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  2. Yeah who had been sucking in A ball but got his first win with 5inning 1 hit last outing
  3. *admission Stupid aggy
  4. Skip Bayless
  5. i’m cross posting this in both Ukraine threads. It is interesting that Turkey gives no fucks what Russia thinks. And you can bet your bottom dollar that when all the people left Russia in 2022 - a hell of a lot of spooks pretending to be fleeing foes of Putin set up shop in every country who would take them. The answer is to deport every one of the sons of bitches
  6. Yeah, sigh. The most essential thing on earth that humans need to survive. Could you imagine
  7. Pete continues to present the correct message IMO. Pete his going to Iowa next week for a Veteran Town Hall. It's becoming clear he's running in 2028.
  8. Whatever that number may be it will be dwarfed by the cost of IRS cuts and lack of tax enforcement which will cost at least $500 billion. Plus those dollars come at a cost of lost trade, small businesses closing, and layoffs. So great, some dollars may have come in the door but there won’t be a trucking industry by fall.
  9. The average NFL salary is close to $2 million, but players were not always so well compensated. In fact, for much of football's history, players often worked secondary jobs in steel mills, on ranches or as salesmen to make ends meet. The only time a player takes a "second" job now is on TV in the hopes of getting a career once he has hung up his cleats. The high salaries were won through decades of battles with owners as well as due to football's ascension to the status of America's favorite sport. Red Grange While paid players predate the formation of the NFL in 1920 by several decades, most players were paid on a per-game basis. In 1926, Red Grange changed that when he signed a 19-game deal with the Chicago Bears that earned him roughly $100,000. That was the first large NFL contract. Changing Times During the next few decades, player salaries depended on their star quality and the teams they played for. Some teams were stingy with money, while others paid in other ways--in the late 1950s, Baltimore Colts often got free beer after games. Starting around the late 1950s, players demanded a league minimum, but that fell on deaf ears. The average player at the time was getting less than $6,000 per season. The Financial Breakthrough The Players Association finally won recognition in 1970, and the owners agreed to a $9,000 minimum salary for rookies and $10,000 for veterans. The minimum salary crept higher through the 1970s. Salary Wars Rival leagues often helped escalate salaries. In the 1960s, it was the AFL, followed by the WFL in the 1970s and the USFL in the 1980s. Salaries jumped due to bidding, including the famous John Brodie case where he was offered close to $750,000 to go to the AFL. He had been making $35,000 in the NFL. The Big Money The NFL strikes in 1982 and 1987 led to an explosion in salaries because the players won the rights to get more team revenues as well as the ability to bargain collectively. That helped average salaries go from $198,000 in 1986 to almost $800,000 by the start of the 1993 season. Tuesday, March 4 Updated: March 24, 12:36 PM ET USFL made an impact in three-year run By Greg Garber ESPN.com "Every NFL player that's getting paid right now ought to thank the USFL," said Irv Eatman, an offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Stars and today a Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach. "That's where it started to proliferate." Bart Oates, a Stars teammate of Eatman's and later a Pro Bowl center for the New York Giants, agreed. "Track the league's average salary and see what happens in 1984," Oates said. "Put it on a chart and watch it spike." Done. The NFL's average salary in 1983 was $152,800. A year later, after the USFL began paying fat salaries and creating a bidding war with the NFL, the average salary was $225,600, an increase of 47.6 percent -- the largest jump in the league's history.
  10. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Dead-on. But, contrast that with the dominant political ethos of the moment: Elon Musk: "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Two two competing approaches aren't "different paths to the same destination," they are polar opposites. Metaphorically, we are arguing between "should we douse ourselves in gasoline and light ourselves on fire, bathing in the cleansing flames? Or should we NOT light ourselves on fire?" There's not really a middle ground. And right now (see yesterday's post string), we are in full-on self-immolation, because when I light myself or others on fire, it makes stupid libs scream "NO!", and that means I'm winning. The right approach doesn't mean that hard choices can't be made. It doesn't mean that people won't end up being hurt, one way or the other; in imperfect systems (as all systems are), that's inevitable. My bigger-picture fear -- and current conclusion -- is that we have to put empathy aside for the moment. First, we have to fight back and defeat the monster that is hate and cruelty. And that....requires dirtying our hands. I sure as shit never wanted it to be this way, but here we are.
  11. Apparently, the kids call West Campus wampus now.
  12. Is this some kind of DnD joke or do you not actually know what a gorilla is?
  13. Even if 25 men could get near him at once he would destroy them.
  14. Big Drive-Away Dolls fan?
  15. I think focus needs to be made on your son’s temper. You talk about your bad temper, and how you handle it poorly, and you’re frustrated that your son is starting to have similar blowups and issues with his temper. IMO, he’s modeling right after you, and he already has your genetics. I think it would be helpful for BOTH of you to work through your helper issues, and him to see you doing it, and you to try and talk him through his. “do what I say, not what I do” will only work for so long, as you’re now seeing, imo.
  16. Who dis?
  17. I as in India many years back and got caught in a street riot/protest over water rights within India. Nothing too violent, but they were rocking the car, shouting, etc.
  18. $80 million is probably about right. $50 million is way low. Live sport TV rights still have not plateaued so I’d still take the over. If ESPN truly doesn’t value most OOC games (which is debatable) then $811 million divided by the 8 current conference games would be roughly $101 million. The SEC is under contract so this is still being negotiated without any outside bidders. I assume the price will not be a straight proportional increase since ESPN has most of the control. Would be curious to see the aggregated financials when half the conference loses an annual home game and likely they can pencil in a team or two being removed from bowl eligibility as well. Not to mention the potential cost of not making the CFP cut line by adding that extra loss. Are those negatives offset by the increase with their TV rights?
  19. Schedule working out to where it looks like I'll be able to run up on Sunday morning and create 3-day weekend for myself. Appears likely this will be the last weekend until October where it went get much hotter than 80 and the overnight low will dip into the 50's. Gonna resituate and fill that feeder and start running it again so we'll have a hog-hunting spot this offseason. Also knock out a few other small projects that I'd prefer not to do when the heat index is touching triple digits.
  20. All the people who are usually right have been ringing this alarm for years. (the looming water scarcity crisis, that is)
  21. It’s a preview of the upcoming water wars in Texas.
  22. All this over water.....sigh......
  23. Hank Kingsley

    LBGTQ

    Agreed, and this should be the thought process for literally everything. In the end, our society might crumble anyways, but better to live this path than any other.
  24. Pressure now on Denver for Game 3. If they lose that, they're in trouble. You can't help but to wonder if they're starting to wear down. They've gone every other day now for awhile. Winner of this series likely wins the whole thing considering what is going on in the other series. Boston/NY is insane and I don't really care who wins. Top 2 seeds in the East are both 0-2. Knicks out of the East maybe? Knicks in the Finals might save the league from a Cleveland/OKC ratings debacle.
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