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Very true, but in the aggregate if one team in need of a 3B is put over the tax by Candelario, his value decreases because of his salary, even if the penalty is small. That is the point I wanted to make.

I’m really infuriated that an ex-president has absolutely no qualms about doing this… and that no one can dissuade him from this lawless behavior, nor will anyone say to his ****ing orange face “back off you disgusting excuse for a human being”. It is beyond the pale. 🤬

I really appreciate how active the red wings forums have been lately, I enjoy talking hockey with you all.

Also, if people paid as much attention on mobilizing for state legislature elections as they did complaining about the Supreme Court every June, a lot of this would be moot.

What, is it April 2022 already? I need to go back in time and get good and mad.

right. and that is where the basic problem is majoritarian democracy. A minority that is segregated into a small number of legislative districts will never have enough political leverage to reverse these kinds of decisions and is in fact the recipe for attracting them. I'm not saying the answer to America's race problems is to throw out democracy, but that we first at least have to understand the basics of what is going on under the hood before we can figure out how to make the system work better for everyone. The weaknesses inherent in the system have to on the table for discussion instead of wrapped in a gauzy shroud of Founder worship, secured by American flag lapel pins. Otherwise we waste our time and energy arguing peripheral issues that never change anything anyway. But it goes back to my basic contention about almost all of human existence: Humans build conceptual models of how things work but they are never more than approximations of the underlying reality. So the trick is not to fall so much in love with your models that you fail to see that every model breaks down, requries constant tweaking, exceptions, regulation. In the US we have become really bad at this. We over commit to or cannonize models when most things are only good ideas up to a point: 'Free' markets being one easy example but the list is long and hits things at both ends of the political spectrum. And yes the current Constitution is even one. There is a reason they made it amendable, but you woudn't know it anymore.

If Torkelson ends up with 20HR 75RBI and a .750 OPS this season, all of which he is either on pace for or seems capable of, I would definitely take that as a good enough step forward to build upon for future years.

Couldn’t just let us enjoy our victory today, eh?

Must be due to his spot-on raking advice after the Cali fires. Tremendously qualified. People are saying…

Splitting this series is a win in my book.

If Maton isn't a competent fielder at this point in his career then he should probably be selling life insurance!

Malloy and Keith both homer in the 1st inning for Toledo tonight. 🎉

I was pretty proud of my Lloyd Moseby pick for the Blue Jay/Tiger.

I understand that, but when the Tigers lose a player that I like (and I am not really talking about Candelario because he's not very important) I am not going to be happy even if it's the "right" financial move. For example, if Greene becomes a star and they trade him in a few years for less than he's worth because they don't feel they can afford his contract, I am not going to rationalize it by saying they made a smart business move. I am just going to be disappointed that they lost him.

It was a lot easier when there was no salary cap and other team's scouting deficiencies let you get guys like Lidstrom and Fedorov in the third and fourth rounds in the same draft. Then you have the contracts and everything Yzerman started with: Top 10 prospects from Bultmans end of 2018 ranking. Libor Sulak Joe Hicketts Vili Saarijarvi Gustav Lindstrom Evengy Svechnikov Jared McIssac Berggren Hronek Veleno Zadina More bad contracts than good, really no great prospects to speak of. I'm not sure that Seattle and Vegas are comparable since their gm's were able to completely decide what they wanted their team to be with very favorable protection rules, whereas Yzerman got what he was given. Seattle was even given the second overall pick to get Berniers as a cornerstone of their franchise, what has Yzerman had to work with? I myself am getting impatient but outside of some other GM being a miracle worker and getting really really lucky with trades and prospects I am not shocked that it is taking this long. I do scratch my head at some Yzerman moves but I am more than fine giving him more time to cook here.

A 32 year old $19m shooter who gets injured all the time. He just used up most of the cap space on a guy who scored 7ppg last season. Unless Bojan is being dealt to recoup that cap space, I'm not sure what the plan is. He basically did the Nets the favor of freeing them of a big contract for nothing basically.

Immaculate Grid 88 8/9: 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜️ Score of 241. The last 2 of the bottom row hurt me, the one I got right had a high percentage and the one I missed I knew multiple answers to for sure but I guessed on a guy who I was fairly confident in that wasn't as recent hoping for a small percentage only for him not to have won it.

