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It hasn't changed. I disagree with saving a few bucks as opposed to staying within revenues but the overall concept is the same.

Show case for Lee.

Haven't we all agreed to that. JR only approves spending when they look like they are close to competing. Thats not happening yet. Plus with the lockout looming, he isnt spending this year.

Michael Pittman Jr. to Pittsburgh. Trade for late round pick swap.

Selling the team over 800,000 Sounds great but we know that isnt happening. JR gave Getz a budget. He needs to work within it for better or worse.

Correct. But he is still on the books for this year. Its not like they can magically increase the budget if he's not here. He is still a charge fir the payroll. If they cut him and eat the sunk cost, it still costs them more toward the payroll as his replacement costs more payroll even if its the minimum.

Not an economist but that doesn't seem to make sense. If they have an 80 million budget. His salary is 31. They need to pay him that. Which means they have 49 to spend on the rest of the team. It not money paid in the past. Its money currently paid on the payroll. Its not like equipment that is paid for in the past and they owe nothing on it.

Of course it can be done. Just a little more costly.

Don't know the guy. Being of polish descent just know the typical names

Names ending in sky are typically Russian. Polish is ski.

Poles?

They took him on to buy Sandlin. Anything hicks provides is bonus.

Some of that waste cant be taken to a dump. It needs to be treated then sent to incinerators. Similar to the soil from under the Dan Ryan when it was renovated. Much of it is waste from the Chicago fire. A cousin works for the company who handles the waste. It is being analyzed very closely.

He will still be a strikeout machine. The key will be is if he continues to have enough power to offset it.

Yeah, there comes a time where pitchers have to learn to get MLB hitters out. His stuff is so good that minor league hitters will just swing at it. MLB hitters won't. He will walk even more during his early MLB time until he figures it out.

I would make that deal right now.

According to reports they were told before Spring Training began. Both of them and Smith.

For how long?

We'll see. Hopefully, both sides can come to some kind of comprise otherwise the haves will continue to buy the best players.

In the grand scheme of the issue none of this matters. It doesn't matter if one is lying and the other isnt. Or if both are. The underlying issue is to have a healthy league there needs to be competitive balance. Could the pirates, Marlins or other teams spend more? Probably. But they never will be able to spend like the Dodgers, Mets or Yankees. Those teams just have far more revenues. They could spend 5 times what the other teams do and make more profit. There needs to be a mechanism for create a better balance whether its more revenue sharing or a cap/floor structure.

There is zero incentive for the owners to open the books until the players agree to a floor/cap when its needed for the calculations. Until then they lose a huge bargaining chip.

Who did the Padres trade to the Yankees to get Thorpe?

Yes, he was. Worked with him when he was with the marlins.

This new de is part of the reason they let him go. His real goal is to do national broadcasts. He will do less and less local broadcasts. The Sox wanted him to do the local broadcasts and not really have a two team broadcast schedule with Bennetti only doing partial seasons.

That is true. However in all sports we are much better about not letting them go back in games/practice when they get one and allow time for recovery. We also have many interventions that help them truly recover from significant ones such a hyperbaric chambers, augmented and virtual reality etc. We can decrease the symptoms, severity and incidence. The incidence also includes repeated concussions within players.