Summer Time!!!!!!!!!
If Parker could just, you know, make contact with the ball, I would love him. Anyone with the power to send a ball THAT far oppo is a beast in waiting. But there will always be that darned contact issue with him……
I wouldn’t bet on the Giants game tonight with YOUR money. Who knows what Smarge is going to do? I’d lean towards AZ and at +128 if I was forced to bet the game.
Other dawgs I like:
Reds at +196
Colorado at +160
Pitt at +148
and for the hell of it I’m taking the Mets at +148 because these are the type of games when “Two Slices” steps up and spins a gem.
And while not quite a dawg, I think the Padres handle the Yanks tonight.
So there ya go, pin those 6 teams together for $50 and watch $2000 roll back your way…..It would actually be more than that since 5 of them are dawgs but I can’t do that math in my head…..
Another sound betting strategy would just be to bet each game individually and take the opposite of who I’m taking. You’ll like win 4 or 5 and make money on the day. Hey now. 🙂
We are floating down the damn river in tubes today and playing poker all night.
Whatever you all are doing today, do it well and make it so……
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Be sure to catch Peter Duchin in the Duchin Room.
that was one of the funnier scenes in “Blues Brothers” movie, the sidemen in those terrible outfits with Steve Cropper playing in the lounge…”We’ll be right back and don’t YOU go changing.”
Paging Mr Flavor….Paging. Mr. Flavor.
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“Ro-ling. Rolling down the river”. Ahh Creedence. Now that was some live-ass dance music. I pity the degenerations who have had to grow up with music from the Nineties up to now. Whimpy, whiny chick music or Rap gone to Gangsta seed. Yukkkk.
Which pitcher will snow up against the Snakes? Will it be Sam, Sam the garbage man or SamWhatAm? Meanwhile, howdja like those fill-ins taking up 5/8ths of the lineup last night? Seems to be some hunger for a full-time gig in The Show in that bunch. The ones who keep it up best will stick for sure. I do like the idea of Gillaspie as an overall threat off the bench for pinch hitting duties. But he may need the occasional start to keep the rust in check.
LHP going next 2, so maybe no Parker. But Kruk said last night they only have 1 LHP in entire pen, so yes as Stix mentioned LH on bench at start of game become more valuable as it gets late.
Baggs mentioned all the guys Giants put on the DL last month (Pence Duffy Panik Pena +) and that Pagan started month on the DL while the team went 17-10. Ws like last night with no Posey or Span and combined 0-11 from Belt Craw (who hit ball hard 3 times) and Pagan while as Mac mentioned Brown and the new guys went 8-16 with all 6 rbis are really cool.
Still can’t believe Hale didn’t walk Cueto and that Miller threw pitches anywhere near Brown could get at them.
Cueto is a terrible hitter who gets out 95% of the time, and as Kruk said Giants had no one warming up in the pen and Bochy fully committed to him batting even had sacks been full. Incredibly stupid baseball.
Zum mentioned A’s rolling over vs. Pirates as Gray imploded again. After Giants game ended watched half inning of Arquimedes highlights—the guy threw consistent 98 and K’d 4 in 2 no hit innings of relief.
Smardj starting tonight! Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! It would be a huge boost if he pitches well.
A couple of good cases were made for the robot homeplate umpire last night. Green was called out on a ball clearly outside, and in the Blue Jays game Encarnacion was called out on a ball about a foot outside. He flipped out, got tossed out of the game, and while continuing to argue with the ump, bumped the ump, which is a no-no, so probably a 1-game suspension forthcoming. And not a good thing to get tossed in a game that ends up going 19 innings.
Baseball would not do it but it would be amusing to have a robot “checkvalve” on the plate umpire. If the ump missed by a c-hair margin, a quick flashing amber light would zap into all video feeds. Should he miss by say two inches off the plate, below the knees or whatever the technical upper limit of the zone might be these days, a full second amber warning light would come on. If the flub is egregious and obvious the light would be red and the ump would automatically be overturned by way of a hookup to the official scoreboard. A few of those and that umpire would be demoted to low-A ball.
Problem solvable.
Story out about Giants juggling rotation to get Bum extra start in next Sunday home game vs. AZ by skipping Suarez and moving Peavy up with the day off Thursday. That means Bum can’t pitch AS game but would be ready once things resume with Giants in SD for 3 following weekend.
Giants have 2 more in AZ before coming home for 3 each with Rox and DBax and then after AS 3 on road at Padres. That’s 11 games vs. NL West bottom feeders before the East Coast flap series in Bos and NYC.
