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  1. nate82
    Thank you captain obvious.
  2. nate82
    Anything that would impact FA would be a concern for the players union. The luxury tax is not something the players union likes. In the last round the players union wanted assurance there would be a minimum to go a long with a more restrictive tax. I believe the top cap would have been more like the NBA and the players union wanted there to be a minimum which the league rejected. Having a smaller or more restrictive top doesn't really do anything competitively when there is no floor cap.
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    I don't think the players union and the large market teams will agree to any changes unless there is a salary floor that increases with the cap. Even making a slight change to the rules on the accounting side will need some other changes like this. The owners as a whole weren't all that keen on adding a salary floor in the last CBA. I don't believe the owners will make any changes to the luxury tax rules because they are unwilling to do anything about the floor. I still believe a $100mm floor is perfectly achievable by all of the small market teams. There shouldn't be a single team under $100mm in MLB. If a team can't afford that as a minimum then it is time to remove them from MLB and become a AAA or AA team.
  4. nate82
    Lower emissions of fully ICE cars. They are also lower in cost you can get more people to buy thus lowering emissions more. If you can move 30% of vehicles on the road now to hybrids it will have a higher net positive than the current 1-5% of EV’s.
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    The rebate for EV's should be going to hybrids only with no rebate or government subsidy for EV's. Actually there should be no government subsidy for anything. But if you want to help the environment then giving the subsidy to hybrids should have been the go to option and not EV's. This would have made hybrids more affordable to lower income drivers. Lower income individuals tend to have older cars with worse emissions. Higher income individuals tend to have newer cars with better emissions. The government once again got it backwards not surprising as our politicians sure love to stick it to the middle and lower class.
  6. nate82
    Can never go wrong with a generac. That is all I know.
  7. nate82
    MLB Pipeline has Misio ranked 5th in their top 10 RHP prospects. https://www.mlb.com/news/top-right-handed-pitching-prospects-for-2024?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share
  8. nate82
    There has to be some releases or the Brewers have been given an advance notice that they can have two teams in the rookie league this year. If the Brewers are not able to get a second rookie league team this is going to be a rather large roster crunch.
  9. nate82
    I believe it is more of an efficiency thing if I am remembering what my friend told me when he did this. If you live in place where there are houses closely packed together or even loosely packed together the driver would have to do this for every driveway and then possibly have to come down your road 2-4 more times than they normally would have to. Ideally I think the city, county and state only want the driver to go down a street twice. Once on one side and another on the other side. I bet if you lived on a dead end street where they could pile up the snow they wouldn't use an angle. As the snow could then be piled up at the dead end. Though this makes it more dangerous for the driver as they will need to be able to backup and then maneuver out of the dead end. Then you have to deal with the people living there being impatient that they can't get out of their driveway because the truck is backing up and maneuvering out of the dead end. Though this is usually done with a smaller vehicle or not at all. So your driveway gets blocked because it is easier and more efficient for the driver to move the snow like this. If the driver did this with a straight angle they would have to dump the snow somewhere. And since they can't just dump it in the middle of an intersection it goes instead into the side of the road which means it goes into your driveway. Also I believe angled is better for the roads which means less repairs in the spring, summer and fall. If you really hate it move to a state that doesn't have snow.
  10. nate82
    Less than the number they signed last year:
  11. nate82
    Apparently ESPN will be part of the NFL. https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-reportedly-in-advanced-talks-with-espn-to-buy-stake-in-sports-network-011850735.html So lets just make it official and just rename ESPN to the NFL Network as that is what it will be other than for college basketball/football and some NBA games. Get ready for 99% NFL on Sports Center which is just a slight increase from 95%. The other 0.9% of Sports Center will be NBA and everyone else gets .01% time.
  12. nate82
    The Panthers haven't had a winning season since 2017. With the Panthers coming in with a 33-year old WR in Thielen and a RB by the name of Miles Sanders (who is that?) I am not sure why so many had them at 7.5 wins versus 6 wins for the Texans. I think the Texans over performed but I don't think switching Stroud over to the Panthers gets them more than 5 wins. Maybe they get to 4 wins instead of 2 but I am not sure that even happens. Young has looked bad but he has no one to throw to and no one behind him to run the ball. The OL also looks extremely weak. Would the Panthers be better off at QB? Yes they would be better off at QB but overall team wise I don't see them being better than what they are. Then on the defensive side the Panthers are worse than the Bears on the pass rush which I didn't think was possible. The Texans overall just have a better team than the Panthers and not just at QB. If you switched Stroud with Young on the Texans I think Young does better with the Texans than he has done with the Panthers. Stroud is the better QB and on the better team overall. Young is stuck on an absolutely awful team with Young being the best talent on both sides and by a wide margin. You can't say that about Stroud and the Texans, while Stroud is probably their best player it is not by as big of a gap as it is for Young with the Panthers.
