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here's why you should care: agents will use scherzer's contract as a baseline for why their guy should be paid the same or a little bit more when the negotiate his next contract. none of these contracts exist in a vacuum.

and they're going to need it since harper will be on the DL for another 40 or 50 games this year. again.

about ten years ago we had a meeting at our school with parents who were concerned about rising tuition costs in the high school and how they could meet those expenses. i listened to several parents decry how they couldn't continue to afford rising costs. after several minutes of this i finally chimed in. i asked rhetorically how many of their students worked. i pointed out how when our generation was in high school, we all worked. it certainly helped pay the tuition cost, but the greater benefit was it taught us how to be good workers. i don't think too many of the kids in our school today understand any of this, and not very many of them work. there are a few jobs as readers for teachers, but most of the workers i've hired over the years have been very mediocre, at best. my daughter is working for me for the second year in a row, and she seems to "get it' most of the time.

man of steel 7/10 - decent comic book flick. i understand better via this version why clark was able to hide himself with just a pair of glasses. the monuments men - 10/10 - i liked everything about this movie, even the music. a great story with a great cast trying to find all the art masterpieces the nazis looted during WWII. bill murray and bob balaban work really well together, and george clooney's voice has a nice edge to it on the voice over parts. would gladly watch it again.

with the way the chinese misspell everything, i'm surprised it didn't say preposition.

it'll be fun to watch brady pick apart the seattle defense.

yeah, that was almost the most painful part. should have been able to knock it down.

I forgot about ton Luciano's book. Hilarious stories. His description of seeing Nolan Ryan's fastball for the first time was great.

Jimmy Carson Martin Gelinas They both won Cups with Edmonton.

serge bernier gilles marrotte (captain crunch) JP kelly

can't believe how crappy they've been in shoot outs this year. just adds to the frustration.

start time was pushed back for the retirement of rob blake's jersey by the kings.

wait, what? her ex is with her holding the steering wheel? what would make you think "hey, this seems like a perfectly good time to clean up the landing strip. let the boring people pull over and do it safely. i'm doing this now at 75 mph. geronimo!!"

the imitation game - 8/10 fascinating story about how they broke the enigma code in world war 2. became a bit agenda heavy at the end. kept looking at benedict cumberbatch and tried picturing him as james bond, as someone suggested in another thread. couldn't see it.

fwiw, he was a young server and i gathered a relatively new one. the manage came and asked me at one point if the service was okay and had a real concerned look on her face. made me wonder if he had had some problems previously or wasn't taking to the new job as well as hoped for.

yes. we have our monthly board meetings for my men's chorus there. they've treated real well over the years, plus they have mizithra.

LOLOL. remember the chants at the forum? they played the adams family theme and when it came to the part where people snapped their fingers, the crowd would yell in unison "Hair-old". it was awesome.

not until he can replace cutler with someone good.

how come they didn't just go by batting average and rbi's? les incompetents!

excellent. would read again.

standing ovation, phil.

ate with a group last night at spaghetti factory. server brings the bill and my total is $17.70. i gave him two $20s and asked him for change. he brought back 2 ones, 3 dimes and one of my original 20s. his tip was $2.30 when it could have been higher.

yep. it's been a while but they have been known to have a banner year once every blue moon.

no way. the cat would wake up naked the next morning and complain about it. because apparently people who stay at the playboy mansion and wake up naked there the next morning are always surprised by it.

If we're going to talk about no-talent hacks that deserve recognition, then I submit to you one Larry Playfair. and i curse you for making me remember his name.