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And he did it without even one post about Tyler Danish!

Oh no, not the moronic "depreciation is a benefit to business owners" nonsense again. Does the "Award-Winning Attorney" in his article explain what depreciating purchase price does to your capital gains tax when it comes time to sell the team? Oh he didn't did he? So he lied by omission to push a stupid myth about depreciating nontangible assets are some special carve-out that benefits sports team owners. And he even implies that player salaries can be double deducted as operating expense and depreciable asset, with no offset. This is an outright lie. The player contract depreciation has an offset in the capital gains tax the owner will pay when he sells the team. The capital asset gets written down to zero by year 15. When the owner sells the team, the cost basis is reduced by that same amount. Note to self: Do not hire Martin J. Greenberg to do any work for me. Not even to mow my lawn.

And obviously we have other History Months upcoming, no? And don't call him George, he's Red Witt...

And before TG beats me to it, here's my favorite player for White History Month...

Ah yes, of course. It's obvious, now that you say it. Can somebody start the "Blue History Month" thread, please?

My personal favorite. 5 Gold Gloves. And a terror on the basepaths back when chicks used to dig the stolen base.

These independent rankers who also do draft rankings *always* end up slotting the guys in top 100 lists in roughly same order as their draft rankings, at least for the first year after the draft. BA also does this. I can't blame them, it's pumping your own book until the players sort themselves out with a full year or two of minor league performance. Callis had Schanuel 26 overall in his draft rankings. Angels took him 11 overall. The next three picks were: 12. ARI Tommy Troy (Callis: 17) (2024 Top 100: 74) 13. CHC Matt Shaw (Callis: 16) (2024 Top 100: 54) 14. BOS Kyle Teel (Callis: 7) (2024 Top 100: 40) All those guys Callis had ahead of Schanuel in his draft rankings. And guess what? They're all ahead of Schanuel in the top 100. Basically, it's Callis sticking with his own draft rankings until it becomes obvious who he was wrong on. Considering he thought there were 25 players in the draft better than Schanuel, it's at least a *little bit* of an admission of being too low on him on Callis' part by even having him in the top 100. There are a fair number of guys who Callis had ahead in his draft ranking that aren't in the top 100, so again, that's bit of a tacit admission that Schanuel is already looking better than he thought at draft time.

Finally, a free agent name that I could get excited about....

Meanwhile over on the DodgersWin.com board, they're probably saying, "Holy crap, the Angels basically bought themselves a 41st roster spot for only 900k! What a genius move. We doesn't our GM do stuff like that?"

* - You misspelled "bad". Chuck you're always welcome to use any of my silly nonsense.

Good point, he's more of a scratcher.

Behold, my plan to get Schanuel to double-digit HRs.

Don't forget to also look at the Del Taco as you drive by.

Wasn't Woo Suk Go one of the pilots on Asiana Airlines flight 214?

I'm about to start a "Is John Orton a HOFer?" thread.

Pfft, I was wronger earlier than all of you when I voted for Henry Clay over James K. Polk in 1844.

I think he said you were the board jerkwagon. Different classification.

Ya'll are like the "I can fix him" women chasing the neighborhood deadbeat drug dealer scuzzball. We're not gonna fix Mejia. And before you "Mickey Moniak" at me, Moniak was only 24 when we got him. Mejia is like 56 years old in catcher-years. On the positive side, I do like this signing better than Kevin Maitan or Roberto Baldoquin.

Someone answer this man's question! MLBTR has an opinion: So they thought this for Giolito: 17. Lucas Giolito. Two years, $44MM and then this for Clev: 30. Mike Clevinger. Two years, $26MM https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/11/2023-24-top-50-free-agents-with-predictions.html

Obviously, yes. Also Yamamoto being offered 25% of Rams franchise ownership.

By the way, I am hearing Dew Yarn is the mystery team in on Yamamoto.

All censorship, all the time, in 2023 America. You gotta run your own instance of AI to bypass the censors. This is the best I could get out of SD. I had forgotten some of the other teams Downs Jeter played for: D TAV and INEW DERS. But he had his best seasons for DEW YARN.

I think they're talking about the occasional Chuck Knoblauchitis he has from time to time. In my opinion, I don't think it's so serious that we can't play him at 3B.