Edman85

The audits are all mandated by some law or directive. A colleague of mine just participated in an audit of a sister site; they get to return the favor later this year. There's other professional accreditation type audits, ISO and the bunch. All to make sure things are up to code. Honestly, there are some things that are inefficient, but I'm not sure how slashing the budget will help address those inefficiencies.

Audits happen all the time in the government anyways.

Those companies took off 2020. Scam central. Anticipate them taking off again here soon with the FTC likely getting defanged (if it hasn't already)

The internet has turned this profession into influencer central.

Let alone the cost of office space for federal workers. Nobody above me on the food chain has gotten any work done the last three weeks.

Correct on the contract. Note 6M from each year is deferred way into the future. If acquired now:

I will say on Arenado, the Rockies are covering a good chunk of his contract, and there are some deferals in there. The contract isn't too prohibitive, but the CBT number would balloon in 2027 (first year of Skubal under a free agent contract) due to the fact that the Rockies aren't covering any of that contract.

Includes health benefits (total divided by 30 with some weird adjustments, roughly 17.5M last year), 16.7M for the pre arb bonus pool. Players on multi-year deals are generally on the AAV of the deal, but there are some adjustments. For example, they valley charge on Flaherty.

Second by percentage increase.

FYI, as of now, the Tigers have the third highest CBT number increase from last season.

Putting a pin for this... I am not necessarily saying this was a reason not to sign him, but in terms of something to track going forward, if the Tigers hit on their second rounder this year or hit on a pick taken with under slot money saved on the second rounder, remember that wouldn't have happened if Bregman signed.

If they are making a $120M investment based on a 98 PA sample, that is a mistake.

bsky vs. twitter. I wish more people would make the move. Enough Tigers beat guys have that I can get what I need in the special group of them I've created. Still waiting on the Evans. Bluesky is 100% chronological and user chosen. No algorithm pushing stuff. I'm keeping my Twitter for the stragglers, but if you see, almost every tweet I have posted since 1/20 has included a jab at its piece of **** owner. I suspect the blue checkmarks don't want to move and lose that paycheck. My golf follows, understandably, are slow to move.

I've programmed spreadsheets that write SQL code to query a database, and also have a special computer that runs a program that queries a SQL Server database.

I'll leave it to the politics thread for the reason, but sounds like you may soon!

I wanted to circle back here, because I have a set of the pre-2012 rules, and doublechecked to confirm there are no such rules on the books. They were informal suggestions, not rules.

Need to launder any money? That's about the only use.

Flying to DC tomorrow, which means there's a chance I'm sitting next to a congressman on the flight. If so, I am prepared to filibuster the whole way asking if they are okay with (blank)?

This already happened Thursday after a court paused the deferred resignation deal and the WH just said they are still processing the resignations.

My what is not in charge?

Algorithm based social media feeds will be the death of us.

All are recently signed, which means if they were signed to an MLB deal, they have a no-trade until June 15. Wisdom is overseas: Japan or Korea, too lazy to Google it.

France is the only free agent among that bunch.

That's the $64 dollar question.