At a 5% discount rate, the following compensation streams have the same present value: 1. actual #Ohtani deal = cap hit $46M 2. $340M in 2024, and $2M/year for next 9 years = cap hit $36M To circumvent the #MLB luxury tax, you front-load the contract, not back-load it.

ctvnews.ca/entertainment/… "Others who followed Johns in singing Sondheim's most popular song include Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan and Olivia Newton-John." What about Krusty the Clown?!

"Employers paying under $20 an hour will likely face stiffer competition for workers." My instinct is the non-covered employers will face LESS stiff competition for workers, as supply shifts due to job/hour cuts. Am I wrong? #EconTwitter #MinimumWage npr.org/2024/04/01/124…

In 1993, the NHL abandoned its classical nomenclature in favour of geographic divisional names. Since then, no Canadian team has hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup. Assuming equiprobability, the odds of this are 1:2618. Fluke or Curse (of Smythe, Patrick, Adams and Norris)?

#BlueJays by GM. Pat Gillick, 1978-1994. 1352-1297 (.510), 12th. Gord Ash, 1995-2001. 541-575 (0.484), 19th. J.P. Ricciardi, 2002-2009. 642-653 (0.496), 15th. Alex Anthopoulos, 2010-2015. 489-483 (.503), 15th. Ross Atkins, 2016-2024. 644-628 (.506), 12th.

Of the 7 Presidential victims of assassination or attempted assassination, 6 have been Republicans.

Worst part of being a #MLB #BlueJays supporter is the exposure to Toronto sports fans.

Don Trumpino, Marco von Rubiotrop and Pete Hessge have an awfully strange understanding of what it might mean to make American "great" again. nytimes.com/2025/02/22/wor…

It's evening in America.

Never get involved in a trade war in Asia.

Barn was electric for #DALvsWPG tonight. Crowd pumping 37's tires all night. Have two teams ever embodied the spirit of their respective fanbases better than #GoJetsGo and #LeafsForever in these two game 5s?

My six-year old spent an hour with me listening to my 1980s film score Spotify playlist. No woman ever did that.

wild

This micro-aggression will not stand, man. foxnews.com/entertainment/…

Imposing massive but illegal tariffs, allowing the market system to pass the added costs through to end-users, only for the courts to order re-payments to STATUTORY tax-payers, is a damn good way to engineer a $100 billion transfer from American consumers to American business.

It's Trey-ning Day! #MLB #Bluejays

I checked the last 100 WS. Only twice has the runner-up outperformed the champion by a larger margin in terms of aggregate runs scored, wOBA and wRC+: (1) FLA over NYY in 2003; and (2) PIT over NYY in 1960. #BlueJays and fans have cause to shake their fists at the baseball gods