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Assuming your numbers are correct and looking at this in a vacuum, I would look at this as, you're paying $17.5MM for the baseline pitcher, which is totally worth it based strictly on his performance, and the other $22.5MM for incremental gameday ticket revenue. Of course, there is incremental gameday revenue outside of actual tickets his pitching days sell, not only concessions revenue on his gamedays, but incremental sales from days he's not pitching as the team is better and a better draw overall for having him on it. That would end up funding more than the remaining $17.5MM, I would guess.

There is that, plus there's frequently team-related revenue that they can shuffle to another part of the balance sheet, such as parent company-owned parking under a different business unit, to make the team look less profitable, or even like a money loser.

Even if he'd been safe, the Dodgers would have walked Vlad with first base open.

She makes a good point. Can you imagine if Kershaw had let the runner get on, losing the lead in the process, had to pitch to at least two more hitters, and stood to lose the game? I mean, this was a huge gamble with his legacy. I doubt we see him again except in the circumstance Epstein suggests.

I went to a Reds-Dodgers playoff game back on October 1. It was a ****storm trying to get out of that parking lot, and we left before maybe 75% of the crowd. They funnel everyone coming from a dozen or more directions into three lanes to pick up the freeway of your choice, and you have to be aggressive in staking your slot in the scrum. I'm surprised I saw no fender benders along the way, and really, if you do bump somebody, you probably shouldn't get out to examine the damage because people behind you would probably get out of their own cars and firmly persuade you to get back in your car and keep going. I guess it all made sense in 1960.

With Mookie and Freddie hitting behind Shohei, I think walking Ohtani already creates a difficult situation that Schenider calculated to be less onerous than taking a chance on getting him out, which topline stats say the Jays have at least a 57% chance of accomplishing.

I don't trust anybody who tells me MLB teams are losing money, even business journals that get their information from we can probably guess what sources.

And that crazy deal would have to make us not worse this year. No way Harris intentionally sets the team back on their momentum.

**** no.

You misspelled 2:45am.

The final pitch of his Hall of Fame career. 🥹

Dodgers would have walked him anyway, since the trailing runner probably would have been at second on the throw.

You misspelled 18th.

That's a home run every slightly less than 20 at bats. At that rate, had Earl Wilson had as many career at bats as the average player on the top 200 all-time career home runs list, he would have hit 384 homers in 7,592 at bats. That would be good for a tie for 69th (giggity) place on the all-time list with Harold Baines, who needed 9,908 at bats to achieve his 384 home runs.

Seems to me the fact that they are working and still getting SNAP benefits totally bolsters their fraud case.

Just ... wow Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Blooms In The Northern vs Southern Hemisphere it was generated from this video:

This is fun, and it totally checks out. A Map Of Every European City

I am reading this as, people get less sleep in the darker areas. Map Showing Where Adults In The US Don’t Get Enough Sleep

These are pretty interesting. Harris, Biden and Clinton’s Voter Archipelagos

Football vs Soccer: Who calls it what where

What the hell is wrong with the people of Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska? 😉 Voting Rights Vs Gun Rights: What’s More Important To Americans

Here’s the thing I want to share. I had hoped it would embed in the post as an Instagram post, but it did not in tests, so here a screenshot and a link you can click through to hear the whole thing. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQPIhblgYoU/?igsh=aG95b25iMmgycXNo

I came across something that I had to share here, but it doesn’t fit comfortably into any of the existing threads. It’s not about the Trump Presidency per se, although it’s certainly related (as is just about everything now). It’s not about Aisle Lunatic. It’s not about Media Melting Down, or Doing the Needful, or Congress or SCOTUS or Gun Legislation or anything as specific as those topics. And it’s not Politics Schmalitics in general, because some items simply transcend mundane differences of opinion. Really, it’s about something bigger, meaning the bigger picture. It’s about pushing back on the whole thing. The rhetoric, the ideas, the philosophy—that whole movement. It’s about resistance. So maybe that’s what we need a thread about, as a catch-all for the things that come up that aren’t about just positioning one side or the other to win elections in even-numbered years. That’s politics. This is something bigger. This is the Resistance Thread. Yes, I know it seems one-sided, but the other side is certainly free to start a “We ❤️ Trump!” thread if they want. And besides, they can also use this thread if the Democratic Party survives and ever takes power in Washington again.

What makes this reply low-key brilliant is everyone knows you’re talking about Trump but Trumpaholic thinks you’re talking about me.