Are you blind sided The Blind Side may have been a lie?

And now Moneyball has yielded a generation of baseball executives who don't know a damned thing about the sport and don't take criticism well at all.

 

like Bret Stephens,he was one of the ones really fun to needle on Twitter - I mean X

 

I'm gonna steal this. It's how I've always felt about PGA players, including Phil, bitching about how much money he should be making, and then the Fed Ex playoffs to make sure these guys make more, then the LIV bullshit.
Also applies to some athlete who has $50 million in career earnings, looking for his next contract, and some sports shouter screaming "PAY THE MAN".

It applies in many more applications in the sports world.

Their squabbles are their problem. Thank you.

 

The only thing I know about Michael Lewis is what a friend of mine - who knows such things - told me. When he was writing for Vanity Fair (on the VF site, his last article is from 2017), his pay was $7 a word.

 

wow, that's better than Victor Hugo.

 

All those guys making $30,000 a year when they could work on Wall Street for 5 times that with base pay don't like baseball.

 

then they're overpaid

 

In other news ... Happy Adoption Day for my folks and I! LOL

 

This just in: Webster suing the Papadopulous estate, according to his attorney Willis Jackson.

 

I didn't say they didn't like it.

 

Couple thoughts.

- You can adopt 18-year-olds in Tennessee. In fact you can adopt anyone of any age. Not sure if that was the case during the time under discussion.

- Why bother with a "conservatorship?" 18 is the age of majority in Tennessee. Presumably Oher could sign his own contracts. Why not just introduce him to a lawyer you trust? (Let's assume because the movie project came later and made things seem much more complicated than the book deal did. To someone.)

- Presumably a conservatorship allows the Tuohys access to, if not control over, Oher's finances - but not vice-versa. He wouldn't, for example, have the legal standing of a Tuohy child in any fight over a Tuohy inheritance.

While I agree with DQ that there's something of a rush to judgment here, the whole thing is pretty fishy as a matter of law and money.

But my big problem was and remains a broken promise made to a foster kid.

 

This.