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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.

I blame American schools and the parents who enable them.

TBF, feelings about Rump run stronger both for and against than they do about Brandon.

I feel more comfortable with long term contracts because I feel we have the analytic crew to properly weigh in on it.

We obviously have no need for Hosmer. I’m also not sure of our need for Myers. If we slot him into for left field, are we basically giving up on Baddoo/Haase out there? Or would the idea be to move Baddoo and his defense to center as the main platoon option with Derek Hill? How bad do we need yet another top prospect, which is a bit of a gamble in its own right? And wouldn’t someone have to take Hosmer in addition to Myers to get that prospect? This one I don’t see. DeJong is a little more interesting. His profile seems to keep flipping from hard hitter-bad defense to banjo-hitter-great defense depending on the year. If he could somehow unlock both sides of the ball at the same time, he could be a potential All-Star. He would be basically a two-year experiment for a total of less than $20 million. If we can’t get a top FA SS, and we are cool with booting sunk costs if he doesn’t work out, he might be worth a shot. Not sure what the Cards would take back in trade from us since they are pretty fixed at 3B for a while, unless Arenado opts out.

I'll bet on Bill Dahlen and Gil Hodges, the former because of the numbers, the latter because of New York heart over head.

Max Scherzer is about as high as you go can. Old as he is, he's definitely looking for multiple years at a humongous AAV, maybe 3/100. That would probably be a better bet than Verlander, even. Maybe we take a run at Robbie Ray. He is a Devil We Know, and he has seemed to figure something out. The main problem with him is the that RA9-WAR is waaay higher than his regular WAR, which could lead to an over-projection.

Last one on this for now:

So ... Aaron Rodgers.

Well, that Marjorie person did publicly call Joe Biden "a piece of shit" just a few weeks ago, in her official capacity as a member of Congress, so sure, why not amp it all up some more.

I'm not sure when I'm ever going to believe a pre-election poll again, but it won't be during the mid-terms, that's for sure.