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  1. Mike Sixel
    To start, and be ready to start if/when someone fails or is hurt......if he was planned as a starter, that is what would happen, methinks.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Ya, there is no way they can let 1 player bring his son to work every day. It's just not appropriate. If he really quit because he wants to see his kids grow up, good for him. I remember just a month ago saying Mauer might want to do that, and people saying no one would ever give up millions to do that......
  3. Mike Sixel
    It's hard to see how he becomes a starter, after 2.5 years as a reliever, then.
  4. Mike Sixel
    It could be if you think it will influence his decision to stay, or not, in a few years, yes.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I doubt anyone is surprised by this. I don't like the decision, personally. If the Twins really think he has 4 pitches, that's 2 more than Duffey has......good pitchers with 4 pitches are starters, and not relievers, for a reason....those people are very rare on the planet, and you use them for the most amount of time as possible.
  6. Mike Sixel
    that simply isn't true......he will lose millions in the time it takes to get to a real contract. It also pretty much assumes the conclusion, right? Of course a GREAT RP makes more than a bad starter.......what if he is an average starter, and used in middle relief, which guy makes more money that way? Because Ryan has already said he might be the long RP........
  7. Mike Sixel
    No surprise. Bad game theory......but no surprise.
  8. Mike Sixel
    So sad.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Frankly, I would like someone not from Harvard or Yale. Frankly, I'd like someone that wasn't an old, white, male. Maybe that makes me a bad person.....but some diversity would be good (as Scalia said, some time ago, the court is not very diverse).
  10. Mike Sixel
    Over, I went under on the other two, someone has to take those wins.......
  11. Mike Sixel
    I have to say, I share your general disappointment in the President not being as liberal as I'd hoped (never thought I'd type that......).
  12. Mike Sixel
    Too conservative?
  13. Mike Sixel
    The money is in the risk, though, and they know that going in. As someone that dabbles a bit.....not day trading, but otherwise, and knowing 1 day trader, they all know the risk.
  14. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure it is "penalizing"....the question is, why is their tax rate lower than the person who makes money by going to work in a different way......that's the question I don't like the answer to, personally.
  15. Mike Sixel
    I really like artichokes, but I just feel they are a hassle not worth dealing with on my own. There are very few foods that make me feel that way. Let's hope they come today, we had to turn down 3 showings yesterday, since my son was home recovering from having his wisdom teeth pulled. I doubt people at work are going to feel I did everything right today. I've already sent 3 emails telling people they are wrong......
  16. Mike Sixel
    On this we agree, how we've implemented SS is a mess, and I would disagree with others here, and have that money in private, invested accounts (I assume we agree on that also). But, without this program, and our refusal to take care of our elderly any other way, our world would be a lesser place, imo.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Mostly in retirement accounts, or in such small amounts that they won't fund home purchases with it, which is what you said. Agreed, many do own stocks, but that's not the real issue here, right? The real issue is the fair allocation of how we collect taxes.
  18. Mike Sixel
    I was unaware the purpose of SS was to make money. I thought it was to take of our elderly and sick. My bad. You don't want to pay taxes, you don't want SS there for others....we get it.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Almost no one outside of the upper 10% have any real money in the markets, outside their retirement accounts. This is not an accurate argument you are making. Increasing the tax on investment income, to still lower than working for it income, seems fair to me. The idea of a lower tax rate on investment income was/is to increase the availability of capital. There is plenty of capital, that argument has lost credibility over the last couple decades. There is no "fair" reason that income from investments, the huge, vast majority of which are either in retirement accounts or held by the wealthy, should be taxed at a lower rate than what the "average joe and jill" pay for their hard work 45 hours a week.
  20. Mike Sixel
    50% what country do you live in?
  21. Mike Sixel
    Really? Have you even looked at his tax plan, because that is simply not true, that it isn't on the wealthy at all. Not even close to factual.
  22. Mike Sixel
    NO ONE but you is saying he is winning any vote (other than Michigan, MN, and several other states). We are saying that it isn't true that ONLY white, young, college, males are voting for him. Which is how this whole thread started....... YOU are the only one arguing about what votes he's winning or not.....you. no one else. As for the cost of college, when we went to school, you could work part time and pay for college. My son attends an instate small public university, and it costs more than 20K per year.......so, yes, the costs are out of control, and saying "just work, that's what I did" pretty much ignores what is actually happening in the world. Not that facts matter.....
  23. Mike Sixel
    I really wish they'd find another actor. That last one was so bad, so bad. And I usually eat that stuff up.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Not cold, just a different kind of fan.....not a better or worse one, just different.
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