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He was doing radio for the team then. Maybe first-hand is too strong for 97-98 season but...it doesn't look like this was happening behind the curtains.

So in Texas they could max receive is $561/week + $600 per week, so it's the equivalent of 55k a year. Bonuses are tricky but commission is typically calculated into the earnings, so hopefully they are mistaken on that. I'm not saying this isn't difficult and they shouldn't stress, they should and going from even 80k to 55k is hard. But hopefully it will be relatively short-term, and I just think acting like people who are advocating staying at home are doing so out of privilege and are trying to keep people who don't have a paycheck from getting work is just not an accurate framing. The more people stay at home, the sooner they can get to work. If they open it up and cases surge... well people were already staying at home before. Bigger companies will let their folks wfh. All the restaurants and employment around that will be hit, and so on and so on.

I would have preferred stronger resources to prevent the layoffs from happening but you keep saying these people don’t have a paycheck. The CARES act supplemented state unemployment with an additional $600/week which for many puts them very close to 100% of their paycheck the next 4 months if not greater than 100%. there has been delays in receiving this, but I very much do not want or expect anyone out of work to be completely out of income for this time.

I’d imagine will be harder to trade back into third then small moves back in 2’d to get fourths.

I think it's only a bigger problem though because it's truly an issue of those at the end of the line risk not getting money. If it was just a matter of timing it's not as big of a deal. Basically if they had passed bill with automatic triggers to renew it's fine. But there is scarcity now which makes it ridiculous to see those with much easier access to capital getting it over those that cannot.

https://theathletic.com/1743003/2020/04/14/should-the-bears-trade-back-in-the-draft-lets-project-some-potential-deals/?source=shared-article I agree with this. If I'm pace I try to trade down from both 2nd rounders and add at least 2 fourth rounders.

I mean the problem isn't shake shack got $10 million, it's that so little was earmarked people feel like it's a zero sum amount. Shake shack is closed now. It can't make money. Sure, give it money. But every small business should also get money. There is so little risk in making the appropriate amount of money available and some getting more than they should compared to making little available and many getting less than they need just in hopes that those that have enough don't get any.

I was optimistic for a time last week, but really disappointing weekend data. Tests have gone up while the percentage positive has gone down, but we haven't bent the curve anywhere. With streets empty and nothing happening, we are still seeing each new sick person infect another at least 1 other person. Now 4/19 illinois said they expected their peak to be, so maybe now we see the change. But this week, by friday, I'd really like to see consistently under 1k new cases per day.

I've been fairly optimistic but yes, the mlb being a regional game kinda kills it here. While you'd think the exclusivity of being the only sport playing would help...you then remember NBA will now be playing over mlb now, and then football. MLB.tv could try to recoup some of that. But anyway, I'd suggest that any owner that doesn't want to play this season because of financials of their hobby purchase they will still certainly make money on in a sale to please just go ahead and sell it off now. Hell the league should buy them on leverage, guide them through this then sell it at a profit and distribute to the rest of the teams and players. That will never happen because it is too anti-owner, but it should.

I'm sure it was probably a bit more that the bulls made clear they weren't going to reward him with a rich extension then ripping up the contract. It is funny to me the owners discussing how bad some players got it with the long term deals right before revenues exploded, then the owners pushing the league into lockdown to end longterm deals a bit over a decade later (deals they were handing out). Now it's that the short term deals give players too much power to form their own teams.

Man Reinsdorf comes off awful in this. Like he had zero understanding of how special having a team like the MJ bulls was. If Krause was such a hinderance and he’s admitting it, fire him! It’s his damn job!

Right. NBA shut down at a time where testing was at like 3k total a day. It’s closer to 160 now but needs to be north of 300k a day so that the sports teams won’t feel like they are stealing. A lot needs to happen to get there, but if someone tests positive, you have a contained group of contacts. Test them, and move on and five days later retest.

Rinse repeat. 1200 new cases. Slightly down day of testing to 6k. Feels like we’ve been in same spot for 1.5 weeks

CARES Act had 500 billion for states and public health. It’s just not enough.

Which was my original point(!) that the government should guarantee a big purchase now and offer large rewards for treatments and vaccines. I was told that no pharmaceutical would dare allow that. But the business of covid isn’t good for anyone. Even Amazon, who will do probably better than anyone, is feeling tons of pressure from customers on AWS for support (it’s most profitable line). The government should be helping anyone it can right now. Hospitals shouldn’t be very busy with employees on the line for their health - and fighting for their financial lives.

hopefully they don’t negotiate higher prices lest they make more profit on the individual coronavirus services.

Yes absolutely! Feds should subsidize the shit out of it! Massively build up our own testing capabilities so we don’t rely as much on quest! But while you need them...pay them what they need to scale for it.

I’m not sure what you think is damning about this. I know your galaxy brain sees The word profit and thinks it’s a rich white man sitting on a bed of money, but the rest of these diagnostic companies are losing lots of money and they are furloughing those employees. So they need to hire up techs specifically for this testing but the current cost per test, and hiring costs money. They need to be trained and aren’t as productive as current staff. They could get a loan to hire for something that isn’t profitable long term for them and lay off more staff from other parts of their business, or ... the government could increase the costs they pay for each test. Or maybe the government should force them into bankruptcy after this is over along with the many hospitals losing money right now so that balta can sleep comfortably knowing the technicians that worked around the clock during this crisis got laid off immediately after.

Michael Finley interviewed for Bulls GM position per Tim Mcmahon

So Illinois had it's most cases ever today. At least it tested 8k. That puts it at around the 22% mark still.

so BA now has CJ Van Eyck and Masyn Wynn around sox 2nd round pick.

Yeah unfortunately the business of a flu-esque sickness isn't big business. Hospitals doing layoffs too.

Mmm hmm because we are in a perpetual state of pandemic and all of our normal incentives apply. Let's say our wishes are granted and Remdesivir is actually an effective drug. It can be applied at regular doctors offices and keeps people from dying and lessens need to stay at hospitals. Do you think Gilead is going to be able to say "wellp, we are the only providers, we get to charge whatever we want because we have a patent, and this is how things normally go" Because I think it's pretty clear there will be enormous pressure by ...the entire world to provide this at as accessible a cost as possible. I don't know gilead's entire portfolio, but it is very likely to be in Gilead's best interest to do so. 1) As long as this pandemic is as is, elective surgeries and visits to doctors have decreased. With less visits, less opportunity for uncovering and prescribing a host of options. 2) As long as this pandemic is as is, insurance is going to have huge negative pressure with all of the additional ICU and hospital stays causing massive strain on their payouts. This will fall back on drug manufacturers on prices paid or larger copays charged and then... 3) As long as is this pandemic is as is, there will be huge economic fallout causing job loss, (in US) lack of insurance and a host of externalities that reduce purchasing power specifically to a gilead And then on top of that, there will be a huge push for governments globally to get access to the drug. With economies shut down and people dying by the thousands, there will be huge pressure to gilead to provide the govt close to cost as any number of governments may decide not to respect IP law and take the risks - because it's extraordinary circumstances right now. Kind of a once in a century pandemic type thing. Or maybe they would decide to take a huge prize, play the hero, and then lobby the shit out of changing any laws that restrict them. Or maybe they burn down a hospital!

This stuff is not where they make their money. There will be too much pressure to provide it low cost.