Chris Davis has more strikeouts since July 1st of last year (104) than Willians Astudillo has in a 10 year professional career (99).

Or “we’re an indie band...with two theremins”. 

Had a roommate that was recommended to me by a couple I vaguely knew in the building. The people who recommended him were friends of my ex, who also lived in the building, and as my ex was a mostly reasonable sort I assumed that they (and their friend) much be reasonable by proxy. This was incorrect; learned later…

Yeah, it’s hard to begrudge Dipoto recognizing that they weren’t half as good as their record suggested, and their farm system was awful; whether they tore it down this offseason or next, it was going to need to be torn down.

Sure, they’re okay with it now, but pretty soon Lincoln the Nubian goat will be getting blamed for all of the things that actually transpired under Stephen the albino alpaca that was their previous mayor. Damned alpaca was nothing but a well-coiffed coat.

There’s something undeniably modern about the bit where the Philadelphia A’s went from being the worst team in MLB history (to this day) to building a HoF-studded lineup that made three straight World Series appearances, and then returned almost straight back into irrelevance.

Whether the luxury tax exists or doesn’t exist is actually largely immaterial in terms of how much money the players make. While the NBA has a soft cap, the percentage of league-wide revenues available to the players is hard-capped at 50% of basketball-related revenue +/- a percentage of the deviation of the league’s…

This is all totally correct, but there is another element: baseball players are peaking younger, and declining earlier, owing to the higher physical demands in a league where everyone throws 95/has an average off-bat exit velocity of 100 mph (or because they don’t have the pick-me-up of amphetamines to quiet those…

The airball shows his commitment to getting regular minutes in a Knicks uniform, if nothing else. 

Normally, it has to be planned well in advance to be shoehorned into the extremely busy schedule of the president.

If he’s really good, he’ll definitely start getting paid around 2024 or 2025, though even then it’ll be low relative to production for a couple years.

Baseball’s financial system is so badly skewed toward older players; if he were to stay with the A’s and take just two years to reach the majors (which would be pretty fast), he’d then have three seasons making around $500k before seeing anything approaching real money. It’s not just possible, but expected that he…

And those multiple picks ought to be sufficient for one very good pick. I’d like to see Peterman carve out a career as the guy you bring in for a season when you’re terrified that someone else might win the race to the top of the draft boards. So many teams piss away the opportunity to get a franchise talent by merely…

It’s also just a stupid, stupid article. Tosin Adarabioyo is on the equivalent of $1.7m a year because his contract was ending and he was in demand, so City had to hand him a substantial contract to keep him. That’s not an outrage, it’s basic market pressures and an environment where City had no leverage. Score one…

It is CYA, but he got fired because it’s no longer viable to do anything but fire him. They didn’t spend several weeks dissembling in an attempt to keep him because he’s good at football, whereas even five years they would have.

It’s sad that it’s progress, but it’s still serious progress that a really good team released a really good player almost instantly after it became inescapable that said player did an awful thing.

At the presidential level, there are only five elections in which three or more candidates received an electoral college votevia won states (rather than faithless electors or a death) since the Civil War. All of those were one-offs: the brief rise of the Populists, Teddy Roosevelt’s third-party run, Bob LaFollette’s…

This is stupid. You know who pioneered this stuff? Earl Weaver, 40 years ago. Y’know, one of the most celebrated managers in baseball history. 

After going to a number of larger dealerships, I went to test drive a used Mazda 3 at a small place that was located in a nondescript strip mall (their inventory was in the shared parking lot). Walked into the place to see garbage cans overflowing with empty Tim Horton’s cups and cigarette packs, and their mechanic…

Because this way, they get an extra year of Vlad when he’s mid-prime, rather than burning it on a lost season. Sucks not to see him, but it’s unquestionably the right call if you’re the ones running the team.