Jim Cowan

I'm very very happy, and no Correa is not worth double, and I don't want to be stuck with him 10 years from now.

If the 6 years is true that would be fantastic, the Tigers would be finished with tne contract after his age 34 seaon.

Yes, an all upper case F bomb in the middle of a football game can be effective. Not in every sentence though.

I still think that the ****ing asterisks are very powerful.

I like Boyd. He has his imperfections of course but I was hoping to see him back.

Lol!

It is somewhat disappointing that the oldest guy got 7 years, not 5 or 6.

Aaaaaaand, drum roll please...2 Omicron cases in Ontario today.

13 cases of Omicron in the Netherlands today.

His Mets career, one third of a season, was completely unlike his Cubs career: he got on base. His OBP was .371, he had never even done .330 for a full season before. He cut way back on his strikeouts...still more than one per game but just barely. So, who knows? He sucked big time in 2020, bounced back a little bit during his Cubs tenure in 2021, and then some kind of transformation happened with the Mets. Is it significant? Or just small sample size?

Jared achieved peace in the Middle East.

Thanks! 🙂

Yes, this again.

Those lists tell an important story. Yes, Correa and Seager are nice players when they are on the field, which is not often enough.

You will be getting more Sealtest ice cream.

Here is another reason why travel bans are dumb: they discourage the sharing of essential data. Those countries discovered the presence of a potential variant of concern, and shared the data with the rest of the world. Their reward? A travel ban. On top of all the rest of the things that they have to deal with, including vaccine inequity, they now have this stupid travel ban. It isn't much of an incentive for the sharing of data in the future.

Targeted travel bans are pointless. Canada has announced bans on the same countries; it is something that governments do in order to give the impression that they are doing something. Here is all you need to know about Omicron: a lady in Belgium has it, having just returned from Egypt and Turkey. She was nowhere near southern Africa. The travel ban might slow the arrival of the virus, but only for a couple of weeks and everybody knows it, especially the epidemiologists.

Yes, if they could get Baez for 5 years I would rather have that than Correa for 10.

Well, look no further for the reason why your daily cases and deaths are completely out of control. You need masking, and social distancing, in every indoor setting, with 100% compliance.

That's the first time I've heard that one of the 2 main goals of vaccination was to stop masking immediately. I don't know of anywhere in the world that allowed vaccinated people to stop wearing masks.

I live in a city of 770,000 people and the local health authority released a list of all the elementary schools and their vaccination rates. In affluent neighbourhoods the rates were averaging almost 80%, and in poorer neighbourhoods the average was around 50%. And, in schools specifically operated by Christian extremists, the average was around 30%.

How do you change attitudes? Michigan is averaging 77 deaths per day when, based on its population, that number should be 4. I have seen many anecdotal reports about how lax the attitudes are toward masking, and I have seen many opinions expressed that masking is not necessary any more. And how do you convince people to get vaccinated, after all the persuaion that has already been attempted? Michigan's vax rate is 54%.

Rolen is under the radar, a fine defensive player at third base who, in his first 10 full seasons, had an OPS+ of at least 120 for 9 of those 10 years.

Which Dr. Oz is that? Dr. Oz, crime reporter? Dr. Oz, wellness expert? Dr. Oz, food critic?

You serve no useful purpose here. You have already been here for 24 hours which is too long.