Neither Estrellas nor Caribes played yesterday. Estrellas is 22-18, tied for second place in the Dominican League, 1.5 games behind the Gigantes. Caribes is 15-27, in eighth (last) place in the Venezuelan League, 11.5 games behind Lara, 3.5 games behind seventh place Magallanes.
I have no idea why I'm still on Twitter. Even the Twins bloggers are awful on there. Even when they're right, they engage with the trolls and bring it in my feed.
I've come to the way of thinking that social media is like tobacco. It is inherently bad for you, but it's perfectly legal and up to everyone to choose for themselves if they use it or not. I sure would like to see some warning labels, though, and it seems to me there is a social media equivalent to second-hand smoke.
I strongly disagree because I think this reaction conflates the thing with the system/environment in which this thing exists.
Social media is NOT like tobacco. There is actually a useful component to social media. If you were going to choose a vice to compare it to, a gun would have been better.
I wouldn't go that far. I've had some great experiences from being on social media. I'll post often when I'm going to a concert or sporting events and have had people connect because of it. I am mad that I didn't do it before the U2 show in Vegas because a friend from high school that turned me on to U2 was there the same night.
The problem is that many others don't use it that way so I should a lot of time muting people. It's discouraging when it is someone that has good baseball content but decides he needs to argue with trolls or share a very offensive political opinion.
"I'll post often when I'm going to a concert or sporting events and have had people connect because of it."
I was thinking about this recently, and that's basically how Facebook was way back when it started and there were no businesses or news publications or even parents on it. There was no infinite scroll and you didn't share anyone else's updates, you just shared an update, whether it was useful or dumb, and it went out to your friends.
I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle at this point, but if we could go back to that, I think it might be pretty nice. Maybe separately be able to subscribe to a "business feed" if you want information straight from a concert venue or whatever, but having it separate from personal acquaintances might be nice, plus no link sharing or whatever in personal feeds, but I don't even know if you could enforce that from a technical standpoint.
All the Meta feeds are a mess. I almost never go on any of them anymore as the people/things I'm actually following are every 3rd or 4th post in the feed. The rest is nonsense it thinks I might be interested in.
I hear you. Also I never understood why media people engage with trolls who have like 7 followers. They just blasted some weirdo into thousands of other feeds.
Dopamine to the rescue!
There was a sales guy on LinkedIn that used to reply to every inappropriate post he saw on LinkedIn to tell them it was inappropriate. I finally just direct-messaged him to explain that when he does that, he brings it into my feed and spreads the inappropriate message.
As Algonad mentions, those interactions go into his feed. I don't do that kind of work for a living, but from the outside, it seems as though the thinking is all exposure and engagement over everything else. A bit like "no such thing as bad press" on steroids.
There might be some way to address this technically, if there was a totally different revenue model for social media companies, namely something that wasn't based on ad impressions served, but it seems like a difficult problem to solve. People react most strongly to extreme positions, statements, whatever. Trolling and clickbait are both effective, basically. I don't see how to fix it other than through something like moderation, though.
so, about that Ohtani contract. Is there a state income tax consequence for all that deferred income? Does he avoid jock taxes in all the states he performs in for the deferred salary? I mean, technically, he'll presumably be getting paid "earned income" in 2034+ and no longer performing in all the away-game states. So, if he moves to a zero income tax state, he could presumably avoid all(?) state income taxes on $68 million per year??
I would have to guess that California either has or will find a way to get a piece of that action....
Gotta give Bob credit, the 30 seconds of research I’ve done suggests he might be right (though no idea how living in Japan would affect things) pic.twitter.com/94V2BdaF4t
CA will have to be content with the endorsement dollars.
Also deferred. "Hello, I'm Shohei Ohtani, and in a few years I'm going to enjoy eating delicious Sheboygan sausages!"
I don't think that the tax benefit would outweigh the time value of money, though. But it's all kind of hypothetical because we don't know what LA's offer would be if they were forced to do a non-deferred contract.
depends on discount rates, of course. This is increasingly looking like a very low-return era upcoming for the stock market. I guess if he invested heavily in REITs or something, he could do well.
So, that doesn't invalidate your point, but it makes it a closer thing, I think. Assuming he moves to a zero income tax state. (Japan's highest marginal rate category is an eye-watering 45 percent, so he may well not return until after this contract expires).
If he moves. He turned down identical contracts from the Giants and Blue Jays. He really wanted to play for the Dodgers and might really like LA.
