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  1. SeaBass
    Three words: Service time manipulation.
  2. SeaBass
    Sam Elliott approves.
  3. SeaBass
    Dang bro, nearly 6 months since we've seen you.
  4. SeaBass
    It hurts to lose Freddy but it would have hurt to lose him after next season too, it's just a year early. They had Freddy last year and still got swept in the NLCS. I'm happy with this trade. The big fear I had if they had kept him was imagining him getting injured and losing out on the big return in trade. This is a safe move that protects the team and ideally that makes them better going forward.
  5. SeaBass
    This company has plans that don't throttle. And it's the same networks as the big three.
  6. SeaBass
    The big three carriers are all overpriced even with their perks. Secondary carriers offer better prices using those same networks. Try looking at US Mobile.
  7. SeaBass
    That's still a massive overpay.
  8. SeaBass
    I hate Vikings fans more. Only thing I really disagree on here.
  9. SeaBass
    It would be hilarious to watch Sam Darnold win a Super Bowl in Seattle immediately after the Vikings chose not to keep him around. This is the result I want. Also I just don't want the Rams (McVay/Stafford), Patriots (because it's the Patriots) or Broncos (Peyton) to win.
  10. SeaBass
    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47589337/nfl-green-bay-packers-coach-matt-lafleur-contract-extension-jordan-love Well, at least there's one guy that did it. MLF needs to get to the Super Bowl next season to match.
  11. SeaBass
    Harbaugh to Giants imminent.
  12. SeaBass
    I'm not buying that the Yankees are out just because they traded for Ryan Weathers. Weathers and his 1.4 career bWAR and Peralta aren't comparable talents and Freddy is still only making $8 million.
  13. SeaBass
    If this is so cut and dried, and I understand what you're saying that they're not escaping the luxury tax, why is the rest of the sports world so convinced that this was a huge benefit for the Dodgers? You'd think by now it should be common knowledge but clearly people are still confused. Including reports of other MLB owners that are not happy about the Dodgers tactics. I come away still feeling like the Dodgers are scamming the system. Whether the Dodgers avoided luxury tax or not they found a way to negotiate in such a way that other owners could not compete with them. There's always a winner and loser in bidding wars but this feels extra.
  14. SeaBass
    Or maybe the solution is that if you give a player a contract with a $70M AAV you shouldn't be able to only pay him $2M per year for the length of the contract and just defer the remaining $68M. EDIT: Even if you want to adhere to the $460M current value and think $46M AAV, the $2M salary per season over 10 years is bonkers. If teams were capped at paying a minimum of 50% or even 25% of AAV per season in actual salary it would more effectively restrict their power to significantly minimize luxury tax payments. 2nd Edit: Disregard the above edit, I was getting myself confused since the $46M is already being taxed. I'm done lol. I think most people get what I'm saying, hopefully.
  15. SeaBass
    Ok, that's fine but without the deferrals he'd have otherwise counted $70M per season. It's still an enormous benefit. They shouldn't be able to dodge $34M per season by deferring money. I don't think it's unreasonable for teams to get some tax relief for deferrals but maybe it shouldn't be that much. It seems reasonable to me that they could cap the deferral benefit at a smaller tax discount. I get that they're being charged at the current day value, all I'm saying is when one superstar's free agent contract extends beyond a $300M or $400M overall value at signing (which is a number that would change as salaries escalate) the deferral discount shouldn't be as high regardless of current day value.
  16. SeaBass
    When do those luxury tax hits begin? What I'm seeing is that the immediate benefit was lowering their initial luxury tax penalty which allowed them to sign other high profile players. I also got the numbers wrong, it's a $700M total contract and the $680M was the amount deferred.
  17. SeaBass
    Who's to say that the overall guarantee on their contract isn't already higher than it would be if there were no deferrals? Agents aren't stupid. We're just seeing the final number when salaries are reported.
  18. SeaBass
    I'm not saying to stop deferrals, that would never happen either, I'm only saying that there should be a limit for tax dodging. Defer as much salary as teams want and a player agrees to but only get a luxury tax benefit up to a certain threshold. Deferring 97% of a $680M contract and not having to pay luxury tax is a crime in my opinion. The Dodgers already have the most spending power in the game and this loophole just makes them even more bulletproof.
  19. SeaBass
    A salary cap is never going to happen. I'd be satisfied if their fixed system started and ended with salary deferrals not giving such a huge benefit to avoiding luxury tax thresholds. Call it the Ohtani rule.
  20. SeaBass
    A glance into Alex Bregman's Cubs future perhaps? Arenado had 7.9 bWAR in his age 31 season, Bregman is coming off of a 3.5 bWAR in his age 31 season.
  21. SeaBass
    Cardinals are tanking/doing a reset. They are reportedly shopping around Brendan Donovan as well. Pirates won't finish last in the division this season.
  22. SeaBass
    I think the idea that there isn't a good pool of HC candidates is folly. There will always be someone available in the ranks of football coaches that would make, and one day WILL make, a fantastic hire and successful HC. Just gotta find them. Also just because fans/media don't have insights into the potential coaching pool does not mean that football teams don't have insights. But I think the writing is on the wall, MLF will be coming back whether it's on a lame duck contract or an extension. If GB was going to fire him he'd be fired by now. There's still a chance they move on, obviously, I think it's just a very small chance at this point.
  23. SeaBass
    Craig Counsell is out there somewhere crying a single tear and thinking, "I helped make a difference in coaches' salary."
  24. SeaBass
    I've already said I'd keep Gute and that's still true for me. I do want them to move on from MLF. I can, however, see a way they'd keep him and it would be relatively ok. I think this was a pretty good football team this season and yeah I'm going to use injuries as the excuse for why they fell off a cliff the last 5 games. They held leads they didn't keep, that's ugly but they also have the ability to play well enough to build those leads. There was a clear drop off in defensive quality with all the injuries to key players. There were also problems with the defense when their key players were healthy. I can see a path to success by running it back with Gute and MLF, improving the roster and somehow cleaning up the horrid gaffes that happened over and over. I just hope it works because I also see a path where the same things keep going wrong.
  25. SeaBass
    I can't imagine the Yankees would even trade Schlittler. Full stop.
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