1984Echoes

Some Christmas favorites by Sting: Burning Babe & Hounds of Winter are also good from this album (I even like Lullaby for an Anxious Child).

I prefer a little more mellow in the morning... just a little bit:

But... 'Merica has the best medical system in the WORLD!!! I don't understand.

Detroit Red Wings, 8-9-2, 3-7-0 AWAY ESPN+ 11/20 8:00 PM Arizona Coyotes, 2-13-2, 1-4-1 HOME

2022: this country will be on a roll... No Dem wipeout at midterms.

Are you talking about Trump's tax cuts that added $1 Trillion to the deficit EACH YEAR? Or the $8 TRILLION that TRUMP added to the deficit?

That looks really good. I just went on Amazon and grabbed myself a copy...

OIC. 2022-2023 are already locked in. We have to pay $16 Mill on top of that to buy him out of 2024-25.

So many teases going on out there right now... Please don't tease me and then leave me.

Tease, tease, tease.

Do it. Let him get his 3000+ and if he's scuffling buy him out. I thought the last two years were already locked in though? Are you certain the buy-out is still in effect?

damn... I've been trying to edit typos before posting but every now & then I forget to double-check...

Why can't there be team options for the last few years of a 10 year contract? Or games played requirements. 130 games played = automatic renewal of years 8-9-10 (games played per each previous year that is...), less than 130 = team has the option to renew or buy out the last years at a 90% discount. Let's say $35 mill/ year the last 3 = $10.5mm to buy out the last 3 years if the player is constantly injured. Player gets something, team gets out of an albatross.

Repeat after me: Saaaaaben Lee.

Truth.

Look in the mirror. Forever? Really?

I think I won a day too, but I don't remember the date. Coulda been a day in 2014 or 15 or...? I saw it once on my Motownsports profile but can't remember that date... I think everyone must have been at the beach that day.

I think he was getting arbitration expensive and ready for a multi-year extension so, yeah, salary. Scherzer & Verlander were coming up (lost out on Scherzer), as well as Miggy. And they ended up trading Porcello also, the next year I think, to afford their stars & scrubs model when they were already pushing the luxury tax so... yeah, salary. In order to spend money on the BP and save money for extending JV & Miggy and (potentially) Scherzer... Yeah, they were pro-active in trading Fister. As someone else noted, he may have already been losing his FB a bit, so there's that too. But salary considerations were definitely a part of it.

No. Oswald Peraza.

They really liked Robbie Ray. As a prospect I did too... They got the prospect that they wanted and pulled the trigger so... Yeah, I remember those reports coming out. I decided to go with the team's (DD's) viewpoint about getting the guy they wanted...

If we lose out on the big 6 FA SS's and the Yanks get one of them... they have a SS at AAA that looks pretty good that we should chase after.

I forget if that was a salary/ tax threshold issue (IIRC it was)... On that basis, I wasn't against the Fister trade for Ray at all... But he was raw as hell with little command/ control and DD subsequently dumped him for Greene. I liked Greene, for what he was, but hated trading Ray for him as I wanted to see Ray become our next dominant pitcher. It took him 6 years (he did have a pretty good year in 2017) but... he really broke out this year... Good for him.

We're not getting Torres. They're moving him to 2B. They luv him (but not at SS), ain't trading him.

A chance for the rest of the team to step up...

That's what I was thinking...