Now Hear This!

We are going to start today by talking about how we treat each other on this blog. It has been brought to my attention (and I have seen it myself) that some on this website are “argumentative, obnoxious, antagonistic, and want to pick fights”. No names will be named, but this WILL stop. You can stop it or I will stop it. Your choice! No more discussion – If you find you can no longer post here, you will know this was about you.

When I start getting complaints about the same commenter from several people, I will let you know that I will not continue the insanity. End of discussion. This has been a public service announcement. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Let’s Talk Dodgers

It’s just a few days until pitchers and catchers report, so i have a lot of hope we will see a baseball season this year. Some people are ecstatic that the Dodgers blew by the LuxTax threshold X 2. I am OK with it, but as has been proven over and over, money doesn’t buy championships! Argue all you want, but you are wrong! It is my opinion that you outspend your competition when you are too stupid to compete on the same playing field. I am OK with it THIS year, but I do not think this is a wise decision on a year-over-year basis.

Frankly, I am shocked that Andrew Friedman signed Trevor Bauer or Justin Turner… let alone BOTH of them. It makes us all feel warm and fuzzie, but we all know that Trevor Bauer has had one good year and one great year (60 games) in 9 seasons. We know that Justin Turner is on the downhill slide of hs career. If it works, Andrew Friedman and Stan Kasten are geniuses. If it doesn’t, they are not all that. Time will tell.

Remember this: The 2021 offseason is the season where Andrew Friedman violated his own rules (maybe- the offseasons not over). I hope it works, but I have a bad feeling about this. When Andrew Friedman said, “Let’s be Pigs.” I think he was talking about winning Championships. Signing Bauer and Turner and driving the payroll up to $255 Million is also very Piggish… and pigs get slaughtered!

Maybe AF has a plan to trade David Price, AJ Pollock, and Joe Kelly, but right about now, I think what he has done could be a “dope-fiend move.” That is my take. I have been wrong before (I did not think he would go over the LuxTax Cap), but that is what I believe. If he stays at this salary level (and he might), you can believe they won’t repeat it next year.

The possibility exists that both Bauer and Tuner could be non-factors for LA this year. I said “possibility.” I do not hope for that nor do I think it will happen, but it is a possibility. History will be the judge, but it does not feel good to me. I hope that I am dead wrong because this is my team!

Sorry, this is so short, but I had to get up early to write a “cease and desist” letter to a company in UAE for stealing our copyrighted intellectual property. Here’s the last paragraph of a lengthy e-mail:

Additionally, for each separate infringement, we are seeking $10,000 in damages or $200,000.00 US Dollars for the entire copyright infringement. If you do not immediately remove the copyrighted material, we will avail ourselves of every legal remedy, including Interpol, FBI, and seek treble damages at The Hague International Court of Justice.  We will not allow our intellectual property to be so blatantly stolen and will seek legal redress within twenty-four hours of the communication.

We shall see what happens, but that has been my day so far!

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