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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I think there are a few teams that would strongly consider signing him following a cooling off period, and assuming no indefinite suspension.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I have no idea what this means.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Rich Campbell ‏@Rich_Campbell · 1m Bears have signed WR/KR Chris Williams to their practice squad and released undrafted rookie LB DeDe Lattimore from the practice squad.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    And do what after you look at the owners? They're paying him 30+ mil a year to handle issues like this. They shouldn't have to instruct him to suspend him further that's his job, they're not babysitters for Goodell. They pay him all that money to keep their hands clean from this. Um ok. So if I ever own a massive hugely profitable business exempt from us antitrust law that also benefits greatly from state and local land and tax deals and questionable accounting principals; as long as I pay an unlikeable guy a lot of money I'm exempt from criticism. I just think it makes more sense to narrow the scope to one very hittable target. Goodell taking a fall will hurt the owners. They will wind up buying him out and then hiring a new guy who will come under the microscope. If you widen the target to all the owners you run the risk of hitting nobody.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't get what all the mini-Kyles are after with halfway contrarian pseudo devil's advocate posts about the problem with the collective reaction to this issue. Let Kyle pay the Kyle tax, Homer pays the Homer tax.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    good one
  7. jersey cubs fan
    wait what? Soler signed a 9/30 contract as an IFA, so people are assuming he becomes a free agent with less than 6 ML years service because reasons. Is the trick that he used up his three option years in 2012/13/14 and therefore had to stick in the majors at the outset of 2015 and therefore would by default reach 6 years of service time by the end of 2020? No, Soler gets 4 options. People are assuming that because his 9 year contract ends in 2020 that that's the end of the control, similar to Cespedes. But it's known that Soler can opt into arbitration when eligible. As it is, he'll reach FA after 2020 because he was called up, so we may never know, but I still don't understand why you'd assume he gets FA at (for example) 5 years 120 days, just because his original contract was signed for 9 years. David Price signed a 6 year major league deal when he was drated with the same arbitration provision. He didn't randomly become a free agent after 2012, he remained Rays property. Ok. I wasn't aware what the specific option situation was, but have no idea why people would assume he's a free agent when this contract is up (except for the point that people always screw up the difference between a contract ending before service time being reached).
  8. jersey cubs fan
    That was disgusting. But I think that was more Baltimore specific, especially the tone deaf tweets they sent out at the time.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    It's not about whether or not Goodel saw it. It's whether or not any NFL employee saw it plus the fact that they absolutely had the opportunity to see it and already liked about their inability to see it. There are no goalposts here.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I mean, obviously. What are you trying to say? Pointing out why someone might make the statement that there was NO outrage. They're creating a clear separation between the types of outcry because calling for rule changes is quite different than a change in leadership. People weren't calling for a rule change, the rule change was the NFL's response to what happened, and it was scoffed at by many. the only reason somebody might make the statement that there was no outrage pre-video was that they weren't paying attention.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    wait what? Soler signed a 9/30 contract as an IFA, so people are assuming he becomes a free agent with less than 6 ML years service because reasons. Is the trick that he used up his three option years in 2012/13/14 and therefore had to stick in the majors at the outset of 2015 and therefore would by default reach 6 years of service time by the end of 2020?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    wait what?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    "has become?" you just referenced something that happened 15 years ago. i don't recall it ever having any real meaning but it at least seems to be going to deserving players more often than it used to (and less often to outrageously undeserving players like it used to) "you don't recall?". Expand your baseball knowledge. It did not begin with you being hatched. It had meaning when people were generally completely uninformed about what really made baseball players valuable.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see anything sad about it.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That is terrific. I would pay to watch.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I mean, obviously. What are you trying to say? The claim was there was no outrage before the video. There was. And immediately the NFL made changes (derwood's point about previous cases of abuse really has nothing to do with anything). The new round of outrage is actually stronger not just post video, but post Baltimore/NFL change of heart post-video and again after their obvious cover-up. The outrage is coming from many angles right now. But there was a whole bunch of outrage before this recent video was released.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    So then you have no problem with the fact that the NFL only waited until after the video was leaked to impose stiffer punishments? You have no problem that the Ravens waited until after the video leaked to terminate Ray Rice's contract? what? no, of course i'm not ok with their deplorable non-reaction to this. but i'm certainly not going to complain that public outcry forced them to get it right My complaint is that there was no public outcry before Monday's leak. At least not enough to get the NFL to do anything of substance. You do realize that public outcry actually caused them to almost immediately toughen their domestic abuse related punishments? Because it did and maybe you were on holiday or something.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Gerry Duggan ‏@GerryDuggan · 6s You should see the Ray Lewis video! - Roger Goodell
  19. jersey cubs fan
    sounds plausible
  20. jersey cubs fan
    next week's unemployment data will reflect one former female NFL employee
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Dan Snyder must be pretty happy
  22. jersey cubs fan
    "we have no knowledge of this..., we are not aware..., we will look into it."
  23. jersey cubs fan
    He looks like Wayne Arnold from The Wonder Years. woahhhhhh. I was going to say I did not see anything wrong, but you've just thrown that for a loop.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    AP reporting law enforcement saying they sent video three months ago and that it was received by the NFL.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    frivolous imo
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