Jim Cowan

I don't think that very many people here would think that owning a single shot .22 for targets is a problem. Or a stronger rifle for deer. Or a shotgun for ducks or skeet, go ahead and have one of those too. Just take proper precautions. Handguns and semi automatic rifles are an entirely different story. Those need to be rigidly controlled, and the semi automatics should be totally banned.

SigSauer 9mm, what does that cost, about $1,200?

Schoop is trash?

So if you believe Fangraphs' assessment of defense, Baez has the advantage over Correa in defense, power, speed and durability. Correa has the advantage in OBP (.356) and he is 2 years younger. Correct?

I think Baez will smile at him, and be polite and respectful to him!

Wow, they like Baez' D better than Correa's, and the other 3 guys are not close according to them. We will see, but that sounds promising.

I wonder if they said "we are making offers to all 3 of you guys...first one to accept is the one that we go with". And did they offer Correa 10 years? More, because of Seager? Those 5 guys will be linked together for the rest of their careers. Every time Baez goes 2 for 27 we will be looking up the numbers for the other 4 guys. Every time Seager goes on the DL, Ranger fans will do the same thing.

Yes the performance of each reliever seems to vary from year to year. There was a guy about 20 years ago, Cliff Politte, that I remember thinking at the time that he was pretty steady and dependable, and could be used for multiple innings. Looking back at the numbers now though, he had a couple of nice years but they weren't consecutive, and in many years his IP was less than his G. I think the last guy that the Tigers had who could put out a fire in the 7th inning, consistently, was Shane Greene. It was a role that suited him better thsn closer I think.

That is so sad, an the irony is that it would be a funny line in a comedy skit.

I mentioned this before but in the city that I live in, the lowest vaccination rates among elementary school children are in schools operated by Christian extremists. Easy to identify, the word "Christian" appears in the title and they charge a tuition fee. Their vax rates were as low as 18%, and they operate in affluent neighbourhoods where the publicly funded schools have vax rates as high as 88%. My daughter in law's mom is a nutter who says things like "in this household we respond to diseases with prayer".

Javy Baez has set one new record already...2 hours ago, 103 people online here, most ever.

Being hosted by a bilionaire is a really bad look. Justin Trudeau did that once, he took his family on a vacation to a private island owned by the Aga Khan, that rarest of creatures, the "billionaire imam". Or, if you prefer, "an imam who owns racehorses". When questioned after the fact Trudeau described him as "an old family friend" which is BS, Trudeau had met him once as a child. Does the Khan have business interests in Canada? I can't think of a reason why he wouldn't. Trudeau got some very bad press about how naive he was, to think that he could get away with something like that and not look hopelessly out of touch with the everyday life of the average citizen.

His last 3 offseasons including this one have been good, and this one could be great. He got Baez AND Rodriguez for not much more AAV than Correa will get by himself, and for 4 or 5 years less term. It's brilliant. There will be one more SP, and if it's Stroman he will be Executive of the Year.

I'm very very happy, and no Correa is not worth double, and I don't want to be stuck with him 10 years from now.

If the 6 years is true that would be fantastic, the Tigers would be finished with tne contract after his age 34 seaon.

Yes, an all upper case F bomb in the middle of a football game can be effective. Not in every sentence though.

I still think that the ****ing asterisks are very powerful.

I like Boyd. He has his imperfections of course but I was hoping to see him back.

Lol!

It is somewhat disappointing that the oldest guy got 7 years, not 5 or 6.

Aaaaaaand, drum roll please...2 Omicron cases in Ontario today.

13 cases of Omicron in the Netherlands today.

His Mets career, one third of a season, was completely unlike his Cubs career: he got on base. His OBP was .371, he had never even done .330 for a full season before. He cut way back on his strikeouts...still more than one per game but just barely. So, who knows? He sucked big time in 2020, bounced back a little bit during his Cubs tenure in 2021, and then some kind of transformation happened with the Mets. Is it significant? Or just small sample size?

Jared achieved peace in the Middle East.

Thanks! 🙂