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I’m out of my off board fantasy leagues and not missing it yet, but I still get a little pleasure seeing J-Rod be terrible, for old times sake.

J-Rod’s contract is an interesting case, that I wonder if it will be an inspiration for more teams going forward, with players like that. Buy out the arb years, then present two dramatically different options, for player and club. It seems like it was a good hedge, while fully committing to him. I mean if he ends up sucking, it’s still a bad deal, but the damage is mitigated.

Who is the sabr junkie? Nothing troubling in his profile this year whatsoever, He’s a couple HR from being 2024 right now

Nice try, old timer.

False shaming. You’ve sunken to a new low. Sent 3/31

I’m more worried about the Santander deal. Where the guy is so bad, you still play him. Vlad will never be that. I was against that deal from the start. Not a fan of the Kirk extension either. He can’t hit. Too much to pay for D. You can get those catchers cheap and they usually hone their D craft, because that’s what keeps them in the majors. Now you took that motivation away from Kirk. Even if you take a step down on defense, you can still get a high quality defender that can’t hit for a lick, for nothing. The board was also Danny Jansen lovers for his defense. First 5/75 was floated here. Then people changed to 4/40. He got 1/8 lol

No wife = no season. Woe is me. I’m overseas for an extended period doing some remote work though, starting a few days ago. We’ll see.

I’m pro Vlad and think he makes more if he repeats last year. But I’m open minded and if I’m his agent. I probably tell him take the deal after the first 10 games, He was probably looking at $75m more or something with a repeat and I don’t even want to know how many hundreds of millions less for a blah year.

All that said, Vlad is not for the faint of heart, I always compare it to girls in my life, one week I’d defend Vlad against a hungry pack of tigers, then a month later, if he got hit by a bus, or if someone said he’s going to be a colossal bust, I’d probably be indifferent. One has to wonder if the sss of 10 games gave someone some sway over Vlad, to be like, take the deal or you could be losing hundreds of millions. Does he sign it if he comes out raking?

Also. If we all want to stop for a minute and just understand I was right about what I seemed to always fight with you guys about all year, offense sails the boat. You pay for offense. Position doesn’t mean s*** if it’s elite offense. If Vlad was a FA, there would’ve been half a dozen teams giving him $500m, That was his market, You can argue if you like the deal or not, buy someone was paying it.

Let me answer this for you, my old friend. Wait a second though, while I catch my breath from dodging the 47 ads in this thread to make it here…. There’s many casuals like me that would’ve given up on the Jays, or put them on the far back burner. It was more than about a player. Besides that, the draft is mlb is wildly unscientific, with the full power of hindsight. Tanking isn’t the way to go, nor is concentrating too hard on your ebitda. These are trophy assets. The few owners that choose to run it like a straight business, Marlins/Pit/Tampa etc lose hundreds and hundreds of millions in franchise value, not spending bc they’re not competing. I can think of a few reasons you’d want to tank 1) You’re coming up on 5-10 years of your stadium lease and you’re seriously exploring changing cities 2) You’re looking to stay in the same city, but you want hundreds of millions in welfare and you want to project economic hardship 3) Its a business you inherited from your father, or you’re a crudgy old man 20 years past retirement, and you have no passion for it and you’re just interested in squeezing the orange and playing the stock market, or whatever makes you happy.

For Spanky: No fantasy thread I see, so will post here that you got that extra $25 coming your way. Sorry to bail on the league the last month but things have just been busy and lots of traveling. I didn’t actually even renew my baseball leagues. Until the next time, douche:)

I meant back of the house Executive Committee. Going to be a tough going year, need all hands on deck. Clement headlining is pretty depressing. It may be good for the board if he creates division and debate for 6 years, like Biggio did. And Santander “may have interest”. Woof. I can’t recall going into the season anytime recently, less into it. Didn’t even renew my fantasy league yet. Jays will be hard to watch week 1

Wow. You go away for a couple weeks and boom. The world changes. I’m actually still on my most current 2mo stint in the hole, but has my name been discussed. I wouldn’t make for a very good narcissist if I wasn’t curious. Brock, think of me like Hulk Hogan in Rocky III, I’m fond of all these guys and sometimes I just get some kicks in. I’m heavily oppressed though. My latest 2m in the hole was for referring it Jimcanuck as Jcuck. But you know. He’s asking for it a little with that name. That may seem a like victim blaming but it rolls of the tongue and no harm was meant:(