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in your face
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Yankees Sign Masahiro Tanaka
imb replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
TT: The posting fee would not count against the payroll, so it won't be part of the luxury tax calculation. But internally speaking, it would have to count against the Baseball Operations budget. Let's assume the Cubs Baseball Ops total budget for 2014 is $150M - that includes payroll for the 40 man roster, funding minor league ops like scouting and player development, coaches and executive salaries, training centers, etc... Let's assume Mr. Epstein has calculated that he has already spent $90M on the guaranteed contracts plus all the other stuff, and can spend up to $60M more on the 40 man roster. So, he adds up the $60M posting fee plus Tanaka's $12M salary (e.g. 6 years $72M) plus $30M in additional moves he wants to make for the 2014 team. So, he needs $102M, but only has $60M to spend. What does he do? He goes to Mr. Ricketts and says, "boss, I need to borrow $42M." Ricketts might say, "Sure, but I will have to lower your future budget by $7-8M per year over the next 6 years to pay for it." Or, he might say, "I'll give you $24M, but you need to trade $18M in salaries to fund the rest." Theo will have to consider his options carefully. From my vantage point, I think the Cubs should got for it! With the team set to have fairly cheap offensive productivity over the next few years, investing in difference-making pitching seems like a no-brainer. what the [expletive] -
high five tolbert brother
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2014 Draft Discussion
imb replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Rodon Hoffman Jackson Gatewood Davidson Holmes Aiken Kolek Sheffield Newcomb is the top 10. turner was 15. Beede at 18. -
Jorge Solzcr
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yeah unless everyone is like ahh hell no
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#poortomrickets would hire barry zuckercorn as his attorney
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10-peat imo
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i forgot how fun it is to root against the cardinals (as long as they look like retards like tonight) this has turned me into the type of fan i hate and i am loving it
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And he may have injured himself. coming out of the game. please be out for the series.
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facebook schadenfreude
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yeah, when im like "[expletive] the red sox" i realize that if they win this series, that will be two times in less than a decade they saved us from a st louis world title
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that's a big ass neighborhood
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literally kill all umpires
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it'd be a disappointment if he didn't play for the cubs at some point next year?
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someone take it upon themselves (wekse?????) to just blow up a section of wrigley so they have no choice but to move
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I would, but I think williams has the highest ceiling this week, but probably a lower floor. You gotta think Detroit is gonna have a safety over the top with dez at all times, and Williams has become the no. 2 receiving option the last three weeks. Murray is likely still out, so they're gonna throw it a lot, and since the defense can't stop anyone, the lions are going to score a lot, meaning romo has to really wing it.
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ding ding ding
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http://i.imgur.com/YAAmYmg.jpg
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You don't think that the pharmaceutical lobby wants to keep it illegal because of it's easy availability without their involvement/profits? Any hippie can grow marijuana plants. yeah, but that's not exactly a conspiracy, it's just rich and powerful people trying to stay rich and powerful. smoking weed isn't going to cure your cancer and there's not some shadowy organization determined to let people die of cancer so they can keep selling advil
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its like, we all get that it should be legalized and yes, alcohol is legal and therefore marijuana should be by the transitive property or whatever, but i dont think smoking really cured anyone's cancer or made anyone lose weight or whatever other nonsense. it should be legalized but there's not some deep illuminati conspiracy to keep it illegal.
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sweet whut
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i saw rose live in that season-opening game his MVP year (a thunder win.) He didn't have his shot that night, but you could tell him and westbrook were in completely different universes athletically. I'd never seen anything like it (it helped that i was baseline corner, like 9th row) Westbrook dunked off a eurostep from about a step inside the FT line, it was the most unbelievable thing id ever seen in person.
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in the same vein, this week is just screaming for a 140-yard, 2-td game from terrance williams
