I don’t understand what Nick Foles has to do with this.

I used to work for a multinational charity, assisting the construction of their giant community centers. They would routinely bring in people from all around the country to staff specialized positions within the centers, then after a couple months they’d figure out how calculators work and determine they can’t afford…

This is true.  I work in MSP, and if you so much as post a resume online, all the antennae swing your way, followed by various levels of management.

It’s weird, because the unnecessary risks to participant’s health are what caused me to stop watching boxing altogether and have led me to phasing out watching football, but then something like this comes out and I want to see it, even though the field is literally strewn with the bodies of those that tried and…

Yeah, sitting in someone else’s taffy with my feet epoxied to the floor by some substance while surrounded by twits asking questions throughout the film is what reminds me I’m not just watching some movie on Netlfix, I’m seeing some fucking art here.

I don’t think “Hollywood” dislikes Netflix out of jealousy, I think it scares them shitless that theaters are well on their way to just being houses of spectacle, and these sentimental tearjerker films will have to go begging to Netflix if they want their work to be seen by a wide audience.

And he has lost a step, on top of that. I feel bad for Philadelphia fans if he can’t live up to even half the expectations that go along with this contract; this could make Ryan Howard's contract look like a bargain.

That’s the thing; Harper had an AMAZING 2015 but has only been just ‘good’ since then. Here is a list of 25 players I could think of, ranked by average WAR-per-162 since 2012:

Trout, 10.09
Betts, 8.85
Judge, 7.27
Donaldson, 7.23
Lindor, 6.74
Cano, 6.3
Votto, 6.27
Beltre, 6.27
Bryant, 6.25
Goldschmidt, 6.16
Arenado, 6.12
Andrelton…

I read the whole thing, top to bottom, and let’s just say that an unusual number of the encounters went to some pretty dark places.

How do you think Kraft picked the place?

While true, that doesn’t really have much effect (particularly in baseball, where the audience trends older anyway). Those that remain on cable/dish just pay more whether they are tuning into those channels or not, and those that pay for streaming rights backfill the difference.

Would have made more sense if they had indicated it was a shootout win.

The next part of that is getting the regional sports package bolted onto the local cable packages; once that is accomplished, it doesn’t matter what is put on the field, the money will roll in regardless. Oh, your broadcast partner might lose some ad money, but they will never have unsold time, and it’ll never get…

Bent Flyvberg, an expert on Olympic budgeting, recently authored a study that concluded that not a single Olympic games has ever come in on or below budget.

Come on now, everyone knows Ted loves to have a good time down at the baseball parallelogram.

Blah blah blah, poor management led to underutilized resources. Preventing this sort of thing is why you pay C-level people what they’re paid.

Or, maybe if they were as good a leader as everyone seems to think, they would have been able to steer the company into a position where so many assets are redundant.

But hey, as long as the CEO is well-compensated, any decision he makes must be defensible by someone, right?

Have you at least been struck by a puck on at least two occasions?

I feel like Riccardo Zacconi is under-compensated, considering his lofty title.

I watched a couple of the games, they were football.