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They have both thrown a bunch of cash around—Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols and Justin Upton in the past, also Trout and Rendon, a very average Kikuchi just recently. They have no problem spending Arte's dinero. Of course, only a couple other teams can even dream of keeping up with the Dodgers, and the Angels ain't quite one.

There are two of them. Or at least two with "Los Angeles" in the name.

That would be pretty cool.

I would be somewhat surprised to see the Tigers sign Bregman at all, and even more surprised to see both him and them agree to a full six years here.

Carter was trying to set an example of hands-on service, and I think he was awesome at it.

Now this is a terrible thing to say about high-level athletes. No way are they drinking champagne.

They've already said they don't want to sign anyone who will block viable internal options, so we may have to accept that.

I bet we can keep Riley. Skubal, probably not so much.

And of course, this happens the moment I threw in a couple extra bucks. Like, literally, the moment: I made the purchase at 3:59PM ET yesterday. That said, my gain has been reduced from +275% at close yesterday to +38% now.

Yes, I doubled my original investment, not the value of what I have now.

Meaning we don't have to reach around and wipe? I don't know about you or anyone else here, but that's not exactly true, because I still have to dab the water off my butt afterwards. But it's not as though I am smashing the **** back onto my butt. I still have to dab because the air dryer that came with mine still leaves me wet, so I don't even bother using it anymore.

The more I think about the Giants' Verlander signing, the more I think, that's the exact kind of move a brand new general manager who's also a recently-retired ex-catcher would make.

I don't know why I did not know we don't receive revenue sharing, but I did not.

OK, I’ll bite: what good do “they” want to stop him from doing?

They can’t. They don’t have the capacity to do so. This is exactly why over the course of the last half century they’ve eliminated basically any curriculum in the free educational system that threatens to elicit critical thinking—so they wouldn’t be able to. All of this is a smokescreen to cover for the fact that the economy is poised to go into the ****ter—or at least the lower 99% of it. And that Honduran family with the sign in the supermarket parking lot? They’re the ones who are gonna get the blame for it.

He was kidding. Well, he’s gonna take the room temperature first, but if it’s too cool, then he was kidding.

Too abstruse for some.

His last big league start, he was on the Cubs in 2016 and got smoked off the mound, Cubs were down like 6-0, and they came back and won in extras. We learned two things that day: (1) Cubs really might break the curse after all; and (2) that was the end of Brian Matusz, major leaguer.

I don’t think so either. He’s not emblematic of the direction this team is forging. I just threw out a possibility of a single year of JV not to trigger fan endorphins, but to possibly eat innings for a year for relative cheap. It’s the kind of long shot we might have taken had he been still available after camp were to break. I don’t think we’re seriously into either Bregman and Santander, either. I doubt we are in the market to forfeit our second pick (plus our third pick if we sign both) and half a million international bucks. I’m thinking based on the direction they’ve been going, one more draft will be considered crucial by them to firm up the firmament.

So much for Verlander as an option for us …

I put a few more bucks in IONQ after scoring a four-bagger on it in the past year. We'll see how it goes from here ...

Dave Ramsey is the Dr. Laura of financial shows. They both appear to build themselves up by making callers feel bad or stupid. Not that it's undeserved, but it feels more like it's for the benefit for other listeners to feel good about the decisions they make in their own lives than it is to help the callers they are hammering, which, they aren't.

I just discovered this history podcast, American History Hit. It sounds similar to American History Tellers, but I like Hit better than Tellers because it's a conversation with historians, versus a dramatic reenacting of events, which I find cheesy. https://shows.acast.com/american-history-hit

He'll deport everyone with either a French first or last name, ban the speaking of French in official government and commercial business, and rename the state Trumpbec.

not for him, it doesn't. Not yet, anyway. The entire country is under his spell.