Scoop into toilet. Flush toilet. Clorox wipes?

This is solid, but we all know the last two are never happening.

This is an impossible question without a budget. A Weber 22 kettle will give you the most versatile, high quality grill for your money. But s good Kamado like a Big Green Egg will do everything a Weber Kettle will and then some, and better, but costs 5-10x.

This is an impossible question without a budget. A Weber 22 kettle will give you the most versatile, high quality…

.... which community have you been reading lately, this was entirely predictable

I think you mean “corned beef is a perfectly fine deli meat that is greatly improved by the addition of black pepper, coriander, and smoke”

Aaron Franklin’s brisket trimming videos include some discussion of which of the brisket fats are good for sausage and which ones are just trash. It’s pretty neat.

I love full packers on the smoker in general, but there is a bit of a caveat—those full packers usually have at least 20+% hard fat that needs to be trimmed off. So yeah, you’re doing better than you do at the grocery store on flats, but it’s not quite the value it looks like (except for the part where the point is…

I have had the St. Patricks Day brisket sales circled on my calendar for seven months since I bought my first smoker.

It is 100% a problem. But sharing all the broadcast revenues makes the problem worse, not better, because that means teams get the same money whether or not they spend it on players. It’s an adverse incentive.

The Nats may be one of the weirdest teams in the league financially because of the MASSIVE payout Peter Angelos got as a condition of allowing a team to move into what he saw as his market. Unlike the other major market teams with highly lucrative RSNs, the Nats play on MASN, which has always been majority owned by…

It’s entirely possible both of those players were offered those deals and those offers are no longer on the table. If I’m the Nats, I made that offer in an attempt to keep Bryce off the free agency market because I didn’t know what other teams would offer. Now that I know there isn’t a $400m offer out there, I’m not…

The economic evidence is actually exactly the opposite.

Or drastically increase the minimum salary in those six years. Tie that shit to a percentage of revenues (like the NBA and NFL salary caps) and it’ll auto-adjust year to year without requiring it be torn up again in the next CBA. All of these patches each CBA year are non-adjusting and that’s just not effective long…

Sure, but that doesn’t make it a CBA violation. If it were, they wouldn’t have to renegotiate to fix it—they’d take it to the arbitrator.

Unrelated, but also address in the underlying law review article (seriously, if you do like this stuff it’s a good, if dense, read), MLB has a virtually rock solid arbitration clause in the CBA. So even getting a Court to rule on the issue would be difficult.

I’m going to just go ahead and assume good faith on your part, no pun intended, in that you read the article you linked to and not the underlying Law Review comment, written (quite well) by a then-current law student. It’s a good piece of scholarly writing, but that’s all it is—legal scholarship, which tends to focus…

Please show me the clause in the CBA that obliges Toronto to call him up?

This is one of the biggest issues with all collective bargaining. Exact same thing happened when the NFL vets drastically cut the rookie salaries (#1 overall pick went from $60M for Sam Bradford to $23M for Cam Newton the next year) and the NBA players agreed to the age limit. Nobody with a vote in the players union…

The Blue Jays would be the dumbest organization in baseball if they threw away a year of protected control on a prospect this good. I don’t know why you would expect them to do that.

Tatum counts though, and he’s the best prospect that anyone has ever suggested is on the table. Not to mention Boston has multiple first rounders for the next few years to trade (Memphis’ pick is very likely to roll over to next year or the year after given the protections). 2021/2022 are currently expected to be the…