Old McPherson is an A, e yi e yi yoooooooo

It has become a recent for financially able teams to sign the players they want/need to contract extensions before they even get to free agency, thus reducing their need to go shop for the highest price player.

It may reduce the supply of players available, but on the flip side it also reduces the supply of teams with the financial means and/or desire to participate in FA bidding because they’ve been pro-active and already taken care of their needs.

You express it much more clearly and more than I did in my unhelpful sarcastic post above.

But I think to air those views would take this discussion over the line CGV-wise.

Because this is a worthwhile discussion that brings no political figures or political parties (by name) into play. This is a philosophical discussion about liberty’s wrestle with a government-by-the-people; the same people that make moral judgments and wish to introduce those judgments as legislation. It is truly a pity that there are such thin skinned son-of-a-bitches that would squelch this form a communication even though it can be (and is) directly tied into the individual choices of MLB players and owners alike.

And I just don’t agree with you on where those lines should be drawn, if they need to be drawn at all. Obviously our milages vary. I also think that your orginal post to the topic is absurd since most ‘reasonable’ people side with the perceivedn ‘little’ guy.

Must have been someplace else where those topics are more appropriate not neccessarily more (or less [but who are we kidding here]) well received.

Grocery stores make huge revenue and very little profit margin, so the tax on net is absurd.

You cannot have the same type of rules, or a straight-line increasing revenue equation, for every type of business. Some businesses that are very desirable may have a zero tax rate on gross revenues up to $40,000…say, like a freelance writer!

The problem with the system now is that giving tax breaks, modifying tax rules, etc., can never be fully understood politically, with the complexity of the rules, and it employs good and intelligent people in a needlessly expensive profession…tax accounting, when they could be doing something productive. Sure, you’d have to have tables of various “qualifying business and their rates”, but at least everyone can tell at a glance, what that business will pay in taxes….
…it won’t be hidden by a deduction for a vehicle weighing over 5000 lb., which triggers a savings completely unrelated to the use of the vehicle in the business….

And I was replying to something later in the thread.

Don’t tell me hot pockets are pies too, because I don’t want to hear it!

At one point, every demand Giambi made was agreed to by the A’s… including his no-trade clause… then he “changed his mind” and raised his dollar amount.

To me, once the demands on the table have been met, the deal is done. Only the formality of paperwork is left to do. If you want more money or something else, say so BEFORE all terms have been met.

This is why I have disliked Giambi ever since, and will always dislike him. This is also why I did get a little pleasure in the Yankees winning the WS this year… Giambi never got that ring, but many of his teammates did before he got there and after he left.

I can’t repeat here what he told me to tell you.

I thought the snark is what bothered you?!

no one has yet made a version that says “Aurilia?”