But Kyrie only played 11 games because of a serious injury, right? So isn’t that evidence that a serious injury probably won’t be held against him either?

Probably. I tend not to underestimate any sports team and their capacity to make stupid decisions though. Especially in a system where the dumbest teams are at the bottom. 

To some extent though I feel as though this argument sort of works both ways. Sure, he’s already proven enough that he’s going to be a top pick in the draft so there isn’t much to gain but by that same measure short of something absolutely catastrophic it’s hard to see how an injury could fuck that up either. I’m…

Luckily, the people with brains here were able to understand that my issue was with a system that rewards rich teams, raking in money, to not spend. That it’s better to be terrible than it is to be mediocre under this fucked up system. Sure, there were some braindead idiots who seem to think it’s their duty to defend…

The people who actually wanted to discuss the issue with me found me only happy to discuss the issue with them. If they had substantive points to make as to why they thought I was wrong, I put forth why I thought I was right and that was fine. I don’t care if someone thinks I’m wrong and there is no critical mass…

“Look, technically she’s not even an owner of the Cubs”

Eh. I think this is a perfect example of why companies, especially companies that have large public presences, kind of need to. If you’ve got Junior Miss KKK putting this shit into the world then you probably need to know that before deciding to associate yourself with her. 

The League is the owners. Anyone employed by the league is just employed in the owner’s interest. 

No, I’m telling one dipshit that I don’t care what he thinks, especially when he has no idea what he’s talking about and can barely communicate anything beyond saying someone else’s opinion is “shitty”. You started this in bad faith, continued in bad faith and I have no problem telling pricks like yourself to fuck…

Blow me, you sad fake internet tough guy. Nobody’s intimidated by your 4th grade understanding of Baseball or your pathetic schoolyard attempts to cry that your transparently stupid shit works because other idiots agree with you.

Yeah, that seems like an appropriate response after showing your ass on the Blue Jays prospect situation. Just keep drooling and defending the Owners, you servile dipshit. 

Almost all of them, strictly speaking, would be better with Machado and I don’t give a fuck if there are other productive ways to spend more money when I’m pretty confident that teams like the Cubs and Braves and Jays(and Yankees and Dodgers and on and on) and so on could spend this money and still spend more.

Five dollars a month? Nobody can afford that!

What I want is a league where every team cares more about winning than they do just sitting on money and where fans don’t cheer on teams for making smart business decisions that will probably cost them games.

I don’t usually care much about these things but I’ve got a bunch of stars so...no, literally everyone doesn’t think I’m being dumb about this. A lot of people disagree, which I’m fine with, but I’ve got my constituency. 

I mean, my whole thing here is that the bigger clubs aren’t really trying here and as a result one of the best free agents didn’t get many offers but if you want to read that as being mad at the Reds...I mean, go nuts. 

Again man, I don’t know how many times I can say that I agree that market size isn’t the best metric for financial health and so I disagree with it being the basis of so many of the NHL’s moves. That just doesn’t cause me to decide to unilaterally invent an entirely new concept of market size. 

Yeah, that seems like the most pressing thing to take away from this story. 

I’m not worried about the rich getting richer(well, I am). I’m worried about this becoming a sport where teams that are profitable focus on maintaining and growing that instead of winning a World Series. I’m worried that apparently some people think that the best thing for small market teams being “competitive” is if…

Baseball does not have an unrestrained market for free agents and never has. Since free agency began MLB has looked to put a hold to it purportedly so small market teams could be “competitive” while really all clubs to pay players less than they’re worth.