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The old Lions showed up for the game today. They are playing like a team that thought their press clippings were going to win this game for them and propel them to the playoffs. The same way the 1980 Lions thought that parodying a popular record when they were four-and-fucking-oh would be enough to take them to the Super Bowl.

Honolulu blow and dirty gray.

Oh noes, how can the Mets ever win 115 games without him?

Teammates on all his teams have always hated him, going back to at least UCLA. He’s one of those loner prodigies who marches to the beat of his own drummer. That’s fine as far as it goes, but he’s also a loudmouth about it, and as it turns out, people don’t like being around that.

Bauer is so toxic here, he might end up in Asia. He definitely is a ball rat, so if at all possible, he’s gonna play somewhere anywhere.

This is a good swing at it, although are the Mets looking for marginal salary relief? They just signed Danny Mendick to a million dollar big league deal just to stick him in Syracuse since he has something like four guys ahead of him on the chart.

Without doing any research on it, which I might try to do at some point, I’m guessing there are certain attributes on the Statcast cards that are somewhat predictive and others that are far less so. Going out on a limb here, I don’t think xBA and xSLG are all that predictive, and hard hit % might not be much more predictive, because they are the result of batted ball which has a high degree of luck attended to it. But I’m guessing K% and BB% are probably more predictive because they reflect more a pitcher’s stuff, the ability to pound the zone and elicit swing and miss. Again, that’s just going out on a limb and making a guess educated by looking at a lot of this stuff, and not taking into account any concerted changes hitters and pitchers make to address weaknesses that could change a guy’s card year over year.

Maybe it's because they need it to remain a live, unsolvable issue so they can continue to shoot arrows at Democrats over it? Because once it gets solved, that arrow disappears from their quiver, and then they'd have to elevate some other easy and reliable garbage issue to animate their low-information base with in its place.

I had assumed he was "donating" his salary to some fakety-fake hastily-registered P.O.-box-type 501(c)(3) that got funneled back into his pocket.

I think it's likely he gets churned.

Is true. They don't keep most players until free agency. Franco won't last anywhere near 11 years in Tampa. Longoria signed for ten years with them after the 2012 season. He lasted five there.

Not a fan, huh? I find them fairly instructive. You don't have to agree. I'll still post them here when the mood strikes me.

It may have been, at least from his side, although it almost looks as though in this market, if you're not getting two years, you're not doing it right.

Yes, I know. I meant "took the year off" to be literal, not figurative. And yet: still 2/38, including an out.

The years have long been more important than the AAV, because years mean not only job security, but relevance.

That epiphany moment struck me in this scene, too. The officers' consciences folded under Jose Ferrer's drunken moralizing. That doesn't happen in real life. Or at least not with the MAGA crowd.

That struck me as well. Not too fine a point put on that one, was it? Are you suggesting that Trump is Queeg, someone being set up to take the fall but who's sick and has ten times the guts of his underlings, who were the real authors of the democracy mutiny? Not trying to be pointed myself, but rather trying to properly interpret the abstruse point you're making here.

Only if he'll take one year.

Absolutely, playing at the top end of the market was never going to work out for us now, and they may have decided that even the middle of the market is overpriced in years for them. That's really what the crux of the biscuit for the Tigers is: it's more about the years than the money, and we don't want to throw more than a year at anybody because we don't want multi-year marginal players hanging around and screwing up our plans in, say, 2025.

It could be wasting money of marginal players, or it could also be that, incredibly, players have been increasingly underpaid versus rising revenues for several years and the pay is just now beginning to catch up. If the latter is true, then the $64 question will be, will Baby Doc respond competitively when it’s time again to do so, or will he fight against a shifted market and repeatedly get outbid for players we can actually use to help put us over the top? That’s a question we probably won’t know the answer to until at least next offseason, and perhaps not for two.

Yes, he had had his worst season in five years in 2021, and take the year off last year. Still gets 2/38 with an out in year two.

I immediately became a big fan of the song Over and Over because of his SNL appearance.

Conforto just had his worst season in five years, although he’s young enough to have a decent chance of recovering to his last few years’ level, plus the Giants were desperate to make a move that didn’t end up publicly blowing up in their faces.