Great time to continue to make hay while sun shines–and Kruk said Giants have best record in division vs. division foes.
I would be happy if both Bum and Johnny C were able to sit out the AS break.
Oh man, floating down the Truckee with several cans of mass-produced American beer on board sounds outstanding!
Somehow the very thought of drinking aluminum cans of mass produced Amerikkkan corporate swill makes me wanna gurgitate and regurgitate all over again. The river could probably handle it though.
That’s the same way I feel when someone excitedly hands me the latest trendy IPA!!!
Sandog, you may be the only person I’ve “met” that feels the same way about IPA’s that I do. To most everyone else they’re the second coming. To me, they’re, “Yuck!”
SD: IPA’s are something easier to take after you have ingested a few mellowing agents like Grain Belt Nordeast which probably is not available down your way.
Speaking of summer time, one of my favorite songs with “summer” in the title is Elvis Costello’s “The Other Side Of Summer.” Elvis at his most hairiest in the song’s cool video:
Stix, I saw an interview with John Fogerty about a year ago on TV, and he was talking about the inspiration for some of his songs, and he talked about “Proud Mary.” He said he had served with the Army Reserves in the ’60s, and had not gone to Vietnam; but there was still a chance he might get sent there. He eventually found out that he had completed his military obligation by being in the Reserves, and he was not going to Vietnam. He said he was so thrilled by the news that he sat down and wrote “Proud Mary” in one afternoon. He said all the happiness he was feeling is portrayed in that song. He was rollin’ down the river on his way to rock stardom.
Ironically, the Creedence songs were very popular with U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. “Run Through The Jungle” and other bayou-type songs translated very well to the situation in Vietnam. And, of course, “Fortunate Son” became an anthem. I just heard “Fortunate Son” in an ad for the “Independence Day” movie sequel coming out soon, humans. vs. space aliens.
I saw Fogerty in concert about 11 years ago. Great show.
First Creedence cover i ever took note of was the one where they depicted the band playing for some neighborhood kids in front of a neighborhood Chinese run grocery at the corner of Waller and Webster where i was living in The City in the late Summer/Fall of ’69. At least the store looked about the same. T’was a block off Fillmore and one off Haight. Those were the days. Great, cheap rentals on flats in some of the edgier edges of SF too. If that building is still there (doubtful) it would be subdivided ten times over and each hutch leased out at megabucks per month.
Perhaps more than any other band of that era Creedence exemplified the “Spiritus Mundi”, the tenor of the times. Thanx for the info on Fogerty’s good fortune and his sharing it with the world. Or switching bands, that line in “Hotel California” by Zep: “We haven’t had that spirit here since Nineteen Sixtynine.”
Yeah when I was in sweltering heat in Arizona 🌵a few weeks back I convinced my sister( didn’t take much convincing)to tube floating down the Gila River it was a awesome time with a case of can Heineken’s 12 on each side of the tube for counterbalance!!!
Big Hats, plenty of sunscreen and beers life is good!!😎
There may be only one real benefit to having guys getting injured and the Giants are going through it right now. You have to play the young guys for extended periods of time. One way or another, you find out what you have or at least a better understanding of how a guy does in various situations and what his limits are.
At the end of the day, the Giants may well end up being better for getting long looks at guys like Parker, Mac, Green, Mr. Happy, etc., and have a stronger bench heading into the stretch after the injured guys start coming back.
Good take. Parker strikes me as segueing into regular status and “Mr. Happy” as an xbh threat off the bench and Green as a #1 call from AAA if an infielder goes on the DL. I still see Mac as a fat, juicy nightcrawler dangled in front of an AL team looking for depth at DH and long on relievers. Packaged with a low in the pipeline but fairly decent starter prospect (from Augusta, probably) Williamson just might help land a good setup man or even a closer.
Credence, still one of my favorite bands to turn to when I just want to jam to some good old classic rock ‘n’ roll, but with the flair only a guy like John Fogerty can give it. “Born on the Bayou” still gives me goosebumps. Fogerty was one of the original riff-meisters.
You guys remember the extended version of “Apocalypse Now” when the playmates are dancing to “Suzy Q” blaring in the background over the “whop, whop” sound of helicopters? Mesmerizingly bizarre in a surreal backdrop.
“And I can still hear my old hound dog barking, chasing down a hoodoo there…”
Yeah, great songwriter, amazing voice, terrific guitar player. A triple threat!
