I didn't hear about this when first announced. Based on this, if play resumes this season, Mitchell can't play.

https://www.thescore.com/...g-current-season-signings
- boilermaker100

That sucks, i can't believe we are mid May already. That window is shrinking quickly

If this goes on until next summer, there will be nothing left of the world as we know it.
- Ogilthorpe2

The part of the world that I currently know and am shocked by if the bloated egos of more than one world leaders who have stetted in front of a world wide co-ordination of defense and research...

The part of the world that I currently know and am shocked by if the bloated egos of more than one world leaders who have stetted in front of a world wide co-ordination of defense and research...
- wiz1901

It's a year and change, for those with no discipline this will be very very very difficult

The part of the world that I currently know and am shocked by if the bloated egos of more than one world leaders who have stetted in front of a world wide co-ordination of defense and research...
- wiz1901

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.

Fun fact, if you work for the city of Chicago you have to prove you live in Chicago.
- BetweenTheDots

Yeah, all the teachers and police and fireman I know when they wanted to shift their primary residence to say,, Twinn Lakes as they were going to retire, they had to maintain apartments in the city.

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.
- Ogilthorpe2

I agree.
And what happens is the philanthropy ramps up, shows the "holes" in the current economic imbalance and starts to suggest the steps to fix some of the issues, and the political roadblocks haven't disappeared.

Airplanes and global economic interconnections are so much more prevalent now than when the early 1920's economic "scares" and finally the Great Depression was upon the world...

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.
- Ogilthorpe2

Actually there was a horrible drought and the government didn't understand they were part of the economy. It's going to be a struggle for sure but history has taught us how to manage this better, if we didn't go under after the housing crash...

I didn't hear about this when first announced. Based on this, if play resumes this season, Mitchell can't play.
- boilermaker100

And all the new college signing are very interested in. burning that year off the initial contracts getting them closer to not having that dollar restriction on the next deal quicker

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.
- Ogilthorpe2

Yep, and how many lives and livelihoods will be lost because people lost everything they had invested in their business?

I thought the nhl would be finished debating on draft idea -has there been a formal declaration/. I haven't seen that...

Yep, and how many lives and livelihoods will be lost because people lost everything they had invested in their business?
- tvetter

Happens every year, businesses constantly failing especially start ups, 90% eventually fail. All of a sudden everyone is worried about it. All of a sudden it's an issue

take whatever you have left financially, put it in the safest plan you can. Put your helmet on and get ready for a bumpy ride.

Perspective from a player in MLB - interesting to see his thoughts in this thread and of other players the linked Athletic article. Apparently, his wife has a history of respiratory illnesses, so his concerns are understandably magnified (though, IMO, in no way overblown). Many considerations if any sport restarts, and even more for those with high-contact play.

https://twitter.com/whatw.../1259920490992410626?s=20

https://theathletic.com/1...-about-a-possible-return/

I stupidly read the replies to his tweets - should have followed his example and not done that.

take whatever you have left financially, put it in the safest plan you can. Put your helmet on and get ready for a bumpy ride.
- BetweenTheDots

I have a top 100 award winning financial team for years, and my wife and I always thought of it as not really our money, since it was out of our hands to use, just to be moved in and out of investments and the big gains were always riches we had little to take credit for. I have a friend an ex-law enforcement guy who wants to tell be how bad his bonds are doing, how the market is killing him...well, I can't won't start spending my time taking about THIS money, because compared to the huge populations whose money preoccupation is based on not being able to continue to functioning, and that is the bigger issue to me.
But others got protected financially before the threat was acknowledged and ignored...

https://www.bloomberg.com...OCm0IB-6-17mjW8CDOvdobN_U

I have a top 100 award winning financial team for years, and my wife and I always thought of it as not really our money, since it was out of our hands to use, just to be moved in and out of investments and the big gains were always riches we had little to take credit for. I have a friend an ex-law enforcement guy who wants to tell be how bad his bonds are doing, how the market is killing him...well, I can't won't start spending my time taking about THIS money, because compared to the huge populations whose money preoccupation is based on not being able to continue to functioning, and that is the bigger issue to me.
But others got protected financially before the threat was acknowledged and ignored...

https://www.bloomberg.com...OCm0IB-6-17mjW8CDOvdobN_U
- wiz1901

Yea insider trading, that's bullpoop. Hopefully they have to pay a good chunk of taxes on that money, with legal ramifications.

Also if i think i understand what you're saying, some people money is first and foremost, then everything else

Actually there was a horrible drought and the government didn't understand they were part of the economy. It's going to be a struggle for sure but history has taught us how to manage this better, if we didn't go under after the housing crash...
- BetweenTheDots

In 1929, the Fed. tightened monetary policy which with the falling stock market, and no demand caused deflation, and the depression. Bernanke studied this and that is why in 2008, he opened the spigots, and the housing crises, although causing recession did not cause a depression.

