buddha

where does "great movement in russian society" come from? not from me. but to think there is only one person involved in machinations and decision making in a country as large and with so many internal departments as russia is naive, imo. you dont have to be a democracy to have factions within the decison making apparatus. and again, you seem to have this idea that russia's ideas of its place in the world are somehow misguided because they dont align with our version of ourselves as benign actors only out for the good of democracy and freedom, and that "liberal democracy" is the obvious goal of every nation on earth. i doubt russia (or china) share those goals. and they react differently to what they see as provocations, which we see as "freedom loving people making a democratic choice to love freedom." i'm not on russia's side and i would really like to see them lose (or be drawn into a quagmire that further strips their legitimacy) but i do their actions differently than you apparently do. i dont think its some sort of vanity play, i think its their attempt to reassert influence and protect themselves from a perceived threat (us).

that's exactly right. teams have gotten smart with their money and FINALLY started doing the things that smart fans have been telling them to do for years. why go to arbitration with that backup catcher and end up paying $4 million ler year when you can get the same or similar production from a $600k rookie? use the favorable system you have to minimize your labor costs without sunstantially affecting your on field product. we've all been yelling at them to do this for years and when they finally start doing it, we cry "but but but the players!" i definitely see why the players want this system changed, its highly favorable to the owners. with the caveat being the players are very well compensated for their labor. extremely well compensated.

yes, but why?

seriously. did they just forget that there was nfl football in detroit in from the 30s to the 80s? is it because fontes had the MOST wins so they just put wayne in there?

availability is also an ability, and AA was never available. and soft as a pillow.

you dont know that. and there are other interests within russia who are likely in favor of moving against ukraine before it moved into nato's orbit, dont you think? this is not a vanity play by one man, its a strategic move by a country that has been moving in this direction for years now. it may turn out to be a MISTAKE. one that undermines their previous successes in their goals of dividing the western alliance, but it is a move that has been a long time in the making and is part of a larger plan. the "putin is just a crazy unhinged dictator" is a lazy narrative, imo.

there's not a lot on twitter you can actually trust. look at the last few pages of this thread: nato countries are sending planes! yay! belarus isnt sending troops! yay! all false.

why do you think this is all Putin?

why are player revenue's declining?

4th round or lower, like st brown was. lots of little slot receivers in college, not as many in the pros for a reason.

sounds like theyre really close.

he's a great follow. so is @warinthefuture suffice to say, the russians have had some issues but the stuff you see on twitter is a lot of ukranian propaganda. the russians havent even gotten their airforce really involved yet or deployed most of their huge artillery. theyre closer to shutting ukraine off from its sea ports completely, are about to completely surround kiev, and are moving toward cutting ukraine down the middle. thoughts of an easy early victory were dashed by unexpected ukrainian chutzpah and kiev's failure to surrender, but the russians, unfortunately, have not yet begun to fight. pray for ukrainians cause things are about to get very bad. the dumbest idea is a us enforced "no fly zone." come on people, we are not shooting down russian planes. were pushing the envelope with total economic warfare, were not going to full def con.

they did that here in chicago and it looked pretty cool. my office was near there and i could look and see all the stuff they had set up. looked like fun.

baseball season is too long anyway. they may shorten it permanently if they get more playoff games considering thats where the money is, not games in april when its freezing cold in 1/3 to 1/2 of the stadiums.

his defense will be hit or miss depending upon how much he's paying attention. just like his at bats. javy is going to thrill and frustrate. one month he'll look like honus wagner and the next he'll look like rey oyler.

willis will blow people away at the combine and be taken high on athleticism alone. the lions dont need another tiny receiver, they need an X receiver. they already have st. brown. i suppose if the value is there in later rounds they could take moore.

how desperate are the lakers? stanley johnson is playing 20 minutes a night! not his usual 20 minutes per season.

yes. i want them to pick in the top 4 and have the best pick possible.

sigh, were going to end up picking 7th, arent we?

miles bridges is gonna cost us a lot of money if we want to sign him.

the owners have a really good system that guarantees them a lot of profits. i can see why they dont want to change it substantially. the problem for me is that owners want to institute necessary changes in the pace of play and the players wont agree to it without getting more money. i wonder what the dymanic behind the scenes within the ownership group is? the big owners surely want to pay less revenue sharing and less tax, but the small owners want more revenue sharing and dont give a damn about the tax. small owners probably dont want arbitration messed with at all, and probably dont want to increase minimum salaries. how do the players - who obviously side with big spending big markets - split them from the small owners and get enough middle market owners to embrace a more moderate position? an international draft? give up some of the salary increases for first three years in exchange for a higher luxury tax ceiling?

when you have no defense, it makes it hard on the goalies. (not that the goalies have been good, they havent.)

teal battle

no.

well....they didnt give up.