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  1. They held the #1 overall pick just 13 years ago when they took OT Eric Fisher.
  2. This is fucking stupid. MLB needs to stop protecting bad umpires. If it's a strike it's a strike. If they can't call them correctly, just go to ABS on every pitch.
  3. Murfdogg21 replied to JimmyHoffa's topic in Football
    This carousel keeps turning. Amy Adams Seaskunk wants to continue her father's legacy of trolling Houston (the loyal fans, not the politicians he battled with most of whom are dead, as is Bud). Texans were too scared to jump straight to "H-Town blue", which would have been justifiable in my non-lawyer opinion since it's a different RGB code than Columbia blue, so Houston introduces it first as an accent color. Now Tennessee goes to the light blue jerseys to make it seem dumb if a division rival switched to a lighter shade of blue in 2-3 more years. I was looking forward to the inevitable change for the Texans (ignore the stupid fan made helmet).
  4. The federal government did not ultimately cut cancer research funding by 30%, though a 31% reduction in National Cancer Institute (NCI) spending occurred temporarily during early 2025, and a permanent 37% to 43% cut was proposed for the 2026 fiscal year. However, according to the National Cancer Institute, the final Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, signed in February 2026, actually increased NCI funding to $7.35 billion—a $128 million boost over the 2025 budget. The Role of "Indirect Costs" (This is the grift, where universities and institutions take half the money on average to fund other departments and overhead) A central part of the administration's proposed cuts involved a major change to how universities and institutions are reimbursed for "indirect costs" (overhead like utilities, building maintenance, and administration): Proposed Cap: The administration issued an order to cap indirect cost rates at 15% for all National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, starting in February 2025. The Difference: Previously, institutions negotiated individual rates that typically averaged 27% to 28%, with some top-tier universities reaching 60% to 70%. Budget Impact: This cap alone was projected to reduce federal spending by roughly $4 billion annually across the entire NIH. Final Outcome: The 2026 funding bill passed by Congress explicitly blocked this 15% cap, requiring the NIH to continue paying institutions their previously negotiated overhead rates. Timeline of Funding Changes January–March 2025: A "pause" or withholding of funds led to an immediate 31% drop in active cancer research spending compared to the same period in 2024. May 2025: The White House proposed a $2.7 billion cut to the NCI for the 2026 budget. January–February 2026: Congress rejected these cuts in the final bipartisan spending package, instead providing a slight increase in funding for cancer research.
  5. I feel bad for Bijan. The Falcons tied up a bunch of money in Cousins who they decided to immediately bench, then gave the #46 pick last year and #13 pick this year to the Rams for a guy who gave them 10.5 sacks and an arrest for smashing his car into a WNBA player's car.
  6. On the eve of the first Patriots Super Bowl appearance without him, Bill has his Providence hooker wear a t-shirt of the massage rub n tug parlor where Robert Kraft got poked.
  7. "Chase the fight!” has been the rally cry with the boys up in Section 619 for years.
  8. Does that mean there’s a business opportunity for a new paradigm shifting insurance company that caps their profits at something like 1% (and doesn’t pay their CEO 8 figures) to offer low premiums and deductibles and will then capture a large chunk of the market share?
  9. It sucks when you get stuck in the quagmire. Just because a QB is a top 5 pick doesn't mean they'll pan out due to their own problems or the team's. OTOH there's no guarantee that you will be in position next year to draft the guy you want. And to some extent, they are all scratch-off tickets and teams are playing their luck. Without doing in depth analytical research, I see that 57% of QBs drafted in the top 10 are classified as "failures." One site looked at QBs drafted 2000-2019, and classified a "success" as getting at least 2,000 pass attempts OR 10,000 yards OR 100 TDs in their career. The first QB taken in the draft has failed at least 25% of the time. After that failure rates are: QB2 60%, QB3 65-70%, QB4 90%, QB5 90%, late round QBs 95-97%. There's a good chance they are wasting their draft pick if they don't get QB1, and it could be seen as stupid gamble to trade multiple picks and move up to get QB2 or QB3.
  10. Seems like they've had Downs for a while.
  11. I don't know why people side either with players or ownership. I don't feel sorry for either. The players are not some downtrodden version of labor. Most of these cap deals in sports benefit more players (those played at or below the median salary, which would be higher) at the expense of the fewer superstars and teams that can afford to blow up the payroll, and come with improved retirement and medical benefits. AFAIK NFL and NBA look at revenue from tv, tickets, and merchandise sales/licensing as the main sources of income and negotiate a percentage with the players' associations. If owners of any sport want to invest in tangential ventures, including developing commercial space adjacent to stadiums, I don't know why that would be owed to the players. The players have the right to lease space and start their own bars and restaurants with a huge advantage of being able to put their name on it and do player appearances. Either way, the mid- to low tier players across MLB aren't seeing higher salaries because the Dodgers and Yankees offer the top free agents mega contracts every offseason, and those players make up the majority of voting members in the MLBPA. They just have to be willing to do what's best for them at the expense of what's best for the superstars (complicated by every player thinking that one day they too will be a superstar).
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