Bochy’s going straight platoon again tonight, Mac and Tejada are starting. No way Tejada should start, IMO. Not really digging Mac over Parker either, but maybe Mac will run into one tonight.
I never wanna see Tejada play for us. Ruben or who was the other guy, Miguel. Ugghla.
Gillaspie is the hottest hitter on the team right now.
You got that right about Williamson. He’s working on his atonement for the other night vs the A-Ho’s.
I’m not a good gambler. I get confused with +148, under/over, all that jazz. Gonna take me to see Our Kind of Traitor. Liked the book. At the mall, they just played a Phil Ochs song, sort of like This Land Is Your Land. Phil Ochs. Played at a mall. In a clutch of patriotic songs. Wow.
I saw Fogerty around 1997 in Houston, at an outdoor venue in the Woodlands, about 20 miles north of the downtown. Great show, great musician. In the ’60s, when I first heard CCR I thought the singer was a black guy. Turns out to be Fogerty. He did an album called “Blue Moon Swamp” probably 20 years ago. Really good stuff. There’s a cut called Blueboy, probably on youtube, that really harkens back to the old CCR days…
at 1:04:00 there is a rousing rendition of “Centerfield”; apparently in a concert this year.
Fogerty is 71, and the dude is still gettin’ it done…
The opening song “Travelin’ Band” is from my favorite CCR album “Cosmo’s Factory.”
What a piece of shit Ross is. Same goes for Fernandez. I knew I should have faded DFS today. 🙂
According to the Met telecast, Bartolo Colon is the last active major leaguer to play for the Montreal Expos.
I woulda thought there’d be a few more.
Good thing the Giants didn’t re-sign De Aza (who I kinda liked). He looks completely hopeless at the plate…
The dude should have been DFAed a month ago. I see Juan Lagares and/or Jose Reyes being activated soon . . . umm, maybe as soon as tomorrow for Lagares. Adios De Aza.
I also understand that he has been poison in the Mets clubhouse.
i’m not trying to defend Ruben Tejada, but looking at career stats for Gillaspie I can understand Bochy being cautious.
Vs. LHP career he is .203 hitter with .515 OPS.
Vs. RHP career he is .268 hitter with .741 OPS.
Right now he is hot but a career .705 OPS guy, about like a Blanco—in other words NOT a full time starter.
My guess is if you left him in long term you’re looking at an 0-20 something down the stretch.
Giants still have another 5 games before a day off and can still use the LH off the bench. And with Blanco Pagan Belt Posey Craw in there, I’m not sweating the 8th place hitter.
The infamous Tony Cloninger game was 50 years ago tomorrow.
That is a half century.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196607030.shtml
Note: Felipe Alou in the lineup while son Moises was being born…
Me and HS buddies were there, taking the bus from S’vale with lunches packed.
Seem to remember this was a DH…we hit a lot of those on Sundays all through HS, showing up few innings into the first one and staying through to the end to catch the bus home.
Love these old boxes, thx Loo—Braves had a powerful LU, Mack Jones Felipe Aaron Carty Torre. Aaron hit his 25th that day with 63 rbi and had a .600 slugging pct.
Giants weren’t shabby either and Franks had them in first place at 49-30.
Even the reg single Sunday games used to start earlier, at 12 noon. So if you sat on 1b side or even in upper deck behind home plate (good seats) you had the sun for a long time. Once the sun passed you and shade took over temp dropped in a hurry.
That’s crazy. I don’t recall it. Was Cloninger typically a good-hitting pitcher? And the Braves had a guy named Mike de la Hoz, or whatev. Twitter would have fun with that name.
yeah PK, he could hit. He had 9 rbis that day, but he also had 9 going in.
Agreed Loo, I’m surprised that Two Slices is the last remaining Expo.
Note to self: Do not try to float down a river for 3 hours with hundreds of people half your age. First of all, goddamn those asses. I don’t remember asses like that when I was floating down the Sacto river back in the day. Secondly, I held my own but my shins told me to go fuck myself like 100 times.
Ok, got that out of my system. Have the first 2 games going my way (Reds/Mets), I’m sure that will change, and I am off to play poker for like 1000 hours. Later days Flappers.
does that mean the asses were round and artful or rotund and ugly?
Like your strategy Flav. Had a free $13 bet in my offshore site last night and out it on a 6 team parlay. Hit first 5 games with Giants included, including two games won in extra innings and Boston holding on in the top of the 9th to win thanks to fan interference on a ground rules double that should have scored Trout from first.
