Mr. WEO

it's both it really didn't cause them anything. This is the team that Saleh and his GM assembled. HE sucked is entire time. Woody figured they had nothing to lose. Now they can get the #1 pick for a QB. With Saleh, what, they win 5-6 games?

I think he's wrong about number 1: Josh is also the best QB in the NFL right now. He's certainly correct with #2

call me when they film him in a car "trading" for a Kiko jersey...

Saleh could have easily gotten this team 6 wins!!!! The best part is that Zach Wilson Jets were better somehow

or he could just kick it between the uprights.....

"if Miami wins out" "if (one of the Jets or NE) wins out" "if the Bills lose out" congratulations

"sports commentator Adam Lefkoe" "heard from people"...lol, come on with this guy. Swift gets whisked from her limo up to a private suite, where by all indications she had quite a good time in there. This clown makes it sound like she walked all the way from the parking lot and got pelted with empty labatts blue cans for refusing to drink out of the bowling ball.

it wasn't the "national media"..

They assumed that BS followers would be a boon to their nascent gaming book. Unfortunately, they didn't consider 2 important details: BS followers, particularly 18-34, are broke-ass bros, by and large...and also that Portnoy was so toxic that too many jurisdictions would not grant it gaming licenses. So they simply gave it away, wrote off the loss and partnered with the biggest sports content in the world to be their sports book.

he celebrated that windfall by taking the rest of the game off. Probably not the incentive effect Beane was hoping for

lol Jers lose to Richardson. That Defense fell off a cliff “Sauce” Gardner=ranch

In my post you quoted, I said Barstool bets as a gaming entity ended when Portnoy bought back the company.

interesting-thanks. The more I ask the more I know!

a different steel fabrication trade? are the tasks that different, re: the fabrication? I know it's a different "part", but why different trades?

Agree 100%. And thanks for the info--waiting to fabricate the finished steel parts makes sense. I guess I always assumed some or much of it would be constructed form standard length/size I beams or what not. But it's not Lincoln Logs! lol Is the raw steel supplier also the fabricator of the columns/beams?

I know you do. I respect your knowledge of construction/design. It’s always on point with this thread about the stadium. Several others have mentioned several times inflation is a reason for overruns (not you). I stated why I thought it wasn’t possible by pointing out that inflation has decreased significantly. You jumped in to say inflation was not decreasing but “it’s just slowed the rate it’s going up”. “it” in the context of your post, is “prices”. The rate of price increase (inflation defined) is going down. Prices alway go up. I was going to ask you upstream how steel purchase works for such a project. Do you buy it all at once (as much as you can accurately predict you will need) and store it somewhere? Do you buy it in bunches as you build? Do you buy some sort of futures contract to lock in a price for the duration of the project, no matter how much you end up needing?

You don’t seem to understand basic economics. If inflation is 7% when a project is initially conceived and a budget is created, it will certainly assume that prices will continue to increase annually at the same rate throughout the life of the project. if the rate of increase turns out to be less than half that, it makes no sense at all to blame cost overruns in a lower rate of price increases

Defined as the rate at which prices are increasing, inflation is going down. Prices are still going up as they always are all the time, but they are going up at less than half the pace they were 2 years ago. The rate at which prices were going up per year when the stadium was announced was 6-7%. Knowing this, the general contractor would assume that would hold throughout (prices for goods and services of this project would increase 6-7% a year). But in fact it’s less than half that. So you cant blame “inflation” for overruns, when the rate at which prices are increasing is a fraction of what was originally budgeted for…. who said prices are going down? you are the one conflating prices with inflation

I men, that's one way to answer simple questions I guess. But it's a poor dodge. Explain how these contractors have led to cost overruns. Everything you described would have been known and factored in a year ago. You think Gilbane/Turner had no idea what a billion plus stadium project in NY (with all of its rude regarding unions/"MWBE"/etc? Or that they had no concept of how to estimate "how long a project like this will take" (it's still on time, as far as we know)? Flesh that out for us. I won't ask you to back up your bad take on health care resource management. You based it on a nurse telling you something about something...lol. inflation happened....and it has dropped significantly since this project was conceived. a massive drop in inflation is hard to blame for current cost overruns.

You also blamed cost overruns on union labor (compared to non-union labor). But this would have been accounted for in the original estimate. It wouldn't be an unforeseen cost. Also, inflation rate was over 3% when they broke ground. It's 2.6% now. It was over 6% when the stadium deal was announced.

CT and MRI wait times are purely a function of the number of machines available for the demand---same as pre covid. Other than maybe in the most remote/rural areas in the country, there aren't many MRI machines sitting idle for lack of staff to run them. This is most likely the vast majority of the overrun. Again, how could they be so far off with labor estimates for a still on time projected completion? You think it will not be done on time? Hundreds of millions of extra labor costs because some contractors are owned by minorities or women? Got a link for that? And even if this was true, why wouldn't the general contractor already know this and accounted for it in their original total cost estimate? Also, comparing this to a public construction project doesn't help your argument. Since the beginning of public projects funded by the public, graft, theft, and corruption have been mainstays of doing business. Notoriously dirty business.

More hours?---you mean they are working around the clock? 2 shifts? Or did they bring in double the number of workers starting this month? if not, you are implying construction is way behind and will require months longer to complete. Where else would all of these extra hours come from? Or would this overrun represent a massive miscalculation by the contractor before ground was broken re: labor needs/costs. SoCal has the most likely explanation stated upstream---client changing what they want adds to cost.

this is all this guy is good for

Did the union workers get a huge raise since the original cost estimates were released? Covid's only lasting impact has been staffing costs--particularly nursing, where tons of them left their regular jobs to do travel nursing (even in the same city) where their hourly costs are double or more for the hospital. CTs, MRIs, procedures are humming along as ever.

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