Scots can consider themselves whatever the want. They *are* Brits, as a literal matter of fact.

I get the point, which is why I specifically offered a reason why I disagree. It's hogwash to throw kids into an environment where you only get paid if you are good at sportsing.

It could have cost Bosa a metric fuckton, no? At least it would have if he was good enough to enter free agency as a wanted commodity. Effectively, his year 5 earning potential would have been compromised, and year 1 would have been completely zeroed out.

It's bonkers to see this kind of incompetence at this level.

I don’t know, it would be potentially awful if you were an 11-year-old who struck out looking with a lot of dollars on the line. And that’s assuming they all have reasonable, well-adjusted parents who will love their kids no matter if they do something to make or break the entire family's financial future.

So they caved on an issue that costs them a paltry amount in terms of real dollars (time value of money), and literally nothing in terms of cap dollars. Not to mention, he’s being treated the exact same way any other top pick would be treated.

Am I wrong on any of this?

This is a wonderful but inaccurate compliment.

The Cubs have a 100.0% chance of winning the division. There's always the next significant digit!

This is intelligent and an efficient use of time.

When the alternative is to offer $1.01 and have that be accepted as a "fair" deal.

This is stupid and a waste of time.

So the Bolts are effectively angling to lose their 3rd overall pick for free.

Am I getting this right?

That’s when they are finally old enough to realize that you can always fire your pool boy. That's what I do if I run out of money. Stupid poor people.

I feel the need to point out that this comment is a backtrack from an incorrect take I dished out yesterday.

I’d say both sides are arguing from extremely weak positions, in that it would hurt both sides immeasurably to let Bosa just walk away.

Which is why this is such a strange holdout to begin with.

Yah, sure, me too.

I meant 100% outside of Leicester.

Giving more money to the best teams isn’t going to help competitive balance. Atletico and Dortmund will have a bit of an easier time, but they will lose 90% of their time to bigger teams. The EPL doesn't have competitive balance because they have a lot of money, it's because they have…

There is practically no way that this course of action will lead to anything other than sliding through the draft, as well as postponing free agency for a year.

The Chargers’ side is getting plenty of support on Yahoo comment sections.

I reckon UEFA is fine with a lucrative Super League, so long as they are the ones running it. They want to avoid having 20 big clubs go rogue and forming their own league. But a UEFA Super League means that UEFA gets their cut of the revenue.