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What, you haven’t heard about all the people dropping dead from the COVID vaccine? You clearly don’t read certain media. 😏 But I hear you about the requirements to, apparently, protect vaccinated people from infecting each other with a disease practically none of them are in any danger of getting. I’ve told you guys about how how in my city there’s an indoor mask requirement, so many places that require proof of vaccination to enter also require you to wear your mask while inside. It’s bonkers, but it’s all about liability—nobody wants to get sued. Thanks, buddha. 😉

If I had to take an educated guess out of the blue, knowing nothing else, I’d guess that one of the major unspoken reasons Kyle Seager quit is because he has some chronic pain that he doesn’t want to aggravate or perhaps cross the rubicon with by playing another seven months nonstop. I could see someone like that with all the money in hand getting out with whatever is left of his health. It’s certainly not because he’s unhappy with his own performance.

Baseball doesn’t care how the game generates more revenue. They care only that it does. And they’ve figured out that the way to do that is not by introducing the game to young people who might come to love it—that’s a fool’s errand given today’s slow game—but by pandering to the people who want only to make a few bucks off bets. I think that’s a little sad, but that’s the way the world is going, I guess. I hope I die before baseball games become routinely fixed to satisfy Big Gambling.

Of course, the market could fall down for him, too, even though the market was much better than expected for the guys just below him in the free agent rankings. Probably won't know until at least mid-February.

Reasonable consensus that people agree to, basically. It was a reasonable consensus that Correa would get 10/320.

Joke gone awry.

I suppose in a broad way that makes sense. Anyone who thinks about it for more than a few seconds can see that Rand Paul's full of shit, but I guess he's banking on the many people who won't think at all about what's he's saying and are responding only to the emotion he's putting into the tweet.

What's the thinking going into his decision that he would look good and benefit by playing so dumb on this?

COVID is a deep state hoax.

Some thing happened with me when I was prescribed oxycontin after my first knee surgery. I knew nothing about it. I tried it and I still felt as much pain, but I did get constipated, so, net loss. I bailed on it and didn't bother filling prescriptions for it after the next two knee surgeries. Lucky me.

Ha ha ha, what a maroon. What an ignoranimus.

Does Tlaib do anything for her district, or is her sole goal to pursue a national profile? Honest question, I don’t know.

As frustrating as he can be for stretches at a time, I think we’ll be very happy with Javy overall. At his best he is as productive as any big leaguer, and he is a joy to watch playing ball.

The link I found has 23 years of historical park factors and I filtered it for right-handed hitters only.

Do you have a link for that? I've been trying to find the Statcast version of it on baseballsavant.com and I'm coming up dry. EDIT: Never mind, some creative googling and I found it: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-venue?venueId=2394&condition=All&rolling=0&batSide=R&tracking=All&speed=95 plus&angle=FB-angle&wowyBatSide=All

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

JD (also Nick) went from the fly ball graveyard that is Comerica Park to home run havens in Arizona and Chicago.

Maybe the Tigers should have offered Correa $50,000 instead. After all, it's just an initial offer.

You might be giving short shrift to the idea of religious people developing their own morals.

Those commandments at the end of the tablet are pretty stupid, too. A commandment against coveting your neighbor's goods? Isn't coveting what our entire market economy is based on? 😏

I love riding my bike around the city of Chicago. I'll go north side, south side or west side literally depending on which way the wind is blowing. I feel as safe as you can sharing a street with traffic.

I worked at a website that was owned by a German billionaire, and whose brother was the second-in-command. They ran it very much as an apprentice-based operation, in which everyone comes along very slowly, often working below their capacity and without true executive agency over their own position, for years before they are offered the opportunity to move up in the organization. That may be a well-understood and -accepted system for the labor force in Germany, but here at the website in America that was staffed with American employees, what happened was that the most talented people would end up bolting within the first year or two, while the very average people who patiently did their prescribed job and marked their time ended up getting promoted into the executive leadership.

I don't know whether it gets that far, given that seemingly everyone the Committee is trying to go after or hear from is suing to put a halt to their end of it. Apparently the hope is to stall and stall, freezing the Committee into inaction for the next year, until the Republicans take over in 2023, shut down the Committee, and start their own Committee to go after all the Democrats and RINOs who went after Trump. What a time to be alive.

Or Let's Yes Go Brandon, as the case may be.

Sure, it's off the table because they got someone else who can credibly do the job. That makes sense. Although if they were serious about Correa they could slide Baez over to second or even third, put up with Schoop at first when they have to, or maybe make someone on the infield available in trade. They'd have options if they did pick him up. But they won't. I suppose it's a defensible long shot to put 10/275 on the table for Correa on the off chance that they weren't going to be able to sign anyone else, and they market for Correa would fall down. Although at that point, if we're the top offer for Correa at 10/275 and everyone else is backing away from that, I'd be leery of following through with the deal.