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Just as Al Avila did all he could when he offered Carlos Correa 10/275 even as everyone knew Correa’s floor at the time was $300MM. So everyone, including Avila, knew Correa was going to turn down the offer. But you are 100% correct that Avila was given full credit for making the offer by the fans, who ignored—or, more likely, didn’t even recognize—the cynical nature of the offer in the first place. As a result, Correa got raked, here and elsewhere, for having the temerity to turn down the offer. That would probably happen, too, if Harris offered $300MM to Skubal out of the gate knowing full well that the expectation would be Skubal shooting for $400MM. Harris would be praised, Skubal would get raked, world would keep turning.

Yes. Yes, we are.

I hope Dan Dickerson is still doing Tiger games when I am on my deathbed.

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I don't like reels because I don't like portrait videos, and that goes double for baseball action offered to me in portrait mode. Or at least I haven't gotten used to them.

As far as RSNs are concerned ... yeah. 😁

If it's known that the market is going to bear 10/400, then I would rather Harris not even bother with an 8/300 offer. Maintain your dignity, Scott.

It's not going to **** me over—unless they pass a law forcing a conversion of all our dollars to crypto. Then it's definitely going to **** me over.

That they keep recycling the same music hall tune is itself a hilariously sly joke.

Maybe it's because the London billionaires make their money in rubles and not pounds ...

May?

fire harris

I don't get this even a little.

As much as I can agree with this, I don't think Dan Dickerson would ever get hired as the primary PxP guy on TV. For one thing, he's too old; for another, he's too serious about the game. They want Millennials and Gen Zs who, sure, have at least a passing familiarity with the game, but who also can confidently riff on pop culture, confortably joke around with miked up players during the game—which is a lot harder when there's a span of two or more generations—and can unironically provide prop bet gambling odds in the moment. Something else I've noticed: he does not do sponsor reads with much relish. I'm sure employers notice this, too.

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

Fine by me as long as Dan does TV.

I think the bigger point is that if the numbers are public and everyone knows exactly how much money they're making, that puts pressure on them to ratchet up player payrolls dramatically.

I just worry what he is capable of when he realizes the mortal jig is up for him. He is so self-loathing and wants everyone to be more miserable than he so he can feel better. People who hate themselves project that self-hate onto everyone else and they want to leave a legacy of hate and misery in their wake. So, if Trump is in a position to understand he's going to die at any moment, what is he capable of on the way out?

Hey, she was askin' for it ...

I copied the headline which says median, so, who knows. It's probably median, though, which is typically how income is reported.

I would like to see something like this for US congressional districts. Median Gross Household Income In Great Britain By Parliamentary Constituency

Countries Where More People Died Than Were Born In 2024

I think this is partially right. There was a fair amount of fascism already baked into the very conservative precepts of the modern Republican Party, such as performative patriotism; the elevation of religion and the military in civilian life; the scapegoating of certain groups of people considered outsiders; corporate control of the national economy in conjunction with the government; and maybe a few others. Cheney, Kinzinger, and Romney at least benefited from all this, if not driving it themselves entirely, and even though they basically left the party, a lot of their fellows who travel along these lines have stuck around. Then the other elements of fascism really came to the fore in in the past decade—the authoritarian leadership; the desire to suppress dissent; the whitewashing of history; the mass propaganda rallies; the rejection of liberal democracy, pluralism, and individual rights—which I believe drew a new element into the Republican party that had been completely outside of it, where they were considered oddballs and kooks at best, and dangerous actors at worst. They were not already in the party, which they considered part of the liberal order they wanted to topple, but now that the party has embraced the fascism completely, these dangerous elements have found a home within where they now have a veneer of respectability and gravitas they could never have had before. So I think it's both Trump exposing and highlighting certain noxious aspects of the Republican Party, and the elevation of those aspects and the embrace of other fascist aspects that has attracted extremist outsiders who'd never felt welcome there before.