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Loving every carry by AJ "Don't Call Me Corey" Dillon.

Keep eating that clock Titans.

On cue.

No more kicking. Go for it on 4th.

Enjoying the AJ Dillon breakout today. Not bad for a wasted pick.

I agree. Good show. I just watched this one, I really enjoyed it.

McRib is ok, I always get one when they make a comeback but that's usually the first and last one I get. The BBQ sauce is good, the onion and pickles are a perfect compliment but the rib meat itself doesn't really stand out. Too messy for the trouble of eating it. The bun could probably be better also. I wouldn't mind a return of the Cheddar Melt it's been ages since the last time they were around.

Not saying the Packers won't utilize the draft to replace Jones if he indeed moves on, but I'd think resigning Jamaal Williams to a reasonable contract shouldn't be nearly as problematic and he's been pretty good in his own right. Combo him and Dillion plus whatever they may add in the draft, they don't necessarily need to spend a high pick on a RB just because they might lose Jones.

I'm fairly certain I've heard of professional sports teams that have taken out loans in the past, I don't know that they are borrowing against the value of the franchise itself however. I think it's more likely that they borrow against projected income from ticket sales, merchandise, tv contracts, etc.

How do you now that? If you want to tell me I have no proof that owners are plowing their own money into their teams I will confess to that. But the accountants on this board, like you, make the opposite argument with no proof. I have a good friend who owns two companies (with two other partners), both national. I'm certain you've heard of one of these companies. The one you would know is doing well despite COVID. The other is not. Rather than pare back production for the company that is losing money, or lay people off until things turn around, the partners have capitalized the second company from their profits and cash reserves of the first. This is hardly a novel idea. It happens all the time. If you all want to act as Mark A.'s public relations flack, have at it. But this offseason of stepping back (and you all know it's coming) is tiresome. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. /rant I'm not typically pro owner in any argument for any of the major sports. But I don't think you're even making an attempt to see things through an owner's point of view. Your argument is "He rich. Got lots money. Him spend. Make team strong." Make an effort. Please. I really have no idea what Mark A's situation is like but I can at least try to imagine a simplified scenario of what might happen if he started spending out of his own pockets. Mark A. has a reported net worth of $700 million. Start there. That's his life's earnings, he's not earning $100 million every year, if he was he'd be much more rich than he is now. I'm going to assume he's making modest gains by being selective with his money and investments. His current net worth is also not liquid, whatever actual cash he has is probably nowhere near that, probably not even by half. If he spent an extra $20 million in cash per year out of his own pocket on player salaries he'd have to start selling off his assets in 10 to 15 years and honestly probably a lot sooner than that. He'd also probably being going through a divorce by then because his wife would be pissed that he's unnecessarily mortgaging their future recklessly running a stupid baseball team. So there goes half of whatever he has left, including his ownership stake in the Brewers which he'd have to sell. Now what's that $20 million per year going to get him? It seems like their sweet spot as things are now is a player payroll around $115 to $125 million per season. So now they've bumped up to $145 million. It'll get the Brewers a little closer to the upper middle class of the MLB in player payroll but still probably right smack in the middle. Gee, that just doesn't seem worth it, just a tiny drop in a huge bucket. $20 million might let you clone Christian Yelich, while that would be nice it doesn't guarantee any more success than they're having right now. Meanwhile he's ruining himself financially so the average fan feels like the owner is doing everything possible to win. That's probably not working either, those fans would still be complaining he's not contributing even more. I don't know how realistic this scenario is but I'd like to think it's not terribly off the mark. It kinda sucks, I suspect I'm not the only person on this board that's fantasized about owning a team and building a champion, those fantasies never really dealt much with reality either. Now that I've put myself there I can see how frustrating it must be to actually have to sit there and be responsible and restrain yourself to what expenditures the team can handle. That's not the fun part. But if you do all that, be responsible and still build a winner? That'd be a pretty awesome feeling.

Mark A is not a billionaire. He's worth around $700 million. Tied for 25th out of the 30 MLB owners. Source

Yea, I read something about Rodgers not being done, so they aren't going to worry about him. As long as Rodgers stays single, yes. If he gets a girlfriend/wife, trade him immediately. It's a poorly kept secret that Rodgers has been dating Shailene Woodley since before the season started. Allegedly she's the reason he broke up with Danica. So maybe it's because he's dating her that he's doing so well?

My earlier point was this one should be a layup. The fact that they're nitpicking over it to this degree when there's so much other crap where they're even further apart doesn't bode well for 2022. I also feel like the players have made concessions in the "speeding up the game" policies that have been enacted recently that they've accrued some leeway where owners wouldn't use this particular issue to extract a pound of flesh for something they want equally as much as the players do. Maybe they've secured other things in compromise that I'm not remembering though or there's something already promised in the give/take for those concessions.

