The Jon Lester Signs w/ Cubs - 6 yrs/$155 Million

[imb]

How does it work if you sign with say, Houston, and go "hell yeah, no state tax" and then are traded to San Francisco, where you're taxed out of your browntown? Just sucks to be you?

[Cubswin11]

What's the state income tax in California?

[RammyFanny]

Bunch of tweets coming out that Lester will have final offers in front of him by tonight. Olney says reasonable to conclude it concludes tonight. Red Sox meeting with agents tonight.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

True or False:

 

As of this moment Jon Lester already knows who he is signing with.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

True or False:

 

As of this moment Jon Lester already knows who he is signing with.

 

True, and imo it's been true for awhile.

[bukie]

At some point, it just becomes about trying to get as much money out of the team you want to go with as possible.

[Guest]

True or False:

 

As of this moment Jon Lester already knows who he is signing with.

True, he's been humming go-cubs-go for a month.

[shnsajax]

How does it work if you sign with say, Houston, and go "hell yeah, no state tax" and then are traded to San Francisco, where you're taxed out of your browntown? Just sucks to be you?

 

I would pay the tax and be happy to be the hell out of Houston.

[seanimal]

How does it work if you sign with say, Houston, and go "hell yeah, no state tax" and then are traded to San Francisco, where you're taxed out of your browntown? Just sucks to be you?

 

yes. not only do you live in the concrete hellscape that is houston, but now california gets a huge chunk of your income for every day that you "work" there. i'm not sure how that particular part works, like if they divide yearly salary amongst the games played and tax based off of that?

[Guest]

How does it work if you sign with say, Houston, and go "hell yeah, no state tax" and then are traded to San Francisco, where you're taxed out of your browntown? Just sucks to be you?

 

Part of it depends on where your home is. Rosenthal just had a tweet about how since Lester lives in GA the tax argument only applies to a percentage of his income(up to 50% I believe), but when you're talking about this much AAV it's still a difference of millions.

[seanimal]

At some point, it just becomes about trying to get as much money out of the team you want to go with as possible.

 

exactly, and we've probably been at that point for quite a while now

[Clem Fandango]

What's the state income tax in California?

 

I think I saw something earlier about it being something like 12.3%?

[imb]

How does it work if you sign with say, Houston, and go "hell yeah, no state tax" and then are traded to San Francisco, where you're taxed out of your browntown? Just sucks to be you?

 

Part of it depends on where your home is. Rosenthal just had a tweet about how since Lester lives in GA the tax argument only applies to a percentage of his income(up to 50% I believe), but when you're talking about this much AAV it's still a difference of millions.

 

why dont u go not tip for a haircut

[imb]

burned

[Elrhino]

True or False:

 

As of this moment Jon Lester already knows who he is signing with.

 

True, and imo it's been true for awhile.

 

Pretty much.

[imb]

GR i got that [expletive] good didnt i

[ConstableRabbit]

What's the state income tax in California?

 

I think I saw something earlier about it being something like 12.3%?

13.3

[Tracer Bullet]

GR i got that [expletive] good didnt i

 

7.4

[Tracer Bullet]

You should photoshop david's face on a robot and come up with a witty saying. then you'd have something.

[XZero771679666304]

You should photoshop david's face on a robot and come up with a witty saying. then you'd have something.

 

Why photoshop a picture when you can just take one of him from those Old Spice commercials he does

[davell]

Anyone else's Twitter feed down almost completely? This happened to me once before and it was down for a day and a half. I'm receiving just a few sporadic tweets right now, nowhere near the amount I should be getting. The Levine comment I missed was about when it started.....

[RammyFanny]

Anyone else's Twitter feed down almost completely? This happened to me once before and it was down for a day and a half. I'm receiving just a few sporadic tweets right now, nowhere near the amount I should be getting. The Levine comment I missed was about when it started.....

Same. On my app at least. I think you might be ok by just searching Lester though.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'd love it if all the teams in on Lester just simultaneously went to plan Bs.

[Agony and Ivy]

There are also things called "jock taxes" so when a team plays in NYC their salary over those 3 days is actually taxed by NYC. Land of the free indeed.

[Agony and Ivy]

Anyone else's Twitter feed down almost completely? This happened to me once before and it was down for a day and a half. I'm receiving just a few sporadic tweets right now, nowhere near the amount I should be getting. The Levine comment I missed was about when it started.....

Same. On my app at least. I think you might be ok by just searching Lester though.

 

Down on the desktop too