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I have April 26 circled on my calendar. It’ll be interesting to see the fan reaction when Ohtani steps to the plate at Rogers Centre.

Why do you hate the Mariners and the Blue Jays so much?

The money is very nice, but I also believe a key reason Ohtani went with the Dodgers is that they are a winning organization who will give him a great chance to win a ring.

Remember when shoplifting was out of control and connected to organized crime and terrorist groups and, worst of all, BLM and Antifa? Well …

I agree Juan Soto won't get 700 million, but he probably will get more than he would have had Ohtani signed for "only" four-something. He might even get six-something now, which I don't think anyone would have suggested before the Ohtani signing.

Ohtani will have better players around him with the Dodgers than he would have with the Blue Jays or Mariners, so their chances of making the playoffs and winning a ring will be higher. I don't doubt at all that he chose Dodgers because they are more of a winner, in addition to getting the highest offer. Elite athletes are hard-wired to want to win. They were also in the best position to offer him the most money since they generate the most revenue. I don't think the Mariners were in a position to offer 650 million. Even so, is there really a substantial marginal difference between 650 million and 700 million such that a player would choose to lose with a team to get that difference? I don't think so. I certainly wouldn't want to work at a terrible company because they offered me marginally more money. Hell, I did something like that during my own career and really regretted it!

And the tickets are probably the least of it.

Neither of those teams, in my opinion, are as likely to make the playoffs, and to win the World Series, as the Dodgers. If putting himself in the best position to win was his #1 priority, then he probably made the best choice.

Angels should have offered 700.1 million.

I'm thinking Ohtani is tired of not winning, and none of those teams are as likely to win a World Series as Los Angeles is in the near future.

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.

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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.