Haha. I definitely try to drop a "cromulent" or "a couple two tree" into the conversation every now & again. It has taken 11 years, but this word is now in regular use within my in-laws' family. They all use it as if it's a real word. I consider this my greatest personal achievement. Ok, this makes so much more sense now. These are Simpsons words. D'oh! I did not know that before despite several previous Google searches for definitions. Let this be an embiggenment of your enjoyment for I also took it for a real word, though it seems Merriam-Webster feels it's a perfectly cromulent candidate to be one. I, for one, would welcome it as a real word should our dictionary overlords decide to include it among their ranks.

I'd argue that the MLB clubs probably benefit from having a universal DH just as much, if not more, than the players. On the players side it only adds 15 DH spots. That's nice and all but the DH only type of player seems less abundant than they used to be. So it seems likely that DHs are going to be players teams would roster anyway and would have to be capable of playing defense at least some of the time. I think clubs benefit from having more offense, more innings with sustained rallies, and their expensive pitchers won't be exposed to as much risk of injury.

They're not. The last thing I heard, and this is pretty dated, like weeks/months, was the owners wanted the players to agree to expanded playoffs like we had last season in return for the Universal DH. The players are not exactly gung ho about that, they want compensation for the additional playoff games that would result. So we're back to money. To me, the joke is that the owners want the players to give something up when the whole DH rule was botched way back when AL owners instituted it and NL owners didn't. Players had nothing to do with that.

Translation: Once we've made it through 2020 & 2021 we still have a nice awesome work stoppage to look forward to because negotiations between MLB and the Players is where baseball goes to die. They can't even agree on the Universal DH, a thing that makes so much sense and is supposedly 100% likely to happen anyway.

Don't really have anything to add. I just wanted to commend you on the use of the word cromulent. My question is how long has he been holding on to that word to use?... He actually uses it somewhat regularly. I am a fan. Without searching I think I can remember 3 fairly recent uses of this word in his posts. To date I haven't been baller enough to work it into my own conversations but it is a goal.

Probably, we probably said the same about Neftali Feliz too. That type of comment is about as relevant as someone coming to spring training "in the best shape of their life". Yep, look no further than last year's acquisition of Narvaez. The Brewers were gonna coach him up real good on his defense once he got here. And now I see comments about his improved defense, which is fine and I don't take issue with, but it's not like any other team hasn't tried to make their players better before. It's what teams do.

My 2014 Jeep has automatic high beams, which are cool since they are supposed to sense an oncoming car and automatically switch to low beam until the road ahead is clear of oncoming traffic when they switch back to high. Problem is, they're not flawless. If you're rounding a curve or on a road that has rises and depressions (hills) the tech can be fooled into thinking there are no cars oncoming so the high beams stay on. If that's the case and a lot of drivers have this technology and have a "set it and forget it" mentality I could see how there would be a lot of drivers out there that don't even realize that's what's happening. I'm pretty vigilant about it when I use them, but I'm human and have forgotten a few times.

Same. Just last night I asked what the temperature was for walking my dogs, and she responded both with the answer and a 30 second dissertation on what I can do to shop for Christmas presents. You can turn that off by going into your Alexa app, tap Settings>Notifications>Amazon Shopping and turn off the option to “receive personalized recommendations and deals based on your shopping activity.” I don't get shopping suggestions because I had that turned off already, Alexa just really wants me to try using other commands and for that I don't see a toggle to turn off those types of suggestions. Meh, I'm not the slightest bit paranoid about it. I just don't think I'm rich enough or important enough to worry about being a target for scammers or hackers. As far as data mining, I'm sure all that crap is out there already, I'm already an Amazon customer and I use the internet, what else is gonna happen?

Don't you mean strike a match and light a candle since you're living like a caveman? My gripe with Alexa is I can ask for the weather and Amazon is so gung ho over all the things Alexa can do that she keeps reminding me that I can give other commands. Yeah, if I wanted to give another command I would but I didn't so just do what I tell you, I didn't ask for an advertisement of all the other crap you can do.

Well this season he's a slightly better version of Nick Foles. Maybe. Foles does have 2 fewer games played.

Greece's national colors are blue and white as I recall. All part of keeping Giannis in Milwaukee?

Right I'm not suggesting that's the reason they lost because that would be a giant stretch, I just thought it was a rare, interesting case of a bad weather home game that factored against them and it was not due to cold or rain/snow.