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It’s amazing that it’s never Hahns fault, it’s always KWs or now Reinsdorfs.

I don’t want the Sox in the other end pushing the tax issue thinking they are clever. Beat the effing offer and end it. i sure wish it was the Sox we were hearing about being aggressive. Sox have a chance to prove they are operating differently, but until they execute I believe they are arrogant about how clever they are.

When the mlb forum goes up soon we can add it there. PHT gets a little crowded with sticky’s.

One of the victims was a northern Illinois student on the first day of his internship. So cruel.

I just learned about the Kanopy app. Really thrilled with this. Was getting very frustrated at the lack of streaming options for older/foreign movies.

I think what bothers me most is they keep posing that they would rather sign in volume with lower level guys since 16 year olds are such a crap shoot, yet the only players they have signed since 2013 that will make it to AA are all top 30 guys that they paid for: Adolfo, Robert and the lower end of this is tatis who was right around top 30. Yeah, they had some million plus signings that didn’t work out, but let’s just say I’d rather have been the Yankees this class with one 5 mill signing than the white Sox. They haven’t proven they know what they are doing.

Anxious to see how Missouri’s hitters do to see how much one month of Matt Lisle accomplishes

Gonna go with Covey and Sheets

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/lookit/2014/7/31/5956235/jim-bowden-marlon-byrd-trade-deadline its always somehow funnier and slightly different than I remember.

People say this but in the Harper thread we have people standing up for Jim Bowden despite him trying to imply he had confirmed a trade completion that he saw on Twitter from ken rosenthal that turned out to be a fake account, and then tried to hide it by changing his twitter name to Ralph and deleting his old tweets.

I mean, “could be rounding third”

Based off past behavior, equally likely that he’s running with the reporting of that Washington radio reporter (Martin?), saying “rounding third” is something he can back track on if it falls through. This takes something that is out there and modifies it a little bit.

Lol we have three Luis OF prospects

Ralph has broken very little during his time as a writer yet has often run with other people’s reporting and passed it off as his own.

Just remember that quote from the Passan article with two execs close to the negotiations. The expectation was that the team that would get machado would be at a discount but not a wholesale discount.

the pufferfish is fake twitter rumors about Sox signing machado and the dolphins are us in this thread

As an aside, don’t used “state income tax” when you actually mean % of income to state and local taxes. It’s not a politicians sleight if hand, it’s literally different things.

That’s not measuring income tax, and it’s blending all taxes in a formula which doesn’t account for the fact that California has a graduated income tax (Illinois does not). When you make a per capita formula it drags down the averages because the vast majority of people in California do not pay 13.3% state income tax. Machado would. The rest would depend on where he lived due to property tax.

Illinois does not have a high income tax. It’s 4.5% compared to California’s 13.3% for highest earners.

I wouldn’t have been shocked. I am shocked it’s getting involved in bigger free agents.

f*&@#ing padres

dude is this cause it's true or just you speculating.

Harper can't hold palka's jock strap

Honestly it's just the research to keep on top of to keep the team well rounded as injuries strike. With h2h I'm typically bad but am playing around with players I just think are going to be good with points. If you start a league I'll join. I miss fantasy.

In november which seemed like 500 years ago when the harper UC image leaked, Harper threads got all the action and nobody bothered with machado. At the time it was near unanimous that harper was preferred too.