darksabre

For starters, we don't actually know the status of Jack's injury at all. That is likely something that is still in flux. I find it hard to believe that what GM's are willing to pay is a decided factor. If they have a reason to adjust their offers, they will do so. Adams, likewise, may find new cause to adjust his ask. I agree with you that Jack doesn't have much leverage, I have argued that many times here and been told I was wrong. But sometimes you need to get a fresh face in the room to break the log jam. It's distinctly possible that Eichel may be more flexible under a new agent. Perhaps a team that wasn't in play previously will look at the Brisson hire and say "I know I'm dealing with a professional here, let's kick the tires again." An agent who represents a lot more players in the league can represent a lot more players as trade pieces as well. Perhaps Brisson can get a wary GM to come on board with trading for one of his players that wasn't in play before? It's a good move, and it's not a panic move. A panic move would be more press conferences. Or signing with a team in Russia. This ain't that.

Panicking makes it sound like what he's doing isn't rational or deliberate. But that's exactly what this is. His goals are unchanged, he's just making an adjustment to his team. It's not unlike any number of times that generals have been recalled from their commands during a war for failing to achieve an objective. It's not panic, it's just what you do if you're still looking for a successful result.

Painting it this way is pretty disingenuous.

Simplify and add lightness: Eichel switched to an agent with more clout in order to reset the stalled trade process.

Hmmmmmmm

Maybe the team they were trying to trade him to doesn't have a good working relationship with his agent? I could see other GM's wanting a player they are trading for to be represented by someone they trust.

Or it's possible that Jack no longer has faith in the doctors that his agent was bringing in to assess his situation. Or his agent's connections. Brisson represents Crosby who has had his fair share of pretty serious ailments over the years. He also represents a much deeper list of big players.

Aye, that's the joke 😆

Who wants to start excavating that tweet from the other day for deeper meaning?

Yup. I keep telling people that the job market has permanently adjusted and they don't want to hear it. Anyone who needs to work is likely working. They just found better jobs. Or the found a way to cut costs, or one of the spouses realized the family didn't actually need them to be working. These companies crying about people not wanting to work don't understand what has happened. Or they don't want to.

All I did was make myself hungry though

People have been cogently rebuffing medical misinformation in this thread for days and freeman be like

You're a joke.

There are so many other factors at play here. The current negative status of public trust in institutions starts at least as far back as Vietnam.

It didn't have to be this bad. Problem is, we've now reached a point where we can fix it and we don't want to. That must say something about us, like, existentially, right?

So that gets me to my point, which is that perhaps you need to consider that your experience is not the experience of many others. My experience was not too bad either, but I can't let that discount the significantly worse experiences of countless others, then, now or going forward. The pandemic has been brutal, regardless of how sheltered I have been from it.

I'm not trying to be mean to you or anything here, but every post you make about the pandemic makes it seem as though it really hasn't affected you very much.

Israel used a very accelerated vaccine schedule which limited the efficacy. Easily found via google.

I just want to know when we will be satisfied. I think COVID has done a pretty nice job of circulating and killing, of messing peoples lives up in all sorts of new and exciting ways. I'm pretty satisfied with the death toll, pain, and suffering; B-, pretty good plague. But I guess a lot of people are just not feeling sated. We have (had?) the opportunity to really put this whole thing to bed pretty quickly. A miracle of modern science was given to us and we said "No, thank you. I believe the virus deserves a chance to continue for several more years. It hasn't even mutated that many times! Just give it a chance to achieve its dreams." And so now we get to re-calibrate for the long-haul of COVID. We could have had normalcy, or at least something pretty close to it, but we rejected that. The only question now becomes: whose hunger will be satisfied first, the virus', or ours?

That's the whole point of the vaccine. Not getting back to normal is how you compound the tragedy of the pandemic by crippling the global economy again. A lot of pain and suffering was caused by the measures that were required to suppress the spread before the vaccine. The vaccine is supposed to prevent that from happening again, but it doesn't work if people don't use it. Getting back to normal is the goal. The alternative is more pain and suffering.

They don't care.

That's not what I'm saying. The idea that there's some kind of dividing line between the poster and their posts is unscrupulous.

Who makes the posts?