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[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Nonetheless, NotBob, isn't there some saying that goes "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world"?

Something like that, right?

Then why did you get divorced?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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.

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.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Nonetheless, NotBob, isn't there some saying that goes "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world"?

Something like that, right?

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

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SEC_Chick
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.

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.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ironweed
With no wife and kids, and no job, and lots of walking back and forth from the bodega to my van down by the river, I will be all kinds of sinewy in no. time. flat.

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

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Then why did you get divorced?

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.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Apologies. I was thinking of someone pretty.

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

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.

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.

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.

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

TM

[nononono]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Then why did you get divorced?

Divorce doesn't change mother-ness.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.

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.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Nonetheless, NotBob, isn't there some saying that goes "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world"?

Something like that, right?

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.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Do you work for your in-laws or something? I said ditch wife, kids -- not ditch job.

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

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by nononono
Divorce doesn't change mother-ness.

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

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Then why did you get divorced?

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.

[Hank Chinaski]

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

the van get cable?