It’s been exhausting watching the right wing play scorched earth tactics in politics, yet somehow win every compromise situation. To echo the OP’s sentiment, the right always seems to have something to hold hostage, and they rarely seem to negotiate in good faith. Like, what did people think was going to happen? Was…

Biden had a chance to run when he might have been a good pick, and that year was 2016. He’s a capital-M Moderate in every respect, so if he wanted a chance to win handily in the Dem primaries, he should have taken a shot at Hillary. At this point, the progressive base has made it clear that they won’t be easily…

I mean, if we had more sensible regulations regarding shareholder reimbursement (ex: “if your company’s median wage is X% below the economy’s median wage, relative to company size, the company may have to pay a fine that cuts into shareholder profits!”) I’d have no problem letting the market have a wee bit more leeway…

Millennial reporting in: the demand for competent bosses is bewildering to older workers, particularly Boomers. I’ve had numerous fights with older co-workers about whether an incompetent boss whose orders counteract the objective of our role and hamper the team’s ability to meet goals should be followed or…

As has been said numerous times, no one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American.

It’s times like this where I wish we hadn’t taken such a hard turn in the 70s and 80s against public perception of unions in America. I’m on the brink of joining a union shop after spending years…

That, plus the increasingly regional nature of baseball fandom, suggests there’s a big burst coming to the most recent bubble. I can’t wait for the owners to try to use this to depress salaries (“gotta cut costs!”) instead of, ya know, actually addressing their unwillingness to embrace the larger changes in front of…

Taking that bullet might possibly lead to a swell in salaries in a reasonably short amount of time. Get those young guys into free agency quicker could mean more long-term contracts for the young stars, creating a tighter market for quick upgrades.

2018 was frankly an abysmal financial year for me due to taking a pay cut and burning my meager 401k to desperately escape a bad job. Along with the usual student loan hikes and other debts that slightly-younger me incurred, it’s been FUN.

If Jet sweeps and Shotgun draws on obvious passing downs (X > 8 yards) could go away, I would enjoy the NFL far more.

So he lowers his price, and the Dems should suddenly accept with nothing in return? Weird logic. 

The franchise tag is fine IF there’s a strong penalty for a team to use it. It should be something that can’t be used consecutive years on the same player or (bare minimum) causes a cap penalty that starts wracking up if the tag is used consecutively.

I knew that, deep down, this would happen. The offense is patchwork despite some major bright spots (Zunino is black hole, so is Seager somehow.) and the team somehow lost the ability to find acceptable pitchers (I’m thinking Chris Young/Roenis Elias in 2014 and Kevin Millwood* in 2012). They always disappoint and…

I mean, I don’t WANT them to lose for the rest of the year...

But I’d like to let the air out of the balloon before it explodes on me.

Arguably, they had a chance to do something this year, especially if you bought into their offensive core of Cano-Cruz-Seager combined with younger players like Haniger-Segura. However, they didn’t address the rotation well enough, and now we’re watching shit like King Felix losing his crown with every start. Add in…

Let me just say that, as an ex-employee, there is literally no guarantee that the old man being yelled at didn’t start it.

Then again, my experience in the orange box convinced me that “good” customer service needs to go away for a few years, just so the entitled people will screw off and learn how to shop online.

If you want to follow this logic, okay. However, let me make a suggestion: if you’re gonna remove unions (essentially destroying labor’s key ability to control their prices), you could increase social programs and help make work far more optional in the quest to achieve basic living expenses.

This might sound nuts,…

I can get behind “no fat salaries for union leadership,” but it’s harder to support the idea that a union shouldn’t help the national political party (Democrats) that won’t try to outright fuck them at every chance they get. If you’ve got to pick between political parties, there’s a clear choice between who would…

I’ve always thought the gap rule was the attempt to stop dumb GMs from drafting a player out of high school way too high, realizing a high schooler might actually struggle a lot leaping to the NBA, then complaining about the player not knowing how to develop themselves.

At this point, I’m assuming they’re using Trump as a foil. He’s got OUTSIDER status, so the GOP can slowly use his conduct as both a distraction and a counterpoint to their policies. It smacks of bullshit “compassionate conservatism,” except this time it might not be too effective.

But remember, it’s anti-American to use the power of numbers to force rich people to abide by market forces!

Or something. I struggle to see how unionizing (i.e. a labor force trying to set an equitable level of compensation for their services in the same way that other participants in the market set prices) is…