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I believe I alluded to this within the last week somewhere around here, but I do wonder what would have happened if we’d held onto certain players while letting others go. For instance, what if, through various circumstances, we would have kept Robbie Ray and not Daniel Norris? Would Norris be a Cy Young winner and a hundred-millionaire somewhere else while Ray scuffled along with a schlubby career here? I wonder whether players ever discuss winning lotto or dodging bullets like that with each other in private?

Right. Well, that and lawmaking designed to suppress tourout.

My 2009 and 2013 both that had a feature allowed me to permanently disable ESS by pushing a button, although the weird part is when the button light was off the ESS was active, and when the button light was on it was disabled.

All these polls are just soup at this point. Just rip off the goddamn band-aid already.

Democrats have always been the party of Phone Home.

Not written for this kind of situation, but still apt:

On the other hand, it’s not as though Trump talk talk is just a big nothing. It is having dramatic real-work effects.

If there were a criterion that the players had to play their entire careers here, then the answer could only be Kaline, Gehringer, Whitaker, and Trammell.

lol "Tröllheim". Yeah, no shit ...

Unless the old saw applies here: "For every beautiful woman ..." 😉

Meaning they can change their name to a celebrity and also acquire the blue check-mark for it? Didn't know that. I wonder how come none of the stories of the past few days mention you can already do that? Also, apparently, Twitter has forced a name change back to valerie bertinelli (in all small letters on purpose?), because when I first posted that tweet (as a link), it did say Elon Musk (capitalized).

Then you probably don't want to hear that even if there is a blue wave this year, Republicans are patiently playing the long game until they do win, and whether it's 2022, 2024, 28, 32, or whenever it is, once they do, they'll kill off democracy as we know it and replace with democracy as autocrats play-act it. Now, potential lemonade out of lemons: assuming R takes the House, and even the Senate, if they spend the next two years doing nothing but investigating Hunter Biden, impeaching Joe Biden et al, and continuing the attempt or success at eroding our rights, that might set up D for a pretty solid victory in 2024. That might give us at least a few more years of relatively sane government that's being checked and balanced.

Interesting, this. I was laid off twice while in my 40s, and each time, they laid off a corresponding employee under 40. I learned from a mole inside one of the companies that they did that so I would not sue for age discrimination, and they could point to the young people laid off as proof of that.

I'm pretty sure you have nothing to worry about. 😁 On the 1 in 100 odds he does end up here, though, I'll root for him!

I wonder what Javier Baez will say when Carlos Correa calls and asks him how he likes playing in Detroit?

Yup, it checks out.

It’s not all his money in Twitter, anyway, so I think he’s gonna be OK.

Sure, but can owners copy-cat the Astros in time for every one of them to tell Correa over the next few months, “thanks but no thanks, we have this 21-year-old rookie that we think will be an All-Star for us this year”? Side point on Houston: they are also still top eight In baseball offensively, so I think of them as pretty well-rounded.

I think eight years is a borderline length, and $35MM is a borderline AAV. I think Correa would rather do a 1/35+ for another year, since he’s only 28 next year, and take another crack next year. An eight-year deal this year ends after his age 35 season. I think he’ll want something that takes him deeper into his career.

Thursday—five days after the end of the Series.

How would the Houston Astros, arguably the greatest developmental franchise in the history of baseball, with their ability to switch out Hall-of-Fame-track players with suitable replacements, make someone like Correa less valuable to other teams?

lol

If what he really wants is to destroy the democratic free-for-all that is Twitter, then paying the bills doesn’t matter.