03-01-2017, 02:06 PM
Hopspin is the Ned Ryerson in the hell that is our never_changing approach to spending. Needlenose Ned is equal parts comical and annoying.
It's the SAME crap year after year, after year. Same coach, same approach, same front office, same resources, same stupid article where we cry poor, despite being in the top half the league in space to work with. It's always the same.
You can point to any set of bogus numbers you want. Numbers massaged and worked over so much much an Asian masseuse would be impressed. They're all bs. If you can't smell it by now then you're down to 4 senses.
Other teams could not do what they do in this magical equation that Hopspin regurgitates year after year. There is no way, accounting for the things he does, other teams could spend the way they do. It couldn't be done. Something isn't adding up.
OK, you're can't spend year or two, for whatever reason, I'll listen. But you can't start every single year with an above average amount to spend and still cry poor. At some point your available dollars have to keep pace with that of other team. At some point, even if you pay in house, you would even out.
It's not as if we have more than average amount of expiring contracts coming off the books. In fact, I would guess it's below average because of practice of "honoring" deals. We don't have a ton of guys coming off the books early. (Like Mauluga and Pac-Man should).
All that said, no reason to be surprised or to be angry. Like Groundhog's day, it's funny. Same damn everything, every single year. How could anyone, after so many years, now seeing the same damn approach, expect anything other than the same results.
It's either incredibly stupid, or incredibly crazy, to buy into any of this. This type of stuff from Hopspin is pure comedy.
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It's the SAME crap year after year, after year. Same coach, same approach, same front office, same resources, same stupid article where we cry poor, despite being in the top half the league in space to work with. It's always the same.
You can point to any set of bogus numbers you want. Numbers massaged and worked over so much much an Asian masseuse would be impressed. They're all bs. If you can't smell it by now then you're down to 4 senses.
Other teams could not do what they do in this magical equation that Hopspin regurgitates year after year. There is no way, accounting for the things he does, other teams could spend the way they do. It couldn't be done. Something isn't adding up.
OK, you're can't spend year or two, for whatever reason, I'll listen. But you can't start every single year with an above average amount to spend and still cry poor. At some point your available dollars have to keep pace with that of other team. At some point, even if you pay in house, you would even out.
It's not as if we have more than average amount of expiring contracts coming off the books. In fact, I would guess it's below average because of practice of "honoring" deals. We don't have a ton of guys coming off the books early. (Like Mauluga and Pac-Man should).
All that said, no reason to be surprised or to be angry. Like Groundhog's day, it's funny. Same damn everything, every single year. How could anyone, after so many years, now seeing the same damn approach, expect anything other than the same results.
It's either incredibly stupid, or incredibly crazy, to buy into any of this. This type of stuff from Hopspin is pure comedy.
