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Pineda is a big injury risk who has outperformed his peripherals the past few years, but he’s ours now, so, go Michael.

Looking more and more like ride or die with whatever legit major leaguers they got.

Which probably goes a long way toward explaining why they have no interest in showing the books.

I really don’t think they’re losing money on the bottom line. I think they’re doing just fine.

We manage. And my morale is aces. 😁

Chicago. Fifteen minutes away by sun, but an hour away by time zone.

I am not arguing that teams should not be able to make money. Sure, they should. This is a quasi-capitalist system and business owners should have a fair opportunity to make money on their investments, and of course that includes the owners of professional sports team. I just reject the implication that since a major league ballclub is a small part of a billionaire's or company's or hedge fund's portfolio, they don't need to make a profit on them; therefore, they must not be profiting from their ballclubs. It's prima facie ridiculous to assume that a ballclub is a billionaire's playtoy that hemorrhages cash to please his silly sporty competitive urges. Particularly in an industry that is protected by a literal federal antitrust exemption. Major league ballclubs are not discretionary playtoys. They are seriously profitable businesses in their own right.

MLB franchise valuations in millions: Team 2011 2016 2021 16 vs '11 21 vs '11 New York Yankees $ 1,700 $ 3,400 $ 5,250 100% 209% Boston Red Sox $ 912 $ 2,300 $ 3,570 152% 291% Los Angeles Dodgers $ 800 $ 2,500 $ 3,465 213% 333% Chicago Cubs $ 773 $ 2,200 $ 3,360 185% 335% San Francisco Giants $ 563 $ 2,250 $ 3,175 300% 464% New York Mets $ 747 $ 1,650 $ 2,450 121% 228% St. Louis Cardinals $ 518 $ 1,600 $ 2,245 209% 333% Philadelphia Phillies $ 609 $ 1,240 $ 2,050 104% 237% LA Angels of Anaheim $ 554 $ 1,340 $ 2,025 142% 266% Washington Nationals $ 417 $ 1,300 $ 1,925 212% 362% Atlanta Braves $ 482 $ 1,180 $ 1,875 145% 289% Houston Astros $ 474 $ 1,100 $ 1,870 132% 295% Texas Rangers $ 561 $ 1,230 $ 1,785 119% 218% Chicago White Sox $ 526 $ 1,050 $ 1,685 100% 220% Toronto Blue Jays $ 337 $ 900 $ 1,675 167% 397% Seattle Mariners $ 449 $ 1,200 $ 1,630 167% 263% San Diego Padres $ 406 $ 890 $ 1,500 119% 269% Baltimore Orioles $ 411 $ 1,000 $ 1,430 143% 248% Minnesota Twins $ 490 $ 910 $ 1,325 86% 170% Arizona Diamondbacks $ 396 $ 925 $ 1,320 134% 233% Colorado Rockies $ 414 $ 860 $ 1,300 108% 214% Pittsburgh Pirates $ 304 $ 975 $ 1,285 221% 323% Detroit Tigers $ 385 $ 1,150 $ 1,260 199% 227% Milwaukee Brewers $ 376 $ 875 $ 1,220 133% 224% Cleveland Indians $ 353 $ 800 $ 1,160 127% 229% Oakland Athletics $ 307 $ 725 $ 1,125 136% 266% Cincinnati Reds $ 375 $ 905 $ 1,085 141% 189% Kansas City Royals $ 351 $ 865 $ 1,060 146% 202% Tampa Bay Rays $ 331 $ 650 $ 1,055 96% 219% Florida Marlins $ 360 $ 675 $ 990 88% 175% These valuations are freely available from Forbes. No, these people are not losing money on their investment.

Major league baseball owners do far better than break even on revenue.

Oh, you poor, poor people.

I saw him hit a home run live at Wrigley Field. Not that it would help his case to want to hit there anymore ...

lol half a peck.

Related to this: it was bad enough when every sports game had at least one gambling commerical every single break pushing you to bet on games. Now I'm starting to see them during regular (non-sports) programming. I saw a Draft Kings commercial on the WGN Noon News. Who watches the WGN Noon News? I gotta believe it indexes very high for senior citizens on fixed incomes. Why let them keep their money when they can gamble it into the pockets of the Ilitches and the Ricketts and the Krafts all the rest of those team owners, I suppose.

A "handful of children"? That's ... uhhhhh ... 😉

Exactly. So ironic since the generation of parents who out of stranger danger fear started insisting they had to accompany their children to school themselves likely walked to school every day.

That makes sense. The 8 Mile Road sign, at least the Detroit side of it, is in a pretty unique font you don't see anywhere else.

Don’t parents (mothers) typically walk their grade school kids to school every day? That’s what I see around here. Maybe that’s more of a city thing.

Man, talk about nothing to see. Divided road, five lanes each side, practically a highway. Next time, you wanna show your BIL the real, drive him down 7 Mile Road. That’ll wake him up.

Or 4:30, here in the city. I remember year round DST when I was a kid. It was the middle of the energy crisis. Parents went apeshit because they had to send their kids to school in the dark in January. I was a kid. I didn’t care, I was already up delivering newspapers around the neighborhood in the dark and on foot by 6:00am. Nobody fretted about me doing that.

Best thing that ever happened to me is that when I gambled for the first time on penny-ante poker when i was in grade school, I lost all the time. That cured me of any desire to pursue gambling as a pastime. Since then, every time I have dipped my toe into betting waters, I’ve gotten beat, and then I’m done with it for years. Keeps my money in my pocket. That said, I do run several pools: a college football bowl pools, a March madness squares pool, and a 13-run baseball pool. I run them because, frankly, I enjoy managing the process. My reward for running these is that peculiar kind of fun, plus I get a free entry funded by the pot. I never buy any extra entires. And I never win. Good example: I’ve run March madness squares for five years, 63 games each tourney, 315 games in total. By the law of averages I should have hit three games by now. Nope. Zilch. This year my entry has the losing team ending in a 4. First day, yesterday, 16 games, no losing teams ended in 4, but seven different games had the losing team end in a 3. The same people who play my pools win every year—they practically make a second income off my pools. I’m forever cutting the same people Zelle payments or checks. Some people are just lucky like that. I’m just not. Suits me fine.

Didnt Trump himself say almost exactly this?

An editorial designed to piss everyone off and drive away friends, apparently. Here’s an interesting paragraph: Roy Block, 76, from San Antonio, described himself as conservative and said he has been alarmed by scenes of parents being silenced at school board meetings over the past year. “I think it’s mostly conservatives that are being silenced,” he said. “But regardless, I think it should be a two-way street. Everybody should have an opportunity to speak and especially in open gathering and open forum.” I don’t know where this guy has been, but social media is lousy with video examples of unhinged people lipping off at school board meetings in all kinds of toxic ways.

You make it sound as though one of these two is a bad guy.

My lovely better half came up with the second guess right off the top of her split second head. Wordle 272 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

All depends how successfully the electorate’s attention is diverted from this and onto something probably far less consequential, like trans athletes in women’s sports.