They did the same thing with the Twins and Jamie Garcia. The explanation I heard is that they’re up against the luxury tax threshold and as such every dollar will cost them an additional 3 or 4, so a $4mm salary becomes closer to $20mm total.

As a fan of the USMNT my response is always:

Is Beltre really a Hall of Famer?

KAT, Jimmy, Wiggins, Teague...are all plus+ defenders

Never said it wasn’t true. I’m sure I can also find an article somewhere about a guy being struck by lightning and it cured his blindness/seizures/tinnitis/etc. Doesn’t mean being struck by lightning isn’t a bad outcome for the other 99.9999% of people...

Your ignorant response proves why this country is so fucked up. Literally the second search result for “GOP Amendments to ACA” is this NYT article:

Sounds like you stop reading everything after the first few words.

Usually it’s bonus-related. In order to get a higher signing bonus the player agrees to a longer contract, which allows the team to spread out the cap hit from the signing bonus. The definition of “non-guaranteed money” means that it has to be a team option. If it was a player option then for all intents and purposes…

In theory the teams near relegation would see a spike in fan increase. In reality this is #1USA, where the vast majority of fans have other rooting interests and as such are mostly bandwagonish in their support. I think it’s much more likely that if teams were hovering near relegation most of their fans would be like…

Hey dipshit, it wasn’t the ACA that screwed it up - it was the spineless, gutless, piece-of-shit GOP who insisted on watering down the original bills and then after they made it as shitty as they could they voted AGAINST it because they are selfish, heartless, disgusting sub-human excrement.

“there was a recent article about a guy...it was the best thing that ever happened to him”

“We are not staying in Minneapolis,” I said

Sekulow responded by saying, “Well, I wonder why, if this were nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in. The president had Secret Service protection at that point. That raised a question with me.”

As a survivor of rape myself…

Funny, I don’t get that response from people when they hear that I am a Christian. Maybe it’s because I don’t come across as judgmental and holier-than-thou, like you do.

Kind of a dick way to put it, but it is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Pitching machines aren’t as accurate as that.

No chance this guy has personal experience with unions.

Yep. Except for those people who are working part-time, or “gig” jobs, or whose employer doesn’t offer coverage. But sure, let’s give Walmart billions of dollars in tax breaks because THAT’S what was holding them back from creating more, and good, jobs.

You have a house? You’re forced to buy house insurance even if you never use it. You have a car? You’re forced to buy car insurance even if you never use it. You alive? You’re forced to buy health insurance/coverage/care even if you never use it. It’s called spreading the risk