This afternoons game is still going on and the score is 4-3 Bruins after two & a half periods. There have been two "stoppage of play" because of what amounted to brawls on the ice and at one point, the both teams were down to three players with two each in the box.
I blame the referees for either blatantly ignoring violations or being blind as bats and not seeing the violations. I'm no hockey expert but I do know that if you want to see a game get out of control and turn into the ending game from "SlapShot" all the refs have to do is ignore things. When that happens, the players decide to take matters into their own hands and beat the shit out of each other.
Update
The Senators tied the game 5-5 with 12 seconds left in the third period. Neither team could score in the five minute 3-on-3 sudden death period so they went into a shoot-out. Bruins lost 5-6.
The LA Dodgers have stumbled upon a weakness in the MLB salary tax and it's beginning to piss off pretty much every other team out there.
I'm not going to pretend to understand what they are doing but I do know what a deferred salary is.
The Dodgers are offering players deferred salary contracts that allows them to pays guys millions and millions of dollars while not really paying them millions. For instance, Ohtani has a $10 year $700 million dollar contract. That works out to $70 million per year but they are only paying him around $1 or $2 million a year and are deferring the remaining $68 million until after he his playing contract ends.
The way the salary tax works is that any team that exceeds $257 million in annual salary has to pay a tax 12% tax. Any team that exceeds $277 million has to pay a 45% tax and any team that exceeds $297 million has to pay a 60% tax.
As of right now, the Dodgers have an annual salary of $249 million with almost $1 billion in deferred salary spread out from 2028 through 2046.
These deferrments are allowing them to pay higher salary's which means they are signing more players.
Personally, I don't care because in 10 years, they are going to be paying more in salary to retired guys than some teams will be paying active players and I think it's gonna suck to be a Dodgers fan...
Here are some links:
- It goes into effect on Sunday but I bet it ends by Thrusday.
- Until this guy brought it and reminded everybody about it I'm betting no one even remembered it happened....
- This guy is a snake oil shyster.
- I think he misunderstood what the title drug counselor means.
- I've said it before and I'll say it again: It should be legal to run these assholes off the road.
- Oh Canada.
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