Then it was down to just the Rockies and they had to lose by 1 and they were down 1-0 heading into the bottom of the 7th and choked it away. I blame Blade:) would have paid $270…
If CInn and NY hold on that will open up a lot of shit for me. Two big long shots paired with several teams in 3/4 team parlays still to play. One of them winning is fine, too. Both? Good times. Both lose? Well, that’s baseball.
Yesterday’s game GH? Frankly it’s the 800 lb. gorilla no one wants to discuss in Denver, i.e., the change in altitude and the resulting adjustment to curves that curve, sliders that slide, sinkers that sink, etc., etc. Sheesh, I wont even get much into the voluminous detrimental physical effects of playing at Coors, e.g., they do very little anaerobic and aerobic training at Coors – saving most of that work for on the road. Couple the aforementioned with the Sherpas swinging from their heels and it’s no surprise to see them ringed up for 12 strike outs. In fact, I think Norris struck out 7 of the first 14 batters. Pathetic.
More evidence? Per ESPN, Norris was told by the Braves he was traded to Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, caught a plane that night, and got just a few hours of sleep after reaching Los Angeles. After a quick meal and a nap, it was off to the ballpark and a new uniform.”
Already regretting my prediction that the Rocks would overtake the Bums for 2nd place.
Anywho, sorry you lost money. 🙂
Maybe the Rockies are settled in tonight, and make the west coast adjustment, and pit up some good numbers.
A friend (Rockies fan) and I were discussing this today. He said (I cut and pasted his text):
“The offense will look passable by the end of the road trip, by which time the Rockies will be 0-3 or 1-3 on the trip and it will be too late. Then they’ll come home and scuffle for a couple of games before they readjust AGAIN, only to see the pitching sag. This is as it has always been with this team–yes, it is tied to altitude. One thing will be consistent–the bullpen is already fried for the season. I don’t know why Mark Kiszla* thinks this season is any different unless the Rockies add significant pitching to their roster this month (ha ha!).”
*Kiszla is a local sports writer.
Blade,
enjoyed our audio immensely, amigo!
Thank you . . . I did too. You’re one of the few people I know where I go away having “learned” something from. Always a good feeling! 🙂
you are the travel meister….here’s a quote for ya: “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.’ Ray Bradbury … was on a calendar that hangs on my wall
Magnus, know when to fold ’em and hold ’em and all that stuff. But you already do.
Good one, Kuiper.
“Tejada had to be careful sliding into second, with the Tejada rule.”
Patrick Corbin is a local kid, from the northern suburbs of Syracuse, where I would never want to live. Why? First, it’s a suburb. Next: picture subdivisions with faux country names echoing the agriland that was destroyed to make room for the houses. Next: picture a besieged Trumpian view of wannabe tough folks who have fear and loathing for the urban core. Gross and distorted generalizations, yes. But you get the picture.
There’s some of that in the Calif. Central Valley, too.
Angels nipping the Bosox, 21-2. Too bad Timmy ain’t pitching.
LOL
Wondering if those nippers on Bahhstin’s staff didn’t do a bit of nipping before the game ~ going forth in the spirit of the Fourth weekend.
wonder whatever happened to Nipper here
These guys have more outfits than Elton John.
The most unexpected and unusual of suspects “drove in” those three runs: Williamson, Tejada and Samardjiza were the culprits. Now Flav may be calculating other types of odds right about now but there surely must be a Flapper on board who would care to figure the percentages against those three having done the snakestomping.
The Rockies haven’t mustered a hit yet tonight.
Now you know what I am talking about.
Corbin’s pitch count is wafting through the 50’s in the top of the Third? Wonder where he’ll be after 5.
Clay, NY.
Pawlie, I love your travel quote, since I define the “lostness” as a tenuous connection (a good thing) to the mundane things I do at home . . . However, my favorite travel quote is, “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” I don’t know who said this.
Smardj goes into batting practice mode.
hope he doesn’t break the bat over his leg; a Tampa Bay Ray did that faux karate thing today. Someone gonna hurt themself bad.
segura looks like baseball to him is most boring thing in the world.
I don’t think Crazy Horse knew how many outs there were
Pawlie, Nipper can be found frequenting Chuck’s 49er’s blog. Not sure why he does show up here once in a while.
tnx
Crawford loves Arizona!
Now, that was a bomb. Whoa Crawdad!
Crawfish!
Mac!
All hitters love Arizona!
Kuip with bomb humor. Love it.
He hasn’t hit a lot, but he gets his money worth when he does. What a bomb.
