I mean, if we bumped minor league wages up to a lavish $40k a year, do they really think players will say “nah, I’m good here, not really worth exerting myself to hit the bigs and earn a few million”.

Joe, your mom sucked. A lot.

As someone who was in that situation:

Counterpoint: if you had already gone Eaton, you wouldn’t be so hungry, Jeff.

Logically, this line of thinking applies to the majors as well.  Just think of what the level of play would be if the MLB kept players in poverty!

Yeah, having to deal with Adam Eaton sounds awful.

“I don’t disagree with [the notion] that they’re being exploited, but I think it’s for the betterment of everybody,” he adds. “I know it sounds crazy … I think there’s a middle ground...”

The same logic is applied to doctors during their internship - “Yes, they have to work abusively long shifts, and yes, they’re exhausted and sleep-deprived on the job and this might easily result in poor patient outcomes (including death), and yes, it’s a hellacious ordeal but I went through it and so everyone else…

Exhibit A for why I never played in the minors 

Damn. DAMN.

Brent, my man.

So, I don’t know what would qualify a person as an expert, but I did go to grad school for acting and spent 4+ years in voice and speech classes. So my ear may not be “expert,” but it is trained, and to my ear, yes, Mikey sounds a hell of a lot like Kyrie. And yes, the low bitrate of a phonecall will strip most of the…

It was a giveaway when Irving said “Hi I am Mikey, long time listener, second year Celtic”

So the Knicks are hoping to pair a guy who uses burner accounts to defend himself online - who is expected to miss most if not all of the next season with injury - with a guy who calls into sports talk radio as a fan to defend himself, and put them in the largest media market in the country, with a media that prides…

H/t Mike

Well Mikey in Waltham is an anagram for In Law I Make Myth so it could be Kyrie, we’re through the looking glass here people.

That is a normal caller. Move on.

I’m gonna be pissed when it turns out it actually was him in disguise and this was just another Pepsi commercial.

Damn KD does a great Kyrie.

Mikey is a normal name for a guy in Waltham. Find a new slant.