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    I don’t think the overall record for the Panthers would have changed if they went with Stroud. The Panthers just have no offensive talent on their team. Their OL is also bad. It doesn’t matter who the QB is if they don’t have anyone to throw to or are constantly on their back due to the OL being a turnstile. You can’t just draft a QB without also giving that QB some weapons on offense. The Panthers went with the get the QB and then ???? strategy.
  14. nate82
    I am not sure the Brewers match up all that well with the Marlins. What I mean by this is I don't believe there are pieces that the Marlins would want that the Brewers are willing to part with. Obviously Chourio would be of interest to the Marlins but I don't believe you are getting Arraez or Luzardo back in a trade for someone like Frelick or MItchell. Turang also doesn't make any sense for the Marlins.
  15. nate82
    That is a huge blow.
  16. nate82
    Bitcoin has an actual use case for it. It can be used for many things especially the technology behind Bitcoin. NFT’s were just limited digital art which you could just copy rather easily.
  17. nate82
    The one thing that I still fear for the economy is the quantitative tightening. There has never been a full cycle of tightening we are basically in uncharted waters for this.
  18. nate82
    Yes and that doesn't make what I said incorrect. Lopez is a bad perimeter player as he can't move as well as he once did. Being the runner-up for DPOY last year has no bearing on that. Yes he was the 2nd best defender last year in those series but he was also a poor perimeter defender. When Lopez is at his best he is in the paint. That is where he gets a lot of his defensive value. You are just ignoring this completely. Where did I say elite level? I said someone who can defend out on the perimeter. Lopez can't do that anymore. He is at an elite level in the paint but he is absolutely atrocious when it comes to defending the perimeter or even providing help defense out on the perimeter. The Bucks need a young center who they can bring in and help defend out on the perimeter. They don't need to be elite just someone that can help out and not be a liability out there. The Bucks have actually gone back to the dropping Lopez into the paint on those high switches. So the coaching has made a change there. It just causes other issues which appeared last year when the Bucks did this. It opens up the perimeter more and teams that can shoot will be making a lot of shots because of this. It was this downfall among other things that got Bud fired.
  19. nate82
    You forgot Prince Fielder as he signed a two year deal in 2009 (2009 and 2010 season). The Brewers and Fielder then avoided arbitration in 2011 at $15.5mm. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3853135 https://www.sbnation.com/2011/1/18/2328277/prince-fielder-signs-one-year-deal-with-brewers-avoiding-arbitration
  20. nate82
    Unlikely their owner has stated they want to run their team like the Brewers and Rays. Except they are ignoring all of the FA contracts and extensions the Brewers have done (Cain, Yelich, Grandal, Moustakas, Chourio and others). The Orioles haven't spent anywhere. The Brewers and Rays have also traded prospects when it was called for. For the Brewers it was for Moustakas, Yelich and almost for Machado the Brewers didn't want to give up Burnes ironically for Machado.
  21. nate82
    It is not a coaching problem because it is the NBA. The players run the team and the coaches are just there for the ride. This has been a problem with Lopez for a few seasons now. Bud had him basically camp the lane and that worked during the season. But once the playoffs rolled around it didn't work. Lopez just doesn't move all that well and can't be playing anywhere near the perimeter on defense. If he is out there he is a liability and if he isn't out there the Bucks suffer by giving up easy 3's. Lopez just can't defend out there anymore and there is no coaching that is going to fix that. Teams take advantage of this all the time and if you do switch and keep Lopez low all the time as it creates really bad mismatches. The Bucks really need a young center who can defend out on the perimeter.
  22. nate82
    Apparently I just needed to call out Portis to get him to play better?
  23. nate82
    Bitcoin ETF’s have been approved.
  24. nate82
    We can cross off Busch as a possible prospect in a return for Burnes. He was just traded to the Cubs:
  25. nate82
    Cubs get Michael Busch and Yency Almonte in trade with Dodgers:
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