Jim Cowan

Correa is better than Baez...when he is on the field. Which isn't often enough. However, he isn't twice as good as Baez, but he will get more than twice as much money. I would rather spend the Correa money on Baez and more pitching.

I would be very, very happy with Baez. Power, speed, and superb defender. OK, he doesn't get on base as much as you'd like. But I would be very pleased.

Thanks I hadn't seen the update. You know, this national vaccine mandate is really interesting. I don't disagree with it, we are doing it with hospital staff here in Hamilton. Shut your mouth and get the shot or lose your job, period. I would like to see it extended to the whole population, but it won't be. This is the first time in my life that I am enjoying being a fascist.

I think Niko will be a useful 25th man on a good team in the NL that limits him to 250 PA's.

This was really interesting to watch and learn. On day one a casual observer would have said "sounds like second degree murder, maybe he will plead to manslaughter". But then as the days went by it became more and more clear how utterly absurd the laws are, and that he had not broken any, incredible though that may seem. It is legal to be an open-carry, self-appointed law enforcement vigilante in Wisconsin. He is "not guilty", that has been obvious for days. Which is not the same thing, at all, as "didn't do anything wrong", of course he did.

It's pretty simple really, you put a toll booth on every block.

That lockdown in Austria is only for unvaccinated people. How will it be enforced? Police will be authorized to stop you and ask you for proof of vaccination. If you are unvaccinated, prove that your trip is essential. Not sure if they will be wearing jackboots. It would be Austria of course.

I was hoping Senator John Kennedy would show up at Dealey Plaza.

That drives me crazy, two thirds of the ICU patients here are unvaccinated, even though only 11% of people 12 and over are unvaccinated. They are such stupid buttheads I wish we could deny treatment to them, they are preventing necessary surgery because of all the ICU beds that they are occupying.

Cespedes...sigh. I loved that guy. Having him and JD in the corners was the greatest thing since Kaline and Colavito.

No, I'm sure you are misremembering that.

Yes I am not disappointed by the Verlander outcome. I like him, like most people here, but there isn't much proof yet that he can still pitch. Interesting how, if he had signed here, a lot of people would have attributed that to his connection to Hinch.

Not me, I'm sticking with Domingo Leyba.

It's that Trumpy schoolyard name-calling, it's just hilarious and it never gets old.

The Republican Party used to have serious people in prominent roles, quite a while ago now.

That's mind-boggling.

I would be very very happy to get him, a great defender with power and speed, and durable - he is going to be in the lineup. It's true that he doesn't get on base, although he did in his brief stint with the Mets. I like the speculation that he could be had for 4 or 5 years, not 8 or 10 like Correa. I I think that I actually like the bottom 2 guys better than the top 3.

I went 0 for Myrtle Beach once.

Absolutely. Here's something you know for sure, if Harold is on the team Hinch will use him at first base.

I appreciate that, but if you leave your best player behind and have a losing record until he gets there, you are setting yourself up for a lot of criticism. I want Tork there opening day unless he goes 0 for Florida.

Back to Tork and his service clock, didn't the Angels miss a possible playoff berth by monkeying around with Trout's service time?

Liz Cheney, man, she just won't f'n listen.

Please don't say "it's the same law here". Your gun law is unlike any other country in the world and it is incomprehensible to everyone who lives anywhere else. If you walk down a street here with a loaded weapon, that's the best way to get shot by a cop. So my advice would be to never, ever try to look for similarities between US gun laws and those of other countries, because there isn't even a starting point.

Going hunting has nothing to do with an open carry law that allows a moron to walk into a disturbance with a semi-automatic rifle. Nothing. There is no comparison to be made there.

Yes exactly. What he did was wrong and he's a contempible little punk. It appears that what he did was not "illegal" because the gun laws are so farcical, but "illegal" and "wrong" are not synonyms. He caused 2 deaths that otherwise would not have occurred.