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I probably should have known this, but B-R has a Stathead option to compare up to six players against one another, and for wither individual season, portions of seasons, or entire careers. So here are the five big shortstop free agents since 2018, all in one nifty screenshot.

The main down side I see here is that if they kill it for us they opt out and begin killing it for someone else, and if they're so-so or worse they'll just re-up and we'll pay for their back half.

I wouldn't say that I would not be as happy if we were to sign Correa, but I would be more nervous. In addition to oblong's legitimate concern about carrying his dead weight for the last several years of a 10+-year contract, he has also missed a month or more of games due to injuries on at least four separate occasions during his career. I don't think we know for sure that he is out of those woods. Sure, there's no guarantee Baez or Story, or any player for that matter, won't miss big chunks of seasons due to injury, but the difference is they have no established history of that, and Correa does. We can sign Correa, but we can't say we weren't warned.

I could be happy with either Story for 5/115, or Baez for 4/80.

Teary-face emoji. Nice touch.

Yeah, what about what ****oty lib**** “artists” would hypothetically do! Why aren’t we talking about that more!

So, Columbus is off the hook a third time?

So, it wasn’t really his genocide, but there wasn’t really genocide anyway, so Columbus is off the hook twice?

This would happen to me occasionally at MTS but now I see it happening here, too: tweets are not rendering properly in Firefox on PC. It started happening just today. This is what I see in FFX: And when I open the same post in another browser, like Edge, I see the tweet rendered: I tried disable some of my blockers like uBlock and Adblocker and Malwarebytes for just this website and that didn't do the trick. I logged out, problem still there. I cleared my MTF cookies, still happening. Any feel for what about Firefox might be causing this?

Columbus definitely was not a genocidal maniac bent on the immoral destruction of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. He was actually a stateless mercenary freebooter committed to the complete conquest, economic exploitation, and enslavement of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. The genocide was merely a disciplinary strategy to keep the locals in line. It was so effective a strategy that subsequent conquerors of the Hemisphere had to import enslaved people from halfway around the world to do all the work, since 90% of the indigenous people were wiped out within the first century of European domination of the Americas.

I don't think Joe's mental acuity is as debilitated as Trump's, not by a long shot. But I'm not sure I want nearly-82-year-old Joe to be my main alternative to Rump in 2024.

So, $65 billion for high-speed broadband. Because if there's anything that can fix what's ailing America right now, it's giving more people more access to more Internet.

And here I thought I was the only one.

Plus. imagine how much fun it would be to have both Baez and Baddoo on the team at the same time. That would be magic.

That's fine, there are other options out there, too, and maybe we will get one of them. I'm not arguing that Baez is the best option—only that he is a good option.

What, you don't like the dancing guy? 😏

I wouldn't mind picking up four or five years of Javy. I think he's a good bet for 3-ish average WAR for that period. He may not be my first choice but I definitely wouldn't despair of the future of the team if we signed him.

Two-time All-Star. Three-time 29-homer hitter. Top ten defender at the most important position on the diamond. Plus-plus slide and tag skills. Lifetime WAR of 23.4 and still under 30. The Tigers could do worse than that.

This, as well as their tepid offer to Correa, essentially removes the Astros from the bidding war.

Cubs and Mets fans love Javy Baez’s personality and the majority of each fan base would be thrilled to have him back.

There are marriage laws, and then there are age of consent laws. I seem to remember a movement in the late 1970s where some legislators in New Jersey wanted to lower the age of consent to 13? I probably read that in the Free Press which is where I got all my news at the time. I don’t think it ever went through, but as a teenager myself at the time, I remember feeling creeped out by it.

A couple more, from ‘70s movies I saw just from the past couple of days, then I’ll leave this alone: In Animal House, Larry gets drunk with and fools around with the supermarket checkout girl/mayor’s daughter. We see her bare breasts and there’s the famous devil/angel scene on his shoulders. Later before they’re about to “do it” on the football field, she says she has a secret: she’s only 13. The movie doesn’t show anything, but in a later scene, they approach her father the mayor and declare that they’ll have to get married. In Arthur, the hooker at the beginning of the movie reveals that she became one in part because her father raped her when she was 12. This is a comedy, of course, so Arthur cracks jokes about this. They later have sex, he pays her to leave, then they move on to the next scene. If you were to immerse yourself in enough entertainment from the early 1970s-early 1980s period, you would inadvertently stumble across hundreds of examples of this kind of imagery. It was just a weird detour from basic decency in our cultural history.

We have a Karen on my softball team. She’s the second oldest player on the team. One guess who the oldest is.

I think embracing Brandon as a euphemism for Biden whenever he does something positive—like pass BIF—could actually work at neutralizing what the red hats wanted to do with it.