R. I. P. Dan Dobbek, an original Twin, at age 88.
Neither Estrellas nor Caribes played yesterday. Estrellas is 22-18, tied for second place in the Dominican League, 1.5 games behind the Gigantes. Caribes is 15-27, in eighth (last) place in the Venezuelan League, 11.5 games behind Lara, 3.5 games behind seventh place Magallanes.
I have no idea why I'm still on Twitter. Even the Twins bloggers are awful on there. Even when they're right, they engage with the trolls and bring it in my feed.
I've come to the way of thinking that social media is like tobacco. It is inherently bad for you, but it's perfectly legal and up to everyone to choose for themselves if they use it or not. I sure would like to see some warning labels, though, and it seems to me there is a social media equivalent to second-hand smoke.
I strongly disagree because I think this reaction conflates the thing with the system/environment in which this thing exists.
Social media is NOT like tobacco. There is actually a useful component to social media. If you were going to choose a vice to compare it to, a gun would have been better.
I wouldn't go that far. I've had some great experiences from being on social media. I'll post often when I'm going to a concert or sporting events and have had people connect because of it. I am mad that I didn't do it before the U2 show in Vegas because a friend from high school that turned me on to U2 was there the same night.
The problem is that many others don't use it that way so I should a lot of time muting people. It's discouraging when it is someone that has good baseball content but decides he needs to argue with trolls or share a very offensive political opinion.
"I'll post often when I'm going to a concert or sporting events and have had people connect because of it."
I was thinking about this recently, and that's basically how Facebook was way back when it started and there were no businesses or news publications or even parents on it. There was no infinite scroll and you didn't share anyone else's updates, you just shared an update, whether it was useful or dumb, and it went out to your friends.
I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle at this point, but if we could go back to that, I think it might be pretty nice. Maybe separately be able to subscribe to a "business feed" if you want information straight from a concert venue or whatever, but having it separate from personal acquaintances might be nice, plus no link sharing or whatever in personal feeds, but I don't even know if you could enforce that from a technical standpoint.
All the Meta feeds are a mess. I almost never go on any of them anymore as the people/things I'm actually following are every 3rd or 4th post in the feed. The rest is nonsense it thinks I might be interested in.
I hear you. Also I never understood why media people engage with trolls who have like 7 followers. They just blasted some weirdo into thousands of other feeds.
Dopamine to the rescue!
There was a sales guy on LinkedIn that used to reply to every inappropriate post he saw on LinkedIn to tell them it was inappropriate. I finally just direct-messaged him to explain that when he does that, he brings it into my feed and spreads the inappropriate message.
As Algonad mentions, those interactions go into his feed. I don't do that kind of work for a living, but from the outside, it seems as though the thinking is all exposure and engagement over everything else. A bit like "no such thing as bad press" on steroids.
There might be some way to address this technically, if there was a totally different revenue model for social media companies, namely something that wasn't based on ad impressions served, but it seems like a difficult problem to solve. People react most strongly to extreme positions, statements, whatever. Trolling and clickbait are both effective, basically. I don't see how to fix it other than through something like moderation, though.
so, about that Ohtani contract. Is there a state income tax consequence for all that deferred income? Does he avoid jock taxes in all the states he performs in for the deferred salary? I mean, technically, he'll presumably be getting paid "earned income" in 2034+ and no longer performing in all the away-game states. So, if he moves to a zero income tax state, he could presumably avoid all(?) state income taxes on $68 million per year??
I would have to guess that California either has or will find a way to get a piece of that action....
CA will have to be content with the endorsement dollars.
Also deferred. "Hello, I'm Shohei Ohtani, and in a few years I'm going to enjoy eating delicious Sheboygan sausages!"
I don't think that the tax benefit would outweigh the time value of money, though. But it's all kind of hypothetical because we don't know what LA's offer would be if they were forced to do a non-deferred contract.
depends on discount rates, of course. This is increasingly looking like a very low-return era upcoming for the stock market. I guess if he invested heavily in REITs or something, he could do well.
So, that doesn't invalidate your point, but it makes it a closer thing, I think. Assuming he moves to a zero income tax state. (Japan's highest marginal rate category is an eye-watering 45 percent, so he may well not return until after this contract expires).
If he moves. He turned down identical contracts from the Giants and Blue Jays. He really wanted to play for the Dodgers and might really like LA.
RIP Andre Braugher.
Very sad. He was younger than me.
Incredibly versatile actor. His Frank Pemberton an all time great character.