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Don’t forget the cool personalized gifts he received, as well.

Adding Lynn, at least without an extension and giving up young pitching, is certainly all-in. Assuming nobody’s going to be happy with a FA pitching addition other than Odorizzi or Tanaka, we’re left in the typical KW position of waiting until midseason. Considering the fact that health/science is currently skeptical about a return to normal on Covid due to the slow/complicated vaccination progress (just 5% of the country) before the end of the year now, the transmissibility of the mutant strain outpacing containment, that big sports areas like LA and Texas are in chaos...it’s easy to see why they are being so conservative. It just sucks for fans who were so patient throughout this lost decade of Sox baseball. About all that’s missing are puff pieces on Cease, Kopech and Lopez. Thankfully, we can at least skip “Rodon’s turned the corner.”

In one sign of the confusion around vaccine distribution in Texas, officials in Dallas County scrapped a plan that would have prioritized shots for people living in heavily Black and Latino communities hit hardest by the virus. Texas state officials threatened to slash allocations of the vaccine if the county went ahead with the plan even though data showed that most of the shots administered in Dallas County had been in wealthier neighborhoods. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the country, is now struggling with a similar problem as the hospitals serving some of its poorest residents run out of the vaccine, prompting some public health experts to question why doses are not being made more available to vulnerable communities. “These are our front-line workers who are at the greatest risk of contracting the virus and at the greatest risk of spreading it to others,” said Vivian Ho, a health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. “We would be able to resolve the pandemic in Harris County quicker if we could get a sufficient number of vaccines,” she added, referring to the county encompassing much of Houston. Adding to the turmoil, just days after Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, praised the state’s vaccine rollout at a meeting in Houston where Democratic city and county officials were excluded from participating, the lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, also a Republican, sent a letter Thursday to the state’s Expert Vaccination Allocation Panel urging its members to fix the problems. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pandemic-plight-hospitals-running-vaccines-152805912.html

Odorizzi was looking for $3/40...out of our current price range.

Now all you need is Max Fried, but that will really draw out wisebri’s future luxury tax implications posts again...

The Red Sox rotation is taking shape, as the team reached agreement on Saturday with righthander Garrett Richards on a one-year, $10 million contract. The deal includes a $10 million team option for 2022 and a buyout, with escalators for both the salary and the buyout based on Richards’s contributions in 2021, according to a major league source. Richards, 32, went 2-2 with a 4.03 ERA along with 8.1 strikeouts and 3.0 walks per nine innings for the Padres in 51⅓ innings in 2020 — his first full season back from Tommy John surgery in mid-2018. Richards had a 4.27 ERA in 10 starts, while allowing one run in five innings and striking out five in four relief appearances. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/23/sports/red-sox-nearing-deal-with-pitcher-garrett-richards/

Richards is reportedly signing with the Red Sox The Boston Red Sox have agreed to terms with free agent right-hander Garrett Richards on a one-year contract worth $10 million, ESPN's Jeff Passan reports. The deal is pending a physical. Alex Speier of the Boston Globe adds that the deal includes a $10 million option for 2022. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-free-agency-red-sox-agree-to-terms-with-right-hander-garret-richards-per-report/

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/01/09/indians-trevor-bauer-college-student-twitter-exchange-harassment https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/21/why-on-earth-is-climate-skeptic-twitter-troll-trevor-bauer-mlb-most-hated-man Signing Bauer would almost be the equivalent of Albert Belle. Except JR’s past the point of awarding one of the biggest contracts in the game just to make a point...

In most countries of the world, those companies would be nationalized... at least until the crisis had passed. But you wouldn't find more than 10-15% of the Congress in favor of such a radical approach that values citizens' lives over corporations and the profit incentive. People Are ‘Faking It’ To Get Vaccine Priority, So Just Yeet Me Off The Planet https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-faking-vaccine-priority-just-010026098.html

At least 1/3rd the franchises (see Rays, Indians or A's) wouldn't be able to survive in such a system. The NFL is the only league where a small market like Green Bay can consistently outplay two NY/NJ franchises.

They should be thanking their lucky stars they kept Campbell at least.

2015-2018 he only made 68 starts. On the plus side, he’s basically pitched three seasons out of the past six...

1 Covid year=3 ordinary years

Moncada?

The Catholic Church has always been conflicted between the peace and social justice side vs. conservative issues like abortion/population control, divorce, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” etc. Another factor is perhaps the falloff by 15-20% in church attendance over the last decade. Negative feelings created by the abuse scandals? Separation of church and state doesn’t come into play here. Nobody’s forcing you to pray in order to receive a place in line for a vaccine...I do believe that if this happened during the GW Bush years you’d see more focus on the faith community as a potential solution. Biden’s as Catholic as it gets and you don’t hear it brought up in a way that could ever be considered proselytizing. But he certainly never hides his faith and how it has gotten him through three family tragedies.

That’s one of those Joe Crede, Jesse Crain or Jenks deals. Injuries and Bryant’s performance drop off are nearly impossible to predict. 2-3 years ago, both Baez and Contreras looked like best at their positions. Now, they’re going to be sold off at 50 to 75 cents on the dollar, or just held onto for rebound years. Or think about the Brewers and Yelich...think what any team would have offered for him at the end of 2019. But what about today? Brewers’ fans would have gone crazy had Stearns traded him after 2018 or 2019, right? But how many GMs have the cojones to deal someone at peak value unless they’re staring a rebuild in the face?

