John_Brian_K

Seager is not any better in terms of injuries or games played. He is actually worse, but he is not going to require 300+ mil over 10 years either...

I watched most of this one. Good win for the boys. Cade played well enough. I hope he stays healthy, I hope he continues to grow and I hope he stops making commercials...man those things are BRUTAL.

Not really with Correas injury history. He has played what I would consider a full season twice in his first 6 years in the league. 99 153 109 110 75 58 148 You are at your best and most athletic when you are younger of course...his history does not bode well for a 10 year deal worth over 300 mil IMO. AGAIN, I will not be devastated if they sign him. He is a great player and it will make the next few years a little more exciting to watch if he is on the team, but not THAT much more exciting than if they got Story or Simeon or Baez et al

On the contrary I think the length is the most relevant thing. I remember when we got Prince...I was super excited and was told by MANY people on here what a horrible contract it was and how the Tigers would rue the day....they were right...I wised up. I want the team to be good for long stretches with outside chances to win it all every year as opposed to teams who SHOULD win it...don't, but mortgaged the future and now you have to wait for the rebuild to be competitive again. I was also wrong about Miggy...he has not earned that contract in many years...he was paid for what he did and I think that is an honorable thing, but not necessarily the best thing for the team. I honestly think the bargaining agreement will address length of contracts in the next session. I would not be shocked to learn they max them at 8 years...players would not like it of course, so maybe it leads to a lock out..., but who knows.

And the non answer of the year award goes to....

What do you guys think is too much for Correa? For some reason I am stuck on nothing over 300 mil...In an ideal world he would get no more than 7 years, but you have to bid against the market...and the market is all 10 years on these guys in their mid to late 20's so it is what it is. I just do not think he is worth 300+ especially in a market with soo many other legit SS's as free agents.

Even considering it was the #1 pick -v- the #2 pick...both teams had still, up to that point, only won 2 games total. I think a million is pretty darn good considering that.

The Browns will probably pay the salary the rest of the year and give them a first round pick next year...

Jerami Grants thiiird quarter was pretty impressive...dude could not miss. Not having been following the past 3-4 years I was not sure who he was, but he had a heck of a game last night and when Green dunked over Cade and was talking smack....I knew right there the Pistons made the right call...he fell back on defense and we ended up getting 4-5 points immediately after that dunk. That fire 100% has a place in basketball IMO, not in the 3rd quarter of the 11th game of the year when you have only won 1 game so far.

I am still not ready to start in on the historical/cultural stuff. I enjoy my reading as a means of escape not for further education, but I know a day will come where I will get caught up in them. I have tried maybe a dozen or so over the years and finished some, but for the most part I never finish them and go back to something more for entertainment. Those Cork O'Conner books sound interesting...there are soo many of them. I think I will give the first one a try and see if it catches me. Thanks for the recommendation.

I was not trying to be funny, but real. Oh well.

Carry on My Wayward Son is simultaneously a very popular song and a very under rated song. It may just be the words for me, but I love that tune.

Wings will make the playoffs this year if everyone stays healthy. They will be a bottom seed and get bounced in the first, but it will be nice to have playoff hockey back.

Maybe you do not notice because I think you align with that party (which I honestly do not care about), but that is ALL the dem party has been doing the past 10-12 years...what you are suggesting about being more upright etc. I really do not want to get into a conversation about the good/bad of each party, but being a republican on the internet is a fruitless waste of time and it can be frustrating sometimes.

I didn't get out of the A's.

Watched most of that game...they were playing really well the whole game, keeping the puck in their zone which seemed like 90% of the time up until the thiiiird when the Oilers got desperate. Having Larkin back really makes a huge difference. Also Seider can skate.

Man, I always thought you were better than these types of posts.

Why? There is holding, literally, on every single play from scrimmage...some get called some do not. I am sick of looking at plays that do not get called. It will never be perfect and yet I hear you "have to earn" those calls...just like the NBA. If you are a huge fan I apologize, because I know the feeling. I used to watch soo much football and just got sick of seeing calls go against the Lions that were passed over in other games. I do not know if it is simply human bias or what, but it just sucked the love I have for the game right out of me. That and replay...cheering a play on only to have it come back because of a foul or something. Took all the spontaneity out of the game for me...I have been an apathetic football fan for about 4-5 years now and glad for it.

Every once in awhile I whisper the Liberty biberty thing to cheer myself up a little. Legit...it makes me laugh. Almost every time I see the word Liberty.

And we probably go through about 2-3 gallons a week...3 small kids.

Yes it was basically fronting half the credit now for next years taxes...so not technically "paying it back" they will get 50% less in the credit than they would have. It is not "free money".

I was not sure where to put this, but this may be the right place. I have a renter who applied for assistance for rent and his utility bills. The utilities all got their payments for him last month. I have not received the rent portion of the payments I was supposed to get 10-14-21. It just got me thinking to how It feels like the little guy with the small business is getting squeezed. DTE can afford to fade that guys payment in perpetuity in reality...when my renter does not pay his rent I have to pay it...it would not take long for him to not pay his rent (or for the county to send that payment) before I will be in a very sticky situation. He is 2 months behind as of right now. Trying to be a nice guy I let him use those payments towards current rent, because well he applied for assistance, because he needs it, and I did not want to squeeze him. Also I think it is crappy that I spent over a year trying to get funding for my small business, getting a very small amount and hearing commercials about how they have billions still left in loans to "qualified small businesses". We shut our doors 2 months ago because I was dumping money into it and basically ran out and it it just bugs me to see those commercials when I literally spent every day the past year trying to fill out apps, call people and beg to get some loans to help the business make it. 50k and we may have been able to weather the storm and there would still be 5 employees getting paychecks.

Yeah I thought that one was really well done. I am a big fan of Jaquin and Bryce though and that supporting cast was killer.

There are sooo many duds it is hard to recall them all. Generally speaking for me to think I have wasted my time it has to be pretty awful. I walked out of a theater once because the move was soo bad, but I forgot the name of it...this would have been at least 15 years ago.

I really liked that movie. One of his best ones IMO.