It’s career-threatening.

Good thing they didn’t make any effort to pursue Machado.

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Or they got to keep $100,000 instead of throwing him in jail for a couple of months.

Smollett forfeited his $100,000 bond and is doing community service. He cut a deal to avoid a record and jail time, and gets to maybe save his career.

He forfeited a $100,000 bond and is doing community service - but he won’t have a criminal record or do jail time. You can draw your own conclusions.

Or for $100,000, he gets to claim he’s innocent and maybe save his career.

Important facts:

Smollett agreed to do community service and forfeit his $100,000 bond.

I took active shooter training multiple times for my job in Pennsylvania, and every time the advice is to hide and wait for law enforcement to rescue you, not to try and engage your assailant until there’s no other option.

They absolutely realize that the revenue will dry up. They’re expecting the person they sell the team to to not realize that. Baseball teams get flipped reasonably often these days.

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I prefer rich beef sausages.

They pass on the rolls?

WHY BE ALIVE THEN?

Playing themselves out of the #1 pick would be about the most Knicks thing ever.

I’m actually not thinking that at all, because it would imply that I’m thinking about whatever it is they’re doing anyway.

Will we get to see full penetration this season?

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The other thing with the NFL is that the draft is much deeper than the NBA. You pass on the best guy in the draft in the NFL, you’re still quite likely to get an All-Pro.

In the NBA some years it seems like if you don’t have the #1 pick, you’re just getting filler for your roster.

Nobody’s disputing that he’s an above average pitcher, but he’s not an ace. 2018 he was an ace, but that looks like an outlier due to an unusually low HR/FB rate

It’s not just his HR rate, it’s that his HR per Fly Ball rate dropped. That will regress to the mean.

Oh, then we can get rid of the competitive balance tax because spending and winning aren’t correlated.