That thing hit the scoreboard about 35 feet above the field in straightaway center.
STPOOT, for all those times Goldilocks shortened Timmy’s career.
Back to Craw – best $75 million we ever spent was last off season re-signing him. Dude works hard and improves each and every season. Just my take, but he’s as valuable as Madbum, Posey, Cueto, Pence, and (this season) Belt.
Absolutely agree.
Give this guy a 5-1 lead and he wastes little time gong about the business of coughing it up. Me thinks the Giants are going to need more runs tonight.
Smardj getting pitches up again.
wtf
Gawd. It’s gonna be one of those games.
wow another one crushed and the lead is about toast
. At top of broadcast they show how often he throws certain pitch, and if iirc it said BA off his fastball was .299. “Location mistakes” indeed.
When it goes bad, it’s not just hits he gives up it’s rockets.
Just jazzing you Blade. It was a free bet so did not cost me real money. But my typical luck to hit the first 5 games (and I think this is the only baseball bet I made this year on games…my 55-1 Giants-Rangers World Series matchup has my fingers crossed here at mid-season) which included three nail-biters and then I miss the last one…
Let’s hope the Yankees have some scouts at this game…Bic Mac would look real good in pinstripes….
And Andrew Miller in an SF uni.
Yep zum and not in a Cubs one…
The ball really jumps in that park. At least Samardzija kept the damage at 2 runs.
blanco is a dang good OF. Takes great routes to the ball. At ATT when he’s in RF he has tremendous range and ability to cut hard hit balls off and hold guys to doubles instead of triples.
I’ll always remember that brilliant catch he made to save Matt Cain’s perfecto. Talking about a guy selling out to make a catch…
I posted the other day that I think Crawford is the most under-rated player in baseball today. Any thoughts of who else is today in baseball?
I don’t know, Yasiel Puig comes to mind.
lulz . . . Serious bro?
Umm . . . IMO he is just unrated.
No, completely bullshitting, blade.
Lurker, I was displeased to see Bazemore sign last night. Now that the Warriors are probably not likely to get Durant, Bazemore gone, we could get stuck with Harrison Barnes at $20 mill a year…I kind of would be pissed if Barnes gets that from us. I could see him as a Laker…they got some more money to piss away…but of course if we don’t have Barnes, what is left in free agency for SF. Of course we do have Iggy if he can stay healthy as a starter. I also can see more three guard lineups with Livingston getting more playing time in a roster without Barnes. So Harrison, we love ya but have fun elsewhere….
I didn’t see that. Who’d he sign with? And I did see the $95M offer sheet Dallas tendered to Barnes. That’s just madness if you ask me. Durant may still be in play, but I’m with you, I think he stays put.
Bazemore stayed with the Hawks I think for $70 mill/4 years. He apparently turned down more money from the Rockets. I did not see that offer to Barnes from Dallas. Good, it will be painfully obvious the Warriors won’t go there for Barnes.
I believe Al Horford is still out there, he could be an option.
Going to the Knicks.
Celtics
Horford’s going to Boston, four-year, $113 million.
And Warriors could never been in that ballpark for Horford if they want Durant now or later and max out Curry…
Ahh . . . Thanks. Are they still pursuing Durant or is he now going elsewhere too?
Add Gasol, keep Ezeli and keep a roster spot open for Durant in 2017. Without Bogut and Iggy under contract for 2017, Dubs would have the potential for two max contracts for Curry and possibly Durant I would think, especially if they can spend more on the back end and get past the Klay and Draymond deals….
Kuiper just said, “Those were manly balls.” He really did.
He’s probably kicking himself during the break.
To be fair, K&K were talking about manly men, Hubbell and Spahn and Marichal pitching 16 and 18 innings, more than 200 pitches, and then they switched to talking about baseballs (one game somewhere sometime was played with ONE BASEBALL). But even out of context it made me laugh.
I read a thing the other day that said, according to defensive sabermetrics, Crawford is the second best defensive player in MLB, all positions considered. I can’t remember who they had at #1.
Some date in Giants history. I read Kaplan’s book on the Spahn-Marichal-Mays 16-inning affair. Plus July 2, 1933 wasn’t too shabby with Hubbell and Parmelee.
Yeah, cool book.
yeah definitely a cool book. “If that old man ain’t coming out I ain’t coming out either.”
It would be nice if the Rockies scored some runs this weekend.
they NEVER EVER help us [cf. 1993]
Green swung at ball three.
