Chris Monfette

Labour and Employment lawyer for employers. Mostly here for hockey and baseball. Opinions are my own.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@JFreshHockey That's really the only issue. He's a number 3 or 4 defenceman but paid like a number 1. Oilers could replace him for half his cost and use those savings elsewhere.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@GrumpyDegener8 @nytmike But ElAttrache wasn't doing it trying to boost performance or evade drug tests. He wrote a letter to UFC asking for exemption. He supported it if it would help his patient heal and the patient knew he might not be able to fight because of it. There's nothing wrong here at all.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@nytmike I don't see the issue here? He was prescribed medication from his doctors. He knew it was illegal under the UFC so he applied for an exemption and when that was denied he withdrew and for years. Not sure why ElAttrache is catching strays here. He didn't do anything wrong.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@jimmathesonnhl @SportsnetSpec He won one cup almost 20 years ago. Bowman won nine in his career as coach. Please don’t pretend they are on the same level.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@wyshynski I think every Oilers fan hopes this

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@RomulusNotNuma Likely has a non compete that survives termination of the contract.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@JohnnyGiunta_ Especially since he didn't have huge expectations. He was supposed to be around a .750 OPS guy with iffy defence. He's been a .747 OPS guy with good defence.

The profile is different than I expected (thought more OBP and less HR). But he's basically doing what he was projected.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@DownToBlack @frank_seravalli @Mattymar89 there's an angle from the goal line that sure makes it look like an elbow to the head.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@packfanjames @ejmb0000000 Exactly. Lots of these types of stories that worked out in Blue Jays' favour too. Clement, Fischer, Straw, Miles, Pinango, Valenzuela all acquired for basically nothing and/or were discarded from previous orgs.

Further back Teo and Edwin and Jose. Never know when it might click

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@jizzlecdizzle @SportsThor @AdamsOnHockey The Oilers blogosphere had alot of early analytic pioneers and he likely just found a group of people that shared a passion for analytics and a similar way of thinking about hockey. It was less about rooting for the Oilers.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@BlueBullet1981 I actually have no idea who this person is and I've followed Oilers closely for two decades now.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@jerseygirlcrush @RachelKryshak There will be *something* that occurs in Edmonton once he passes. But you're right, probably not the funeral itself.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@thatguyfaf55 @RachelKryshak Don't like his associations either. But when he dies, you know there will be huge ceremonies for him in Edmonton.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@nosmh_x @TheAthletic @CDEccleshare It’s a lot of money. But all sporting salaries are a lot of money. Players are only getting 15% of revenues. Most other professional sports split revenues close to 50/50. I’d rather players get paid than corporations.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@OilersNation @NHL_Sid Thanks for this article. First in depth piece I've seen on the topic.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@R3vampDev Ah the infamous audit. All that work lead to McCrimmon or Zito, then old buddy Ken Holland was available and they just bailed. What could've been.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@Ares257 @zjlaing Ya Cassidy is a no-brainer.

[Chris Monfette @stoff57]

@berezin_goal @nielsonTSN1260 It’s not even hindsight. It seemed like a slam dunk decision at the time and every fan was asking for him. Just a head scratcher.