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I am not a lawyer but hired one who does employment when I was “terminated without cause” a few years ago. The spiteful owner of the small company had an overly broad non-compete that he forced all employees to sign (on your first day of work, after having left your previous job and possibly relocated, without having seen or known about it before). It effectively banned any employee from working for another company in the entire spine or biologic device industry (even if a different role) in any state where they had ever made sales for a period of 12 months. It was so broad it shouldn’t be enforceable, yet they threatened lengthy and expensive legal action nonetheless. I negotiated a settlement and stayed out is the industry for a shorter period of time. Complete horseshit.

She roofied him first it sounds like.

So he’s still into choking?

FIFY

Brenen just pulled his finger out of this one’s rear end:

A sign and trade for Harden should be off the table. He will get state income tax breaks plus he can’t put a price tag on proximity to Treasures and Mens Club from the new Rockets practice facility. No reason to lose valuable assets. How much would the Celtics get for Brown with one year left? The #2-5 pick (pending ping pong balls), Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, two of those three, all three of those? I’d give up any one of those for Brown, maybe one player plus the pick if it not Top 3. Would they take Green + Porter + Tate for an unhappy Brown?

More future revenue would come if the Texans held the Oilers rights, even if they were just selling retro gear and did the once per season throwback game. McNair could buy the trademark outright or do profit sharing with them going forward. Adams is straight up trolling Houston NFL fans with her bitch face quotes, Oilers hat during the draft tv broadcast, now wearing Oilers uniforms when playing against the Texans. She isn’t trolling the McNairs since they don’t care. She isn’t trolling Bob Lanier since he’s as dead as Bud. She’s just being spiteful to the fans. That should be reason for Goodell or the owners to jump and in and put pressure on her to make a move or STFU. As I mentioned earlier, Texans did some fan feedback with a high priced consultant firm after last season and the first time they failed to sellout the stadium. With astonishment, they learned people wanted Oilers colors and/or logo (but not a knockoff the like the XFL Roughnecks). Hopefully it’s setting the tone against a potential trademark lawsuit from Adams (who somehow owns the right to Columbia Blue-whatever red-white combo on an NFL team), Hannah citing the old HPD police cars and other examples of Houston being linked to a lighter shade of blue, and they are working with a design team for “H-town Blue” to be used in 2024 uniforms.

Hannah McNair hinted in late January that there would be new Texans uniforms in 2024 featuring a color called “H-town Blue”. We can hope.

It looks like $29M of $51M for 2026 becomes fully guaranteed in March 2025. $14.5M per year on the prorated signing bonus. Cutting him after the third year would be a $33.5M dead cap hit in 2026 and $14.5M in 2027 (or they could do it post June 1 and average the two years). Either way it’s not a painless break if they want to bail after 3 seasons. If they cut him after 2 seasons, they’d owe him his guaranteed 2025 $22.5M option bonus plus $14.5 from the signing bonus, and then the $14.5M again in 2026 and 2027.

Lamar wasn’t getting a contract larger than Burrow (or Mahomes). I guess what he got was fair, but I agree that the Ravens will regret this in 4 years if not sooner. Injury history plus inevitable decline in running ability will make him worse while the QBs who are better passers should improve with experience.

The acronym name sucks in EADO.

If ChatGPT is becoming self aware and chose to learn from Surly, it will end about as well as that Tay-Talks ai bot a few years ago.

Go home, Nina. You’re drunk.

Peter Quill dropped a mad bomb to break the Yankees’ winning streak record. I believe Hatteberg had more total bases than Peña for the rest of that season (?), which helped the A’s make the playoffs. Astros will need better analytics to determine how much of a batting discount is Maldonado’s defense worth.

There’s no 2023 Little League thread, but coaching kball and CP6 this year has been full of those moments where you know this is as good as it gets. This is my fourth season with the older one (fall/spring tball, fall/spring CP6). Every year I seem to get a disproportionate number of kids who never played before and kids with varying levels of autism. We won 2-3 games per season up until now, and they usually only give me 3 or 4 players from a previous season and the rest are noobs. This squad of misfit kindergarteners are hitting 10-12 hit off the pitch per game and learned how to turn quick outs at first and third. Last night we upset the #3 team in the second round of the playoffs. There’s no game like it.

Term limits should also take care of most of the olds.

Username somewhat conflicted. Not sure if AC dry humped or not.

Can you have him tell his Aunt Amy to stop being such a stupid, vindictive bitch and return the Oilers name to the fans of Houston? Who is she spiting at this point? Most City of Houston and Harris County politicians from that 1990s era are either relocated and/or dead.

Anyone weigh in on mustache theory? Moff Gideon had a mustache in S1 and S2. The Gideon that fought Din, Bo, and Grogu in the S3 finale (as well as the clone in the tank) did not have a mustache.

Fuck Amy Seaskunk Adams, her dad Bud, and the dead raccoon who lived on his head.

This is awesome and about 7 years old. I think JJ Watt shared it when it first circulated. I understand Adams having trademark rights on the “Houston Oilers” name and logo, but I don’t know how they have rights to color schemes when so many teams have shared color palettes. The Oilers name would do more for the fans than Columbia blue, but the colors would go a long way. And if Adams has some claim on “Columbia blue”, why couldn’t the Texans say they will use Carolina or some other pastel blue with the “battle red” and “Liberty white” they already claim? Are the other owners really pro-Amy Adams over McNair+generally doing the right thing by NFL fans?

Sure, and consensus ratings might not mean much in the first 20 either. But a consensus top 30 player probably has better odds of success than a consensus #100 player. My default position is that Caserio is an idiot who thinks he’s smarter or more analytics driven than other GMs. The 2 first round picks last year are still TBD but aren’t looking good. His 2021 draft didn’t have a first or second round pick, but he reached on every player that draft (Nico Collins and Brevin Jordan can be below average contributors. Congrats?). This year he bet the farm on Anderson (who they should’ve taken #2 sans trade), either to appease Demeco or more likely in a win-now panic over his own job plus convince Cal it will excite the fan base and sell tickets. He stayed put and didn’t trade up to get the C Schmitz, which is fine, except as soon as Schmitz went off the board, then Caserio spent picks to trade up and get his next highest rated C. Did he have to trade up to get Juice? If he was willing to trade up, why not a couple picks earlier to get Schmitz? Hopefully Tank does great at WR and PR, but Hyatt is a Will Fuller type homerun threat that would’ve paired well on the outside with Metchie in slot. Now we have Metchie and Tank…who plays outside? In the 4th, he traded twice when players like Ringo, Utah CB, Roschon, and the other Ohio St. OT on the board. Even prior to Caserio, the Texans have a history of taking very long shots in rounds 5-7 (maybe 4th too) that hang out on the practice squad for a year then get cut. Before you say most 5-7th picks are long shots, teams that draft guys that have slipped for whatever reason, or take guys with blue chip pasts from P5 programs have better odds of late blooming and making a roster than the DT from Eastern Kinnesaw St. or the TE from Pontius Pilate Plilates D3. Last year the Jets were the post draft darlings, and it turned out correct. This year it’s the Eagles followed by the Giants, and neither team had to make trades to get good players lower than their perceived value. You look at Houston’s draft and if Stroud and Anderson aren’t both stars, it was a fuckup. If Juice and Tank can’t be a contributors, it was a fail. Is anyone seriously expected regular season contributions from anyone taken after Tank? They might as well have traded their 4ths, 5th, 6ths, and 7th for another good 3rd round pick if that’s how Caserio drafts/evaluates.

So the Rams are still F’ing them picks?