I'm going to guess they will not be playing the intl signing bonus penalty game any longer. They did it when they were tanking and it was a new idea, others are doing it now. My guess is they will either try and play it more straight up or the league will just make another rule that makes it even less likely to work.
if i were one to nit-pick semantics, sure Well, you were the one who said you agreed with a post that was all about nitpicking pointless already quantified issues that are over shadowed by actual production.
i don't disagree with much of this, particularly the bolded, but that is something that's quantifiable* and even with those habits he's still quantifiably a very good player, so what's the problem here? it's not even one of those dumb issues we had with Soriano/Ramirez where you start bringing in a player's salary into the discussion and argue they should be held to a higher standard *per UBR, he's cost the club less than 2 runs with his baserunning but len kasper thought Castro should be held to a higher standard, whatever that meant. You should disagree with the "repeatedly" phrasing.
I couldn't take it seriously after they said McCown was a better QB than Cutler. why your team sucks is not meant to be taken seriously. magary routinely belittles his own football analyzing ability. These are mostly about fans hating their own team and fellow fans.
But he's the adopted brown kid and biff can make the same mistakes without getting yelled at. That's because he's Biff. He's not our kid. And if he was, he doesn't have the potential Starlin has. No, biff is our non-adopted kid who gets a free pass and has a tiny face.
Well he backed off hard after realizing what he said. Did I miss a tweet? Last thing he posted is that Starlin plays hard but the mental gaffes are a problem. That's not backing off hard IMO. Well you are bad at twitter then. He's called it a moot point given his total value.
Why would the other clubs sign off on that? Could be a clause that was signed prior to this specific situation arising and not a case of teams agreeing specifically to allow Houston to sign Aiken.
Oh god yes they are that bad. I listened to them for nearly a year (probably because I thought it was cool that Greeny interviewed me when I was in high school), without really listening all that closely. Eventually I realized just how terrible those two shills are. They do occasionally take a fairly rational stance on something, but they are more or less a PR team with a radio show.
I enjoy when one or both are on vacation and it is filled in by someone else, I might be in the minority but I enjoy when Rozner fills in. He is the only one who actually talks hockey and trolls the Vancouver Canuck fan base any chance he gets. Brave stance, trolling Canucks fans on a Chicago radio station.