In my mind, the Tweeter is(/was?) the only good social, which is probably why it was supposedly losing $4m a day. Anyway, after a years long campaign of blocking every account that threw an ad at me (not uncommon I've gathered; probably part of the reason they were losing $4m/day), I'm getting bombarded with lots of weird foreign ads lately. Guessing they're digging hard for sponsors.
The moon occults Mars tonight ~9:30PM (central), which means heavy clouds and rain/snow.
From $213 million before the season to $360 million now.
Inflation!!!111one111!!!
I kinda wanted him to leave the Yankmes, but I’m fine with them paying the premium for not making a compelling offer earlier.
They'll make that up in jersey sales, and ads for the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 28. 40M/yr, chump change.
I am spending more time on Mastodon, very little on teh Twitters.
No adverts. Less drama. No Nazis (that I have noticed).
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Double-h hackyderm?
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9 and $360m for Judge. So maybe I wasn't far off in joking about $40m for a year of Correa.
Fangraphs had him worth $34.8m this season, after a career-high $49.5m in 2021. Given that he is still on the right side of 30, I guess someone will probably come close to Judge numbers for him.
It’s not my money, but a slightly front-loaded 8 year, $300m deal seems pretty fair on both sides. Correa gets the length and a bump over last year, the Twins gain some payroll flexibility on the back end when he’s not likely going to be a shortstop anymore.
Im surprised Doogie hasnt tweeted out something to the effect of "The Twins had talks with Judge..."
Maybe he has but you've now gotten your brain conditioned to reflexively ignore his inanity.
This could be true!
$280M/11yr for Xander Bogaerts. Red Sox fans seem grumpy about their teams' spending these days, but I imagine that Boston is considering Correa a little more heavily at this point.
I guess Tatis Jr goes to the outfield..? Plus they have Ha-Seong Kim. Padres opting to sign the best available players and figure out positions later.
It’s likely a one-year problem. Machado has strong incentives to opt-out of his deal and sign another $300m+ contract with higher AAVs. Preller gave him two of them — the offers he made to Turner & Judge before signing Bogaerts.
My guess is that Machado signs elsewhere, Bogaerts gets paid as a shortstop to play third, Kim or Tatís move back to shortstop, and Preller starts panicking about finding $500 million to keep Juan Soto, plus the money he needs to rebuild the rotation after Darvish & Snell are free agents and his decimated minor league system cannot fill the holes he’s created for himself.
I had forgotten about Machado's opt-out. Signing Bogaerts makes a lot of sense as insurance against that opt-out, which I think Machado will do.
It'd be nice to catch a few this time.
We tried catch-and-release with Correa. Apparently we forgot the De-Liar.
It being Pearl Harbor Day, there was an article about the memorial today in Hawaii. The article mentioned that only a handful of Pearl Harbor veterans attended due to age. But this passage struck me:
At that 230 dying per day rate, that means the last we can expect the last WWII veteran to pass in about 3 years. Wow.
Each year I used to dust off a funny Pearl Harbor joke, but as it was a bit misogynistic in retrospect, a few years back I let it go.
In it's place today, a Dad Joke: People somehow think that the aurora borealis is heavy, but it's really pretty light.
At the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day event at Fort Snelling National Cemetery today*, we had no Pearl Survivors in attendance, likely aren’t any left in the state (so far as we know). I believe our last survivor from the USS Ward passed away in 2019 or 2020.
It wasn’t too long ago that WWII Veterans were the largest share of residents in our Veterans Homes. They have long been supplanted by our Vietnam and peacetime era Veterans. We’re probably down to fewer than maybe a couple dozen out of our 700 residents, MDVA-system wide. Overall, the Minnesota Veterans population has dropped to just over 300,000 in all.
*passed a Mark’s Towing rig on 494, enroute to the cemetery.
Some last minute sweet Gobert D to seal a game the Wolves were leading by 23 at one point.
I haven't looked but Luka Garza's +/- must have been terrible
Another in a long line of Wolves games this year that I almost turned off.
D-Lo was really good in the 4th.