But there’s no reason to believe that this is the result of collusion rather than players overvaluing themselves or clubs not wanting to be tied to long-term contracts that will look like anchors in three years (think Ryan Howard or Chris Davis). Particularly when teams are also probably waiting on next year’s free…

One side is simply taking advantage of the agreement in a way that the other cannot. I mean, the purpose of a negotiation is to put yourself in a better position than the other side. If players had a loophole that got them into free agency a year earlier, I am sure plenty of them would be using that.

That’s a different issue, though. I will agree that players are under team control for far too long. I disagree that that means teams need to overpay them when they finally do become free agents.

It’s the same as selling a house. I can list it for $300,000, but if no one is willing to buy it for that, I can’t get mad at everyone who is buying other houses—I have to re-list it at $285,000.

She definitely should have hit the puck into the net instead of missing the puck.

She reads John Stuart Mill and writes notes in the margins of her books.

That is a VERY good boy.

I never said there was anything wrong with RPOs. It is just annoying to listen to someone say that over and over and be wrong over and over.

But RPOs were only a small part of their approach during the Super Bowl, contrary to NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth’s repeated use of the phrase.

I don’t know that I agree Netflix is similar to HBO in the way you describe (that people keep their subscriptions because they’re waiting for the next season). I keep my subscription to Netflix not because I want to watch the next season of Stranger Things when it comes out (though I am only keeping HBO for GoT), but…

I will take Canada and Norway—then whichever of the $0 crew has the most athletes competing.

I don’t know if they were quite “utter shit” though. I mean...five of their first six games they lost by three or less points. They were there, I think Garoppolo’s pretty decent quarterback play may have just pushed them over the hump.

Until Democrats start taking state elections seriously, we’re going to get crap like Scott Walker refusing to hold state senate elections for fear the GOP will lose the seats (https://www.thenation.com/article/scott-walker-is-literally-preventing-wisconsinites-from-voting/) and Pennsylvania Republicans threatening to…

Let’s not start comparing everyone to President Obama now. There are very few people who can ever bring together a political party like that man did. Even if he Castro were to end up winning the presidency (he won’t—ever), there’s a 1% chance he can do what Obama did and be who Obama was.

Texas is not Alabama—not even close. Hillary Clinton only lost by 9% in Texas, as compare to 28% in Alabama. Hillary Clinton—someone the GOP has spent decades making the most hated Democrat in the country—was still able to get 43% of the vote in the state. It’s all about getting strong candidates, turning out the…

The entire point of the article is that, in order to rebuild the Texas Democratic Party, there need to be strong players in the Texas Democratic Party. He would be a strong player, with a real chance to recruit good candidates, raise some money, and get people excited—but he is forgoing that to focus on campaigning in…

Should have been COTY.

The one time Pederson elected to play it safe last night was when he chose to run the ball on third-and-5 from the Patriots’ 25 with 1:56 remaining, just after Brandon Graham’s stunning strip-sack of Brady.

Yeah, this is what I think too. I guess I can see where people think he lost control—when you view it frame-by-frame, like I said—but it seemed clear to me that he was tucking it into his arm to protect it as runners and receivers do.

Maybe I am being biased, as an Eagles fan, but that Clement catch looked like a clear catch to me. It is only when slowed down to frame-by-frame that it looks like he loses control. If you watch it at full, or even half, speed, it looks like he is just tucking it away.