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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.

I’ve read enough about him to hypothesize that optimizing every ounce of his ability and putting it into practice in a game is his favorite way of enjoying life. Or at least his favorite way that doesn’t get him suspended.

I love their ruthlessness in roster management, too. I can also see why their fans might get frustrated if they can’t feel like they can fall in love with any of the players because they’ll just be gone practically tomorrow.

Yet another contract that would have been for one year any year before this.

You would not make a good red hat.

The later stuff, too ...

What the Beatles were by far the best at was writing a huge volume of songs reflecting elite musicality with irresistible hooks. Regardless of which era you point to, they knew the exact zeitgeist to tap into with the songs they were creating. Especially Lennon and McCartney, who were great from practically day one. They were so good that a motivated George Harrison, who was at best a meh songwriter in 1964, elevated himself to become their equal by 1969 specifically because he spent those five years learning at their feet. They have several dozen songs that even 50+ years later hold up as among the greatest pop songs in history, and I’m not even including their solo work, of which there are perhaps a couple dozen more you could add to their group canon. No other individual or act comes close.

I’m late to the game to White Stripes right now. I’m listening through their catalog of albums for really the first time.

The one I had several years ago was by a doctor who must have been in a hurry. I remember them asking me to count backwards from 100, and I remember going “100 … 99 … 98 … oww …”