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His earnings over the next five years are going to be less than the $75M he theoretically will make under that contract.

If you agree that Bledsoe would make less if he were signing a guaranteed contract, than I'm not sure where you disagree with Burger or me.

The question is, why would Bledsoe rather sign an unguaranteed contract with a high face value than a guaranteed contract for less money? One possible answer is that agents fool their clients, and tell them they've got them a massive contract, pointing to the back end.

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I've read the above quoted paragraph several times now. I have no idea what you're saying. Granted, its late in the day and I am tired, but I'm totally clueless. I did, however, google gavone. Found something in an urban dictionary. As best as I can decipher, you didn't want to give up the control of working a crappy job paying you lots of money to instead marry a fake Italian man (or, instead, an Italian man who eats too much) who made lots of money on Wall St.? Is that what the above means?

Why is either a phony Italian who talks like and quotes from the Sopranos or a fat Italian man who eats too much the definition of a successful man? Why are those your only options? Why couldn't you marry the fat fake Italian man and then just bust his balls to continue to assert control?

Why not put some lotion on to stop the chafing?

What "ain't no thing?" What is the thing? Do you really talk like that? Perhaps that is why you are drawn to the fake Italians? Because you talk (or at least type) in some strange convoluted language that only you and Hank (Hi Hank!) seem to understand?

Like I said, I just don't know what you're saying.

aV

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Careful. When TM suggested that, she went all stalker-psycho.

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Yes, I know. But, to me, Frank epitomizes the film. It was my first midnight movie - I remember it fondly.

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Is there anything he has written that he hasn't written lots on? One thing's for sure--he probably never had to shrink the margins or increase the line spacing to make the page length assignments in high school.

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How did I go all stalker psycho? I know you like to make me the butt of jokes, Sidd but I have not barraged him with emails or even PMs. I've been discreet and kept it to the board. If anything he's on a campaign to paint me as ugly. what stalker psycho??? I take issue with that statement.

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None taken. And thanks for a typically clear and trenchant observation. The point is that there are games that are worth seeing -- ManU v. Celtic being one of them for a whole host of reasons aside from the odds -- but they generally do not appear on FSW.

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Kind of like her husband did after he met her?

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Wow, I'm touched Sidd, you called me *successful* sigh.

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Ditto for me. Well, except the part about getting out. I daydream about it sometimes, but only because I would rather be home with the Chicklet, which unfortunately is not a six figure gig. I have a pretty sweet in-house position and despite the fact that I make what first years are making these crazy days, I genuinely like the people that I work with now and I don't have to dread Friday afternoon phone calls from Asshole Partner. Can't remember the last time I worked on a weekend, have flex time which gets me more time with the baby, and I no longer get sick to my stomach on Sunday nights or wish to get in a car wreck on the way to work so that I don't have to go.

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"Discreet" = "kept it to the board"?

Are we in Bizarro World?

andViolins, 2.

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Most players aren't paid huge signing bonuses. The difference is the guy who has been playing behind someone else and signs a contract worth $1.5 million a year for 5 years because he hasn't proven himself, but can't find a better offer, and goes out and has a pro-bowl season or two is getting fucked for the remainder of that contract. He has to live with it.

If another guy has a few great years as an offensive lineman in a scheme that fully takes advantages of his talents, negotiates a decent guaranteed bonus and a better contract because the future is bright and the team hires Mike Tice, who proceeds to use him as a punt returner (and he injures himself or loses any semblance of market value), the team does not have to live with the contract.

I really don't understand why you have an issue with guaranteed cotnracts. And neither one of you has answered my questions about why players in other leagues want it so bad. Or why NFL owners don't voluntarily give it up if it doesn't benefit them.

TM

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Some feminists also say that heterosexual sex is rape with the addition of meaningful looks.

In academia, one needs to find outrageous and shocking things to say to attract attention. Grounding them in truth, reason, or even honest opinion is of distantly secondary importance.

