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That is much cheaper than what I've experienced with turbotax years ago. That said, youll find this crazy, but I usually had done my tax return personally every year on turbotax then still went to this accountant just to compare the returns and "know what to expect" in case we needed to save up for paying out. So now I'm just filing online but did get a discount for work for hr block software so I may use that instead.

2/19 was when JD Martinez signed, that's still my deadline.

It actually ended up being the same price which is why we still went to them. The federal return is a nice sticker price but the local returns cost on the softwares made it pretty equal and it was nice having a guy to ask about w-4 changes, etc.

Yeah I've always worried we were trying to too cutely toe the line between top of available market but not too far on top of the available market and it left someone open to make a much bigger offer (that sox would match) but by a team that was more preferred and put sox in position of needing to vastly beat it. However, I really think that there just aren't many examples of this new operating mode of teams for us to feel like "something is off". That no white knight is coming for harper, manny, kimbrel and keuchel, and they will all basically sign within a few days of each other since they aren't losing money by holding out.

Now in the standard deduction, it makes absolutely no sense to require the services of our family accountant. I assume we were always some pretty easy money for them, and have zero clue how much of their business comes from personal returns, but I wonder how many close up shop based on this year.

And also when push came to shove, this wasn't really a crowded class they were a part of, whose to say the next one is as favorable?

Best possible breaking of story would be Manny just there when all players report.

It’s also playing with a team that has been determined to be opaque in its direction

Sure but it wouldn’t have been this bad signing people hype it up to be, and the contract is not that hard to move has the Mets not metsd him

I still don’t think signing Cespedes in 2016 would have been bad. If the Sox wanted to compete in 2016 which they claim they did, he was clearly necessary (that was born out). Obviously signing him to the 1 year 2016 deal would have been ideal, but maybe away from the Mets brutal injury luck, their insane need to play him in CF so much, maybe the Sox could have gotten more out of him.

Tim is so electric on the basepaths I just want to see him on there more often

Glad to see this after the very strange interviews he has had while out of work, hopefully is feeling better mentally.

This is the most sensible roster construction they’ve had in years (Hoiberg deserves this but whatever at this point). Getting a big upgrade at PG and a star and it would be a good team with enough assets to go in position to land a top 25 guy if one was traded. If they can change out the FO, things could get better quick.

I 100% believe the yanks never even discussed money and years, and don’t believe this report at all.

This looks fun https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/fans/speed-pitch-challenge can anyone beat my 60 mph ?????

The bulls have thrown out a small lineup with LM at 5 and porter at 4, are running the floor and playing with pace and...look really good.

I posted something a while back in this 75000 post thread but I think any union aims must be considered to be more likely to worry about the fact that only like 50% of free agents found jobs than worrying about top level numbers for Machado. It's very unlikely that any cba changes may increase the individual contracts of Harper or Machado as much as juicing the low-level, mid level markets to get jobs.

I've still mentally set a deadline for feb 19. If it goes beyond JD that will be torture each day. But at least there will be actual (fluff) baseball news daily!

I don't know why that's frustrating. The other way to read it, that we've already talked about, is that they aren't losing any money by waiting, the sox and phills aren't going anywhere, so they will wait.

He's 21, he's in kanny. According to futuresox he's an incredible defensive catcher but can't hit for a lick.

I don't think that's the case anymore since Mets already traded Kelenic.

To add to that, here is Heyman I think the white sox and phillies like both players, because they are both good. So sometimes it comes out that their focus is on different ones. But highest likelihood is sox are more targeted toward machado and phils toward harper.

Teams would (still) pay more to then end of the deal just to get the peak production that would be available for the age 25, 26 seasons. What sucks is when a pujols is only available starting in the 30s. edit: also, I don't find value per war as anything other than hypothetical. It has not been very predictive in upcoming markets, more descriptive for past ones.

The thing about basketball fans is they just like watching basketball. Where baseball fans don't get it because their enjoyment (necessarily) is tied through the lens of a single team where their winning and losing is the entire game. I get that soxtalk posters think that the NBA structure is the problem, because it couldn't be their personal preference for which sports they like!, but truly, the nba is actually very popular. It's an amazing fact that few inside this forum can believe.