Mango

First, good vibes for Kim! Pure speculation, but this has been going on for a few days without an announcement per their statement. Serena received a wild card for Wimbledon today, wondering if they are trying to get something out to the public out ahead of Jessica pulling out of The Championship? Really hoping she is on the mend back to her healthy self and Jessica's recent world ranking success was the reason to release something to the public before she officially pulled out of Wimbledon. In a few days she is scheduled to play Rothesay as a warm up as well.

Both are true, sure. But I don't think he came off as egotistical in his letter at all. Everything is super fair and not filled with emotions. Boselli is a weird admittance to the HoF. I don't get it.

Miller and Bass yes. Dawkins? Maybe? One thing I always go back and forth on is that top 10 or 15 sounds awesome a lot of times. But also, in a lot of spots it basically only means top half or top third. Which in a class of 32 isn’t suuuuppper great.

3 year suspension. Just in time for his cap number to screw them over once they finally get their first round picks back. I have heard his contract is pretty iron clad against any suspensions. So I don't know why he would ever restructure.

Honestly the only thing I think you could do at that situation is concede defeat and trade off every single salary and good player and commit to nothing but the draft for the next 5 years. You have to load up on as many picks as possible to make up for your crap salary cap and no first round picks.

Oh man. That’s a great point. I guess it would be awesome to see Baker keeping holding out and Watson make it though all of training camp and after preseason game comes an indefinite suspension.

Hypothetically? Come on here to beach and moan about the front office being a bunch of idiots and how we as an org deserve every single piece of criticism and punishment we get. I am unsure if I’d go as far as I would have for Big Ben. I would have certainly turned in my fan card if I were from Pittsburgh. What a vile human.

Right. She’s definitely talented.

I read something on her a few weeks ago where she was described as very average but one of the most consistently average players in the world. I thought it was funny phrasing. She doesn't really do anything great, she isn't great, but she never whiffs an entire tournament either. She sort of always beats who she is supposed to and always loses to who she is supposed to. Hit that groove for the right stretch and you can find yourself pretty high in the rankings.

I don’t know why anybody would want to go to the Cowboys. They aren’t good. They aren’t well coached. They aren’t well managed. I don’t get the hype. It’s absurd. I wish they’d fall into obscurity like a normal mediocre team like the Vikings. I think I hate them more than any other team in the league.

I played roller hockey on them in the spring summer and fall too. Even more when streets stopped being paved with the smooth tar and everything moved to asphalt.

Dude, I have been looking for the McD hat forever. I want one bad. I can’t even find it plain on the the new era site.

But she is playing with her parents money. And tennis most certainly has a minimum cost for entry let along longevity if you aren’t a top 10 player in the world. A huge part of Jessica’s late surge in rankings are a lot of players would have dropped out by now because they can’t afford to fly all over the world to try and maybe get some prize money. To be middle class and stick around tennis you quite literally have to be the best in the world with parents willing to risk their entire families. Look at the Williams or Agassi. Great stories, but a hell of gamble nobody should really be taking. I don’t mean to hate on her. Good for her. But it seems people have gone out of there way to talk about her gifts. Her greatest gift today in tennis is her parents bank account. There’s no way that any normal family could have funded Jessica through this. Trips to France, Japan, etc. all while being the 100th ranked player in the world with basically zero career earnings. Congrats to Jessica and her ability to have enough financial stability to outlast her peers.

It’s not just the cost of coaches. The cost of admission is really high up front. Sure there’s a few feel good stories. But those are anomalies. Most of tennis comes from money. There’s certainly physiology to it as well. But her ranking is largely based on longevity and affluence. Like in 2010, her career earnings were $600. 2011 $10k. All the while she is having her coach and world travel paid for. Along with out of pocket helath insurance and physio. Sure she’s good, but tennis isn’t a sport anybody can just “skill” their way to the top. Tennis players can peak later, but if you’re not earning you get off the circuit. Tennis is closer to F1 than it is basketball or football.

Probably standing 69. I’m just not the athlete I used to be.

I don’t know how anybody watches and hears that and thinks “dude is trying to rip somebody off”. The guy clearly got his eggs scrambled for a minute there.

Right, this is it. Watson doesn’t have a kink. In a big city like Houston I am sure there are a host of professional eroticists who are proficient in “finishing” a massage and not part of any Asian sex trafficking ring. And if there aren’t enough in Houston he can fly them in from NYC, LA etc. like he did a host of other IG models. This was never about getting off sexually. Or at least his kink isn’t happy endings or even orgasms. It’s power and assault. I do think he gets suspended though. The NBA has banned lists. MLB has suspended people for a full season a couple times now. The poster child for suspensions based on conduct in the NFL is Vick. Every other major suspension has basically been suspended for pot and gambling. (Ray Rice initially got two games. Then moved to indefinite which was overturned)

Tangentially since Bauer gets brought up. Basically the MLB basically never suspended anybody for domestic violence until 2016. There were two incidents before then. In 1997 Will Cordero beat the crap out of his wife and resulted in a restraining order. 10 games Julio Mateo beat she short out of his wife and sent her to the hospital. 8 games. I think the move by the MLB to start cracking down on it forces the league to be pretty severe here. In the past they could just say “Hey, yeah 5 games isn’t a ton, but have you seen baseball? They haven’t suspended anybody….ever!” Can somebody smarter than fill me in on whether or not a criminal case can or is likely to be reopened? Everything I have read was that a grand jury decided not to pursue like 10 cases. And a couple other one offs in other counties were declined by DA’s. But that’s not 24 incidents that we’re seeing in civil court?

I love Fitz. He might deserve a statue. Or a section in the stadium. Or maybe some driveway/road. But I don’t think he’s wall worthy.

I don’t think there is much argument there. But I think there’s a world where the level of improvement for the entire roster is better with Williams > Rousseau or Lynch > Singletary.

So I’m on the fence on Moulds. He’s on my list. But he made the playoffs his first 3 years. But was apart of the first 6 of the drought. If Moulds is allowed I probably go Marshawn Lynch Mario Williams Eric Moulds Otherwise probably Peters or motivated Dareus.

James Hardy JP Losman Mike Williams

I agree, they do....

Right, I get it, $19M is a lot. But also Baker is the face of a $2.6B franchise, and has one of the important jobs in one of, if not the most profitable sports league on the planet. For that reason I have no problem with how much NFL players make and when you break it down that way, that Mahomes, Brady, Allen, etc. are the most important pieces of a business that generates $20B in revenue per year with a net worth of nearly $100B, they probably don't make enough.

Right, it also definitely sucks for Baker as well. Don't get me wrong. But I would rather get it out of the way now rather than be stuck in a shirt storm on a long term deal. Part of my assumption is that the Browns don't tag him for eternity.