According to all the baseball wizards in the media, the
Los Angeles Dodgers have signed a Japanese pitcher named Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a contract that will pay him $325,000,000.00 over twelve years.
The Dodgers have also signed two other guys, Shohei Ohtani and Tyler Glasnow to rather large contracts.
As a matter of fact, the Dodgers now have a significant financial obligation with those three players:
Yes, you read that correctly - $1.1 billion dollars to just three guys.
If the Dodgers don't win the World Series every year for the next ten years, the ownership group should fire everyone, including themselves.
And they better pray to whatever supreme being they worship that none of those guys gets injured.
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Speaking of baseball, they are tweaking the rules again.
Most of the changes are good changes. For instance, they widened the running lane between home plate and first base because there were too many instances where a runner was called out for being outside the base path when he was still on the dirt.
Some of the changes are mediocre. For instance, they decreased the pitch clock from 20 seconds to 18 seconds if there are runners on base.
One of the changes is idiotic. They added a rule that says if a putcher warms up, he must face at least one batter.
Imagine that it's the bottom of the eighth inning, the score is 1-1 and the away team manager gets his closer up to warm up. Suddenly there is a flurry of hits by his team and at the start of the ninth inning, the score is now 12-1 in his favor.
With this new rule, he has no choice but to use his closer in the ninth inning which is dumb because with a score of 12-1, I could put my partially paralyzed grandmother in to pitch and we would still win the game. But now he has to use his closer to pitch which means the closer won't be available for the next game or two when he might really need him.
I get why they did it but it's a dumb rule.
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I've been scrolling through Trumps truthinator looking for gems but he's been so busy posting videos of his speeches that his rants about being kept off the Colorado ballot have dropped so far down I get finger cramps from scrolling.
Man, is he pissed about being left off that ballot. And he keeps spreading a lie that Lincoln was left off of ballots in the 1860 presidential race.
The reason that is a lie is because prior to the 20th century, voting was done in two ways: With a blank piece of paper where the voter wrote in the name they wanted or with a party ticket. The ticket was nothing more than a piece of paper that had the entire slate of party candidates printed on it. One ticket for the democrats and one ticket for the republicans.
It was up to the political parties to distribute their tickets to the states so voters could pick one up and use it to vote. The republican party didn't leave Lincoln off their ticket.
You see, the republican party didn't distribute tickets in the south in 1860 because of a little thing called the "war between the states" that was ramping up.
But that doesn't fit Donald "
I was the bestest president ever!" Trump's narrative.
So once again, he is lying to his cult in the hopes of creating an alternative history that makes him look good.
There is an old saying that goes something along the lines of, "Claim that a flasehood is true long enough & loud enough and eventually people will believe it's true."
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Yes, there is hockey tonight. The Bruins are in Winnepeg to play the Jets. Puck drops at 8:00. I'm hoping they don't blow another lead in the third period...
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