The less than perfect lawn is actually a healthier lawn... and one way to prevent grass from turning brown in the event of a drought is to let it grow longer. Don't even get me started on overuse of pesticides and herbicides.

Yes, Candy and Lorenzo nuts.

Lower the better, it adds all of your %'s to come up with the score.

do i want a high or low rarity score?

FYI, this is the chart from last month's year-over-year inflation report: The bottom line number came in at 4%, and as we can see, almost a third of that is tied up in last June alone, which is now 12 months ago. Once that month falls off the year-over-year period with next month's report, there's a good chance the overall number is going to come in at two-point-something, which is gonna make everyone throw their hats up into the air and shout "huzzah!" Well, at least those of us over sixty. 😁 I might increase my positions in some stock indexes before then.

What a concept ...

ESPN let Jeff Van Gundy and Jalen Rose go.

This was basically the reason I thought he would be due for a bounceback. His mean was way higher than his performance last year, and I'm pretty sure nearly everyone, including Scott Harris and A.J. Hinch, saw that.

Reminds of the year before he wore a game used Babe Ruth cap during a game, he paid $35K for. Wore for one inning fined $2500. He paid the fine with one dollar bills. He has since sold the cap at auction for $537K good investment! https://www.sportscasting.com/what-happened-to-the-35k-yankees-hat-david-wells-wore-for-1-inning/

I should give Vierling more consideration - He is the guy any OF promoted from Toledo will have to beat out. He's team controlled, he covers a lot ground on D even it doesn't have the showiest glove, he has little or no platoon split (everyday eligible) and one of the few hitters who's managing an OPS+ > 100.

This will prove out my theory that when your lone all star is a reliever then it means your team sucks.

Good environment to sell Bogdanovich.

Nice to see someone (other than Jace Jung or Danny Serretti) flash a little promise from the last draft class...

Jim was drunk in the 90s.

Definitely worth repeating

A much as we complain - rightfully - that Torkleson needs to hit for more consistent OBP, his 28 XBH still lead the team by a large margin (Javy next 18). And he's tied for the lead in BB.

Hold up, I thought that only happened to me. I was just at Kroger today and if I needed 10 specific things, there were people blocking 8 of them. Then we can talk about people who, for some reason, insist on stopping right in the doorway to check their receipt.

Hold up, how can anyone claim that poor white people are in a better situation than an equally poor black person? If anything, the poor white person is worse off as far as gaining admission to college as schools already have plenty of white people and want to round out their student body with minorities.

shocker

My understanding is that the sports books are providing the info to the NFL. I believe that this is an agreement between the NFL and the sports book to do this.

See? I told you to just have patience with Torkelson. He's still a kid...growing pains.

Definitely, it would be nice though for him to avoid the depths he goes to when he is not dialed in. If he could just be merely below average during his down stretches instead of being absolutely dreadful like he seems to be during them his overall numbers will probably end up falling in line with what we hoped we'd get when we drafted him. For example he had that scorching stretch for a few weeks late last month and early this month but then after that he proceeded to go 3-37 with just 1XBH. Like if his bad stretches could be bad but not THAT bad things could turn out ok.

Tork cranked three line drive HR's with exit velo's in the 101-07 range. He's fun to watch when he's dialed in

Splitting 4 with Texas on the road when we had 3 pitching injuries was surprising.

Mo Bamba was just waived by the Lakers, Weaver's got to be salivating at the thought of picking up another former high draft pick big man.

This Ibanez kid is really growing on me.

Those last two HR's have been rockets...line drives that got out in a hurry. I think tht's what people expected from him when he was drafted.... Rocketball dingers

Chris saying what we all feel

Yesterday was Mel Brooks 97th birthday. There was a lot written about Blazing Saddles, but I feel High Anxiety was his best film. A great parody of the 1960s and early 70s thrillers. My favorite scene, nobody does it better...

I think the only two players I would take over Sewell in that draft are Lawrence and Parsons. Perhaps Chase as well but I think having another elite o lineman is more important to us than an elite WR.

I think it would get lots of attention, much like Cabrera's Triple Crown. The .400 chase I remember the most is George Brett in 1980.