Balta1701

More people are resigning from Congress during a session this round than has happened in the past 120 years. Another today.

They did! They went big in 2015 and signed the top closer on the market, a starting DH, a starting OF, and then traded for a mid rotation starting pitcher. Boosted payroll by over $30 million from the previous season. I was not particularly thrilled with those results. It continues to be worth asking why.

Please note the quality of the information in that tweet and the type of person that Kanye West is defending there.

I would like to point out that 2k5 showed up to say that at basically the exact moment I was typing it. I expect he could have predicted my reply as well.

There is absolutely a hint of "only Nixon could go to China" here, where if Obama had accepted a summit meeting with the Koreans with no preconditions the Republicans would have eaten him alive, but Trump can get away with that. Furthermore, some of the reasons for the Korean rapproachment is definitely the South Koreans thinking "OMG we have to change this before Donald Trump kills us all". But whenever he shows up, 2k5 will correctly point out that even if the Koreans give guarantees about denuclearization, it should be hard for the US to believe any of them. SImilarly, Balta will then point out that, if the United States pulls out of the Iran deal in 2 weeks like Donald Trump insists we're going to do, there would be no reason for the North Koreans to trust any agreement with the United States about removing nuclear weapons, because the United States can't be trusted not to invade you unless you have the bomb.

http://www.standard.net/World/2018/01/10/Look-at-past-inter-Korean-summits-during-era-of-detente

So here's Tom Brokaw describing Al Franken's removal as a rush to judgment Which of course meant it only took a few months for his history to appear in Variety.

On paper that's a good place for Allen. Strong running game and will be able to sit for quite some time.

Well now that the Bills are up, if any other team wants QB#4, they will probably have to move up to leapfrog Miami.

I have to think the Bills trade with the Bears.

That's more creative, but I'm one of those ones who says get your QB and then work around that. That's what we've seen work for teams basically my whole lifetime.

It's also worth asking how there could be 4 other QBs rated highly by a number of people if your staff doesn't believe in any of them.

If, somehow, Barkley falls to the Bears pick, I'd imagine they have 4 or 5 trade offers that come in pretty quick. I can't believe he'd get past Tampa.

That was the whole point of playing the kids this season and why it was so important that we didn't sign anyone big.

I dunno..."We can't pick between the top 3 quarterbacks so we're going to let the other teams decide for us" definitely does seem like a Cleveland kind of statement, and I don't mean that in a good way. If your staff can't pick which QB they think is the best then I think there's a bigger problem with your staff.

If we didn't fix that then we weren't going to be any good anyway, they sold everything they had and called up guys out of desperation to get above 75 wins in 2015 and 2016 and couldn't even get to .500 either year. Guys were going to get more expensive and there was nothing on the way to replace the holes that opened with. At least on paper right now we're as talent loaded as any franchise I've ever seen. So now the question is...can we deal with it properly.

The only reasonable way for this to truly be an exercise in futility should be for Rick Hahn and Rick Renteria (and co) to be really, really bad at their jobs.

BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!! — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 9, 2016 (Since deleted)

Please use the spoiler tags at least for this weekend. Deal? Admins always scroll around to all the forums, sometimes people click threads by accident, etc.

The #1 pick salary slot is also an awful lot to pay a running back. The 5 year deal is $32 million. Only 2 RB in the NFL have total contracts more than that (Bell would be the 3rd if ever signed), and none have guaranteed money that high. That's tiny if you get a good QB for that money.

Don't mean it's the wrong concept.

Please do use spoiler tags.

F*** that the Royals won the world series do that first and then worry about how to clean up afterwards.