Shocker: Drew Dalman retires

bileever

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Bear's Pro Bowl center Drew Dalman retires.


The price for Lindenbaum and McGovern just went up a couple of million.

Dalman is only 27, and he made $18 million last year. Surprising he would walk away from that.
 
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Well, when you're already a millionaire, and you're not spending your way out of being a millionaire, there's less incentive to step back into the car crash simulator.
 

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I remember the outrage last year from some that we didn't sign Dalman.
 

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Maybe he's got a long-term injury concern already that he's worried about aggravating, who knows.



Also, FYI, plurals never have "apostrophe s" at the end. :)
That’s not a plural ‘s, it’s a possessive and those do have an apostrophe unless you can argue that it”s plural and possessive so it should be bears’…. I think
 

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Maybe he's got a long-term injury concern already that he's worried about aggravating, who knows.



Also, FYI, plurals never have "apostrophe s" at the end. :)
Never?

There are some exceptions.

The 1990’s was my favorite decade.

T’s should be crossed and i’s should be dotted.

;)
 

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Never?

There are some exceptions.

The 1990’s was my favorite decade.

T’s should be crossed and i’s should be dotted.

;)
While there are exceptions, using an apostrophe with plural versions of single letters is allowed, but not required. People also often mix up the year thing, when you SHORTEN the years, it becomes '90s, with the apostrophe before and not after, 1990s as in the plural for the time period has no apostrophe, unless you are denoting ownership/possession, in which case you could say something grammatically correct such as "1990's best film was Goodfellas", which is referring to the best film of that single year, while if you were to say "The best film of the 1990s was Goodfellas", you are referring to the entire decade of the 1990s. Uncommon edge cases are hardly something to try and hang your hat on for this.
 

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Oh snap, Grammar class. Noice.

Further proof that my dot not net family will truly argue about ANYTHING :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: (y) 🤘 :cool:

As long as the Hawks don't LOOSE too many games. (runs for cover)
 

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Possessives do use the apostrophe, that's NOT a possessive, though; unless "Bear" is the name of the owner of the Chicago Bears and nobody told me.
But we’re not talking about who owns the Bears, we’re talking about who owns drew dalman. And nobody now, but he was owned by the bears. He was the bears’ center. Is that correct professor?
 
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