Powell is "printing" money and injecting liquidity at record rates. Buying corporate bonds and some of the ETFs that track them is unprecedented (and wasn't allowed till the fed. did some financial engineering the past month). That is why the stock market has rebounded, it used to be called the "Bernanke put", you can now just name it the "Powell" put.

On the sports note, will be interesting to see if MLBPA accept the revenue sharing plan proposed by the owners, lookslike the owners are trying to institute a salary cap situation similar to the NHL.

https://www.nbcsports.com...ment-will-be-long-process

"Pat Boyle has learned that the Blackhawks are in an “internal evaluation mode right now and it’s been going on for a couple of weeks.”

Interim president Danny Wirtz — son of Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz — is “looking at every facet of the organization” and “while this internal evaluation is ongoing, it sounds to me like the current hockey ops group, led by Stan Bowman, is going to handle the upcoming NHL Draft, whenever that draft is,” Boyle said."

Yea insider trading, that's bullpoop. Hopefully they have to pay a good chunk of taxes on that money, with legal ramifications.

Also if i think i understand what you're saying, some people money is first and foremost, then everything else
- BetweenTheDots

Yeah, you got me...I can't worry about$$, the actual hockey or much else yet, and just want all safe around us ...all.

Yeah, you got me...I can't worry about$$, the actual hockey or much else yet, and just want all safe around us ...all.
- wiz1901

Same here, i grew up poor so i know if i were in that situation again, I'll be fine.

Same here, i grew up poor so i know if i were in that situation again, I'll be fine.
- BetweenTheDots

Yeah, so did I. Both my parents families were split up during the depression, my sister didn't see my father for 4 years during the war living with my grandparents, and I got lucky by being born later, and basically living a normal lower middle class life in the 60's and early 70's. I was taught early the value of not wasting money.

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.
- Ogilthorpe2

There needs to be something in the middle / balance between what the un-American / anti-American current resident of the White House is pushing and the inflexible by-the-numbers approach that the executives in the Thompson Center and City Hall are putting out.

You can't keep most of the economy on lock-down for an indefinite period - too many people who can't work from home, or don't have sufficient assets to get through a long period of unemployment will be irrevocably hurt. The ones most hurt by the lockdown are the people of color who are on the lowest economic rungs.

But you can't just open up all sectors of the economy - I've seen first hand what that will lead to in some food processing facilities I'm associated with, and look at the meat packing plants - can't keep them 100% safe. The ones who will have the most adverse health effects will be the line-workers - mostly, again, black and brown.

I don't know what the answer is - other than getting an effective vaccine - but we do need more effective leadership from both Washington (where there needs to be more understanding that this is a national / international crisis) and our local politicians (who need more understanding about the economic effects of there actions).

There needs to be something in the middle / balance between what the un-American / anti-American current resident of the White House is pushing and the inflexible by-the-numbers approach that the executives in the Thompson Center and City Hall are putting out.

You can't keep most of the economy on lock-down for an indefinite period - too many people who can't work from home, or don't have sufficient assets to get through a long period of unemployment will be irrevocably hurt. The ones most hurt by the lockdown are the people of color who are on the lowest economic rungs.

But you can't just open up all sectors of the economy - I've seen first hand what that will lead to in some food processing facilities I'm associated with, and look at the meat packing plants - can't keep them 100% safe. The ones who will have the most adverse health effects will be the line-workers - mostly, again, black and brown.

I don't know what the answer is - other than getting an effective vaccine - but we do need more effective leadership from both Washington (where there needs to be more understanding that this is a national / international crisis) and our local politicians (who need more understanding about the economic effects of there actions).
- StLBravesFan

Wish that was the answer, but after 17 and 7 years of trying to develop a vaccine for SARS and MERS, I do not think we will develop a vaccine (if we ever do) any quicker.

The Great Depression was nothing compared to what’s coming if the economy is in free fall through next summer.
- Ogilthorpe2

“Next on NBC Sports - Thunderdome - Chainsaw Round! See if Lord Humungus can defend his top spot as king of the post-apocalyptic minions!”

(Edit: I’d watch that)

Wish that was the answer, but after 17 and 7 years of trying to develop a vaccine for SARS and MERS, I do not think we will develop a vaccine (if we ever do) any quicker.
- LAHawk

I think they stopped pursuing a vaccine for those two when the disease ran its course.

Wish that was the answer, but after 17 and 7 years of trying to develop a vaccine for SARS and MERS, I do not think we will develop a vaccine (if we ever do) any quicker.
- LAHawk

There’s no consumer market/big cash in researching those medical answers. It’s why antibiotic research in the US has largely stalled over the last couple of decades, and yet... we have Viagra.