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JD (also Nick) went from the fly ball graveyard that is Comerica Park to home run havens in Arizona and Chicago.

Maybe the Tigers should have offered Correa $50,000 instead. After all, it's just an initial offer.

You might be giving short shrift to the idea of religious people developing their own morals.

Those commandments at the end of the tablet are pretty stupid, too. A commandment against coveting your neighbor's goods? Isn't coveting what our entire market economy is based on? 😏

I love riding my bike around the city of Chicago. I'll go north side, south side or west side literally depending on which way the wind is blowing. I feel as safe as you can sharing a street with traffic.

I worked at a website that was owned by a German billionaire, and whose brother was the second-in-command. They ran it very much as an apprentice-based operation, in which everyone comes along very slowly, often working below their capacity and without true executive agency over their own position, for years before they are offered the opportunity to move up in the organization. That may be a well-understood and -accepted system for the labor force in Germany, but here at the website in America that was staffed with American employees, what happened was that the most talented people would end up bolting within the first year or two, while the very average people who patiently did their prescribed job and marked their time ended up getting promoted into the executive leadership.

I don't know whether it gets that far, given that seemingly everyone the Committee is trying to go after or hear from is suing to put a halt to their end of it. Apparently the hope is to stall and stall, freezing the Committee into inaction for the next year, until the Republicans take over in 2023, shut down the Committee, and start their own Committee to go after all the Democrats and RINOs who went after Trump. What a time to be alive.

Or Let's Yes Go Brandon, as the case may be.

Sure, it's off the table because they got someone else who can credibly do the job. That makes sense. Although if they were serious about Correa they could slide Baez over to second or even third, put up with Schoop at first when they have to, or maybe make someone on the infield available in trade. They'd have options if they did pick him up. But they won't. I suppose it's a defensible long shot to put 10/275 on the table for Correa on the off chance that they weren't going to be able to sign anyone else, and they market for Correa would fall down. Although at that point, if we're the top offer for Correa at 10/275 and everyone else is backing away from that, I'd be leery of following through with the deal.

I would say their offer was never truly on the table, since it was at least 20% lower than the consensus on his target, and it was clear he was never going to take it. So if the Tigers knew he wasn't going to take the offer, and then they pulled the offer from the table after it was rejected anyway, then I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish with it, unless it was meant as some sort of performative gesture for the fan base, especially that portion who were not paying any attention to Correa's market in the first place.

Well, given the confirmation of the Vermeer's value you provided in a subsequent post, I'd say $12 million, or even £12 million, is itself a lowball offer to a serious seller, even in 2004.

No doubt. With such a short career span and a seemingly endless supply of practice squad guys ready to step in and take your place at a moment’s notice, every game could be your last. In a career situation like that, way do you take a sick day if you can avoid it.

If the established prevailing value estimate of an asset is 12 million, and your opening bid is 50,000, you’ll be summarily dismissed as an unserious bidder and you will probably never get the ear of the seller again. Only in extreme distressed situations could you hope to purchase such a valuable asset for pennies on the dollar.

I also agree, which is why I was asking what the Tigers thought they were accomplishing with their 10/275. Maybe they’re thinking they can catch him when he falls, although if it’s the case that the prevailing opinion going into the offseason is that Correa can achieve 10/320, and suddenly everyone else pulls back and says here you go, Tigers, you can have him at 10/275 … do we still want him at that point?

Maybe part of that problem is that we didn’t see enough pictures or video of young people with COVID on ventilators, the same way we saw pictures of children in iron lungs seemingly everywhere in the 1950s. Some of it might be the difference between old people and children, and some of it might have been the willingness back then to publish the iron lung pictures.

The vaccine would be the end all of COVID, if everyone would take it as seriously as they took the polio shot, which did end up being the end all. Instead, as you say, COVID will be here for a long time because instead of doing their part to help eradicate it, too many people are willing to accept millions of somebody elses dying from it every year.

Bottom line: COVID is simply not the same as the flu. It is epidemiologically a different, deadlier disease that cannot be treated the same any more than appendicitis and cirrhosis of the liver can be treated the same.

Oh well, if were talking worldwide, now were talking about 5.4 million COVID deaths. Still a factor of multiples higher than regular flu.

Well, of course wearing masks is harmful. After all, what else could explain the thousands and thousands of doctors and nurses dropping dead in operation theaters every year?

Now we see one of the fictions you're belching up that helps feed right-wing politicization of COVID. The flu kills nowhere near a few hundred thousand a year. For the past ten years flu deaths have averaged about 35,000 per year, whereas COVID has already killed over 800,000 in less than two years. But as long as the people with fox in their head tell us that flu kills hundreds of thousands a year, they can feel better about politiminimizing the effect the COVID virus has on society. How can COVID be such a big deal, they'll tell us, when the flu kills just as many people and we weren't making people wear masks? Well, it is a big deal because COVID and flu are not nearly equivalent in the number of people each kills. COVID kills ten times the number of people that flu does. And that's even before we contemplate other attributes like COVID's greater rate of transmissibility and the delayed presentation of its symptoms. GTFOOHWTS

When it comes to COVID, your freedom ends where my respiratory system begins.

Except it was well-known that Correa's goal was to exceed the 10/341 Lindor contract, so everybody, including the Tigers, knew he would reject the 10/275. So in that sense, it can be said that the Tigers didn't make any effort.

Newsflash: COVID isn't the flu. It's a different disease from the flu.

You know who else says he didn't say the things he was documented or even audio-recorded as having said? Trump.

I remember being knocked out by going to an Orioles game in a suite when I worked in Baltimore, picking up the food menu, and seeing a dozen crab cakes selling for $108. Not so bad, you might say? Well ... that was a quarter of a century ago, in 1996.