Generational Talent

@neeratanden You're telling on them. To be this upset about a "journalist" who tried to humiliate his boss being fired...tells everyone all they need to know about what 60 Minutes was doing

Cancel your Paramount stream Cancel Showtime End watching CBS It's the least you can do

@jemelehill @Pdragoon247 @zackpeter That was all built (Silicon Valley) when California was run by Republicans

@Pdragoon247 @zackpeter Worked out well enough for California to have the fifth largest economy in the world.

Hey, so my vote doesn’t come from my place of “privilege” bc it’s my civic duty. We all have that right. But I AM voting for a safer future for my kids. And so my dogs don’t have to dodge broken liquor bottles every day on our walks. Or crazed meth addicts swinging pipes at us.

@just_joe_57 I'll die for Willy Adames's right to make $180M

@Generation4580 I’m a giants fan and I don’t want a cap bc it fucks over the players

Economic Populism is on the rise in this country so people are going to be much more pro player than they have in the past. But bootlicking is also at an all time high so I suspect a very divided public and that this becomes a culture war thing

@BlueJaysExpress A Jays fan retweeting a Dodgers fan. Checks out

This. Small market fans think a cap will magically bring playoffs & success when in realty, the teams that don’t spend will spend to the floor, and very likely still suck. Payroll is 1/3 of the success playbook.

@Alec_Baris I'll die for Kyle Tucker's right to make $62M this year

@iTranqui1ity Do you not understand the change in revenue sharing? They can't afford it now

If the pirates can afford 170 million dollar pay roll next season they could have afforded it for the last decade. Grow up and stop supporting and making excuses for billionaires.

@Nomadhidinghere With 3 wildcards, 82 wins has you in the pennant race in September

Suppose I'm an owner and I have $60 million in revenue sharing. My expected win-loss record is 75 wins. I can invest that $60 million in three four-year contracts at $20 million apiece. This would improve my expected wins to 82. If I sign those three contracts, my revenue stays relatively flat unless we overperform, in which case I will see a modest increase in revenue. However, underperforming is just as likely, and my revenue will decrease in that scenario. I also face the risk that if those contracts underperform, which the odds suggest they will, I will have $60 million locked up. That pretty much guarantees my revenue is going to be flat or decrease, and I will be locked into a mediocre payroll, revenue, and competitiveness. Why spend the $60 million? What is the upside? As an owner, this risk is what limits my payroll capacity. Players are not being realistic if they think their pay is not already capped by revenue and the associated risk for the 25 teams that do not have a higher and more stable revenue base, irrespective of their competitiveness. Now you want to penalize me for not assuming this risk. This is going to force me to lock in contracts that statistically will end in underperformance more times than not and hurt my competitiveness and revenue. The problem you are missing and not addressing with that proposal is that my revenue is heavily contingent on competitiveness. You are going to force me to lock in mediocrity more times than not. I am okay with risking more payroll dollars, and that mediocrity, using revenue share dollars, if my side of revenue were more stable like the top five markets.

@TheBlogfines He was a bad pick because he's an amalgamation of their terrible outlook on pitchers: doesn't throw hard and has "pitchability." They have struggled for over a decade developing pitchers because they stay away from velocity like the plague

He wasn't a bad pick. The Cubs took him at No. 21, and he was viewed as a top-50 prospect for a while. He flashed as a rookie and was very good in the minors prior to that. He looked as advertised. But he's regressed considerably since then.

@Boomskie Guggenheim controls $300-400 BILLION dollars. The Dodgers are a hobby for them. The amount of money you are talking about is a rounding error to them

You think the owners are going to shut down the game? The Dodgers earn $1b a year in local revenue. That all goes away. So they don't have to immediately pay their players $400m. That's still a $600m loss. And the contracts don't shorten. Not going to happen.

@LoriBabin5 @peterbakernyt @maeganvaz You really don't see the difference there?

