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Covid is leading to earlier retirements in many industrires. When you have as much money as Seager does, the fear of Covid or the tedium of Covid restrictions might lead you to want to spend more time at home with family. Posey retired after a 3.5 WAR season, but that might have more to do with getting beat up at the catcher position for so many years.

I made more money in the market this year than any other year with my usual mostly passive investing. The problem is it's mostly retirement money which I can't spend yet so it doesn't feel real. I'm expecting a big crash right as I retire!

Baseball has always appealed to older audiences. It's not an exciting sport for young people to watch. I think the future of the game is gambling.

I didn't need it. The knee surgery barely hurt. The broken arm hurt, but I just took some ibuprofen.

Baez's average annual salary is 23 million. I doubt Correa will make 46 million. He'll probably make between 30-35 million and he'll be worth it if he stays healthy. He'll get more years because he is younger. Ten years is a lot though. I am happy with Baez.

The Omicron variant doesn't cause loss of smell and taste, so it may be that. Whatever you have, I hope you get completely better quickly.

I thought it was insane. I was tracking all the data for my job and seeing ridiculous increases in opiate use and I suspected it wouldn't end well. I had doctors offer me opiates on two occasions - once for a broken arm and once after minor knee surgery. I refused both times. They wanted to know why I refused. I said it was because I was tracking the data and didn't like the trends I was seeing. I didn't want to end up in my database!

These are the OPS+ numbers for Correa and Baez Year Correa Baez 2016 124 94 2017 155 102 2018 99 129 2019 137 115 2020 93 59 2021 131 117 Correa has been a significantly better hitter each year except 2018. Baez has been more durable and comes a lot cheaper, but you can't honestly argue that he has been a better hitter.

Which means he's not.

You can select by year and handedness on the link I posted.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-park-factors?type=year&year=2019&batSide=&stat=index_wOBA&condition=All&rolling=&sort=12&sortDir=desc

I was about to mention that Comerica is not a flyball grave yard, but I just looked up the numbers and noticed that home run factors have been way down the last two years after being about average for most of the park's history. Is it a fluke or has something changed?

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One of the biggest mistakes this country has ever made. I worked with some very connected people who knew it was a mistake at the time. One of them said this is going to be the biggest drug epidemic we have ever seen. He was a non-stop talker and some thought he was just blowing off steam, but he was prescient.

It is old. These numbers pertain to the original strain of Covid-19 and maybe the numbers for the variants are different. At any rate, it does support the conclusion that Covid is way worst than the flu for almost all age groups except under 15.

The Bill James Historical Abstract

Yes, I should have said theoretically they can't.

Maybe, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't This discussion reminds me of George Carlin's bit on the 10 commandments.

True, but I don't think it's quite the same thing. Religious people really have no choice in their morals as they have already been established. People who are not religious are free to develop their own set of morals. These morals may have been drilled into them, but they are more free to think about them critically. This may or may not produce a better society but I prefer this concept as the basis for a country.

As someone who travels a lot to red rural areas of New Hampshire, I feel safer in those areas than I do in the big cities which I try to avoid.

The Tigers got their catcher, shortstop and starting pitcher and didn't spend like a drunken sailor just as Avila promised. I don't expect any other major acquisitions, but there may be a couple of interesting pieces added.

Some interesting stats on Covid versus flu: https://freopp.org/comparing-the-risk-of-death-from-covid-19-vs-influenza-by-age-d33a1c76c198 Perhaps, schools should have been left open, but restrictions for adults seem appropriate. Of course, closing schools might have been the reason for lower numbers.

Right there is the basis of our laws and society!

Old laws that used to discriminate against groups such as women and gays, two groups that have been marginalized by religion, have been altered on a non-religious basis.

Excluding them from due consideration in the establishment of laws.