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If that is the case, you have to question the wisdom of the spooks, as Trump should have been among the last people to be informed of that in 2014.

So you're saying that in 2014, Trump was informed of an operation that was started in 2016?

The flipside of the argument is that Trump is still Trump, and it's not a coincidence that things have normalized since Kelly consolidated his position in the White House. He's done a masterful job of keeping Trump contained, who I'm convinced would have blown up the counterintel operation.

If you ae going to use Spotrac, then be consistent. This is still the 2017 league year, and Wood's dead cap hit in '17 is $14 million, while Bills only have $10 million in cap space left. McDermott was very evasive when he was asked whether they're negotiating a settlement with Wood.

That's the cap hit for the 2018 season. The dead cap hit now is $14 million, that's why he needs to stay on the roster. But it also highlights the risk they took by guaranteeing the '18 salary for injury.

That's why it's NOT cut and dry. If it was, he'd be off the roster today.

Beane's & McDermott's comments post press conference were illuminating. If the contract situation was cut & dried, Wood would be off the roster. But for whatever reasons, he's still on the team despite announcing his retirement, and they went out of the way to say that he's still on the team. I don't recall any other retirements being spun that way. Beane hinted that the reason he's still on the team is for cap reasons, and a reasonable bet is they're negotiating either the guarantee or paying back some of the bonus.

Yup. It was a very puzzling extension when it was done, made worse by Wood's unfortunate injury turn.

It depends on what timeline you're talking about. Fusion started working on oppo research in April 2016, while Rogers halted 702 access in mid-summer 2016. It's silly to think that Putin & gang didn't have anything to do with the dossier.

It doesn't deal with that question, because the dossier had already existed, as Simpson was shopping it all over the place. Thus the timeline still points to Putin's cronies as the source material for the dossier itself. How it was used is a different matter.

That was the stupidest thing I read this morning (Of course I have gatortard blocked, so there's that)

So your theory is that Steele was perfectly willing to be the scapegoat of a total fabrication in which he had no participation, and Russia had no role at all in the dossier? Yeah ok.

Except I don't read it that way, and your version doesn't explain how Steele came up with the dossier info. There are two things at play here - the motivation for the dossier and the information in the dossier. You've been hammering away at the motivation, while the WSJ op-ed is discussing the information. Two separate things.

I'm trying to understand what's so objectionable in that commentary.

99.9% of the people making that argument are either absolutely clueless about incentives and motivation to invest and grow businesses or a pure partisan shills. Joe is a combination of both.

Is that from a source or a voice inside your head?

Matthews was essentially a throw-in in the trade, just like Gaines was in the Sammy trade. The real trades were for the draft picks, but Beane also needed bodies to replace the traded vets. He hit on Gaines but missed on Matthews. If you read enough posts here, you would have seen people talking about Gaines being a big off season target for Buffalo. Beane simply accelerated the process as a free option.

That and full employment, rising wages, food prices & housing. Why can’y we always have too much of a good thing?

BTW, this could be the annual event where we agree. Lot's of inflationary signals out there. The kids may actually see inflation for the first time in their lives.

Managing a team's salary cap has nothing to do with feeling bad about Wood's injury. Careful that you don't slip off your soap box with that wet argument.

It would depend how the salary guarantee is structured. If it's an insurance payout then it probably doesn't count against the cap. But if the Bills agreed to fully guarantee the 2018 salary against injury for a 30+ vet AND paid him a $6.5 million bonus, then it's a gross mismanagement of the cap. The only qualification would be that in exchange for agreeing to guarantee 2018, Bills have the right to claw back the unearned bonus, so they'll be cap neutral in 2018.

What does this have to do with Trump's economy?

He added the 2018 guaranteed salary

Correct. I was questioning Rodak's post that had the cap hit at $10 million.