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This is a hard one to hypothesize on, not knowing how little we give up at full value vs if they eat some cost and expect a better prospect. I also don't feel like the dodgers feel at all like they need to "give away" ethier for cash.

Yeah I'm actually excited for American Crime Story. I'm hearing great stuff.

Man I loved listening to Thibs on Simmons podcast. Biggest problem of Hoiberg for me is he has a "system" and is not out there minimizing his teams weaknesses well. He basically puts the weaknesses full on display.

Also, I have to say I'm almost disappointed Trump lost. I really don't see Cruz as any more "serious" and it's not like he hasn't peddled the same anti-immigration, anti-muslim nonsense trump has. At least with trump there was a feeling that he may actually make moderate dealings.

Just because something is obscure doesn't make it good, it just makes it novel. The caucuses are ridiculous which is why we of course give them so much prominence. I honestly don't buy that last night was good for Sanders. In 2008 Obama didn't just narrowly beat Hillary, she showed in 3rd place and Obama led the field by 8 points, when she was already polling behind in NH and tight in SC. Hillary now gets the "she won iowa" buzz even if delegate wise its a wash. Hillary's campaign is much better now. I mean, looking back its amazing how inept her campaign was which was a big reason it snowballed. They didn't know primaries weren't winner take all. They had lanny davis and Terry Mccullough on tv every day saying something dumb. She's much more disciplined now.

No, the important part of what Finland is doing is there is not often state run experimentation for UBI and the results will be very important which is why I mentioned it.

So, just to be clear, your contention is that if you took the best deal for Soler and Garcia they would be equal value... Soler will not get Q, but the difference between Q and DFA'ing avi garcia is a huge gap.

QUOTE (Baron @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) Exactly and so far Soler is actually worse on defense And yet I'd love to see the return if Soler was traded vs. Garcia. It is not a question who is more valuable at this point, and all he cost was a relatively small sum.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 04:45 PM) Wait. Are you mad about Abreu over Soler? No, I'm saying I don't remember if ponying up for Soler would mean we could not have signed Abreu. In isolation, I'm mad we could not get Soler as it is a relatively cheap price to get you a lot of value.

Kills me we couldn't sign Soler (I don't know this counterfactual and whether it influenced us getting Abreu). We were just bidding $70 mill plus for aging talent when the potential, cheap bat of Soler will allow a great package of return or he develops.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 08:24 AM) An alternative to guaranteed employment would be a Universal Basic Income. It's an idea that's been around for a long time, has support from somewhat of a wide ideological range, and has been implemented in one form or another in multiple places. Alaska's Permanent Fund is sort of like a basic income, as is the Earned Income Tax Credit (and negative income taxes in general). Canada conducted a UBI experiment in the 70's. The results were positive, but it was limited to a single city for a short period. Democracy in the workplace is related but a separate concept. The John Lewis Partnership in the UK is an employee-owned-and-controlled company, unions can give some form of workplace democracy, etc. Re: first paragraph, Denmark is doing a state level experiment on UBI. I prefer that to guaranteed full employment which just seems like an expensive and inefficient nightmare.

question: My stepmom's father is moving to hospice care, I'm looking to send some package or something nice to the house. Are flowers applicable here? Any advice appreciated. Wife is in London and want to get something over.

That sucks. Would be a shame if this derails his career.

Mizzou finally has a press release about not terrible things: Alabama grad transfer Chris Black coming to Mizzou.. Mizzou is really thin on developed WR. he's not a game changer but our class last year was essentially a bunch of 3 star frosh and soph that needed time for bodies to develop. This is a nice depth get. Now they also really need a QB as they only have 2 on their roster. Which is annoying because you may need to burn a frosh's redshirt.

I forgot about Sands. What are we thinking then? - Sanchez - Avila/navarro (whoever doesn't start - Shuck - Sands - ...L Garcia?

Thanks, very necessary correction. I'm sure many were confused.

I'd be fine with Ethier. Means Melky would likely stay in left for 2 full years, though. I'd imagine we'd move Ethier to DH after LaRoche.

So we have been following a race for 9 months and today is only the first freaking primary.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 30, 2016 -> 07:14 AM) I don't think he's the odd man out in LA. I think they end up moving Guerrero this spring. I don't think LA has a concept of odd man out. I think they'll just hoard everyone.

I just don't agree with the" couldn't have done anything! Gordon/Cespy wanted to stay mets!" as if they signed some 3 year 36 million dollar deal. Does anyone feel they were underpaid? They took the contract that set them up best, or in Gordons case, they likely took a close enough to stay home.

I think you are close to convincing Greg.

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How in the hell could you be a libertarian and vote for Bloomberg.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 10:44 AM) This would be great. What kept Jennings out most of last year? This would be a great buy-low candidate for the Sox, imo. Keeps injuring his left knee. Not a great injury, but as you said, if you get him cheap.

Guys, you are missing the clear Jennings for Jennings swap for max confusion.