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Great question! Can you give us the full depth of the answer?

She's a 10pm 6 and a 2am 9.

Fun fact I just learned: Wander Franco is not suspended while all this is going on, but rather, he was placed on administrative leave by MLB, which separates him from his team but he is still being paid on his 11/182 contract, and he's still accruing service time. MLB could suspend Franco if the league determines he engaged in a prohibited act, including the types of crimes he allegedly committed. They don't have to wait for a conviction or plea deal to do so. But for MLB to suspend him, they would have to determine not that he broke a law, which is outside the scope of their jurisdiction, but instead whether he violated employment obligations established by collectively-bargained workplace policy. Even so, Franco would have the right to appeal any suspension and could contend that MLB lacks just cause to suspend him, based on available evidence. But wait: couldn't the Rays simply void Franco’s contract? After all, hasn't he been accused of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable? And isn't MLB in the vanguard of hammering players for allegations of sexual violence, even if they were never even tried or convicted? (Hello, Trevor Bauer!) The Rays could try, but the complicating factor is that Franco is accused of the crime, and not yet convicted. But even if the Rays wait for a conviction or plea deal to do so, historically, MLB teams have struggled to terminate player contracts, since they are guaranteed, even when a player is incarcerated. The Padres tried to terminate Lamarr Hoyt's contract when he was jailed for drugs back in the 80's, but an arbitrator reinstated the contract because he found the team had not followed all the prevailing procedures at the time. One possibility is that the Rays could negotiate a buyout with Franco, the way the Rockies did with Denny Neagle when he was found guilty of soliciting a prostitute. What makes Franco's situation different is since he is being held outside the country, the Rays could try to suspend Franco due to his inability to come to the United States to fulfill the terms of his contract, during which they would not have to pay him. Could they keep him suspended for the rest of his contract length as a way to de facto terminate all remaining payment obligations? Maybe. I'm sure that would have to be subjected to a judgment somehow. I wouldn't say that part is a really sweet deal for Franco, considering his overall circumstances, but assuming the Rays have made good on payments to him so far, he shouldn't have to worry about scaring up the cash to get the best legal representation possible.

"Commercial exploitation of a minor"? Isn't that what Craig Monroe is potentially facing?

I decided, hey, way not tune in some minor league baseball this afternoon, since the Hens, 'Wolves, and 'Caps all have day games. All all three are getting crushed by blowout scores. F-Tigers on tonight.

If by price you mean AAV, that shouldn't be a huge problem. I would guess less than 10, maybe 8. But I'd be concerned about giving him two guaranteed years, and if his demand is three-plus years, we definitely should pass. Because when it comes to a commodity like he, years are a bigger risk than AAV.

This is a good point. Kelly was considered a big talent when he was drafted, so I think there’s a decent chance he’s unlocked something here. But there’s also a chance it’s some sort of outlier, and we’d have to decide whether to give him years before we find that out. That would be a risk, even at two years.

Kelly’s going to want years. Are we willing to give him years?

Listen to parking management, and be prepared to sue the tar out of them if they give you a bum steer. I think Joumana Lawyer takes on those kinds of cases.

I do know that the quality of rock and roll has been both helped and hurt (e.g., pretentious prog rock) by the rose in music education, but I wonder whether and how it’s affected hip hop? I would imagine the same direction to some degree.

“By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.“

Apropos of nothing, I continue to maintain that Trading Places is the best Christmas movie of the last 50 years.

I think this is probably right. My four-year-older brother heavily influenced 11-year-old me to discover Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper and Cream, none of which I would have discovered on my own. I am of the impression that there are a lot of kids, meaning millennials and Gen Z, who like certain kinds of classic rock because their parents would play it. When I say “a lot” I don’t mean the majority, of course, but a certainly a far higher percentage of them like that than kids of my generation who liked big band swing music, which was basically zero. I would guess probably because classic rock sounds way closer in basic style to today’s pop music than swing ever did or could to 70s pop music.

Eddie Murphy is having himself a fairly decent late-career revival. Good for him.

Wake them when Biden is cheap-faked wandering around a Harris Teeter parking lot.

The ghost of Al Avila will haunt us for a few more years. Then he can’t hurt us anymore.

What a fun time to have celebrity encounters!

Who saw Maeda coming

Stupid iOS

Oh, that’s it, fire Hinch. 😁

It’s a fair response, and i don’t blame her. She doesn’t want to be caught saying something off the cuff that will become the star of the next news cycle.

There can’t be a unified response because the Democrats are not a unified party. They are a party of different factions with differing agendas. They are almost impossible to truly unify. Everyone wants their particular bed feathered. Contrast that with Republicans, who are monolithic in demography and ideology. That’s what a unified party looks like. Plus, Republicans waste no time when it comes to excommunicating apostates. With Democrats there’s no one at the top to pull that particular lever, so anyone can say just about anything they want and stay inside the tent pissing out. Since there’s no penalty for pay for party apostasy, there’s no incentive to unify, or more exactly, no disincentive to prevent acting out.

Gotta be!

What, is it April 2024 already? The Comeback Kids are back!

As I was saying … 🤬