@Generation4580 @peterbakernyt @maeganvaz My sister is a government employee who awards contracts. She had to tell her financial manager what stocks she could not invest in nor her partner could invest in. Complete conflict of interest

Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell. Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer." May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell. @maeganvaz washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

@TruckUnicorn Is this a real nitpick? I worked with a guy for years that believed the Earth was flat - he even passed that info on - but I didn't believe it

Just after escaping Tatooine in A New Hope, Han Solo expresses strong disbelief in The Force, Jedi, and all their stuff as voodoo and witchcraft. Thanks to the Prequels trying to shoehorn as many characters in, everyone there except Luke has had a personal experience with the Jedi. Including Han's First Mate & Business partner, Chewie, who evidently had been flying with him for years and never passed that info on.

@BradZiegler @rationalyankee Are you living in a world with sports talk radio or in a different dimension? No one is shilling for the owners, they are shilling for their team to have a chance. The Dodgers ruined the illusion that was true

@rationalyankee How do you propose players do that when all the major media outlets act as mouthpieces for owners/teams/front offices 100% of the time?

MLB is doing a better job getting its message out to fans than the Players Association is. The League is successfully galvanizing fans toward its pursuit of a salary cap. The Players Association seems to be completely reactive to everything that’s going on. I’m very much on the players side. Until owners open their books and show that they’re actually trying to win and can’t, you’re not going to convince me to side with billionaire owners on anything. But right now, the Players Association needs to do a better job with its public relations outreach. It’s been terrible.

@StarWarsSession No reason they can't say Luke, unbeknownst to him, had a child with Mara Jade and go from there. I wouldn't reference anything in the current Disney-verse and just continue the story from that point on

What would YOU like to see from a Star Wars Episode X - XII ? 👀

@J0hnADouglas How would Vader have known the Rebels knew they were coming because of the probe?

Vader was a dumbass and killed Ozzel for no reason. The rebels knew the imperials were coming because if the imperial probe droid, not because Ozzel came out of light speed close to the system

@worldsthetic @naboonat Huh? His backstory is that he was trained by Luke since he was a child. I don't think you know what Mary Sue means

@naboonat Kylo is more of "Mary Sue" than Rey will ever be, the fact kylo gets free pass just because he has skywalker blood infuriates me. Being Vader fanboy is such a weak backstory for a main villain. Also, Rey deserves better.

whats ur uncommon star wars take like something that isnt usually talked about

@Andrew_FBB Shohei as a SP #1. Shohei as a hitter Top 10

Redrafting the first round of #FantasyBaseball 1. Shohei Ohtani 2. Bobby Witt Jr. 3. Aaron Judge 4. Juan Soto 5. Elly De La Cruz 6. Yordan Alvarez 7. Jose Ramirez 8. Corbin Carroll 9. Paul Skenes 10. Kyle Schwarber 11. James Wood 12. Nick Kurtz

@TheWARmonger_ Nah. 15 years ago you would have said we'll never see a guy both hit and pitch again. There is some kid out there now with a rubber arm that will win 200 games down the road

We’ve seen the last 200-win pitcher:

@jc_bradbury Sigh. Yes, competence can be rewarded when you play in a Division with a front office as dumb as the Cubs. You may also win a race hopping on only 1 leg. It doesn't make it a fair playing field

Of course, spending money is associated with winning, but success is nowhere close to being a pure product of financial determinism. Last year, MLB's smallest market Milwaukee had the best record in baseball with a bottom-third payroll.

@SouthernKeeks For argument's sake, let's say Donald Trump has his followers blatantly stuff ballot boxes in 2028. No question, irrefutable proof. Should Vance certify the electoral votes?

It’s depressing that every time Mike Pence posts, the replies fill with cries of “traitor!” and “you failed the biggest test!” You don’t have to like the man. But he isn’t a traitor. When the Constitution was put to the test, he upheld it. You’re just a clown and a cultist.