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Correa would be 37 at the end of a 10yr deal. Assume you are willing to write off/buy out one year, call it 36. How many SS are still useful at 36 and does Correa fit the profile of those that are? Jeter was pretty close to 'generational' and his string of OPS+ >100 years ended at 35, with a decent comeback yr at 38. About the same for Ripken. Do folks think Correa lives in that company?

vaccination rate on campus is 97%, we are all still masked indoors.

Also - at one point last night Smoltz said he's destined for 3rd base....

IDK, did Ilitch feel pressure to up the offer to Max? These things become as much about Millionaire vs Billionaire ego trips as how to systematically deploy dollars for the most wins.

would not disagree. And I won't complain one bit if the Tigers are the one's to pay it, though I'm not in the camp that thinks you have to have superstar players to be the best team so I won't be mad if they don't pay that either.

I thought I read the Astros have already made him an offer in the 5/125 range and that is so far short of his assumed value the conclusion is that there is not much chance of them retaining him. Which should be a cautionary note for other teams. When one of the most successful franchises in recent years is making a value judgment that is something like 100% different than the talking heads, you might stop to ask why. Here is one report that google tossed up where Correa is quoted saying the Astros were 'not even close" https://roxpile.com/2021/10/14/colorado-rockies-houston-astros-carlos-correa-trevor-story/#:~:text=Correa told the media (including,t get close at all.”

what the corps do is not the point - the point is that the value of the modern market is divorced from any classic fundamental analysis, so arguments about how tax policy affect it are non-sequitur.

pretty bush league move at the plate after he hit it though. Do all the posing you like, but do it after you run the bases.

What happened to post season baseball being the high execution level of great teams. The signature of these playoffs is rapidly becoming fielders buckling under pressure like cheap beer cans. Altuve boots the tailor made DP ball. Alvarez gives up on a fly ball that hung up long enough to make to make a dent in "War and Peace". 'stros down 3-1.

are you kidding? The market is overpriced now because half the fortune 500 would rather buy their own stock back than invest because there is no expanding market for their goods as the middle class collapses, and the 1%, who have more money than they can find investments for now, have produced a market driven more by the greater fools theory than fundamental values. Get real.

I get the inappropriate methodology issue, but why are we taking a screen shot instead of frame by framing a video where we actually can bracket the maximum error based on the frame rate and the bat velocity? Meanwhile Cora is crazy to pull Sale here.

sure - the strain of translating engineeringese can be fatiguing.

Why - 401K are retirement accounts - you don't pay the tax until you take it out. If anything stock values would go up as US companies immediately became more competitive. Plus we'd get to tick off the Euro's again, which is always fun.

Huh?

It's good to see a man who knows how to be happy.

exactly, and you notice he body slammed the player that came after him after he decked Joseph as well.

You know the rule from gaming theory: Absorb the 1st blow with equanimity. After that respond with overwhelming ruthlessness.... 😇

those three as trade bait? Jim Schmakel need another bucket or two of batting practice balls?

Aside from their politics, as Tater says, they were (and a lot of people still are) fundamentally wrong about the nature of the future economy as well. You still have to have your people employed by direct wealth producing enterprises if you want to have a vibrant middle class. The 'information/service' age economy that they thought was Utopia in 1992 was a pipe dream. IT has turned out to be more easily outsourced than the businesses it was hoped it could replace. And the fact is that some primary wealth producing enterprise has to make enough ROI to pay for all those services and IT out of its excess profit margins. Taking stuff that is worth nothing and turning into stuff that is worth something remains, and will remain the ticket for middle class employment opportunity for as long as real people live in real physical space.

actually this democrat would be happy to see corporate income tax disappear - as long as every income earner above ~250K had to pay a stiff absolute minimum tax and every dividend and stock option was valued and taxed as regular income.

I'd take 5 cases per 100K as a good marker for when it's appropriate to relax.

As I noted - I think it has to do with practicalities. You can write a rule any way you like but in the end the umpires (or even the computers - in fact esp the computers) have to have some real objective observable on which to judge. As I see the situation, the 'bat across the plate' is about the only concrete observable in the whole situation so that is what has become the de facto standard. And yeah - if a guy stands forward in the box that's a problem for him wrt to checked swings, but it's no worse than the fact that pitchers don't get the whole theoretical K zone against tall guys (top) or short guys (bottom).

Granted the rule is terrible because semantically it's based on the batters intent, which is impossible to judge - in fact I would say that based on intent every checked swing should be a strike because at some level the batter meant to start swinging the bat which to me meets the definition of 'offering' at a pitch. But practically speaking, while the rule doesn't provide an objective standard, the umpires have more or less created one, which is whether the bat crosses over home plate. (and I think this is reasonable because if the bat gets that far, it could have hit the ball.) I think many fans think it's more poorly defined than it is because they tend to look at the batters rotation, and the batter often stops his rotation but still cross the plate. On that basis the rule seems to be as clearly understood and enforced as well an anything the umps are responsible for - which granted - may not be saying all that much!

and of course the Umps had to get into the act. Game ended on a bad call on the one play where the replay almost always proves them right, the checked swings strike. But not last night. Max got a gift for strike three to end the game.

who dat?