I’ve been staunchly against paying WRs this kind of money for a while now. It is poor cap management. The #Falcons should have paid Bijan first.
The whole world commonly thinks paying RBs is a bad move. Not in the case of Bijan, who is special. Very special. Definitely more special at RB than Drake is at WR.
None of this is about Drake as a player. He’s amazing and a draft pick I 100% agreed with. But cap management brings in a different discussion. You never pay WRs this kind of money. It’s not a winning formula. Especially when you are unsettled at QB.
I think that Matt Ryan/Ian Cunningham have done a good job to this point. But this is one they may end up regretting.
I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
@Catface_OJK@Neycromancer Dinho had lost his speed at that point. He would deliver a highlight here and there but wasn't the same player. His move to the middle was because he couldn't run anymore.
@AntiCommieBecca A crying baby raises cortisol levels to everyone that hears it. It's meant to. If it's your baby you can do something about it. If it is someone else's, you have to sit there and wait for it to stop. Meanwhile you're interrupted from whatever vibe you had at your table.
@MattWalshBlog Everyone's experience is different, but the newborn stage when it's hard is really hard. From colic to feeding issues to regressions and sleep deprivation. I don't think people that think otherwise realize how easy they had during their own personal experience. I have 2 now.
@patrick_arni@ZachNagel7 I'm aware of the rule. The infield fly is never called when there's possibility of the SS being called off by a left fielder. The in-between area is prone to mistakes. Infield fly called 1/3 into the outfield, shallow left. C'mon, you've got an agenda if you think otherwise.
The lies aren’t about winning - the lies are more about paying for the false hope of a pathway which doesn’t exist and shouldn’t exist for the majority of the players being told that they have professional qualities
If he gets involved I hope he has a better understanding of what’s really happening
Developing winners is also important
It’s actually very American