Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is over the top

When the topic is literally “meth in 40s Germany”, and you talk about Speed, and implicitly draw an equivalence between our usage of stimulants and the exact substance military doctors in both Britain and the US rejected as harmful to combat performance multiple times during and after WW2, you don’t get to claim I…

Also, any Tom Coughlin associated defense, even if he’s just going to stand around at your cafeteria and grimace, is going to do a better job than the Eagles did in the Super Bowl; Brady looks better today than he did two weeks ago today because he and Foles combined for half a season worth of total yards for the…

I’m not being pedantic. The Blitzed book does a good job of covering why using amphetamines to boost performance was essentially a net positive to the Western Allies

Meth is vastly more toxic and addictive, which is why it, like cocaine, stopped being prescribed, whereas amphetamines still are plenty useful medically today. You really need to read Blitzed or another book about the Reich’s chemical enhancement programs. There’s essentially no “good” amount of meth

We use amphetamines, not meth, which is what Pervitin is

It also implies the owners are normally acting against interest, and generously donating a big consumer surplus to the fans by setting prices lower than the equilibrium price

Right?!

...I mean, no, this isn’t tin foil hat land but rather a preliminary diagnosis based on the league’s previous behavior. The only way to answer this question is to do discovery; and the problem here is Trump’s NLRB will make Reagan’s look like a hypothetical NLRB consisting of, like, Romanian communists and…

...which is relevant as a major example of the deep history of collusive and anti competitive behavior displayed by the MLB. Precedent matters in these cases

The CBA negotiations are a different issue. The MLBPA absolutely should rearrange the weighting to favor younger players

You misunderstood me; I’m not going to go into WestLaw to search for Sotomayor’s injunction ending the “strike”, or the CA2's approval of her order, or explain to you why this effectively meant the US Judiciary sided with the players. Call me back when you get law and Econ degrees, “kiddo”

I really don’t have the energy to go back and chart for you the number of times the league has been found to have been engaged in anti-competitive behavior

If you were concerned about the market, it shouldn’t matter that they’re making higher salaries even at the rookie scale than most people, because you would recognize their life time earning potential is overwhelmingly concentrated in their 20s and 30s unlike essentially everyone else in the country. What matters is…

You’re really stupid then

It really warms the heart that after decades of hearing what a great guy he was, we learn that Jeets’ Re2pect is for union busting and collusion

Leaving aside the fatuousness of saying “it’s just 3 years” of a career that generally lasts about a decade, if you seriously think they are making anything like their fair market value in arbitration, you are high on some hallucinogenic spoiled food the FDA didn’t inspect because it got shut down

Make sure you bring your own clean water and fire department, brother

Forget it, Jake

I wonder how many people even realize the last strike (really a lockout) was ended by Sotomayor