I don’t watch SportsNet, don’t follow Hockey and have never been to Calgary, but just from this thread, I can surmise that Eric Francis is a piece of shit.

Yes, how dare he take advantage of an opportunity to win a title while still in his prime.

This is essentially what I suggested above. Keep the rookie salary scale in place, and give teams rookie exceptions inversely proportional to their record. Bad teams still have a financial edge, and players still have the freedom to choose where they play.

You can implement a system that wouldn’t change the payout to incoming players at all. So continuing to bang on the “vets won’t give up money to rookies” is kind of silly. And the owners aren’t scared of paying the players to actually play. They’re okay with the money they have to invest in a roster. The issue is that…

I know what you’re saying. And you’re wrong. It’s not the players blocking this, it’s the owners. And you even acknowledge as much with your comment about LA and NY getting all the players and Utah suffering. That’s a beef for management and fans, not players. You could implement a system where the current rookie…

You’re applying abstract theory without actually considering how the NBA works. This isn’t the NFL. There’s no hard cap. So increasing the amount of money that rookies can make isn’t going to impact how much vets earn. Relatively few players are signed into cap space. Most guys are playing on rookie deals, minimum…

Which is exactly what I said. If you have cap room, you can sign rookies to whatever you can afford. Over the cap, and you get a rookie exception, which would be capped. Maybe have it so that the size of the exception is inversely proportional to your win-loss record. And the idea that “everyone” would go to LA or New…

That money would have to go to new players either way. You still have to pay draft picks. So whether new teammates are drafted or signed, it wouldn’t make a difference. It’s not going to impact salaries for players already in the league. And the issue with rookies for a team like GS isn’t the raw cost of a rookie,…

The players union would do this before the owners would. Institute a system where rookies are just free agents, and you’d probably see some teams skipping rookies altogether and stocking up on vets. Of course they wouldn’t do it every year. You have to replenish at some point. But if you’re a team like the Warriors,…

Depends on how many of their movies you want to see. if you want access to the entire Disney library, it’s obviously going to be cheaper to get their service. But if you’re someone who is only interested in the Marvel and Stars flicks, then it makes sense to avoid it. You figure $10 a movie ticket + $20 for home…

I watched all six episodes over the weekend. Had they released them all 12 once, I probably wouldn’t have done that. If he wanted to prevent people from bingeing episodes, then just release one at a time. Then of course, you’d have people who wouldn’t start watching until they were all available, and then bingeing…

I watched all six episodes over the weekend. Had they released them all 12 once, I probably wouldn’t have done that. If he wanted to prevent people from bingeing episodes, then just release one at a time. Then of course, you’d have people who wouldn’t start watching until they were all available, and then bingeing…

Yeah, the speed of last night’s episode was insane. There were at least three times where a character stated something they intended or should do, and then it happened in the next fwe minutes, and my reaction was, ‘Oh, so this is happening now.’ How did Tyrion get in touch with Bron? How did Qyburn know?) But as…

I think Cap goes too, but I hope they pass the shield to Sam. I also think Vision is a goner, since I would imagine Thanos is going to snatch that stone out of his head.

Hell yes, they should’ve done this. They still can. Add her and the floppy-haired helicarrier guy.

I’d like to hear his thoughts on Underground then.

“While Confederate’s producers have hired two black writers (Malcolm Spellman and Nichelle Tramble Spellman, on whom Packer declined to comment), Packer and McGruder have enlisted the “appropriate historians to make sure we are telling the story in an accurate and responsible way,” Packer said.”

How can you speak so knowledgeable about a show that hain’t been filmed, cast or even written? I understand people being anxious about the show, but we’re reacting to a premise. It’s probably three years from ever getting in air.  You’re trying to deny people the right to pursue an idea. There’s something incredibly…

It does seem like a ton, but then you figure Hemsworth, Ruffalo and Hiddleston all probably have a pretty good grip on their characters and the relationships between them. And I’m sure Blanchett will be fine in that environment. Add to that the random Goldblum-isms, and that sounds pretty intriguing to me.

No, he isn’t. Like I said, Sexton spent months travelling with Trump and reporting on his rallies. His point was that he was pursuing the Trump/Russia story, as I’m sure dozens of reporters were (and still are). At no point did he suggest that this was his story to break. And he credits the NYT team for their work. If…