. 

    A lot of you live in the upper middle class bubble and have no idea what the rest of the world is going through. You have it just good enough to have no concept of reality. 

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    Job Thread

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    Posted

    Just now, lane said:

    Knocking down the sale value of my old house wasn’t going to put us at 1995 levels of inflation.

    It was just an example to make my point about purchasing power and absolute dollar amount being relative. 

    Job Thread

    in SLaM

    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    2 minutes ago, lane said:

    So if I sold at the same percentage increase, it would have been a smaller sum of money. Uh...thanks?

    Yeah, but what if that smaller sum of money had more purchasing power? 

    Sums of money are relative to purchasing power. 

    $50 in 1995 =/= $50 in 2020

    Job Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Jack Parkman

    5 minutes ago, lane said:

    People having multiple jobs doesn’t affect the unemployment rate, Alexandria. Guess we can write you off as some sort of autodidactic economist.

    Sorry, I misspoke there. What I meant is that people have to have multiple jobs to make a living wage, and that affects the available jobs. 

    BTW, I think that conventional theory on economics is wrong because the underlying assumptions are wrong. 

    The theory of Homo Economicus is flawed. 

    People don't behave in their own self interest, and people don't make rational decisions when they purchase goods and services.

    Job Thread

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    Posted

    2 minutes ago, lane said:

    Ok Jack, how do you make housing more affordable?

    I made a nice sum off selling my old house. Only worked because someone wanted to buy it. Actually, multiple people wanted to buy it so one couple fought their way to the top and won. They got their dream house, I got $85K deposited into my bank account. Hello capitalism, everybody wins!

    Should the government have stepped in and forced me to sell it for less profit because, despite what this couple wanted, Jack Parkman thinks housing should be affordable? Do tell.

    No, You should have paid less, and the person that bought your house should have paid less. 

    What happened is that financial speculators inflated the housing market in the 2000s and even though that bubble burst, some of that inflation has remained.

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