I loved OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, tho’ I think the John le Carre (I’m a fan) book was significantly different. This always happens to me. The book said what? It was what? Hunh?
Thanks, ump!
Jeff Alphabet caught a break.
Craw just keeps gobbling them up and gunning them down. With that firehose for an arm. He’s become amazingly consistent, any remnants from his early woes on routine plays long since gone. You gotta watch a guy like this every day to really appreciate him.
AZ has some fans with fulsome racks.
Yassir.
GH, blade, I read today that the Warriors have stated they will match any offer sheet for Barnes should they come up short in the Durant sweepstakes. So, what if that happens? What do you tell Steph Curry after you gave Harrison Barnes $95M guaranteed? I’d like to be a fly on the wall during that meeting.
Well, Steph gets paid next season and it’s my understanding that the max contract will be even more. Warriors better reserve a few Brink trucks for him.
Curry certainly gets the biggest contract in the game next year…
That would be completely corporate malfeasance if they give Barnes that deal. I think it is fair to assume that if Durant resigns with OKC, it will be for one year or gives him the out after next year. Do the Warriors take themselves completely out of that running?
Tejada reminds me of Edgardo Alfonso. Maybe it’s the ex-Met thing, or the 15 extra pounds, or the wet newspaper for a bat, or possibly a combo of all 3, but he reminds of him.
Off topic . . . I see where the Democrats Platform has a $15.00 minimum wage requirement. Chuckling to myself about getting out of the Air Force in 1979, making maybe $6,000.00 a year and how I was looking forward to a starting pay of $10,000.00 annually with a civil service job. Unbeknownst to me – while serving overseas on a medical rescue team and just in general not knowing how far removed from the economy I had been the last 4 years – my upcoming job with the Feds wasn’t worth jack shit! In fact, I think in California at the time, the median wage was around $30k at least, maybe more.
Anywho, to tie this $15 per hour wage to my story . . . In 1979 or 1980, I recall being over at this electrician’s house doing blow (he literally had more than an 8 ball in a small wooden box) with other people and I asked him how much he made per hour. He told me $20 dollars an hour. My eyes got large and I thought, “I will have it made forever if I ever make $20 per hour.”
NOT!
Blade, I started on Capitol Hill in ’94 making $16k…and we were working a hell of a lot more than 40 hours a week. That was barely a living wage. Had to work all weekend long in a restaurant that probably came close to doubling my salary. But if the Dems think you can go to $15/hour, there are going to be a lot of people losing their jobs and the people at the bottom who need those jobs the most…
I hear you GH, but I have empathy for those who have less than I do. As I indicated to BB, many of my problems were of my own doing . . . Shit, at one point, I was living out of the back of my car. I had a friend who lived under a bridge. Fast forward today – I’ve been getting a pension of $70k a year since 2006. Couple that with investments off the chart, I could lose it all tomorrow and I would still be all right.
So sorry, I don’t begrudge anyone making $15 dollars an hour. Oh, and we wouldn’t lose those jobs if the government taxed you and I at the appropriate rate. Last, but not least – I don’ draw and wont draw SS benefits. I don’t need it.
The fact is if wages go up for those at the fast food/Walmart level jobs, the employer company is not going to take the loss in revenue with an increase in expenses. They are going to raise their prices to cover the shortfall and it is basic economics, the resulting increase in prices will lead to less people buying their goods. Or the other result for these companies to keep wage expenses neutral is to simply get rid of workers…and that is exactly how they think.
I think there could be different levels of minimum wage for those that are teenagers versus single parents with kids, but that should be a state by state decision and I don’t think a blanket minimum wage increase to $15 an hour fixes everything.
Good points GH . . . I still think that there is a segment of our society that isn’t paying their fair share, e.g., most earners making more than $200k a year (perhaps less). Similarly, corporations have so many tax loop holes and corporation “welfare” tax breaks, that it pales in comparison of what a poor person gets in tax benefits and other welfare from government. Most important, the top 1% in income has seen their wealth grow exponentially, while the middle class has gone down or stayed static. I think all of these problems can be corrected by having the rich pay a little bit more.
“Cocaine is a powerful thing!” 😉
I was such a fuck up back then BB, that many of my problems were of my own making.
It’s ok Bro .. I feel ya! Did my fair share of majorly fucking off/up my life too.
Samarz keeps throwing ground balls to SS he’ll be alright.
You have to give Smard credit, he got out of that jam and settled back down. The past few starts he would’ve completely imploded. The pen could use a break so back out he goes for the 8th.
big test coming up, big hitters