Everything posted by Texsox
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Request for mods
Usually on the way out banned posters theorize power hungry idiots with small dicks.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Hopefully some players and scientists are getting together and discovering new ways of cheating to save the game like last time. The owners could end this now. Just accept the proposal and move on. I'm looking over what some are suggesting will be the hardest to resolve issues and I can't get excited about either position. Super 2 arb? Great, I'll take either side or anywhere in the middle if it means a settlement. Revenue sharing? Sure, either side or settle anywhere in the middle. I'm pro settle this fast.
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Request for mods
Although some new mods would be an easy way to bring in some fresh cash. What's the current price to be a mod?
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Sox hire new director of MiLB operations
Basically she is an in house lawyer with a PhD in baseball and baseball operations. Another racial breakthrough first for the White Sox. It's one area the Sox are best in league.
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Sox hire new director of MiLB operations
Usually they will oversee all aspects of minor league operations, including evaluation of the minor league system, roster and statistical analysis, budget responsibilities, free-agent contract negotiations, implementation of new development programs and the maintenance of existing programs. (Borrowed from the KC Royals)
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2022 Catch All
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
The MLB teams pay the players. And I'm certain some team owners are better than others.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Every player and every owner has to honor this new agreement so using generic owner and generic player terminology is easiest.
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2022 Celebrity Death Thread
Howard Hessman 81 Johnny Fever https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/entertainment/howard-hesseman-wkrp-cincinnati-dies/index.html
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What music have you bought lately ?
I'm down to XM and Amazon.
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What music have you bought lately ?
I hadn't really used headphones since my college DJ years and that wasn't really for listening. The first night I was listening to some classic rock from the 60s and 70s and was blown away by layers I never heard before. Some acts that I thought were ok back then went to the top of my list like Steely Dan. I thought $200 was crazy. With my well earned tinnitus I didn't think anything could sound that good.
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2021 NFL Season Thread
Normally I'm all for media sites running with stories. I understand the economics of a scoop like this and I'm certain they felt they were on solid ground with their sources. But I can't help but feel he was cheated out of making the announcement himself. It seems really unfair. Now I hope he sticks around for one more year.
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Request for mods
I read this and thought, wait isn't he a mod? Can you believe 17 years here?!
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What music have you bought lately ?
I'm not near them but I think HD 6xx. My son picked them up on massdrop as a gift. The DAC is a Shiit I really liked them both. I've basically been hearing everything I missed in the 70s.
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2021 NFL Season Thread
I can't seem to get excited, good or bad, about any of the OC candidates. Those with more knowledge, what will it take to create an offensive scheme around Fields? Is it really that difficult? It seems like you could look at other QBs like him, see what those teams ran, and pick and choose from there. In other words, maybe the OC job isn't going to be as critical as I was thinking a couple days ago.
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Sox hire new director of MiLB operations
Seems like a really solid hire. A bit lacking in work level experience, but excellent in life experience and education.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Why haven't MiLB players unionized? I'm thinking about the people who depend on MLB to earn a living and thinking most of them are deserving raises. If we're going to move insane profits from owners to anybody else I would much rather see those profits moved to MiLB players and the rest of the employees. The MiLB players shouldn't be arguing about sharing a room while at home. Pay them a livable wage and not making housing a part of the deal. That's just a way to keep from paying them a decent wage. The same for the rest of the front office, ticket offices, vendors, etc. And stop giving these teams millions or billions in tax breaks. They should be paying to make the communities they serve better. But instead the guys with the union who are already making wages that put them among the elite money earners in the world will grab millions more and all the folks struggling to earn a living stay the same. It just doesn't seem fair.
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Request for mods
Which is one of the qualifying traits along with enjoying the power trip that comes with the corner office. Since we jettisoned SL&P the need for moderators has dropped by 83.65%. We receive very few reported posts, in fact weeks go by between them, there just isn't much modin' and adminin' to do around here so no one has been pushing to add some more help. Plus most members prefer less, not more, moderating. Tray, in five years you have won the day twice for having the most liked content. Including this past November. Why not focus on winning the day more often? Honestly great posters are the biggest asset to this place. Being a mod is really overrated. All you can do is occasionally delete a post or use the luxury suite at the park while hanging out with JR and the rest of the front office. Yeah, the players parties are fun at first, but eventually listening to Anderson talk about his Field of Dreams walk off for the tenth time gets boring.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
And is something we should do. If folks aren't going to invest those profits back into their businesses by perhaps paying their employees better wages or improving their communities, they should be paying higher taxes. Now to watch you twist that to fit your narrative.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
That's not even remotely what I wrote. Personal greed is killing America and destroying the middle class. Forty years of tax breaks for the richest Americans has shifted the tax burden to the middle class. So no, I'm not OK with that shit. How badly do you always want to twist my words?
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What music have you bought lately ?
I did a deep dive on Neal Young's site. It started as a way to test my new Sennheiser headphones and DAC but ended with a much greater appreciation for Young's career. I also appreciated paying that site directly. I assume that Young gets the bulk of the payments.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
You are exactly right. And go a step further. We need a cap on corporate profits. The owners and executives of Amazon, Apple, and even your local dry cleaners shouldn't be allowed to run their businesses just to get big paychecks. The top tax rates should go back to 98% to discourage people from starting businesses just to make themselves wealthy.
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Request for mods
If the corporate owners here hadn't squandered the Paycheck Protection Program stimulus funds they received last year we could have afforded the expand the mod squad. Maybe the Build Back Better funds will have the site rolling in dough.