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LOL - perfect.

No one should have any economic sympathy for *anyone* who owns a major league baseball team (or an any other pro sports team FTM) but IMO at least, it doesn't particular advance the argument to harp on the assets of any particular ownership because that isn't what makes the situation what it is. The Dodgers and Yankees aren't able to spend more money because their ownership groups are richer or theoretically able or willing to invest more, they can spend more because the team has more revenue. If Ilitch owned the Dodgers he'd probably be spending what the Dodgers spend now and if the Dodger's ownership group owned the Tigers they'd probably be spending more or less what the Tigers spend now. Or conversely if Ilitch still owned the Tigers but the Tigers were the team from LA, the Tigers would be spending what the the Dodgers do. There simply are not 30 markets in the US where you can generate the kind of revenue that LA and NYC generate. Every other sports org recognizes that and makes a serious effort to normalize revenues across the league. As long as baseball doesn't, there is no ownership group that will ever be able to rescue the Pirates or Marlins, Detroit etc., from their revenue disadvantage.

It happens. We had another player who was once a great young athlete but could hardly put one foot in front of the other without tripping in the OF by the time he was 26. yes, it was

Probably when there was a lot less of him. I'm thinking he has subtracted by addition.

I'm really not up for a season of playing the Washington Generals to the league's globetrotters.....

well that was definitely sucky

this is not looking good.

Comic relief breaK - Trump "English is our national language" admin FEMA running a preparedness PSA with everything written in Spanish. Don't any one tell Donnie! 🤣

"ChatGPT, generate a video of Margot out by three inches"

it would be gravy if Dingler hit a little this season.

Terrible choice to dive for that by Conforto but we'll take it.

now we need at least 6 more outs to win this game.

No way

He was in.

unfortunately Margot may be out.

Margot! How about that?

yeah - there was no camera angle that showed the fan's glove, but based on where he was standing and the fact he was leaning it's not geometrically possible he wasn't over the field of play. But Vest grooved the pitch - you just can't do that to an all world player like Betts.

yeah - and wasted a really good AB by McKinstry

yeah - Javy does look a little more comfortable but it's not made any difference so far.

Arithmetic is fascist.

you're not supposed to hit HRs in LA after dark.

How did they beat CLE without Cade? NBA makes no sense at all some nights

Jeez SB! I spun a couple back in the day but was always lucky. I never put a ding in that SS - to my parents everlasting surprise, and probably frustration. If I had it might have been their excuse to have me get rid of it! I never raced but I did seriously practice maneuvres, on dirt, in parking lots, etc., and especially on snow. I think we make such a big mistake not teaching people to how to handle a car under a little more duress. It saved me more than once.

I guess that's the safety of fish swimming in a school. Do something that stands out like a Milken or Theranos and you may get hammered. Just do the common everyday fraud everyone else is doing and you're immunized since they won't/can't prosecute everybody.

My first car had a Chevy 327 Hi-comp (an SS). It was hydraulic valves to no top end there but it did pull like a trooper off the line. Compression was so high in that silly thing that the starter couldn't turn it over once it was hot. But it didn't matter since the damn thing started on the first push to TDC pretty much every time. When I think back to all that power with those terrible suspensions, bias ply tires and drum brakes I'm amazed any of us survived it!