And THEN he stopped the show dead so he could tell his TV wife some really lame standup bits around the kitchen table.

It would fantastic if that’s the case; I can’t seem to find anything truly definitive either way, too.

Unfortunately, Fairfax wouldn’t be able to run for another consecutive term for governor even though he assumed the spot due to a resignation, but ideally this sets him up for bigger and better things anyway.

Yeah, I’m cracking up at the Republicans tripping over their dicks to get Ralphie Boy to resign, like it’s some huge embarassment for those of us on the Left, when it would just lead to the obvious and immediate upgrade (and a national spotlight) to the far more liberal and generally much more awesome Fairfax.

RESIGN,…

Time to fuck off and resign, Ralphy.

Step aside and let Justin Fairfax take over.

Personally, I’m on the side of “crowds should be able to get rowdy and eat all the sloppy banana splits they want” AND “this tennis asshole really needs to tone it down already.”

Free me from the greys and I’ll buy you a ticket AND a Mr. Microphone for the next pro tennis match in your neighborhood.

Brutal thread ratio.

Up until 2010-ish, the players had been (rightly, IMO) getting more; revenue sharing was roughly 60-40 in favor of the players for a long time.

Since then it’s shifted more towards the owners; it’s about 54-46 players-owners now, yet the clods who own these teams can’t stop tripping over themselves to play the victim…

But comps with similar players actually gives a better idea of how they would might play out on a big deal. Neither player comps similarly with ARod or Heyward, so simply insisting that we should compare them doesn’t really fly. And further insisting that it’s effectively a 50/50 choice or bet as to whether they’d…

Yeah, seconded; where are you puling those comps from?

Baseball Reference has Machado comped overall to Adrian Beltre, with a dash of Ron Santo.

Harper is a bit more of a mixed bag of comps:

When you gloss over things that way...

Exactly; the decline this guy keeps harping on would be more worrisome if they see ongoing dramatic decline like 2018 did season after season; they’re not. Meanwhile this actual dramatic drop corresponds, as the Forbes article points out, with many more teams obviously and intentionally tanking on top of the ones that…

“and maybe Machado just sucks?”

Goddammit.  And yet I toil in the greys. 

You’re talking about minuscule fluctuations; as the Forbes article points out very clearly in their breakdown, this past season was the only SIGNIFICANT drop in the last 15 years. And even that they’re still way above water and easily at a recoverable point.

I mean, you’re also just dropping that out there, like,…

Probably because the more well regarded fWAR in that time is 11.3, and Fangraphs has him being worth approx. $90 million over those 3 seasons.

10-year deals for players this young are going to have to come with several player opt outs; odds are neither would actually finish out a 10-year deal if they signed one this offseason.  They’d likely opt out after 3 or 4 years unless something went REALLY wrong.

SOME players are not worth the giant contracts they have received. These dudes (and many others) are. The owners are trying to pull some slick shit to convince people that ALL players aren’t worth anywhere near what they’ve been valued at when playing for cheap.

This isn’t complicated, yet you couldn’t wait to leap to…

It only significantly dropped in 2018 for the first time in 15 years:

Did this dude create 12 burners to star this nonsense?  Because the alternative is depressing as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.