Zoidberg Jesus
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- Oct 25, 2011
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Count me in the minority that thinks Mojo still has significant upside....
I think that kinda works against him. Seeing what he could be makes the cold streaks all the more frustrating.
Count me in the minority that thinks Mojo still has significant upside....
I'm kinda there with you. I've been saying for a while that with significant strength gains, he could be really good. But we've been waiting five seasons on those gains. It's tough to keep a 6th year NHL pro on upside when you've got a limited window of Ovechkin's prime.Count me in the minority that thinks Mojo still has significant upside....
Not at all. Wrong!
I'm kinda there with you. I've been saying for a while that with significant strength gains, he could be really good. But we've been waiting five seasons on those gains. It's tough to keep a 6th year NHL pro on upside when you've got a limited window of Ovechkin's prime.
Oh I agree....but he needs to get there...and we saw it a bit in the Islanders series...but he needs to get back to that...and he should already be there after all these years.Count me in the minority that thinks Mojo still has significant upside....
I think that kinda works against him. Seeing what he could be makes the cold streaks all the more frustrating.
I'd be open to giving MJ a 1 or 2 year deal with an AAV of $4M. If he wants a longer term, then the price has to come down.
MJ put up decent numbers in the regular season, but not so much in the playoffs. There's one thing I appreciated though. MJ was a mean ******* in the series against the Isles, finishing his checks with authority and even getting his hands dirty in scrums after the whistle. I want more of that, I'm tired of the soft Swede thing.
Right. He's UFA in two years. It's most likely just a matter of when he leaves.He's been having hot and cold streaks for five seasons. He doesn't have any upside at this point, that's the player he is: capable of a hot streak and incapable of maintaining it. He's a weak, one dimensional, perimeter, offensive forward. And that's all he is.
5 years people. This is Marcus Johansson, not Zdeno Chara.
Brad Boyes kinda makes sense for that price (well...before acquiring two RW's)...but I'm guessing they are going to be looking at center. Roy maybe? Gomez?Someone around $1M makes sense and there ought to be quite a few UFAs that end up settling for around that (like Brodziak did).
Brad Boyes kinda makes sense for that price (well...before acquiring two RW's)...but I'm guessing they are going to be looking at center. Roy maybe? Gomez?
I begrudge actors making the amount of money they do. But I'm in the minority. I also think we care way too much about what celebrities think. They are actors. They are our generation's court jesters. They entertain - that's it.
I also hate the argument athletes have skills no one else has. "They aren't the average person so you can't compare their salaries to average people". People working for NASA, researching cures to major diseases, etc. have skills that no one else has. They are intellectual pros. What do they get paid? Very well I'm sure. But not the millions athletes and other entertainers do.
So yeah, I understand the hostility and resentment when talking about how much these guys are getting paid. Our priorities are messed up when we decide the people providing us with distractions deserve this much more than the people providing us with our education, healthcare, scientific research, etc.
Could we really not have sports at a lower cost? Really? Is there any reason people couldn't make a very good living being an actor or pro athlete without making several millions of dollars every year? I think there could be a little more balance. And there are people working 70 hours a week and barely making ends meet who I'm sure would agree with me.