If you said $2,000 for every family at $75-100,00 or less, you’d be okay, haha. Once you get to the $125-150,000 joint income range...of course, cost of living is the key factor. It’s not unlike the student loan debate. What to do with the societally deemed irresponsible? Is a couple with massive debts but a $200k combined income equally needy to one at half that income with one or both spouses out of work and struggling to pay for food or rent? Otoh, there are plenty of Americans saying they really don’t need that money...it should go to families legitimately in need that will inject it directly back into the economy rather than saving or investing it.

Isn’t there a certain degree of fear in the religious right about vaccine efficacy? At one point, roughly 2-3 months ago, only 55-60% of Americans were willing to be injected. I don’t know where the anti-vaxxers line starts and crosses over into religious belief, but there’s probably some cross pollination. All things considered, schools, convention centers, basketball stadiums, community centers would seem better suited. LA County just announced they expect it to take all of 2021 to get everyone vaccinated. Ouch!

General liberal thankfulness for something about America, that we’re helping our people directly during the pandemic. That said, we reserve the right to complain in the future when/if inflation rates finally rise to 5% or more and we have to make huge cutbacks at every level of government due to increased interest payments on bonds soaking up more and more budget outlay on those pie charts.

But pitching extensions are always going to be high-risk. Look at Danks, or Jose Contreras after 2006. What if we extended Lopez off his one good year, where would we be now? Plus, with hitters you’re never dealing with the career impact of a second TJS. Sale and Q worked out so well, but the White Sox continuing those relationships long-term would have been disastrous. JR also let Buehrle walk but kept Konerko. We can see the hesitancy they have going any longer than 3-4 year deals for pitching.

I’ll play along with Tex. Thank god we can borrow what looks like $7 trillion ($30 trillion plus, overall) and still maintain the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency...at a very low inflation/interest rate for refinancing such debt. Many countries either can’t afford or are refusing (China) to subsidize individuals and small businesses with cash payments for philosophical reasons. Mr Taweep Mee Phan who took to Facebook out of desperation offering to sell one of his eyes. Photo: Chalong Municipality PHUKET:-- A man who has been severely affected by the COVID-19 fallout took to social media in desperation last week offering to sell one of his eyes. Mr Taweep Mee Phan, 57, from Chalong posted on his Facebook account last Friday (Jan 15) that he was willing to sell his left eye to raise much needed funds to support his family. Mr Taweep was a bus driver for a Chinese tour company for 15 years before losing his job last February when tourists numbers visiting the island dried up. Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/struck-poor-by-covid-phuket-man-tries-to-sell-eye-on-facebook-78693.php

If only we could run the government like a business and create more competition...!!! Well, we created a monopoly, or, at the very least, an oligopoly. War-time footing requires government intervention, and aspirational leadership, not bean counters from accounting who don’t want to be troubled to work on weekends. It’s ironic, because those community health pharmacies in WV adopted localized solutions, since they already had or maintain longterm relationships with their nursing homes and don’t want to jeopardize them...and they actually know and care about those residents, they’re not just numbers on a spreadsheet. In the end, the supposed “trust” in the vaccine those brand-names companies were supposed to create is destabilizing the system, because their performance has been so inept. If they hadn’t guaranteed those contracts...well, you only have to go back to the Theranos case to see how greed/profit is the primary driver for corporate pharmacies.

Without CJ Frederick (injured) and Bohannon hitting from the outside, Iowa is reduced to a team without any offensive creators on the floor. They have length, but not enough athleticism to routinely lock down opponents. Bohannon is really bad defensively, Toussaint is limited offensively, and McCaffrey isn’t a good enough outside shooter to keep defenses honest. So you’re going to see every team from now on swarm Garza and Weiskamp, forcing the rest of the offense to beat them. Nunge is going to play more and more of a role going forward, IMO. Of course, things always look bleakest after a bad loss, but at this point I would be happy with the first Sweet 16 in over 20 years, but not counting on it by any stretch. No illusions of winning a national championship when a team relies so much on outside shooting (see Creighton.)

https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-school-district-proposed-diversity-100050047.html Here’s a Texas-sized example that is the quintessential argument that’s dividing our country today (race relations)...as an educator there, I’m sure you can appreciate the “both sides” aspect of it. The fact that the Cornish family after all that time still didn’t feel welcome tells one that we still have a long ways to go, and it didn’t get any easier the last 4-5 years. In the end, “liberals hate America” is the other side of the coin just as as labeling everyone on the other side a wanna-be Charlottesville Proud Boy rightfully rankles the majority of conservatives. It’s the same argument Vietnam War protesters heard, or The Dixie Chicks. If you don’t love your country in the same way I do, feel free to leave. We can easily retreat back to these general arguments about legacy, diversity, cancel culture, identity politics and patriotism, but then we’re simply skirting the issue.

Jeremy Reed? Anthony Webster? (Okay, we'll just go with Weems.) At least it wasn't a Phil Rogers, White Sox PR special. And this thread should go back to being called the Corbin Bernsen/Roger Dorn (Major League) one until we can secure an actual, legitimate rumor to substantiate it...