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  1. soccer10k
    Could be. Liverpool dropped off big time last year after they went down to the wire with City in 21-22 plus made the final of the UCL, FA Cup and League Cup. But City was down 8 points to Arsenal (with a game in hand) with 10 games to go last year and still won the league with 2 games to spare.
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    Because that’s how these teams tend to act. Like if they don’t think he’s their guy but he beats Liverpool, they won’t fire him. But if Liverpool embarrasses them 4-0, they might. I’m not saying it’s right. Just how it seems to be. I’m surprised they haven’t fired him already. Different sport but Brandon Staley today is a good example. He was likely gone at the end of the year anyway. But they got slaughtered yesterday so the Chargers pulled the trigger. If the Chargers had beaten the Raiders yesterday, no way he gets fired today.
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    No but if they get smashed again or are horribly outclassed it could be the end. He’s already on thin ice. They’re in 6th in the league and have won 9 games but the best team they’ve beaten is Fulham in 10th. Their next 3 games are at Liverpool (1st), at West Ham (9th) and home to Villa (3rd). They’re not just going to keep letting him lose games.
  4. soccer10k
    Yes! The GM is out too.
  5. soccer10k
    Yeah, that's not even really sign stealing.
  6. soccer10k
    Draymond suspended indefinitely. It’s the right call by Silver.
  7. soccer10k
    Can't wait for Friday when we get to hear that Draymond ranted on his podcast that the NBA is out to get him and whatever other horsefeathers he likes to spew after he gets a technical, ejection or suspension.
  8. soccer10k
    ManU finish bottom of their UCL group. If ten Hag doesn’t get sacked for this, the final nail could be losing at Liverpool this weekend.
  9. soccer10k
    Is there a good team in the AFC? The Ravens I guess. Miami has beaten 1 team with a record better than 5-8 (Denver at 7-6 but that was when Denver was a disaster). Jags are ok. Chiefs can't catch the ball. Cleveland and Cincy have good rosters but have backup QBs. I don't really trust any of these teams. Last year for the whole year we were pretty certain KC, Buffalo and Cincy were really good. And in the NFC we had Philly and SF. This year it's the 49ers and the Ravens I guess. Unless you want to throw Dallas in there. But even them I'm not sure anyone trusts Mike McCarthy not to F it up in the playoffs. And Dallas kind of has a prove it stretch the rest of the way with @Buf, @ Mia and vs. Det.
  10. soccer10k
    No because he’d be getting paid that money over the life of the contract. But he signed a 10 year contact and will be paid $700M in actual dollars. Therefore the CBT should be $70M per year. This is no different than the Dodgers offering him a 15 year, $700M contract which I believe MLB wouldn’t allow since it would take him to age 43, past a reasonable playing age. I can’t seem to find it but I swear the Padres were prevented from doing this last winter. And I know hockey has voided multiple contracts for attempting to do the same thing.
  11. soccer10k
    Going to need someone to explain to me why the Jags went for 2 yesterday. They’re down 10 and they get a TD with 1:33 left. They go for 2 and don’t get it so they’re down 4. I get it if you’re down 14 because if you don’t get it, you still need a TD. But by not getting it here, the Jags now need a TD instead of a FG which I would think would change the math quite a bit.
  12. soccer10k
    It's fine. The Dodgers will just defer 95% of his money until 2156 so their luxury tax bill will only be $3M per season for him!
  13. soccer10k
    What a stupid rule. If you’re not going to allow teams to sign players until their 50 to massage the CBT, deferred money shouldn’t affect it either.
  14. soccer10k
    Thanks. That makes sense. Seems like a bit of a loophole though to do a contract that way.
  15. soccer10k
    I don’t understand why the deferred money matters for the CBT. If he signs a 10 year deal for $700M, shouldn’t it just be $70M for the CBT each year? Someone explain this to me in English, please, or point me to an article that does it.
  16. soccer10k
    Logically it seems like it should be the case too. Otherwise you’re essentially signing the guy to a 25 year deal (or whatever it is). Weren’t a couple of the deals last winter not allowed because a team tried to stretch it too far on how many years they offered?
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    FWIW. This is where it came from.
  19. soccer10k
    That’s insane money. So with this, Betts and Freeman they’re pretty much locked in to whatever the max luxury tax is right? Like unless they just have cheap guys all around them.
  20. soccer10k
    That joke is never going to get old, nor should it.
  21. soccer10k
    To be fair it was already Dec 9 in Japan 8 hours ago when it first got brought up.
  22. soccer10k
    Not really. Toronto has more playoff appearances the last two years as LA has in the last 14. Toronto won 89+ games each of the last 3 seasons. The last time LA did that was 07-09.
  23. soccer10k
    He’s clearly 100% hung up on the whole threatening teams thing which was very likely way overblown.
  24. soccer10k
    I don’t think he’s aware of 95% of what’s going on right now. He’s meeting with teams and his agent and doing what he thinks he needs to do to get the best deal with the right team.
  25. soccer10k
    Over under of 0.5 seconds DeSantis spent watching FSU this year? I'll go under.
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