Here we have an article about monopsony where the author doesn’t bother to define the term and probably doesn’t know what the term means. It means the market has one *buyer* for a particular good, the counterpart of “monopoly” where there is one *seller* for a particular good. (It is not “monopoly-lite, when one…

I don’t like Draymond, but there’s no denying how good he is. I just don’t think he’ll have super high ceiling like Garnett did. Long before KG turned into a defensive minded goon (he was always goonish, I suppose), there was a about a 3-4 year stretch (2000-2004) where you could make a case that he was the best…

I LOL’d at the joke but while Garnett was certainly a phenom, Green is not that far behind him at age 25: http://bkref.com/tiny/5hqXL . Garnett scored and rebounded more, Green is a better passer and is more efficient. Both are good on defense. KG gets the nod but it’s not a laughable comparison.

He’s really in no position to be talking shit at this point in his career. I mean when was the last time this has-been was relevant enough to justify his behavior? Do the right thing and retire, Spike.

The fact that his back is turned and he’s facing away from the camera so that you can’t really see him is a bit of credit towards him not making it too much about himself.

You are both right AND wrong! This isn’t “literally” insider trading because no one is trading securities, just being bad. And although many things ARE literally insider trading, these aren’t but only because they aren’t buying the securities so nothing technically related to securities was released. This puts it in…

that’s in fact not the definition of insider trading.

That is a pretty goddamned ingenious way to get your students to pay attention.

I’d argue it’s probably more like half a run per game, but the general point is correct. Adding 0.039 OPS to a league average team would make them the second best offense in the American League (behind the Blue Jays).

…the Jays have hit for an .808 on base-plus-slugging, which isn’t all that different from .769 they hit before it.

Kevin Love too. Some might say Grant Hill and Brett Hull. Bruce and Clay Matthews. Perhaps Clay Matthews of the Packers.

Hey whatabout me!

Eli Manning too.

Well, it's a wage control (or, more pedantically, salary control). But at any rate, you're right that wage-price controls have been implemented in the past to combat inflation, usually without much effect. James isn't advocating for sub-market rates to control inflation, though; he's saying that the mechanism for…

In defense of @RandyCapps, he actually got it right.

I'm so sorry to be the resident asswad law student, but... we need to see a definition of what "Player" and "Member" encompass. This passage, at first blush, seems to indicate just that Rule 35 applies only to "Players," however those are defined.