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I doubt Cruz has fucked anyone but that ugly wife of his.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-admits-shooting-three-hostages-184842831.html More fun with the IDF. Just nerds with bats.

Certainly for Cruz and Cornyn it is.

Stand by your convictions. Don’t be a spineless weasel. That’s probably too much to ask.

We all have to remember how deferred money works and how much that money is expected to be worth in X amount of years. Because of inflation, which despite its high growth the last couple years, has been about 3% a year. So ultimately his deal will cost about 450,000,000 in today’s money, is what I’m reading. And an economist or accountant here can clarify this but as such, Moreno could have put a decent amount into an interest bearing account that would guarantee that it wouldn’t cost more than the 450,000,000, despite future economic changes. That said, I ultimately think AIDS Magic and the rest of the Dogs group plan is to offer him an ownership stake to buy out the massive rest of the contract when he’s done. Or not. Who knows.

And don’t forget they’d still have everyone they gave up for the dipshit plan to compete.

Look, the simple fact here (allegedly) is that Ohtani would have stayed an Angel if Moreno would have matched the offer. He did not. After the debacles of Pujols, Hamilton and Rendon, you can understand that position (to an extent). But the insanity of trading the farm away at the end of July (and not trading Ohtani) for an outside chance of getting to the playoffs can’t be understated. It sets the club back years. And was it all because an aging owner, faced with his own mortality, figured he’d give it one shot before he sells or dies? That’s a selfish and terrible way to run a sports franchise. And it also makes it clear that had he sold to a competent group or individual last offseason, Ohtani would likely still be here as the crown jewel of their new franchise. So basically: Fuck you Moreno.

So it changes my opinion of Ohtani if he did in fact want to stay with the Angels but took the Dodgers money when Moreno wouldn’t match. And it’s absolutely asinine for Moreno not to match whatever was being offered by other teams after he chose not to trade him. What it tells me is the Angels front office severely underestimated what he was going to get (like most of us here).

My face

Maybe his unfinished business was to destroy the franchise to ruin his greedy, baseball hating kids inheritance?

That said, of course Israel is acting barbaric and is getting their asses creamed in actual fighting and not just carpet bombing civilians. The myth that the IDF is badass has been comical forever. You can put a bat in a nerd’s hand but that isn’t going to make him Mike Trout.

I saw this on the escalator handrail at London Heathrow. Made me think of @Taylor obviously.

Maybe you are on to something.

Lube

But there are some guys here with girls as best friends and it would hurt their feelings, for some reason.

It would have been the smart baseball move and there were quite a few here saying as such. We don’t know what was or would have been offered so it’s not fair to assume they wouldn’t have gotten 2 top prospects for him at the 2023 deadline. But they should have considered trading him sooner than that.

Clever!

To hang out with Larry?

“One of the million”

Just bro. Cmon man.

Ha ha, Dodger Stadium is far and away worse than anything a bunch of heroin addicts in tents could bring. Mainly because the dangerous people are inside the stadium and in the parking lot. Nice fail, Posey.

Worst idea would be to make it the tiny bat giveaway day.

You’re over 40, don’t say bruh.