southsideirish71

I love the microchip argument. "I dont want Bill Gates to track me." They of course post this on their smart phone.

Sure I won't die as I get Covid that week. But in the end, I can still get covid, have cardiac issues, and all of the other fine stuff that goes along with these "mild" cases. Getting a mild case of covid might still be a death sentence for me in the long run. I already have cardiac issues and other side effects with my diabetes. I don't need another kicker for my issues. If I was a normal healthy individual. Sure bring on whatever. I would take any shot no worries.

I was hoping to get to register for my shot this week as a diabetic with the expanded group moving into Phase 1b. Now DuPage has just matched Cook and is not going to add us to group 1B. This means now I have to wait with others who have, probably months before we move into 1c. Now for all of you excited about the J&J shot. As a diabetic, I don't want that one. I want one of the mRNA ones that have the higher efficacy. A 66% efficacy is great for the general population. But for us who are immunocompromised as it is I don't want any variant of this disease. I already have secondary complications due to having diabetes for 25 years. I don't need to add the magical double down effect of getting any of the covid long-term issues even a mild case might provide. The mRNA ones seem to be the best to prevent that.

Dollar Bill JR is probably thrilled that someone else is paying for this kid. He probably wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about someone asking him to pay that.

Tomorrow's dollars at today's prices. The JR used car sales approach to free agency. He just needs to go.

Hard grounders are typically called outs.

Then waste precious minor league resources to get talent that only would have cost money in the offseason. Brilliant plan. So waste low-cost resources on rentals which will have to be replaced with high-cost free agents the year after. The Kenny Williams approach to sustainability.

I would say made-up statistics have a 78.3% chance of being wrong.

So will every starter worth their salt that won't give us a major hometown discount.

He is pitching past the age of 12. He has thrown a curveball before. Stop with the melodramatics.

Yup. A hard curveball you start lower so you don't see the hump.

Well, glimpse into August if Keuchel or anyone goes on the DL from the pitching staff and you are marching Rodon and Lopez out there every 5 days going OMG why did we resign him. This is bad. Why didn't we spend the money.

Yeah, I for one want nothing to do with the current NL Cy Young winner. I can't wait to look at August when Carlos Rodon is giving up a long home run to Cruz. Hey we might lose this game, but at least he didn't do something on Twitter. Glad you have your principles. I could give a fuck if he puts on a puppet show on Twitter every Friday if he is the best pitcher available. I want that on my team. These principled people who don't want X person because it hurts their sensibilities are funny. I would rather get the best available player. The same people who hated AJ before he was here loved him here. Dennis Rodman, sure when he was with Detroit you hated him. I want the best player. If he is doing something illegal then no. Dont want him. But because he has X opinion or uses twitter or makes something about himself. Good lord.

JR "Hello I would like to place a collect call to Hudson Hill 5-9975 please" Operator "What?"

You could fill a large lake with the water you carry for this organization. I am sold. They did their best. If we dont win the division or any playoff games this year. We can always have this.

Well not every teams Chairman calls Bob on their personal rotary phone.

The mets pitching staff is going to be outstanding now. Well I hope Cease and Kopech work out this year for moneybags JR.

Considering this is in the ballpark of what Zach Wheeler got last year. Getting a Cy Young winner at that rate even if the AAV is higher is insane. This is exactly the length of deal that the sox should be all over. Higher AAV and fewer years.

Thank god we didn't sign Machado or Harper. Imagine trying to fill in the lineup/roster and keep the gold in the swimming pool filled. It would be impossible.

I am sure his agent can figure out how to say no to future deferred dollars and magical future team options that guarantee him money that will never be earned.

If JR trades off Giolito, Anderson, and other high-end players because he wants a deeper pool of gold to swim in, count me out as a fan until the man takes his permanent dirt nap.

They surely failed Mark Buerhle with a similar road starting him in the pen as well.

The Indians still have their pitching intact. We couldn't beat them last year at all. I would say their offense didn't fall off as much as people might think here. We had a chance this offseason to bury the AL Central for the next few years. Due to the owner and his fiscal policies we breathe life into their chances.

The thing different is the delivery here. So during the H1N1 epidemic, I remember being at the Downers South GYM in a large swath of people waiting in a line for hours to get my inoculation. That was run by Dupage County. Now for whatever reason, we are punting this to the local Drs and the pharmacies. I was expecting a similar event where we would have stadiums and large facilities to get people mass vaccinated.

So far in my research on how people are selfish and parents suck. This is our local school district. Parents who test positive for Covid or their kids test positive. They don't tell the school district of this because it's not their right to know. Then of course they try to get the kids in school asap. The county due to contract tracing, however, calls the school district which foils their plans. When kids have one or more symptoms. Mommy consults either Dr. Mommy's knowledge, old wives' tales of how people get sick, or relatives to determine that they don't have Covid. It's something they ate that is making the kid vomit and have explosive diarrhea. They get mad if their kids are required to get a covid test. Because Dr. Mommy knows her kid and by looking at the kid, they don't have Covid. They would know. They are the parents after all. If Junior has a fever that might get detected by a temp check, we dose the kid with acetaminophen to lower the fever. Kids tell their teacher that they have been sick all weekend and vomiting and headaches. When the parents are called the parents call it a witch hunt.