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Good thing is most the position talent we’ve acquired over the last two years is still in the minors. Ruiz is the only one playing that you’re slotting in as a future core player on the team. Trust the process… (and damn the draft lottery).

Also limits his upside. He probably looked better in college because of the factors you mentioned. Every prospect you take is a projection, you’re planning on them improving as they enter their athletic prime. For a guy already at that age, he better be the best college player you’ve ever seen.

I’ve had my eyes on that quarry site as an ideal NoVA site for years. It would be so sick building a stadium down into the open quarry. Opens up a ton of architectural possibilities. Metro is now right there too, and you can build a little mini-city around it.

I really see two options here (only one of which is likely imo). Training camp will have started by the time the team changes hands. Far too late to make significant changes to the team and have them be competitive at all this year. He probably rides it out with Rivera and the current front office for the time being and we win our 6-8 games this year. Of course, Harris also embraced the need to tank to kick off a rebuild after he bought the 76ers. Firing the coaching staff during spring training would be one hell of a way to tank this year. And man, if he’s looking at the 2024 draft and wondering what it would take to bring Caleb Williams home to DC, I wouldn’t totally rule it out.

This feels right. At one point, fairly recently, he had Virginia lined up to fund his stadium. He acquired rights to buy a large chunk of land down in Woodbridge for it. Hell, the guy even bought himself a $50m mansion on the Potomac that would have been not too far away from there.

I will need to retire my user name once the sale is completed.

I might make another one just to celebrate

Tesla/Elon fan boys are so funny.

There are a plethora of other options these days that involve slightly less battery range but can come in at a lower cost, with “driver assistance features” that won’t run down small children, and also don’t feature vehicles locking their passengers inside while roasting them in a battery fire.

Bumping this once a week until it’s sold. Danny Boy isn’t getting his $6b and it seems like he’s waiting for Bezos to ride in to save the day. Meanwhile the credit crunch is real. Money isn’t free anymore, and investors are being careful. The Broncos went for $4.65b two years ago after a pretty legitimate bidding war during a boom period. Snyder has a crappy team, worthless brand, and a dump of a stadium. And apparently only one serious bidder. Harris would be a sucker if he gave him $5b flat, let alone $6b.

O/U for winning percentage at the end of April is set at .300

The idea that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime is an absolutely ridiculous legal theory. The idea that a sitting president could hypothetically pardon himself for any and all crimes is even more ridiculous.

In practice they aren’t real sponsorships in the traditional sense. They are effectively a school’s athletic boosters funneling cash directly to players. It’s quickly evolved into a very explicit pay for play. I could see it getting much harder to sign players in the 10-30 range from college. Especially if they play for a P5 contending program and are likely further away from MLB. Teams don’t have unlimited funds to allocate to signing bonuses, and now they have to compete with boosters paying players to stay. Not an ideal situation for the current financial model of the draft and rookie deals.

One thing I was considering this morning (relatively to the financial component) is how much more difficult it’s going to be for MLB teams to sign players early out of college (and especially out of high school) with the new NIL system. Some of these top tier college athletes are making 7 figures. Yeah if you’re a top drafting pick you’ll have an awesome signing bonus, but then you’ll be making minimal money for 6+ years on your rookie deal. NIL could end up shattering MLB’s draft and signing process.

Interesting… everything I’ve read had Crews and Chase Dollander as 1-2. I haven’t kept up much during the current season though. editing to add: damn, Skenes is having one hell of a season. Preseason scouts had described Dollander as the “best college pitcher in 10 years.” Which incidentally may mean best since Strasburg. But Skenes has better stuff, which is wild.

That should be in the wall trim, not the door, so you can set the screw in a thicker piece of wood. It does have a base though. Unscrew it by the spring. The end of the spring gets threaded into the base.

Glad he’s not dead but like… maybe he’ll consider retiring the channel.

34 felonies

Gore is just painting that outside corner pitch after pitch.

I’ve shared this before but one of my coolest baseball experiences was seeing Stras pitch a rehab start for Potomac. Got seats right behind home plate and from that vantage point, holy **** that change up was incredible.

I am here for Desantis going to jail to prevent Trump from going to jail.

*not a lawyer but I’d imagine he’d need to appear. Even if not for whatever reason, can you imagine the news coverage if he was out campaigning while a jury was considering throwing his ass in jail? Trump’s campaigning is the least of his worries right now. He’s spent the last eight years ****ing around and he’s got a wave of finding out about to crash down on him. These first 34 criminal charges are just the first.

I may literally die if these both happened on the same day

The pitch clock makes it significantly more difficult to multi task while watching baseball.

It’s very plausible to me that Florida could ultimately prevail in court. It will take the better part of a decade to happen including appeals and such, during which time Disney can just continue on like they have been. They’ll spend tens of million on legal fees, which is a drop in the bucket for Disney but will probably be a tough investment for the Florida GA. I see this settling in the future with Desantis’s successor, which I think is exactly what Disney is going for here. Just let them toss it into the courts and drag it out for years.