Moan4Yoan

You have zero proof of this. Abreu being around could definitely be a contributing factor in these guys wanting to extend but you have zero proof of it being the ultimate reason as opposed to the players simply being swayed by buckets of money being offered to them.

This.

Long road back? He will turn 24 in a month. He doesn’t have much road left.

Not an overreaction. They should have done it regardless. Guys like Miller and Dozier were signed for next to nothing. Gennett is still available.

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?

Did Parkman actually make that “Gollum” post? I thought it was some other poster making a sarcastic post falsely under Parkman’s name. Wow. Parkman, no one in this country or world is required to work hard at their respective jobs to share jack shit with you or any other entitled people who share your insane beliefs. Nailed it. Your timing was impeccable.

It’s amazing how people don’t understand the concept of taxes and how services are ultimately paid for. States and governments aren’t just giving out free money. It’s comes from somewhere (i.e. taxpayers).

Do you have a bachelor’s degree? If so, in what?

You can obtain healthcare without being employed. No, it’s not ideal but it’s a possibility.

free /frē/ adjective not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes. At-will employment “At-will refers to an employee that is free to leave a job at any time for any or no reason.”

C’mon, try to answer it from an “intellectual standpoint.” ?

So any older/retired person that has enough life savings and social security income to live out the rest of their life comfortably but decides to work as a part-time Walmart greeter out of boredom and simply to interact with people on a daily basis is not “free”? This person could quit at any time.

Being “free” and not needing to work are not the same thing. If you are the rare person that is born to a rich family, wins the lottery, etc., I guess you could be “free” from working. But those same people could wind up living under a bridge after wasting all of their family’s money, getting cut off by their family, blowing all of their lottery money on drugs, etc. Are they then no longer “free”?

Being “free” has nothing to do with maintaining your same lifestyle. I could choose to be “free” from working a job, spend my entire life savings, and live under a bridge. But it would be an awful life “free” of work that I choose not to live. Where do you get the idea that maintaining one’s own lifestyle shouldn’t cost anything, like time and effort? Almost everything in life costs either time and/or effort, but if you truly want to be “free” of working a job, you can always go live in the woods and hunt and eat squirrels.

Why do you simply assume someone with an education, experience, and ambition couldn’t find a job for 18+ months? There are also other options currently available: 1.) Unemployment for 6 months. 2.) Find a new job in your area of expertise. 3.) Accept a lesser paying job. 4.) If you refuse to do #3, live off some savings until you can accomplish #2.

You are probably right but maybe they are trying to evaluate Mercedes / Collins / Zavala to see if they can move McCann like Not Cishek suggested.

Honestly, it’s not helping anything and your obsessive use of carriage returns after single sentences is brutal. You are writing posts, not haikus. Add in all these carriage returns with your Caufield-length posts and you are making threads absolutely painful to scroll through.

If he doesn’t make it, it will likely be his glove, not his bat, that dictates the decision.

He has the dopest content ever... just ask him. ? I don’t understand the appeal. It looks like a bunch of random video of workouts, batting practice, etc. with zero commentary.

The Little Magician? Uhhh, no.

He is but he was outrighted off the 40-man roster last August. But yeah, I don’t think he’s played at all this Spring. He needs to go to Japan or something.

Thanks for the response. Here’s a map of Allstate Arena. Sides of the stage? Left and right and top and bottom sides? Or if you can tell me some good numbered sections, it would be greatly appreciated!

He just turned 27.