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He’s going to turn it onto us some day if he can’t be stopped.

“Corner infielder” seems generous. Murakami is probably more like a first baseman by process of elimination until he can’t hack even that anymore, which shouldn’t be long now. But you might be right in that he’s taking the shorter deal to try to fix his swing and miss issues here, and doing so with a team where there’s almost no pressure to make the playoffs—so he can focus on himself versus on the team—and all while making more money than he ever could at home seems like a winning strategy. If he successfully fixes his issue, he might get way, way into nine figures starting 2028. And if he doesn’t? Well, then, worst case, he can always go back home with money-for-life and rake for another ten years in an only-slightly inferior league that speaks his native language. Seems like a smart plan to me.

Maybe a better, more equitable way would be, instead of organizations leveraging their superior resources in an unfair manner to groom top kids for signing, Major League Baseball runs the whole development show throughout the Caribbean with equal contributions from all 30 orgs. Then they post the kids in a draft and order is based on the same criteria as the Rule 4 draft. Another option might be a mixed system in which there is only one or two rounds in the draft where all the kids age 16-18 considered top of the game can get picked, and anyone not picked after being eligible for the international draft after two years could be signed afterwards as an undrafted AFA.

They were simply the SOLs today.

Well that was a ****ing exclamation point to the season.

Well, that’s pretty much it for this team. The touchdown run notwithstanding, this might have been the most stalwart performance for the defense this season—but, also, this can’t not be the worst game of Jared Goff’s professional career.

That FG was the platonic ideal of splitting the uprights. The kick went right over the single supporting pole.

TeSlaa looks not unlike the young male nurse on St Denis Medical.

I bet he simply preferred to stay in Florida.

I guess I was kinda wrong here—he worked himself into becoming good enough for Asia:

And why not? They basically have the day off anyway since the whole rest of the first world does, so, might as well make something special happen on a local basis.

Thanks for reminding me! I need to bake a half a half a dozen dozen cookies for my wife's family's Xmas celebration for Monday.

It's a good time to be a bank.

The safest thing anyone can do with regard to firearms is to stay the hell away from them.

You mean the yellow pencils we use to chew on out of boredom during class?

Awesome! Will you be taking credit for the “broader drop in violent crime” from 2021 through 2024 as well?

He literally cannot stop himself from following his id.

Is that where we dissidents are going to end up eventually? Inside warehouses instead of concentration camps? And probably in Arizona in July or Fairbanks in January?

Men who can make machines fly through the air become super impressed with themselves and start exhibiting endangering hubris? No kidding …

This looks to me like a typical doubling down after getting called out on his original statements and recognizing they’re not working. The more he realizes people are seeing through his horse****, the most outlandish his statements become and the louder he gets while spouting them.

You don’t say.

You’d think they d be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

HT his parents.

This is one of the more ingenious insights I’ve seen into the business.

That’s fair, but also, the Red Sox seem to go from first place to last place and back again inexplicably.