The fact that they are exempt from salary cap calculations is irrelevant - the veteran's minimum is often paid to players with skill sets that are barely discernible from street free agents (see Hollis Thompson's salary, the minimum for a player with 1 year of service). Without controls like this, wouldn't Hollis…

"I don't know of any space other than the world of sports where there's this notion that we will artificially deflate what someone's able to make, just because. ... It's incredibly un-American. My DNA is offended by it."

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I love these, but it would really be great if you guys added predictions from sites like FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus (they indirectly make these picks by releasing their PECOTA projections) - that way in addition to evaluating/shaming traditional baseball pundits, we can compare how they stack up against…

I think you should look a little closer at that chart. On the run-blocking side, it is sorted by adjusted line yards, a metric that gives little credit (too little, in my opinion) to the offensive line for running plays that gain 5-10 yards, but plenty of blame when runs lose yards or only pick up a couple. In a…

"The audits don't break down AOC's profits by event, but Willis found that in fiscal year 2005, the season lost to an NHL lockout, AOC's revenues dipped 90 percent. AOC makes money, and this indicates that most of AOC's money comes from the Panthers."

I'm not really following - isn't the problem with sun belt hockey…

I thought it was okay. I generally really like Ferrell's shtick, and the first one was an all-timer in my opinion. I think this is one of the best reviews you've done, because even though it's guilty of every criticism you've listed, I don't feel like it misled anyone or ever pretended to be anything more than…

This is not a thread about diction hangups or arguing semantics; anyone who likes their sports reading to be void of convoluted bullshit and uninformed assumptions should take issue with what Samer wrote. If I'm to assert correctly from your earlier post, Samer's headline should essentially be interpreted as "Riley…

Thank you for that.

"Cooper's situation, meanwhile, is almost purely Newtonian. Some dumb shit came out of his mouth, and the blowback has been to cram an equal amount of shit the opposite direction, back down his throat. He is a victim of nothing."

You're responding to a point I never made; I never said he didn't deserve what happened to him. Also, I assure you that I'm not "forgetting" how disgusting, painful, and insensitive his actions were.

I'm looking for the part of my post where I both claim that what happened to Cooper was the "worst thing that can happen to someone" and argue that anything that Cooper went through should be considered "tragic", but I can't seem to find it.

"King, though, chose the bizarre route of defending Cooper from a non-existent group of people who want him dead, or at least exiled from professional football, for what he did."

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Just an FYI, this video has a 'San Diego Padres' tag. Which doesn't make sense, I mean what do a bunch of broke, pathetic, bros irreverently taking swings and running around have to do with OH ok now I get it.

I thought the Friday bear updates were more of an afternoon thing?

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Agreed, it's a disgusting insult. A common buzzword among Turkish media outlets was 'tzenbol' (pronounced "stain bull"), which is essentially the Turkish equivalent of bullshit. "It's tzenbol, this constant ijnozpal", the media implored.

You know what's a really stupid fucking thing to write? A ridiculous breakdown about all of the things wrong with Peter King tweeting that Hernandez went low in the draft for a reason, only to later have an employee of yours write this in the article above: