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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?

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

To secure Correa at 9/315 would require at minimum that no other team offer him nine years. It would also probably have to include multiple outs in the first three years. Any contender matches us on years, though, and we won’t stand a chance in any case.

Get an eyeful of baseball, gents, tonight might be it after all.

Because more than 5 years is worth…more security.

Because Carlos Correa wanted more than five years, and he’s easily the kind of player that can get it.

Not sure what you’re trying to disparage with the quotes, but Correa didn’t take the offer because he was never going to accept a five-year deal from the Astros.

Considering the contracts Trout, Rendon, Arenado, Stanton, Lindor, Seager, Machado, Springer, Altuve, Harper, and Freeman are working off of, if any team can get Correa for only three years at a $29MM AAV, especially after putting up a five-spot in wins on his own 3/105, I think they'd be getting a huge bargain.

Yeah, the rundown looked pretty ugly. I thought he'd get a concussion from the knee to the head. I don't know which grade his sprain is, but I got a grade 2 MCL sprain sliding into home plate in June. Haven't been back on the field since because it's been slow going coming back. I have a couple decades on Yuli so no wonder it's such a a slow go for me, but Yuli ain't no spring chicken neither, so ... hope he's all right for spring.

I think he sees his audience as more than just "social media".

So it's official: they are requiring payment for the blue check mark: This confirms it for me: I think Elon Musk is trying to destroy Twitter. I think it might be because as a billionaire who wants to rule the world, he needs to destroy accountability outlets, and Twitter is a main one of those. The criticism flows freely on Twitter and gets shared instantaneously and everywhere—destroy it, and he and his ilk escape one of today's main avenues of accountability. I bet his partners in equity and debt financing the deal are shitting a brick realizing that this weekend.

Or the '61 Astros! 😅 EDIT: Correa didn't leave the Astros for the money so much as he left them for the years. Yeah, yeah, I know, he took only "three" years from the Twins, but that was a contract he would sign only with escape clauses after each season, to position himself to get all those years he really wants this time around. Will it work? Stay tuned ...