Gotcha, thanks for that breakdown. It was very helpful. Personally, I think that an option that requires him to play at a phenomenal level for the first few years of his career (a time when even great players typically aren’t likely to have developed into truly top tier talent yet) just to break even seems like a…

Why are his options to sign a his second contract any different with San Diego than with another team? Your analysis seems to say “if we evaluate option a and option b on the same terms then he is down $11 million. However, if we change the terms of option b, but keep option a the same, then the gap can close.” The…

Not to mention that he won’t be “making that money back” because if he plays well with San Diego he would also be able to sign a second contract for as much or more than he would sign if he played well somewhere else. The only figure that is different under the two scenarios is money up front, this season. If he holds…

But if he plays well he can renegotiate with San Diego during the final year for the same bump in salary he would get elsewhere. Unless you think his California taxes would cost him say $14-18 million more than elsewhere then you’re really talking about a 10 figure loss in cash. It’s clearly a much worse decision to…

Right, but isn’t that worst case scenario FAR worse than the worst case scenario of signing now with offset language he disagrees with?

That’s a helpful explanation for the offset, but is there any way that taking an entire season with zero cash, let alone the lower offer he will get when he’s re-drafted at a much lower slot, will hurt him less than what the offset would cost him? If he costs himself $2 million dollars today that is way worse than the…

Wait a second- outside of the top three S&C coaches, he’s making nearly $200k more than any other S&C coach, and double what anyone outside of the top 10 makes, and you don’t think he’s getting paid a shit ton for his profession? That’s like saying Kevin Durant isn’t really making much for an average NBA player. Maybe…

Wait, how is the infield unbalanced? You’ve got two defensive players to the left of 2nd base and two to the right. It seems perfectly balanced to me. Someone explain what I’m missing.

#allballsmatter

They’re all spelled the same on the cue card! https://iheartjimmy.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/pot…

Geez, what a hilariously dickish response given that you’re just wrong. And I quote: “He took our money, he took my wallet—he left my cell phone, he left my credentials.” You’re the guy who calls people dumb but can’t properly spell the word stupid.

Eh, while I agree that is more likely he’s telling the truth, I could also see his dumbass having lost his wallet and all of his cash in a drunken stupor and rather than admit to being a drunken idiot just claiming that he was robbed. I’m sure the athletes have been hearing about crime in Rio non-stop, so someone with…

Hard to see much sexism at play here. You’re more worried about getting laid then competing in the olympics, and you’re forcing your teammate to spend the night before a big meet sitting on the ground in the hallway to boot. I can’t think of any demographic where that would be treated as A-OK.

Hahaha, you sound like Trump does when he says people are just upset because we’re too politically correct nowadays. Your comment was just obnoxious and stupid. So I’m shocked that 12 people thought it was funny, let alone star worthy.

If those are things you think are hard then I feel like you should give water polo waaaayy more respect given the fact that it is essentially swimming, boxing, wrestling, etc., all rolled into one.

Lol, I’m just sticking with the phraseology deadspin has been using to describe homers all season. If you look through the posts from the past few months you’ll see lots of headlines like “Player X Strokes Massive Dong in Win over Pirates”

“But EPO didn’t take Lance Armstrong from a nobody to the greatest cyclist of all time, the same way that whatever drug du jour Major League Baseball felt like criminalizing didn’t take Barry Bonds or Alex Rodriguez from replacement-level bench guy to world beater. They were already that good.”

Anyone who thinks what about today’s baseball? Anyone who thinks today’s baseball isn’t as good as 90s baseball is either an asshole or George Will? Are you calling yourself an asshole? Or did you mean to say “anyone who thinks today’s baseball is better is either an asshole or George Will”?

Exactly the point I came here to make. The athletes know they’re taking a risk with their reputations, careers, and accomplishments by taking PEDs. The wouldn’t take that risk for a tiny or almost immeasurable benefit. To claim (as this author and others have done) that they didn’t really make any difference…

How did your comment get 12 stars?