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They must be calculating that they will still make all their money back on him off the field as well as on. And they might.

Really, was it ever going to be any other team? They're the #1 team on the west coast, and arguably in all of baseball, over the last decade. Pacific time zone, closer to home, big Asian community, favorable weather year round, center of the entertainment and media community on the west coast. In retrospect, a no-brainer.

Holy mary mother of god

You can never have too much catching.

I think that's true of many of them, but I also think many others are true believers which, in my own opinion, makes them even more dangerous. I blame the schools.

If you could, would you prevent or ban people from believing what they want to believe, even if it's not the thing you yourself believes?

But see, I've already qualified my statement with "as long as". So I'm covered. In your scenario, someone ending up in Congress and governing from specific religious beliefs do pick my pocket, at the very least, so you're right, that's not OK. But if my neighbor down the street wants to believe whatever he wants to believe, that is fine—so long he doesn't use it to pick my pocket or break my leg.

Well, then, that would be a problem. Removing that problem in specific cases removes my concern.

Which is fine, let them believe what they want, as long as it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

It's not for nothing that the story is that Eve offered Adam fruit not from an apple tree, but rather, from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They were not supposed to know things, and when the sought knowledge, they lost their immortality. Therefore, you can save your own soul by not knowing things.

I thought you were going somewhere with this about pointlessness that I was going to totally agree with before you took a sharp 90 degree turn to someplace else. To me, it's pointless to speculate on the beginnings of the universe at all because it doesn't ... ahem ... matter as it relates to where we are now, or where we're going. I'm no saying speculating on it is not fun, or that we shouldn't do it. In fact, speculating on it is fun, and we should do it. But even so, there's no point to it, because in the end, who cares? Whether some big bang happened billions of years ago or some hairy thunderer waved his hand thousands of years ago, either way, here we are. To whatever degree gods exist and in whatever form, do they really care which creation story you buy? is the comfort of our eternity really going to turn on that? Is it OK if I don't have a real opinion about it either way? Because I have roughly as much an opinion about this as I do about which managers should go to the Hall of Fame. Seems to me the only practical outcome to the debate about it is that people can go to war with each other over it.

Now that Threads is becoming much bigger and fast, is it possible to arrange to post the link here and have the Thread thread show up, in the way we can do that with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook? So that: https://www.threads.net/@jomboymedia/post/C0mMdIcOPvq becomes:

Pistons were threatening for a minute to become a playoff team, but Gores fixed that.

Bailey seems like more the type to do that to a fella. Just ask Johnny.

I don't generally care about players after they leave the Tigers, up to and including Verlander and Scherzer, but I am actually glad for Jeimer here.

I find this ever-so-slightly plausible than #1, although for this to be the case he would have to believe he would do better this winter than what the Dodgers were offering, which wouldn't surprise me.

I'd read somewhere, maybe Cody, that the return was less than what a pitcher of his talent-other-things-being-equal would bring back.

Late modification

I find #3 the most plausible, and not because of any personal feelings I might or might not have about Eduardo, but because I find #1 basically impossible, #2 fairly unlikely, and #4 the most likely of the others but still less likely than #3.

That one was easy, although TBF, that’s because there’s a well-known active pipeline between Latin America and Asia.

I’ve never bought that theory for even a second.

We’ve been assured repeatedly that it was all Scott Harris’s fault he didn’t complete the Dodgers trade, and double his fault he didn’t have a backup plan in place.

Yes, but now I don’t think Montgomery gets a Nola-lite offer, like a 5/110 or even 6/120. I think he’s gonna get something closer to 4/80 because the guy closest to him came off the board for that. Montgomery was in a netherland between the two and as long as only Nola signed, then Montgomery could peg his demand to him, but now that Eduardo is signed Montgomery is going to get pegged to that one instead. The bold prediction would be Montgomery holding out until March waiting to get the higher deal that doesn’t come.

Jordan Montgomery’s market just went to ****. Can’t peg himself to Nola anymore.