People who actually follow what's going on with the farm system know this to be true (even people who aren't Cubs fans). But with everybody else, it's easier to make a joke about the Cubs than actually look and realize what's going on here.

Thank god that wasn't a Diamondbacks pitcher or else McCutchen would die tomorrow.

This doppelgänger is getting robbed. The Braves are paying a shit ton of money for a BJ Upton look alike to hang out in their starting lineup.

This is how I know that Lovie Smith is taking this team in the wrong direction. A real Schiano Man would never reflect.

Yep. 8 Year deal when he's 31 sounds about right.

I love "Last time I checked" things when you know the person hasn't actually checked. Castro made 3 errors in a game at short on 5/10/2010 and 4/25/2011. He made 2 errors in a game at short on eight occasions, the most recent 9/25/2013. His errors have gone from 27 (2010) to 29 (2011) to 27 (2012) to 22 (2013) to 12…

At what point is it still worth your time? 75% tax rate? 99% tax rate? Might as well make it 100%, since you will still need a job to occupy your time and pay your healthcare.

Are you dumb or just dont know anything? They are moving Bryabt to the outfield and Castro and Russell will play third and short.

We keep harping on how the tax rates have changed or gone down or whatever, but when the incentives and loopholes are taken into consideration, the actual effective rates haven't changed all that much. Those tax rates don't mean much when they have all those loopholes to dive through. Simplify the code to one page,…

Or you can lose $1,000 by investing it. Is the potential gain worth the risk of having your money enter the market? Not if the government takes too much of the potential reward.

Estate taxes should be illegal, the money was already taxed when it was earned.

you make no sense. If you want JOBS and industry to return to what it use to be, corporate taxes must be lowered. Sure, we lose income tax on corporate income, but gain income tax in jobs created and the taxes that capital creates through sales taxes and property taxes, and that furthers the snowball effect on the…

Less worth than it was before, hence, disincentivizing. You are reducing the incentive. The risk to make a 20% return now generates a 15% return. Yay, math!

And Gawker is a Cayman Islands-incorporated business which doesn't pay taxes in the United States, but is based in the United States. Clearly Gawker knows the US has some of the highest corporate tax rates around, so they'll do anything to help that bottom line.

And then people wonder why US companies build overseas and leave the profits there.

Neutral

They keep on using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Then tell Hamas to stay down by not continuing to fire rockets and defending their terror tunnels into Israel.

TANIGHT James talks to an old man. Richard wears a hat. and I eat crow

It's pretty funny that you think you've even come close to demonstrating that. The NFL is incredibly wrong about an incredible number of things, and is clearly in the wrong with regards to the Ray Rice case, but there's simply no reason to believe that "the NFL" believes that Ray Rice's wife deserved to be hit.