(One could equate the latter to the internet, where certain people talk on and on about how hot they are without apparent connection to reality. But doing that would be beating a dead horse, so I'll refrain.)

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He probably got in trouble for including pictures of cheerleaders, though.

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It doesn't. I wasn't contesting that or at least wasn't meaning to. I don't love Lance, I don't hate him, but I do think he doped and he's full of shit when he says he didn't. Also, from what I know, that predates cancer and Tour victouries et al, he is not the Mr. Congeniality his marketing effourts portray.


It's a fringe sport, no offence fringey. Otoh, no matter how many drugs these guys use, the Tour is fucking hard. Probably the hardest endurance event out there.

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Don't be such a mook.

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Could be that the big number contracts mean automatic hype in the newspapers, which translates into bigger endorsement money. The publicity of the unguaranteed seven year $100 million contract is probably worth a good ten million or so in endorsements.

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Apologies. I was thinking of someone pretty.

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I have a guest room.

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Then why did you get divorced?

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Every player should want a guaranteed contract. Top players in baseball and basketball have a little more negotiating clout to get them, because individual players make more difference to a team's success and because careers are longer. NFL careers are so short that many more football contracts are signed when no one has a particularly good idea whether the player will be any good at all.

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I thought it was "the hand that pets the kitty-cat..." but I have probably been watching too much Austin Powers.

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I think I've found a new definition for "time to quit."

Coltrane, how close are you to this point? On a regular basis?

Form an exit strategy, and start implementing it -- before it gets too late, and you need to just walk.

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Do you work for your in-laws or something? I said ditch wife, kids -- not ditch job.

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Because she was Queen of her Domain, and she wanted to change the subject.


Ba-dum-bum. Thanks, I'll be here all week. Tip the staff.

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Sidd give it a rest you haven't met me and have no idea if I am indeed in fact pretty.

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I think Bledsoe would rather have a 2 year guaranteed contract worth $30 million than a sham five year $75 million one that could leave him open to constant renegotiation and termination at any point after the ink dries.

That sounds like a chapter in the book I can't wait to read.

TM

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Divorce doesn't change mother-ness.

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They also seem to want to take the risk. Why don't they buy a massively expensive insurance policy with the huge bonus, that pays if their career ends? Apparently they like the risk or are willing to take it.

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I take no issue with staying at home my husband does and the kids are doing so well. It is an admirable job and the kids benefit greatly.

I take issue with your "shock and surprise" that I'm not all like coveting your situation and all jealous. frankly, I could care less. It ain't the ideal situation but no ones is but it is yours. so go with that. don't look for reassurance from the board.

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With no wife or kids, why would I work? The van is all paid off.

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sure it does. assuming she had kids at the time why would she do that to them? if she didn't whatever.

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I don't understand the question. Or rather, I don't understand what one has to do with the other.

I think that plenty of women stay home without feeling like they've "ceded control". In fact, I know a whole bunch of women who feel like they're in charge, regardless of who makes the money.

I got divorced because I didn't want to be married any more, specifically to my husband. Money, and by extension control, was never really an issue in our divorce.

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the van get cable?

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Merde, please tell me I am not all alone in these feelings now........ :sobbing:

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2, AV.

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Women's College Soccer made Sports Center's top 10 plays recently. It took four seconds for UNC to score on Yale (doh!) The goalie was a bit out of position and couldn't stop the half-court shot on the opening face-off (or whatever they call it). Pretty impressive, actually.

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Yes, but it seemed like she was saying the hand that rocks the cradle rules whatever domain is in question, and if she was totally in charge and got whatever she wanted, why would she need the divorce?

[I know, lots of reasons -- it just seemed like given the topic and the fact that she didn't want to have husband around, saying that the stay-at-home parent controls more than the working-for-the-money parent seemed . . . silly.]

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Maybe the way the salary cap rules are set up make the Cowboys want to have the ability to cut him. Dunno.

Well, get on with it. Then come back and give us a report on it.